Upper School Review

BY STEPHANIE WEHRER

During Late Start, on Wednesday, teachers from the upper school science and math departments participated in training for the new Promethean Boards that have recently been added to their classrooms. The teachers and kids have really enjoyed the new technology in their classrooms, and I can’t wait for us to be able to outfit the rest of our classrooms with them as well. It has proven to be such a valuable resource for teaching and learning within our classrooms!

This week our sophomores and juniors took the ACT test during the school day. This is always an exciting time, and I loved hearing the kids talking about things they saw on the test that they knew or had been prepared for! I can’t wait to get our scores back to see how many new names we will be adding to our ACT 30+ Club!

Baseball Buddies and Softball Sluggers are back! Last week, our baseball and softball teams reunited with their elementary friends, for one of our favorite spring-time mentoring activities on campus Student athletes from both programs are partnered with classes in each grade of the Lower School, and throughout the final quarter of school they visit their class and participate in various activities with their younger friends. Later in the season, they will welcome their younger friends out for a home game where the elementary students get to run out with their buddies to their respective positions before the game This is such a fun opportunity, not just for our younger students, but for our older ones as well. Be sure to check the calendar for Baseball and Softball Buddy night, and come out for those home games as well!

Next week our students will participate in Spiritual Emphasis week, in honor of Holy Week as we approach Easter and our Savior’s Resurrection. Students will attend an allschool Easter chapel on Monday, and then upper school students will have chapel each day for the rest of the week where they will hear messages from different church leaders in our community.