This is Your Story

Convocation is one of the most anticipated events of the school year. This August, our Mount Vernon community came together to receive the charge for the year from our CEO, Head of School, and Head Prefect. This year, the School’s battle cry is “Let’s Do This” whereby students are challenged to: Create their Story Design…

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Welcoming Students Back To Campus: How Might We Make This The Most Exciting First Week Yet?

Mount Vernon students are always in for a treat at the beginning of the school year and this year, it was full of firsts. Lower School In celebration of the start of the school year, the Mount Vernon Parent Network (MVPN) hosted its first ever Lower Campus Spaghetti Dinner and Bingo night on August 11….

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Grade 5, 2 Weeks, 6 Expeditions, The Best Playground PBL Ever

Grade 5 is starting the year with a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit on playground design. Have you or your child ever seen a playground and wondered why it was built the way it was or how it could be improved? This unit encourages students to ask those same questions but this time with the intention…

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MV All Stars Perform in Scotland

Sixteen Mount Vernon students in Grades 9 – 12 and alumni traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland and performed at the world’s largest theatre festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe August 5 – 10. The award winning theatre group, The MV Allstars, performed “A Hipsummer Night’s Dream”, a hip hop rendition of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, as part of…

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New, Improved and Upgraded

Since school let out in May, Faculty and Staff have been preparing for the first day of the 2022-2023 school year. Committed to designing new and maintaining existing flexible spaces to increase our students’ capacity to spark wonder; to build, imagine, create, and learn, the School made significant improvements to several major Lower Campus areas….

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