The Reflections Program is an avenue for children to share their world by choosing to express feelings, thoughts and ideas creatively for fun and recognition. Students are encouraged to submit works of art in four areas: literature, musical composition, photography and the visual arts (which includes art forms such as drawing, painting, print making and collage).

Each year, the Reflections Program challenges students to create art that supports a specific theme. The theme this year was "I Wonder Why..."

Student works are critiqued against others in the same grade division. This allows recognition and judging of artwork by appropriate developmental age and skill levels. Grade divisions at DuFief are Primary (preschool–grade 2) and Intermediate (grades 3–5). Entries are first judged at the local PTA level. Selected works are chosen to represent the PTA at each subsequent level—council, district or state—depending on each state PTA’s structure. Once entries reach the state level, the state PTA may select entries to submit to National PTA. Awards of Excellence and Awards of Merit are recognized at the annual National PTA Convention and displayed in a virtual gallery on National PTA’s website.

Click on the below link to view some of the DuFief entries in each category. Please note that as required by the National PTA Reflections program these entries are 100% student work without any editing by parents or teachers.

• Literature
• Musical Composition (no DuFief entries this year)
• Photography
• Visual Arts