Build a Machine to Get to Know You

Because we prize community at PDS, we deliberately set aside time to gather in multi-age groups for an activity about once a month. We end our small group activity with a whole school gathering. Septembers have “firsts” with great frequency,…

Opening Day, So Far, So Good

We’re back! After our separate summers of action, our middle school learning community began to reform, today, for the new school year. It was a day of getting acquainted and reacquainted. In whole group meetings, and in advisory, students learned…

Winterfest 2015

We had a warm and community focused ending to this amazing week. The last school week of 2015 could not have been better– from Food Bowl to Mozambique to the concert and today’s end of year festivities, everyone shone. With…

Halloween with All the School

Our well loved, Halloween tradition: Gather in All School Activity groups Dress your senior(s) in recyclable materials Carve a few pumpkins Move to the theater Have a senior fashion show Oooh and Aaah over the pumpkins Middle schoolers get an…

A Portrait of Us

Building community means getting to know each other. And that means time. Last week we had the first ASA (all-school-activity) of the year and it was a lot of fun. This year teachers have divided up the activities for the…