May 11, 2022 | Blog, Fine Arts, IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Middle School News
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,...
Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Fine Arts, Have Fun, Inquiry, Lower School News
This story was contributed by Amanda Lower, Lower School Performing Arts Instructor, 2-5 On Friday, April 22 the Lower Campus was alive with Immersive Arts Experiences. During their regular connections block, the kindergarten through fifth grade students enjoyed an...
Apr 20, 2022 | All School, Blog, Come to Play, Fine Arts, Impact, Innovation, Inquiry, Press Release
This story was also a press release distributed to local media outlets on 4.20.2022. The Mount Vernon School has been honored with the SupportMusic Merit Award from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. The SupportMusic Merit Award...
Feb 16, 2022 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Impact, Middle School News
In Grade 7 Humanities, students are building off their reading of Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai, exploring campus, and working with MVXperts to learn about photography – more specifically, finding, framing, and capturing shots that feature simplicity as an...
Feb 16, 2022 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts, Impact, Lower School News, Share the Well, Upper School News
Students in Lower School and Upper School recently connected through written word and performance when Georgia Googer’s Grade 10 American Poetry class visited a Grade 3 Performing Arts class to share pieces of poetry. The younger Mustangs performed their poems for...
Feb 9, 2022 | All School, Blog, Fine Arts
Congratulations to the MV Allstars – Mount Vernon Upper School thespians – for their state theatre performance at the Georgia Theatre Conference in Columbus this weekend. Following their fall mainstage production if The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong, the...