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17 S Fitzhugh St
Rochester NY 14614
phone: (585) 546-7730
fax: (585) 546-7733

  

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  • John Clinton Bradley
    November 13, 2011
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Right On School

A six-week summer program for children age 6-13

Mission Statement


The Right On School mission is to provide experiences that help promising urban children achieve academic success and acquire positive self-images, confidence, and problem solving skills. A life long interest in learning and high goals for success is encouraged.

Right On School at a Glance

  • A committed and experienced staff
  • Educational experiences focusing on math, reading, and writing skills
  • Representations focusing on career awareness and motivation
  • Planned activities exposing campers to the many cultural opportunities available within our community
  • A warm and exciting learning environment.
  • Daily breakfast and lunch

More About Right On School

  • Established in 1967 by St. Simon Cyrene Episcopal Church, Right On School continues its mission of providing experiences that help promising urban children achieve academic success and acquire positive self-images, confidence and problem solving skills.
  • Our mornings are spent in the classroom, which provides the children with a summer school experience designed to focus on strengthening and helping maintain reading, writing and mathematical skills,
  • Our afternoons incorporate culturally diverse and enrichment experiences that enhance self worth and career awareness in a positive, caring and safe environment.
  • Weekly trips to area, state and county parks, museums, and skating further adds to our fun filled activities.
  • Exposure to positive role models and other activities further adds to children’s learning experience.
  • Music and dance skills are enhanced through our artist in residence programs.
  • Children “give something back” when they perform on Appreciation Night every year.
  • Right On School provides a fun way to learn!

Right On School Creed

by Karon Jackson
  • I am proud of who I am and where I came from.
  • I can become anything I want to become; as long as I have the willpower and drive I will succeed.
  • If my home life is not ok and I can’t change it I will rise above that level to better myself.
  • I know I must deal with different problems in life; it is up to me to find solutions and people to help me solve them.
  • There are many paths I can choose; I can’t blame anyone but myself if I choose the wrong path. All I can do is back up and choose another one.
  • I am not perfect but I am somebody and I will be the best at whatever I do.

A Prayer for the Right On School

by the Rev. Michael W. Hopkins

Good Jesus, who welcomed children and taught us all to enter the Kingdom of God like them: we pray for the children, counselors, and volunteers of the Right On School, that their summer time of study and recreation may bring them to a fuller sense of themselves as your children, created in the image of God and filled with the power of your life-giving Spirit; help them to shine with the light of faith, faith in you that enables faith in themselves so that they know they are somebody in your eyes and strive to be the best they can be; in your name we pray. Amen.

For Information & Application Contact:

Right On School 
St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene Episcopal Church 
17 South Fitzhugh Street 
Rochester, New York 14614 
(585) 546-7730