Congratulations 8th Grade Families!

It's a Saxe tradition to celebrate our 8th graders in a big way for all their hard work and success throughout their four years at Saxe. End-of-year planning is in full swing for a final farewell to the Saxe graduating class of 2024.

See the complete schedule and details below

*Should any of the costs associated with the events be prohibitive, please reach out to your child’s counselor. For general questions regarding any of our end-of-year celebrations, please reach out to 8th-grade assistant Ms. Lin Benware at (203) 594-4538 or Lin.Benware@ncps-k12.org.   

Celebrate Your Student with Lawn Signs!

Help celebrate the Saxe Class of 2024 by purchasing a lawn sign for your 8th grader. Lawn signs are $25. Proceeds go towards the 8th grade end-of-year activities. 

**Pick-ups: 8th-grade lawn signs will be distributed at Saxe on Thursday, May 30th between 2:00-2:30 PM. If you are unable to pick up on May 30th, another pick up in connection with the Brownstone field trip on June 6th between 2:30-3:15 PM.

Purchase Lawn Signs

8th Grade Bash

Monday, June 10, 2024 at 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Saxe Fields, rain or shine

This event is for current 8th grade Saxe students only.

The party of the year for 8th graders! Students can expect a wonderful sendoff celebration event. There will be a DJ spinning tunes, lots of dancing, and a wide variety of fun lawn games and exciting activities like air hockey, basketball hoop shots, and photo booths. Students will enjoy dinner from a Pizza Truck PLUS a candy and snack bar. This event will take place outdoors on the grassy fields, so dress accordingly. The cost is $40 per ticket.

Purchase Bash Tickets

Should any costs associated with an event present a hardship for an individual family, please reach out to your child’s counselor. 

Volunteer Opportunities

We have a fantastic event planned for this year’s 8th Grade Saxe Bash ‘24! If you’re looking for ways to volunteer your time, please reach out to Marley Thackray at marleythackray@gmail.com.

8th Grade End-of-Year Video

The 8th-grade end-of-the-year video is in motion!  Please submit 2 photos of your 8th grader for our end-of-the-year video. This video will be played at graduation and available for parents to view/download after graduation. The submission Deadline is May 23rd. 

What makes a good submission? Images that show your child in action doing something they enjoy. Treasured preschool snaps. Pictures that make you smile. Please keep images for the 2023 8th grade class; pets are the exception. JPEG/PNG accepted:

•  1 of your child 0-8 years
•  1 from their SAXE years

***IF SUBMITTING GROUP PHOTOS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO USE/SHARE THE IMAGE FROM ALL PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHED. If you have any questions, please contact Jera Flood at jeraflood@gmail.com. 

Submit pictures HERE.