This month I’ve invited parents of grade 5 students to visit with me, tour the Holford Learning Commons and hear about the middle school program. Of special interest are parts of the program that work to build a bridge between…
I’ll start by apologizing for the weather — no, really! I’m sorry about all the delays at the start of the day. I know it throws your day for a loop. I’ve never spent so much time looking at weather…
The PDS PA is asking all PDS parents to submit their Box Tops to school by February 16. Students can hand them in to their teachers. The PDS Parents Association uses the money raised by the Box Top program to…
PDS has partnered with NY Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2017 and will receive money when parents purchased tickets.
Tickets are selling quickly! NY Int’l Children’s Film Festival 2017 is just around the corner (February 24 – March 19th) and will…
By Debby Brooks, LS & MS Art Teacher
Lower School Parent Art Days are back in full swing in the Gilkeson café!
On Friday, January 27th, Pre-K and Kindergarten artists welcomed their families and shared three of their favorite art…
If you’re ever wandering around the Gilkeson hallways, you might want to pause to see the busy block building that goes on in the After room.
The wooden blocks get continuously built up and taken down and put away again…
If you were unable to attend our 7th – 9th Grade Information Night, please find the slides posted on the High School Site here.
To summarize, Ben distributed the Frank Bruni book “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be.”…
The PDS Parents Association is pleased to announce two Faculty Grants in Honor of Josie Holford awards for the 2016-2017 school year.
The first grant recipient is Lisa McVey. Her grant will be used toward the purchase of an 8′…
PDS is proud of two of our families who organized one of the more than 650 women’s marches that took place on Saturday, January 21, all across the globe. Lisa Kaul P’20 and Paulina Bren P’22 spent two weeks organizing…
On the heels of a new study released by The Equality of Opportunity project which examined tax return records for over 30 million college students between 1999 and 2013, the New York Times “The Upshot” section has recently published a…
