This year for Earth Day, we’re calling on our community to make a pledge to make one small change to help restore our earth.
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Eagles lead the way! From team challenges to personal reflection, the Eagles program is designed to harness leadership skills in 8th and 9th grade teens.
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We are deeply saddened by the tragic murders that took place in Georgia this week. Our hearts go out to the victims and families, and we formally stand in solidarity with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
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Inspired by The Feelings Book by Todd Parr, pre-K students share their feelings, and also share artwork from their recent exploration of the elements that make up 'ourselves' and 'others.'
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Kindergarteners have been discussing ways to take action and to stand up for what they believe in. They created colorful posters about what “fairness” means to them and participated in a march around the classroom holding up their posters.
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The Wax Museum project is what Fourth Grade Teacher Laura Doyle describes as a “passion project.” Students are able to pick a person they’re interested in learning more about from any part of history or any part of the world.
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Eagles lead the way! From team challenges to personal reflection, the Eagles program is designed to harness leadership skills in 8th and 9th grade teens.
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This week, students in 8th grade Latin completed the “Rome in A Day” project, for which each student was tasked with researching and building a scale model of a significant structure from the city of Ancient Rome. Here, Upper School Latin Teacher and Dean of Students Cori Russo shares a bit more about the annual project.
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It’s been almost a year since a pandemic came out of the likes of science fiction and movies and into our reality. I recently reread the March 2020 letter to the community delaying the return to school, we were so hopeful it would be a week or two. Well, we all know that weeks became months and next thing we knew we were reimagining graduation, summer camp, the start of school, and nearly every aspect of school life.
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In January, GUS launched a community-wide 21-day racial equity habit building challenge. Here, members of the DEI Task Force share some of what they’ve been exploring with their students in Pre-K, Kindergarten, first grade, fourth grade, sixth grade, and eighth grade.
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The fourth grade class recently finished up the annual Lighthouse Project in which students are tasked with researching the history and architecture of a chosen New England Lighthouse and building a model replica.
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Seventh graders in Emilie Cushing’s science class today participated in the Great Backyard Bird Count, a global citizen science project sponsored by The Cornell Lab, the National Audubon Society, and Birds Canada.
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As part of their ongoing conversation about how young people can make a difference, second graders read “I Am One, A Book of Action” by Susan Verde. They learned that small actions can lead to big change. Hear what they’re planning to do.
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As part of our 21-day racial equity challenge, 7th graders have devoted time to reflecting on the life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We were thrilled to see upper school science teacher Alex Levin and his students exploring the laws of physics featured in a recent National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) newsletter.
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In the words of Mr. Bartsch, this week “we gathered around the modern-day version of the village fire - the computer screen,” to celebrate our first-ever virtual 8th Grade Arts Night. As they do every year, members of the graduating class presented their White Shirt Projects as well as dance performances.
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More important than ever have been words that come up over and over again as we talk about the GUS experience during the time of COVID. GUS educational philosophy itself offers a program for students that is uniquely qualified to handle the impact the pandemic has had on children.
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American psychologist, Jerome Bruner, believed that even the most complicated topics, if presented properly, can be understood by even the youngest children. At GUS, we agree. It is with this belief that we often compare our curriculum to a spiral, but what exactly does that mean?
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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, as part of our community-wide 21-day racial justice challenge, our Kindergarten students conducted an experiment with eggs.
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At GUS, we ended the last school year in June, and began the new one in September, with a resolution to “Mean Well, Speak Well, and Do Better,” in the fight against racism in our community and in our country.
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