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Shop and help PDS at the same time

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…

Next Parents Association Meeting – December 3

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!…

Participate in PDS Parent Phonathon and Party on December 3!

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…

How Do Farms Prepare for Winter? Pre-K and K find out!

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…

FIRST Tech Challenge Prepares for December Tournament

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…

New Book Fair News

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…

A Magical Visitor

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…

Learning to Felt

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…

Demonstrated Interest: What Is It and Does It Matter?

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…

What Makes a Family?

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…