{"id":2513,"date":"2025-01-24T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:43:15","slug":"february-2025-first-day-school-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/february-2025-first-day-school-update\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2025 First Day School Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First Day School has been busy in this new year!&nbsp; We have celebrated Hanukkah, the full Wolf Moon, and Martin Luther King Day.&nbsp; There will be a Called Meeting at the rise of worship on January 26 to discuss how the meeting can better meet the needs of families with children.<br><br>In February, we are looking forward to celebrating Chinese New Year.&nbsp; We<br>encourage families to attend the Chinese New Year celebration in Boston on Feb 9 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostoncentral.com\/events\/boston-chinese-new-year-parade\/p59289.php\">https:\/\/www.bostoncentral.com\/events\/boston-chinese-new-year-parade\/p59289.php<\/a>), but we will provide a program for children whose families are unable to go.&nbsp; We will be celebrating the birthdays of children who were born in February and the full Snow Moon.<br><br>Our popular Dungeons &amp; Dragons group for older children, led by the talented team of Adam and Mary Hurley, meets about once a month, along with supervised free play provided for younger children so that<br>caregivers can attend Meeting for Worship.<br><br>Several of our children and young people are enjoying weekend youth retreats organized by New England Yearly Meeting, and some of our adults are staffing.<br><br>In related activities, we are updating the CORI (criminal record) checks for adults who work with children.&nbsp; If you would like to volunteer, you can find blank forms giving us permission to do such a check in a folder pinned to the bulletin board in the FDS room.&nbsp; The results are confidential, and we are only looking for offenses related to the safety of our children.&nbsp; CORI checks are actually a small component of our work to keep our children safe: we try to know all adults who work with our children well!!&nbsp; We also have windows in all the FDS doors, we require at least 2 adults to be with the children (at least one of whom has a completed CORI check), and we provide training materials on child safety to adults who work with children.&nbsp; Framingham Friends Meeting has a &#8220;Response Committee&#8221; to which any concerns about incidents related to child safety can be reported.&nbsp; Members are Anne Anderson, Peter Colby, Lynn Lidz, and Lee Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Day School has been busy in this new year!&nbsp; We have celebrated Hanukkah, the full Wolf Moon, and Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-day-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffmquakers.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}