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Balinese Guest Artist Teaches Master Dance Class

The middle school was honored by a second guest teacher for the middle school master class series in dance. I Gede Oka Artha Negara (also known as ‘Oka’) brought costumes and music to share Balinese dance with our students. I’ve included his biography below. Balinese dance is an impactful and disciplined style of dance that includes gorgeous costume work. Saki, the middle school dance teacher, invited and arranged Oka’s visit.

Physics in Motion: Students Design “Newton Vehicles”

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction , Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion formalized in his 1687 tome Philosophi’ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ), has intrigued scientists and curious students ever since — and was the inspiration for a recent Mount Madonna middle school physics proj

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna School Students Stand Up for Snowy Plovers

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/10/2015, “Mount Madonna students stand up for snowy plovers,” by Donna Jones. Photos by Shmuel Thaler. Read the story

Inspiration, Reflection and Opportunity

Each day, as I approach the mountain, there is a moment where I look up and I am struck by the beauty and majesty that will envelop my child during his school day and I become inspired.

I am inspired by the students.

I am inspired by the exceptional faculty.

I am inspired by the families that greet me.

Senior Awarded National Merit Scholarship Commendation

Mount Madonna School is pleased to announce that senior Julia Gratton has been named a Commended Student in the 2016

Valor, Honor and Gender Equity: Mulan Jr. Onstage

Despite uncertainties and at great personal risk, Mulan, a young Chinese girl, disguises herself as a boy to take her father’s place in fighting the invading Huns.

2015 All-SCCAL Girls Volleyball

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/30/2015, “2015 All-SCCAL girls volleyball.”

The 2015 ALL-SCCAL Girls Volleyball awards were announced recently and one coach and four Mount Madonna School student athletes are were recognized:

Co-Coach of the Year: PK McDonald

First Team: Sophie Ortiz

Second Team: Elise Slater

Djembe, Dance and Song: Students Learn from Senegalese Artists

While her husband M’bor beat an energetic rhythm on his Senegalese d’jembe drum, Oumou Faye, garbed in colorful clothing from her west African homeland, wasted no time in arranging a group of Mount Madonna School middle school students in rows to teach them lyrics and a series of choreographed movements for the KouKou dance.

Watching the students learn the movements (and at times joining his father to beat a drum) was the couple’s youngest ch

Model United Nations at Stanford University

This year Mount Madonna School took the largest Model United Nations (MUN) delegation it has ever had to Stanford University’s MUN conference. Our students participated in a variety of committees, ranging from a historic crisis committee dealing with the Opium Wars, to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Each of our 14 delegates was asked to engage fully with their fellow delegates and to work on resolving the issues set before them.

Giving Thanks and Breaking Bread: Fifth Grade Celebrates Thanksgiving Colonial Style

Earlier this week fifth grade students celebrated Thanksgiving “colonial” style, preparing and feasting on Hasty pudding, hardtack, cornbread, chef Nate stone soup, Washington’s applie pie, pumpkin pie, gingersnaps, colonial macaroons, pound cake, potato balls, mulled cider and liberty tea!

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Balinese Guest Artist Teaches Master Dance Class

Physics in Motion: Students Design “Newton Vehicles”

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Mount Madonna School Students Stand Up for Snowy Plovers

Inspiration, Reflection and Opportunity

Senior Awarded National Merit Scholarship Commendation

Valor, Honor and Gender Equity: Mulan Jr. Onstage

2015 All-SCCAL Girls Volleyball

Djembe, Dance and Song: Students Learn from Senegalese Artists

Model United Nations at Stanford University

Giving Thanks and Breaking Bread: Fifth Grade Celebrates Thanksgiving Colonial Style

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