Two days of Halloween for Renaissance Academy Students

Renaissance Charter School’s All School Halloween Party has been a great success for the past three years and this year looks to be no different.

On Oct. 30 Renaissance Academy will be hosting their fifth annual All School Halloween Party. This year has the potential to be the best largely due to the increase in parent involvement.

“This is something that the PTO really got behind,” said Principal David Krauss. It started small and at the last meeting there were 25 parents there.”

With the increase in parent involvement there will be more things for the kids to do. This year there will be 12 game sectors with two or three parents in each classroom.

“The Halloween party is a good time for families to enjoy safe Halloween fun,” Danielle Bruursema, kindergarten teacher, said.

Not only will be there be games for the kids, but food for the whole family. This year Krauss is cooking 600 hot dogs out front, however he will not be in costume.

“I’ll just be myself, they tell me I look like I have a mask on half the time anyway,” Krauss said.

Renaissance academy started the party because they do not do much during the day for Halloween. The party gives the kids a chance to wear their costumes and show their classmates.

“We don’t do much for Halloween during the day,” Krauss said. I’ve always felt that if the kids come to school in their costumes for Halloween you lose a whole day of school.”