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Bolles WEB Leaders Help Everyone Belong in Middle School
Bolles Middle School Bartram Campus WEB Leaders (“Where Everyone Belongs”) play a pivotal role in the School’s efforts to strengthen peer relationships and develop community values. The students, who are trained and organized by classroom teacher Laura Lane and middle school guidance counselor Brynne Plant, plan events throughout the year to build a student community […]
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Innovative Literature Course Examines Voice, Community, Service
This year, juniors in Kent Denver School’s English classes are researching, designing, proposing, and executing service projects that require them to think explicitly about their own values and communities — family, places of worship, school, city, state, country, and even the world. Before school began, they got a flavor for what was to come through […]
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The Orchard School "Culture Days"
Fourth-graders at The Orchard School dive deep into their study of diverse cultures of early Indiana. Rather than sitting in a classroom, watching a video, and filling out a worksheet, we take our students outside on our 43-acre wooded campus. “Culture Days” is a three day event full of hands-on experiences where students are truly […]
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Upper School Club Helps Students Gain New Perspectives on Community, Diversity
An Upper School club at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School provides an affinity space for students who identify as Black/African-American. Called Unapologetic, the club is a forum to discuss inequities and grow a sense of community for students of color. The club helps students find mentors and discuss opportunities and challenges they experience in the school […]
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Bolles Hosts ‘Treehouse’ Ribbon-Cutting on Whitehurst Campus
Many branches of the Bolles family tree were out on the Lower School Whitehurst Campus early on September 27 for a special ribbon-cutting event celebrating the new Treehouse Outdoor Learning Center—“a room with a view!” The 488-square-foot riverfront treehouse, built by Sauer Construction Inc. and designed by Luke Architecture PA, is the newest learning facility […]
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Burke's Students Harness Green Technologies
Sixth graders in Dr. Tone Rawlings’ science class recently tried out a technique that’s making international news when they attempted to make plastic-less, or edible, water bottles. The technology has been in the news quite a bit lately, as the British company Skipping Rocks Lab is prototyping a way to deliver vital hydration without using […]
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Kent School Students Use Chesapeake Bay Tributary as Classroom
In mid-September Emily Harris, Watershed Coordinator of the Chester River Association, visited Kent School to train and certify Grade 8 students to become Chester Testers. Kent School’s Grade 8 students will be responsible for testing and reporting on water quality samples they take from the Urieville Lake Branch. Ms. Harris explained the role of the […]
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How Princeton Montessori Students "Tune In"
It’s no secret that family life today is a juggling act for both parents and children. Thanks to yoga teacher Erin Galbraith, Princeton Montessori School students are learning to “tune in” and find their inner stillness. Trained at the renowned Kripalu School of Yoga in Stockbridge, MA, Galbraith has been teaching yoga in the greater […]
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Zipping Into STEM Education at Bolles
Innovation, problem-solving and teamwork were the themes of a recent maker space lesson in the Copeland Library. The task? Build a functioning zip line that would whisk a straw-harnessed balloon up, up and away! Michelle Mas, Bolles Lower School Whitehurst Campus librarian, explained a few other parameters to the students before they paired up and […]
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Bolles Community Helps Clean Up After Irma
Numerous students, parents, faculty, staff and administrators volunteered their time on September 12 to help clean falling branches and other debris on the San Jose, Whitehurst and Bartram Campuses in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The entire girls’ and boys’ boarding program joined the efforts along with day students and parents from various grade levels. […]
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'The Bolles Way' Now Part of Bartram English Curriculum
English teachers on the Bolles Middle School Bartram Campus are advancing students’ comprehension of the School’s motto through a new schoolwide initiative. The goal is to add curricular and literary context to the words most students know by heart: “The Bolles Way: Pursuing excellence through courage, integrity and compassion.” Deborah Carney, English Lead Teacher on […]
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Bolles PVB Students Learn Engineering Design Process
Students in the Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach lab are learning how to set up a falling-weight system car design using K’Nex materials and their understanding of the Engineering Design Process. A large poster in the lab reminds students about critical tenets of engineering design: Ask: Find out more about the problem Imagine: Think […]