Getting Wild
LOWER SCHOOL SERVICE LEARNING DAY During Project Virtues Day, Lower School students displayed virtue in action through the five character virtues – respect, responsibility, integrity, courage, and compassion. They spent the afternoon engaged in activities to serve those around us, including building love kits filled with personal care items and letters of encouragement for Cincinnati children, making bookmarks and book bags for graduating students at Amanda Elementary, cleaning up our beautiful campus, helping prep for summer programs, and crafting paper hearts with messages of support, kindness, and compassion for children who have experienced loss.
34 | CONNECTIONS
Things get wild every year when the second graders and seventh graders take a field trip to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden together. In addition to making new friends, the second graders prepare for their animal research projects and the seventh graders have the chance to observe what they are learning in science class. Not only do cross-divisional learning opportunities abound on our campus, but our students also enjoy the opportunity to interact off campus. And because we cannot resist a good throwback, check out these pictures of this year’s seventh graders (the Class of 2028) with this year’s seniors (the Class of 2023) from their zoo trip together five years ago.