Members of the Upper School’s GSA took part in a Day of Action on Friday, highlighting LBGTQ issues through artwork placed around the building. With help from Mr. Hotchkiss, Ms. Eggleston, and Mr. Torrence, students collaborated to decorate the hallway with posters and artwork connected to the theme of identity and pride.
This week the seventh graders took their annual trip to Echo Hill Outdoor School in Kent County, MD. Students engaged in various daily classes including Survival, Aqualogy, Adventure (low-ropes course), Bay Studies (in a boat on the Chesapeake) and Scanoeing (swamp canoeing). Students stayed in platform tents, ate in “The Whip,” and experienced the excitement of night hikes. The overnight trip allows students to get to know their peers and teachers and become more aware of the natural world around them, and also connects with some of their study of life sciences this year. Outdoor education is also a key part of the high school curriculum, with trips into nature for fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth graders occurring each year to teach orienteering, team work, and ecological understanding.
On Thursday, May 10th, the eleventh grade will travel to Shanksville, PA, to visit the Flight 93 memorial. This is the location where the “fourth” plane on September 11, 2001 went down because passengers took action to crash it before it could hit its target. Students will learn about the tragic events of September 11 in their history classes, both through reading and hearing from teachers about their firsthand experiences that day.