Share Your Back to School Pictures on Sewickley Patch

Tuesday is the first day of school for some Quaker Valley and Sewickley Academy students.

Quaker Valley students in kindergarten through ninth grades will return to school today, while students in grades 10-12 return Wednesday. Sewickley Academy Senior School students are back in class today, while the Middle and Lower School students return on Wednesday.  But whether it's the first day of kindergarten or the final year of high school, the first day of school is always a "Kodak" moment. So why not share your back to school pictures with Sewickley Patch?  We want to see them and so do your neighbors! Uploading your pictures is easy, just click the upload photos and videos button o this article.  We'll keep this article on the front page through Tuesday, so everyone can share his or her favorite back to school pictures. …

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Middle School Won't Be Ready for First Day of Classes

But district officials expect students will occupy the building by late fall.

A group of Quaker Valley Middle School parents had the chance to learn more Thursday about the school construction and where the project stands for the beginning of next school year. Joseph Marrone started out by telling parents with the Middle School Home and School Association who gathered at the Penguin Bookshop that there is no definitive answer at this point, while assuring them that the building will be ready for students sometime in the late fall, possibly after the holidays. "The big question, I don't have the answer yet," he said. Marrone, director of administrative services, who is overseeing the project, said the construction portion of the work is about 68 percent complete, according to construction-based measurements. Once …

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Photo Album: QV's First Days of School

Students in kindergarten through ninth grades returned to class Monday. Today, students in 10th to 12th return to school.

Quaker Valley Middle School students returned Monday for a new school year in new surroundings at a new school building. Middle School Principal Sean Aiken greeted students as they stepped off the bus and across the front walk to Anthony Wayne school. Students are attending classes at the school in Ambridge temporarily while the middle school in Sewickley is renovated. Construction is expected to be completed by next fall. Pupils at Osborne and Edgeworth elementary schools also returned Monday along with ninth-graders, who had the chance to get acclimated to their new building without the upperclassmen around. The 10th- to 12th-graders return to the high school today.

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Monday Musings with Alie

Ode to the End of Summer

Patch columnist Alie Gensheimer finds that the changing of seasons isn't all that bad.

The transition from summer to fall has never been easy for me. Between school starting and the pool closing, the end of summer used to feel like the end of life as I knew it. Now that I am out of school and no longer have the free time to lounge by the pool, the changing of the seasons seems more bearable and perhaps something to anticipate. For at least the second time in my life, I am not dreading another school year or the loss of carefree summer days. Things are changing around me, yet everything in my life is staying the same. Because I'm not one for change, I like it. Now that my routine is consistent on a year-round basis, I can finally start to enjoy the changing of seasons-- or at least parts of it. One of my favorite summer …

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