May 17, 2023 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, Have Fun, Inquiry, News, Preschool, Preschool News
Mount Vernon’s youngest learners had a special day filled with creativity, exploration, and fun during Frontier Arts Day. PK2 – PK5 students engaged in various arts-related activities outside on the Frontier, the School’s natural playground. Shay Jones,...
May 17, 2023 | All School, Blog, Inquiry, Middle School News, News
As the year comes to a close, there is no better way to see if students have mastered the understanding of a concept or a topic than to ask them to teach it. “Make sure you’re being respectful. It takes a lot of guts to get up in front of your classmates and present.”...
May 9, 2023 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, Inquiry, News, Upper School News
In Meg Brooks’ Artistic Revolution & the Harlem Renaissance course, students explore the ties between the experimentation of the arts during the Harlem Renaissance and its effects on culture and art today. As the course description describes, “The aptly-named...
May 9, 2023 | All School, Blog, Design Thinking, Innovation, Lower School News, Maker, News, Upper School News
Designing a product for a specific client is an incredibly rich and multi-layered learning experience. In addition to leveraging skills like solution seeking, critical thinking, connecting, communicating and innovating, to ensure the clients needs are met, attributes...
May 3, 2023 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, Lower School News, News
Written By Lower School Performing Arts Teacher and Arts in Action Coordinator, Amanda Lower On April 21, 2023, the sounds of Djembe drums filled the air as parents and students entered the front entrance of Lower Campus. Older faces were behind the drums, familiar to...
May 3, 2023 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, News, Upper School News
On April 20, 36 Film students from Film Production, Post-Production, and Sport Broadcasting courses came together to showcase their talents in the second annual Upper School Film Festival. Many elements make cinema stand apart from other art forms—movies can speak to...
