TUSCAN SCHOOL CHOSEN TO PROMOTE FIRST LADY'S HEALTH PROGRAM

Great news from the Tuscan principal today:

TUSCAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Office of the Principal

25 Harvard Avenue ¨ Maplewood ¨ New Jersey 07040

Malikah Tamar Majeed, Principal                                                                          973-378-5221

June 19, 2013

Dear Tuscan Family~

I’m pleased to announce that Tuscan School was selected to represent a model active school for a national promotion for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Active Schools initiative.

An active school is one that values, recognizes and promotes the enormous benefits of physical activity before, during and afterschool.

Tuscan School will become the face of the national Let’s Move! Active Schools campaign!

This Friday, June 21, 2013, professional photographers will spend the day at Tuscan to photograph our students and staff actively involved in physical activities in our gym, classrooms and on the playground.

Large group and small group photographs will be taken throughout the day. In the Let’s Move! Active Schools promotion Tuscan School will serve to represent any school, in any town, anywhere in the nation. Therefore, this Friday, June 21, 2013 we will dress for a regular school day and save our Tuscan t-shirts for Monday, June 24^th, 2013.

The attached Authorization to Use Image form will be required. Please rest assured that your child’s image will only be used for the Let’s Move! Active Schools promotion and not by NIKE, their affiliates or any other entity.

We'd like to receive as many of these signed Authorization to Use Image forms before Friday, June 21^st.

Please know that all students will be participating on Friday as they normally would on a regular school day. When the select photos are chosen, we may need to follow-up with parents/guardians to secure signed releases from those who have not done so.

Please visit http://www.letsmove.gov/active-schools to learn more about the Let’s Move! Active Schools initiative.

It is such an honor to have been chosen from among all other elementary schools in our nation.

With sincere appreciation,

Ms. Malikah Majeed                                            Ms. Judy LoBianco

Principal                                                                Supervisor of Health, Physical Education & Nursing