Parents

Parental Service

A child’s academic success depends on a dynamic partnership between home and school.
Our Distinctives:

Research reflects that a school's educational quality improves substantially with increased parent engagement. The Lorien Wood Parental Service Distinctive explains why we value parents as active participants in the school and how we create unique ways to support that participation. Lorien Wood parents actively participate in the education of their children and the life of the school, serving the community in a variety of ways.

Time & Talents:

Parents serve the community by giving their time & talent to the school. Parents are needed to serve as library assistants, lunch and recess monitors, and drop-off and pick-up supervisors. Regular fulfillment of one of these roles makes a substantial impact on the life of the school. For some this might mean helping to organize a baseball game at recess or joining the prayer group; for others, this might be sharing their experience living abroad with a class studying South America, playing an instrument at school opening, chaperoning a field trip, or coordinating a school festival.

Tuition Credit:

While regular fulfillment of parental service is no longer a requirement for every parent, families are able to gain tuition credit if they commit to serving the school 70 hours a year. Parents who choose not to receive parental service credit are still highly encouraged to volunteer when they are available as part of our parental service distinctive! 

Uniforms

Lorien Wood's Dress and Grooming principles and specific uniform items needed for each form can be found here. 

 
Uniform Vendor

Lorien Wood Uniforms are obtained from Land’s End School Uniforms.

Website: www.landsend.com               Preferred School Number: 900095860

 
Spirit Wear

We love for our students and families to display their Lorien Wood pride by wearing Spirit Wear outside of school! Please know that Spirit Wear items are not a part of the uniform and are not to be worn during the school day.

Parent Reading List

The following titles are recommended for families interested in learning more about the educational philosophy and culture at Lorien Wood. The list is by no means exhaustive and in no particular order.

  • Teaching Redemptively, by Donovan L. Graham
  • Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education, by David V. Hicks
  • The Classics We’ve Read, The Difference They’ve Made, edited by Philip Yancey
  • The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, by Wendy Mogel, Ph.D.
  • The Disappearance of Childhood, by Neil Postman
  • A Vision With a Task: Christian Schooling for Responsive Discipleship, edited by Gloria Stronks and Doug Blomberg
  • A Passion for Learning, by Bruce Lockerbie
  • C.S. Lewis, any book or essays, especially The Narnia Chronicles and The Weight of Glory
  • Simplicity Parenting by Payne and Ross
  • Say Goodbye to Whining and The Christian Parenting Handbook, by Turanksy and Miller
  • Shepherding a Child’s Heart and Instructing a Child’s Heart, by Ted Tripp
  • Free Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children, by Lenore Skenazy
  • Works by Charlotte Mason
  • The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh, by Kathryn Aalto
  • Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv
  • Parenting with Love & Logic, by Foster Cline and Jim Fay (and other works by Cline and Fay)
  • The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien