Amid all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, the Poughkeepsie Day School Parents Association would like to wish a warm and wonderful Winter Break to students, families, faculty and staff. Be happy, stay healthy, and come back in…
What if you could create a school program that combined empathy for the cause of food justice with engineering, design and English Language Arts? What if that very program required collaboration with organizations outside of school, as well as massive…
By Jay Celuch, high school Spanish teacher
Anyone who has ever studied a language other than his or her native tongue would agree: becoming comfortable with thinking in and speaking a language is the best way to learn and remember…
Education brings the world to students. Knowledge opens minds. As technology advances, finding its place in the classroom has been seen as important over and over again. Moveable type made textbooks possible, television and video made seeing breaking news and…
By David Jordan, grade 4 teacher
A great deal of children’s math experiences at PDS are constructive, experiential and built around meaningful contexts. Mathematics is treated no differently than other content areas in that we believe it should be inquiry-based…
By Anya (2016)
This past cross-country season proved to be one of our most successful seasons yet. I have been honored to be part of such a supportive team for the past four years and I am so proud of…
Before I took the water course I thought that water was a thing we would have forever. Now…I know that we should be careful of how we use clean water and we should not just throw it about. I also…
Students in the high school are once again tapping our PDS community for the purpose of giving to others. At least four initiatives are in the works currently. The first is the ongoing food drive to support those who experience…
A report by Jonathan Heiles, science teacher, on a field trip-based geology course that is open to 10th – 12th graders
With the opening of the Library branch on Boardman Road, the Geology class gained access to a new outcrop.…
By Lynn Fordin, grade 2 teacher
The second grade classrooms are deep in the swing of things, or rather deep in our studies of the Hudson River.
Each of our two classrooms have begun to consider how the river and…
