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…
The middle school art class was without its usual and very competent teacher this morning. I jumped in to fill the gap. More or less. Truthfully, mostly less…I don’t know how to felt.
Lucky for me, the students have learned…
As students finalize their college lists, I am often asked, “Should I visit the school?” or, “Should I try to get an interview?” The answer to these questions is always, YES! Colleges want to get to know.
A student’s transcript…
During the month of November the PDS community has access to In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families, a photo/text exhibit put together by Family Diversity Projects in Amherst, MA.
The exhibit celebrates the diversity of family life…
Our sixth graders have been particularly busy this week, making final preparations for the Maker Faire coming up this weekend, on Saturday, November 14. In their science class, with their teacher, Emma Sears, students have been wrestling with the question…
PDS students Chris C. (2017), Mia F. (2016), Erik H. (2018), Kate M. (2017), Sonomi O. (2017), Ellie S. (2016), Mattison W. (2018), members of science teacher Brent Boscarino’s Invasive Species Research Club, presented their research work on Hemimysis anomala…
By Michelle Holmes, grade 3 teacher
Third Grade has been having a wonderful time delving far into the past as we study Paleo People. Last week we visited Bowdoin Park and learn about how Paleo People in the Hudson Valley…
We are pleased and excited to announce that Benedict Chant has accepted the invitation of the Board of Trustees to succeed Josie Holford as Head of School of Poughkeepsie Day School, effective July 1, 2016.
Beginning last spring, the school…
