India West, 5/17/2018, “Mount Madonna School Returns with 40th Annual Production of Ramayana! June 7-10.” Mount Madonna School will be presenting the 40th anniversary production of “Ramayana!,” the ancient epic adapted for modern audiences and set to a mix of traditional and contemporary music…
What follows is a reflection by Mount Madonna’s Head of School, Supriya Mary McDonald, on the importance of positive character development. Positive character development, along with academic excellence and creative self-expression, comprise the three pillars of Mount Madonna School. As the many…
In April, six Mount Madonna School (MMS) upper school students attended a Model United Nations (MUN) conference hosted by Pacific Collegiate School (PCS) in Santa Cruz. The MMS students prepared for the conference by meeting once a week with history teacher and…
Whether learning about inspirational ‘moral heroes,’ creating papier mache bird models with high school ‘big buddies,’ or absorbing history lessons in situ along California’s coastal area or in the Sierra mountains, students in Robin Hamsa Heinrich’s third grade class are active and challenged.
“Last night the boys volleyball season came to a close with a loss in the Central Coast Section Division III semifinals,” commented coach PK McDonald. “This season has been filled with great accomplishments and a great deal of adversity. It has offered…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 5/9/2018, “CCS boys volleyball: Mount Madonna overcomes hiccups, Monterey,” by Julie Jag. Photos by Shmuel Thaler WATSONVILLE >> Something has been off with the Mount Madonna School boys volleyball team lately. After a hot start and a stretch of…
Mount Madonna School’s Values in World Thought Program We hope you will follow the Mount Madonna School juniors and seniors’ journey to Washington, D.C., May 12-23, as they interview an interesting array of government and social action leaders. Our students have been…
“Ride Not Drive,” a poster promoting environmentally-friendly transportation by sophomores Aaron Saavedra, AnMei Dasbach-Prisk, Braeden Will, Connor Murphy, Ksenia Medvedeva and Tabitha Hardin-Zollo earned fifth place (out of 36 entries) in the recent Santa Cruz Earth Day teen poster contest. These students…
This semester has been an exciting one in Mount Madonna’s high school Spanish classes! In addition to learning new grammar and vocabulary and practicing conversational, presentational and interpretive communication skills, students were taken out of the classroom and into the kitchen where…
