TRIPS ARE BACK!

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

GRADE 4

WEST POINT

GRADE 5

On Oct. 6, fifth graders learned about West Point’s significance in American history.

Middle School students resumed their early fall field trip tradition to spur friendships and connections. “They ascended Bear Mountain, navigated high ropes courses, and cheered kids on in relay races. In the process, they began to establish or extend relationships with students that will be foundational to their work in the classroom throughout the rest of the year,” said Head of Middle School Flynn Corson.

Bear Mountain Middle School

Upper School French Seminar

During the week of Aug. 5, five Spanish Diploma students and eight members of the GCDS faculty and staff traveled to San Miguel Acatán, Guatemala, to help build a school with the funds raised at the 2019 Walkathon. “It was magical to watch the adults and students work side by side to make this happen,” said Jen Donnalley, Director of the Center for Public Good. “It is rewarding to help another community send its children to school.”

Students in the advanced French seminar, Colonial History of the Francophone World, went to New York City on Oct. 27. They visited exhibits on the financial aspects of French colonialism in North America (New York Public Library), on the Senegalese diaspora (French Institute Alliance Française), and abolition from the Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast (Metropolitan Museum of Art). They had a West African lunch in the Le Petit Sénégal section of Harlem afterwards.

Cpg Guatemala