The Class of 2020 photo op!
In June we celebrate each student moving up to the next grade, with a special emphasis on the eighth graders. As they finish the “grammar school” part of their educations, they have much to…
If, like me, you are wondering why your child is suddenly ignoring you, talking back to you, refusing to clean his room, or running out of the house at every opportunity to be with her friends, worry not. This is…
The PDS Parents Association coordinates several fundraisers during the year and receives money from each family at the beginning of the school year. Each and every parent is a member of the PDS Parents Association. Money that is raised by…
The end of the year brings many celebrations: completed work, successful projects, moving on to a new grade in the fall, moving up into a new division. This year, we added one more celebration to middle school: We celebrated decades…
While speaking with a friend on the difficulty of saying goodbye to PDS, she noted something that struck a chord with me: “You know you are lucky to know someone when it is so hard to say goodbye.” As I…
By Mary Ellen Kenny, assistant head of school, lower school dean
These days, the emphasis naturally shifts to bringing closure to the studies that have occupied students and their teachers for many months and to providing time to take stock…
By Geoffrey Dubas, high school math teacher
Being a first year mathematics teacher at PDS, I had no clue I would have the opportunity to be an assistant coach as well and therefore a part of such an amazing accomplishment…
By the end of each school year, the teachers and I can all glimpse the future high schoolers that the eighth graders will soon become. At this point in the year, they have registered for their high school courses, and…
All on the same stretch of Boardman Road,came two debuts this fall: We established a chorus in the middle school and a retirement residence, The Landing, opened up across the street from our campus. With both new endeavors up and…
While grade six works on research papers and presents Lego missions, grade seven is deep in the midst of grappling with proportional thinking in math and literary analysis in English.
Of all the concepts in middle school math, the leap…
