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Preschool and Lower School Students Showcase Creativity in Annual Cardboard Challenge

This year, the theme for the annual Cardboard Challenge was How Might We be Better Together, by Sharing the Gift of Play? This year's challenge was inspired by a young boy named Cain who lives in L.A. With a love for building things and tin...

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What is The Arrival?

The Arrival is a graphic novel by Shaun Tan. It is at heart, a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long-forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking b...

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Preschool Students Learn About Rosh Hashanah from Upper School Student Ryan Rapaport

Contributed by Preschool Teacher Debbie Markland As part of our MVIFI 2019 Summer Grant Team work on essentializing learning outcomes, the Preschool Grant Team (myself, Molly Collier, Kyla Ravenell and Sunshine Osella) redesigned how we cele...

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Story Slam – A Culmination of How to Tell a Story

During Mod 1 in the Upper School, a group of Innovation Diploma students learned how to write and share their own stories in How to Tell a Story, a class led by MV teachers Brad Droke and Krista Fancher. Throughout the Mod, students wrote th...

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Convocation 2019: Better Together

Speech by Head Prefect Katieanne Peterson, Class of 2020 Good morning Dr. Jacobson, Faculty & Staff, Parents and Families, Students, and... the Class of 2020!! My name is Katieanne Peterson and I have the honor of serving the Upper School as...

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Students Recognized in Upper School Honors Assembly

Contributed by Chip Houston, Head of Upper School Today we celebrate the learning and achievements of our community for the 2018-2019 school year. This year began with a new modular schedule, based on research and consultation, aligned with the m...

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Junior Sarah Eaves Receives Honorable Mention in 2019 Jostens Photo Contest

Sarah Eaves earned Honorable Mention in the 2019 Jostens Photo Contest, submitting a photograph, Reminiscing Them, taken for a project in Michelle Erling's Upper School Photography Class. Out of more than 6,000 submissions, only 111 received spe...

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Girls Can Build Their Own Castles: Women in Engineering

Historically, women have been under-represented in the field of engineering, yet many of these women have accomplished much by making breakthroughs by contributing their minds and efforts to the diverse fields of engineering -- civil, mechanical,...

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Varsity Sports Highlights

Boys Basketball hosted the first round of GHSA playoffs for the first time in Mount Vernon history with a victory over Mount Pisgah Christian School. Junior Morgan Mulrain led the team in scoring, with 22 points. That win advanced the Mustangs to the...

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A Mustang Becomes a Blazer

Senior Ashley MCown signed her National Letter of Intent today to play soccer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. UAB is an NCAA Division-I institution, which is the highest level of amateur athletics in the country, competing in Conference-...