Feb 25, 2022 | All School, Blog, Build People Up, Have Fun, Impact, Inquiry, Lower School News, MVXperts
Grade 3 Mustangs ended Valentine’s week with a day dedicated to the heart – Cardiology Day! This day was a total surprise for the students and featured “surgery” rotations, white coat ceremonies, and a visit from an MVXpert. When students arrived at school on...
Feb 23, 2022 | All School, Blog, Build People Up, Have Fun, IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Impact, Inquiry, Lower School News, MVXperts, Share the Well
Jesus replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. “Love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:37-39 A consistent message on Lower Campus is...
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...
Jan 5, 2022 | All School, Blog, Impact, News, Upper School News
Happy New Year, Mount Vernon! As a School, we accomplished so much in 2021. We reunited. We graduated 82 seniors, sending them off to Stanford University, Harvard, University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Barnard College, Arizona State, University of British Columbia,...
Dec 15, 2021 | All School, Blog, Impact, News
Leaning into our norm of share the well, in the School’s 12th year participating for Toys for Tots, Mount Vernon students, families, faculty, and staff donated more than 2,875 toys as part of this initiative through the United States Marine Corps. This morning, the...