May 18, 2022 | Blog, Come to Play, Have Fun, Humanities, Impact, Innovation, Middle School News
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...
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 6, 2022 | Blog, Build People Up, courage over comfort, IDEA, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Impact, Middle School News, Upper School News
Contributed by Chief of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Action Stacey Lee On Wednesday, March 23, the School hosted an Upper Campus Inclusion Network event for our BIPOC Affinity Group. Both Middle and Upper School students joined together for morning fellowship...
Mar 23, 2022 | Blog, Come to Play, courage over comfort, Middle School News, MS Athletics
Grade 7 Isabella “Izzy” Dumler and grade 8 Loulee Easterlin aren’t afraid to get aggressive when it comes to lacrosse. Both girls, involved in club teams outside of the School, yearned for a way to represent Mount Vernon on a lacrosse team. With no girls teams offered...
Mar 16, 2022 | All School, Blog, Have Fun, Interim, Middle School News
Each year, the week before Spring Break at Mount Vernon is called Interim Week. While the Upper School students travel near and far on small group trips and participate in local Internships, our Middle School students also participate in their own way, strengthening...
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...
