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….
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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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…
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….
From national awards to travel opportunities, our artists have had a banner year and with over 150+ events this year, our studios continue to put out incredible creative work. This year we tried new things like Live Karaoke, Jazz Night, Art in Action/Arts Frontier Days, MS students dove into the world of digital art with…
As summer approaches and reading lists are posted, teachers are reminding students of the magic of immersing themselves in a good book. Grade 3 teachers and students created “Camp Read-A-Lot”, a day dedicated to pushing desks aside, bringing pillows, stuffed animals, and flashlights to class and cuddling up with their favorite books. “Set the stage…
Mount Vernon Celebrates its 15th Commencement Ceremony and 15 years of 100% College Acceptance Atlanta, GA — (May 23, 2022) — The Mount Vernon School celebrated its 15th annual graduation ceremony this past weekend. The ceremony took place at 9:00 am on Saturday, May 21 on the School’s Upper Campus in Sandy Springs. Celebrating its…
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Lower School learners brought expeditionary learning to life this Spring. Expeditions allow learners to follow sparks of curiosity and ignite passions for learning. Sometimes we wonder and wander on an expedition. Sometimes expeditions spark interest as an entry event to an Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) unit. Sometimes expeditions provide deep purpose and the opportunity to ask…
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How might we prepare all students to be globally competitive and engaged citizen leaders? Over the last month, grade 8 students have had a unique opportunity to experience this piece of Mount Vernon’s mission. The World Peace Game, created and developed by the World Peace Game Foundation’s John Hunter, is a Problem Based Learning experience that…
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The Grade 8 Humanities team (Todd Wass, Emily Pastore, Dave Leflar) in partnership with Arts and IDEA took a deep dive into “An American Sunrise” by Joy Harjo, the current Poet Laureate of the United States. Through a recent partnership with 7 Stages Theatre, teaching artists guided Grade 8 students through a thematic response to discussions on an…