Sisters Place - Focus on our children

Our Children

A Summer 2008 assignment:
Work together to create on paper what you think would be a "best community."

First the children learned what it means to be "environmentally aware." Then, working with an adult partner, they drew what they imagined an environmentally safe best community would look like.

And this is what they envisioned: A place with trees, clean creeks and rivers, clear blue skies, safe roads, safe schools, and grassy places where children can play safely.

Our safe and reliable After School program – for which Highmark awarded a $20,000 grant – offers both an educational and a physical activity curriculum and . . .

BRINGS RESULTS!

Many of our children are performing at higher levels in school, and they are eager and excited to share their good grades with Sisters Place staff members. All of these reports of the children's achievement are encouraging. Here are just three stories of success in the classroom:

One of our boys attended three different schools during the 2006-07 school year because his family lacked stable housing and moved frequently. Since he never stayed in any one school for very long, his abilities went unrecognized. He now has been acknowledged as a gifted student and invited to join the district's GATE program.

Another boy was displaying signs of a learning disability. He has scored 100% on his PSSA assessments.

A boy who has struggled with a number of behavior issues has made the honor roll.

The Learning Center is alive with children and youth exploring, testing, discovering, growing – children like these three boys who are daily encouraged to be the very best they can be.

It is a safe place where children and youth living with uncertainty can begin to realize their innate potential.

It is a place where they are encouraged to

. . . question

. . . wonder

. . . explore

. . . discover

. . . ponder

. . . test

A place of bright colors, sunshine, and order.
A place where a child or youth is free to be.

The Sisters Place Learning Center

Be sure to visit the Sisters Place Art Gallery

learn what we did this Summer of 2008 (4 linked photo stories, soon to be five)

recall our 2007 African Drumming Camp

and read one child's thoughts about the importance of Sisters Place in his life