Middle schoolers will enjoy the spring dance this Friday, complete with a Hawaiian theme. The event is for seventh and eighth graders and features a photo both and a contest for the best dressed students in both grades. Seventh grade English teacher Mr. Green poses as his alter ego DJ Green Bean to spin music and keep students dancing all night long.
Last week students in Art 2 and Art 3 displayed the work they had completed during the year with Ms. Stephens. Students created work in various media, using three dimensional structures made from books, cardboard, newspapers, and cloth, paint, ink, and charcoal. Students presenters included Nathan Cobbs, Ciara Hovell, Chloe Cattaneo, Assata Reese, Anthony David, Helena Webb, Sebastian Oosterveld, Thalia Flores, Zoe McPherson, Joanna Ayala-Flores, Nick Geist, and Zekiah Wright.
The upper school frisbee team has had a fast-paced season, winning 8 out of 9 games, besting Sidwell, Maret, School-Without-Walls and other competitive schools. The only loss so far this season has been against Field in the re-match after an original win. As a result of the high-flying season, the team is the second-seeded team in the district, playing at the tournament this Saturday at Field School at 11:30. Coaches Mr. Hultgren and Mr. Yonker helm the team, which has been playing since 2007.
Upper school students will attend the National High School Model Arab League conference on Friday at Georgetown. The event is a simulation of the Arab League. Our school will represent Qatar on councils such as environmental, political and social affairs in the Arab world. Sophomores, juniors and seniors such as Shelby Ferncrombie, Ajania Thaxton, Christina Spraggins, Harry Hirsch, Jasper Ferncrombie, Maddy Katz, and Goodness Ukaegbu will attend.
Librarians Ms. Hamd and Ms. Abercrombie adorned the hallways with poetry for National Poetry Month. Students and teachers were treated to printouts of poetry by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost and many others on the walls and bathroom stalls. April is National Poetry Month, so enjoy the poetry while it lasts, as “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
Students in Ms. Stephens’ art classes created plaster masks for the 8th grade fourth quarter project. The masks related to the thematic study of Identity. Students painted and constructed images that either express something about their identities or showcase a way they hide their identities. This connects with the 8th grade English thematic study of Identity. Students are reading various fiction and nonfiction books that deal with characters who hide and eventually accept some truth about their identity, and reading several identity-themed poems, like “We Wear the Mask,” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
