By Erin Murphy, middle school and high school Spanish teacher
On Friday, November 20, ten students in Seminar Spanish and one student from Spanish 4 took a trip to New York City to see a production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s…
We had a packed few days before we said goodbye for Thanksgiving break. They were fun, and also responsible.
Jake’s advisory buddied with Hannah and David’s 4th graders to make and top the apple crisp for our All School Activity…
According to FairTest, there are now 850 test-optional colleges. Perhaps surprising to some, 46 percent of top-tier liberal arts colleges, and a good number of large research universities, no longer require the tests. These include schools such as George Washington…
If you are shopping for the holidays, please consider shopping in 3 ways that benefit PDS.
1. Take advantage of retailer programs that support education. It costs nothing to participate and requires only a little advance planning.
If you shop…
The next PDS Parents Association meeting is on Thursday, December 3 at 8:15 am in Gilkeson Room 18A.
Agenda will include:
New Book Sale
School Store
Teacher Grants
Upcoming Events
Is there anything you’d like to discuss? Please join us!…
On December 3, from 6-8pm, PDS parents, faculty and staff are hosting a Parent Phonathon & Party to raise money for the 2015-16 Annual Fund. Gifts to the Annual Fund support innovative learning through the annual operating budget, including field…
By Judy Purcell, Pre-K/K teacher
After a recent visit to Sprout Creek Farm the children continued work on our farm mural. The focus of our visit involved learning and seeing how the farmers prepare for winter. We learned that some…
By Elizabeth Brooks, Stella Payne, Fatima Waheed and Li Pipman Denaut, high school math teacher
The PDS FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robotics team has begun its third year of designing, building, and programming a robot to accomplish given tasks with…
The New Book Fair will open on Wednesday, December 9 at 8:00, and will continue until Friday, December 11 at 3:00. Online shopping has begun!
To make the fair especially festive, Spirit Wear will be available for purchase.
For more…
By Anna Stover, librarian
Last Thursday, we had a magical visitor, Jill Stover. Author, illustrator, storyteller, and my mother, she enchanted the whole lower school just like she entertained me as a child with stories about her own childhood in…
