School News

PRIMARY STUDENTS VISIT LOWER ELEMENTARY Third year Primary students have been visiting Lower Elementary to get a "sneak peak" of some work they will be doing next year! Lower Elementary students show a Primary friend…

Every spring the third year Primary students spread out in the hallways to complete their long chains.  The long chains are linear skip counting, cubing a number from 1-1000.  The short chains- squaring a number…

Upper Elementary students and parents are invited to join the teachers for a special night at school.  Pizza and volleyball night will be held in the Crescendo Room on Friday, March 11th from 6:30-8:00 PM. Don’t…

Students in Middle School and 5th grade came together to do a letter writing activity. Through the website SEND KIDS THE WORLD they wrote letters to children who are hospitalized with life threatening illnesses and injuries across the United…

In Middle School, part of our work with students is to give them a global perspective on issues.  Over the course of the year, our 8th grade students have investigated local and global issues that…

Eliza Hammer, Environmental Education Teacher, visited the Primary children to give a presentation on our school progress with composting and vermicomposting.  The children were very excited to see the worms and learn about how their…

  To celebrate Valentine’s Day, the Community Service Committee organized the 4th Annual School Wide Food Drive for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK). TASK feeds those who are hungry in the Trenton area, and…

Upper Elementary students visited Howell Farm and traveled back to the 19th century to learn about Winter activities on the farm: Ice harvesting, quilting and ice cream making. The snow was perfect for the trip!…

In the February School Spirit Day we celebrated the season of winter, focusing on evergreen trees, snowflakes, and the mandala snowflakes the children had created.  We spoke of how the originality in each snowflake is…

The middle school students have been doing several fundraisers to earn money toward their weeklong trip to Spain in the spring.  Their latest fundraiser is selling individual greeting cards. The cards are created by Mrs.…

Imagine sitting at a desk in middle school, looking at a picture of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, learning several interesting facts about it from your teacher who is lecturing you from behind a podium, and then…

Winter Storm Jonas dumped up to two feet of snow on our area - but for many members of our community this was cause for celebration! Students were thrilled to get out in the snow for…