Today was filled with lots of excitement; beaming smiles all around, happy to start the new school year! Here’s a quick peak into our first day. Everyone settled in seamlessly to our new classroom, and have already began making it…
Greetings, parents!
We had a wonderful first day of school! Here is the class with the winning STEM challenge. They built castles out of index cards that were at least two feet tall, to look like a square from a…
5/6 th grade had a GREAT first day! They used pattern blocks to copy a pattern and then made their own. The students did a great job of explaining how this activity demonstrated their diversity of thinking and perspectives. It…
Dear families,
Welcome to our Winter edition of “Learning Buds”, our Lower School Newsletter.
It is hard to explain what we do here in our Lower School in words; only being here every day makes it possible to understand. Seeing…
Jeffrey Fisher – Upper School Humanities Teacher, College Counseling Team. Jeff received his Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Medieval Studies program at Yale University in 1997, where he took courses and served as a teaching assistant in the English, History, Religious…
The number of students enrolled in summer programs has been capped this year to allow for smaller class sizes and easier social distancing.
Program check-in and check-out will take place outside under a tent. Parents, guardians, and other family…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly diagnosed respiratory illness. We have been closely monitoring guidance from the county, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of State and professional private school organizations to shape our response to…
Congratulations to Nachman Kaul-Seidman ’20 for being one of twenty-three students from the mid-Hudson Valley being named semi-finalists, and to Sobia Hosain ’20 for being named a Commended Student, in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship…
As part of our college process, we invite college reps onto campus to speak with small groups of juniors and seniors. Gabe Smiley, our Director of College Counseling, personally invites a wide variety of colleges and universities to give our…
PDS is fielding four teams this fall:
Varsity Cross Country
Varsity Girls Volleyball
Varsity Boys Soccer
Varsity Girls Soccer
Our coaches are all set, you can find contact information on the Athletics…
