Author: Robyn Pearson

Beautiful, Brave and Inspired: Students Prepare for Creative Writing Reading

The Mount Madonna School (MMS) high school Creative Writing Reading is an annual event where students, faculty, parents and friends gather together to listen to our student writers read their works. Mark your calendars and save the date! This year it’s planned for Friday, March 20 from 7:00-9:00pm in the Assembly Room at the Upper Campus. 

Gilroy Dispatch, Student of the Week: Imogen Cockrum

-Name, age, grade, school
Imogen Cockrum, 13, 8th grade, Mount Madonna School

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Student Spotlight: Zoe Kelly

-Name, age, grade, city of residence Zoe Kelly, 17 years old, 12th, Santa Cruz -What inspires you?  Ever since I was a little kid, I have had a passion for […]

Third Graders Design Light-up Robots

On a recent day in The Factory, Mount Madonna School third grade students created small robot designs and added lights with small circuits made from an LED, a button-cell battery and conductive paint.

Next, using their original designs as circuit diagrams, students make larger scale versions of their robots on paper, and used copper tape, colored LEDs, button-cell batteries and on-off switches. 

Trash Action: Students Cleanup Beach and Pajaro River Mouth

On Tuesday, Mount Madonna School (MMS) Pre/K, fifth and ninth grade students trekked quite far to reach the mouth of the Pajaro River. The group spent nearly two hours cleaning up along the river mouth and nearby beach, and collected 44 pounds of trash, including a tire and an old TV! 

 

Local Screen Printing Shop Donates T-shirts

When twelfth grade students at Mount Madonna School (MMS) began gathering donations for heir upcoming “global” field trip to India, student Renata Massion contacted Bill and Linda Pope, owners of The Print Gallery in Santa Cruz, a screen printing and embroidery business, to enlist their support.

Makers’ Spaces, Musical Connections and Middle School Statistics: Faculty to Present at CAIS Meeting

A statistics unit for sixth grade students, how to establish a makers’ engineering and creativity space and connecting cultures through music, will be the focus of three presentations offered by Mount Madonna School (MMS) faculty members Lisa Catterall, Premdas Rohan and Sarojani Rohan to educators attending the Northern California Regional Meeting of the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) on March 9 at Head Royce School in Oakland.

Annual Giving + Capital Campaign Update

Thank you to everyone who has already made a gift to the Annual Giving + Capital Campaign!

If you have not yet made a contribution or weren’t able to make a ‘stretch’ gift last year, we invite you to make your gift now. We are going for 100% family, faculty, staff, and board participation!

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Ramayana! 2015 Casting Reflections & Cast List

Congratulations to all for completing the audition process. You’ve done your part. Now comes the next step- casting of the play. As we know, casting can be challenging for both performers and directors alike. Often, casting is not a true measure of how we as performers took risks of involvement, faced fears, expanded talents and perhaps discovered internal nourishing pools of creativity. That is why it is important no matter what role assigned we allow ourselves positive reflection about our own growth within the process.

Kale, Kohlrabi and Tangerines: ‘Nutritious’ Learning at UCSC Life Lab

Earlier this week, Mount Madonna School fourth and fifth grade students took a field trip to UCSC’s Life Lab to learn more about nutrition and the role of organic gardens. Docents shared with the students about how different colored vegetables help support distinct body functions, such as memory, bone growth and eye development; they also took students on a garden ‘tasting tour,’ with students sampling chard, kale, rhubarb, kohlrabi and tangerines.