On Friday, April 6th, the Jazz band will be traveling to the Department of Education to hear the Thelonius Monk Institute present a uniting of jazz bands. The groups performing will include Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Newark School for the Arts and Baltimore School for the Arts. The Institute’s goals include developing college-level jazz collaborations where the masters of jazz could influence the next generation of jazz musicians. April 30th is International Jazz Day.
The new Arts and Literary Magazine, Open Mic has published its first online addition, which can be accessed at https://latinopenmic.wordpress.com. The student published magazine, started this year by junior Chloe Cattaneo features poetry, short stories, photography, and drawings by students in the middle and upper school. Sophomore MaryKate Wilson is the assistant editor, junior Ava Tiller is the head of design, junior Ciara Hovell is the art editor, sophomore Gabby Micheli is the web designer, junior Chloe Timberg is the poetry editor, eighth grader Micah Gans is the treasurer, and junior Nathan Cobbs is the outreach manager. Open Mic plans to publish a second print edition in the spring.
On March 23 as part of our Spirit Week celebrations, upper school students will be having a teacher basketball game during advisory lunch. Teachers representing the 9th and 10th grade team will take on the combined 11th and 12th grade teacher team. Each team will have a maximum of eight players and some student coaches. For 9th and 10th grade, the student coaches are Zoe Edelman and Ethan Gadson. For 11th and 12th grade the coaches will be Kayla Price, Mika Robinson and Daryl Dixon. On that day, students in 9th and 10th grade will be wearing white and teachers that teach those grades should do the same. For 11th and 12th grade students will be wearing black and teachers that teach those grades. should do the same.
A small group of Upper School students wanted to show solidarity with the Parkland students and to honor those lives lost in school shootings this week, so they decided to have students stand in a formation of a heart during morning break. Fifth and sixth graders will take part in their afternoon break and seventh through twelfth graders did so on their morning break. Students will stand together in silent commemoration for the 17 lives lost and to show their care for all victims of gun violence in schools.
This week the Middle School Community Council organized a scavenger hunt using clues written in the Daily Bulletin indicating a location in the school. One student from each advisory competed by racing to that location to find a faculty member holding a dress down pass for their advisory. Ms. Coppola-Klein’s class won the first clue, which directed them to the Music Room. The Scavenger Hunt is a great way to wake up the brain and body and remind students to get to advisory on time!
