Monday, February 26th will be an after-school celebration of African American History month in the MPR, complete with music, games, dancing, food, and entertainment. If you are interested in participating, email Ms. Eleby-El at celebyel@latinpcs.org or Ms. Figueroa at jfigueroa@latinpcs.org.
A cast of Middle and Upper Schoolers will perform Urinetown: The Musical Thursday at 7pm, Friday at 7pm, and Saturday at 2 and 7pm. The satirical play, written by Greg Kotis with music by Mark Hollman, premiered in 2001 Off-Broadway and focuses on issues of capitalism, politics, and bureaucracy in a comedic storyline about a futuristic society where people must pay to use the facilities.
In the middle school, members of the Community Council delivered Heart-o-Grams and lollipops to students in advisory. In the upper school the Community Council decorated lockers with colorful hearts and warm-hearted positive messages to brighten everyone’s day. Love was definitely in the air and everywhere!
One of the ways students chose to volunteer this Martin Luther King Jr Day was to make over 400Valentine’s Day cards for senior citizens and veterans. Meanwhile, on Valentine’s Day upper school students continued to spread the love, by delivering the cards to homes for the elderly and veterans who served in WWII. The volunteers, lead by Ms. Prue and Ms. Foster ,included senior Baily Pinkney, juniors Meg Grieve, Tonae Crawford, and Shania Phelps, sophomores Zoe Crute, Lizbeth Payano, and Mia Wilson, and freshmen Hawa Sturr and Chloe Megeath.
Ninth graders nabbed several honors at last week’s upper school science fair. Winning high honors were freshmen Helena Ikenberry and Alicia Campbell, Lucas Roemer and Max Regardie, Oliver Krisetya and Miles Tiller, and Zoe Edelman and Hawa Sturr., Niko Davis, and Una Yarsky. Also honored were Lydia Moore, Such Mulholland and Aviel Honey, Will Monti and Ketan Mampara, Isaac Epstein, Nazzy Fisher, Joshua Perrin, Jalen Richardson, Paul Mwombela, Griffin Smith and Robbie Mirabello, Aaliyah Hudson and Lisa Trejo, Gabby Rodriguez and Coree George, Each pair or single conducted research based on a hypotheses, collected data, and evaluated the results in order to present their work to parents, faculty, friends, and visiting judges. The event, held last Thursday in the MPR, will be followed by a trip to the Citywide STEM fair.
Ms. Kolb’s eighth grade theatre class will be at the Folger Friday for the Secondary Shakespeare Festival. The class will be performing their production of scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Student performers include Henry Cohen, Harrison Flakker, Nathaniel Fox-Halperin, Kayla Freedman, Wyatt Grimm, Will Mader, Estelle Monti, Christian Pacheco, Lawrence Phelps, Mia Sullivan, Rubi Vela, Nico West, Genesis Young, Vlad Zadorojny, and Sophia Zinn.