You are invited to our high school’s annual Creative Writing Reading on Friday, February 23 at 7:00pm in the Assembly Room. Students will be sharing original poetry, stories, personal essays and songs. Here are excerpts from students’ reflections written following the 2017…
The Dirk Derrick Car & Truck Accident Injury Scholarship is an award for any current or soon-to-be undergrad who has had his or her life altered due to an injury from a car or truck accident, be it their own injury, that…
Name, age, grade: Gracie Howley, 17, senior What inspires you? I am inspired by people who pursue their passions. What is your favorite subject in school, and why? Calculus is so interesting and when you know what you’re doing, it can be…
Bravo, cast and crew of Urinetown, The Musical! From costumes to direction, sound, lighting, makeup, and movement – the show was really good! Thank you to parent Sara Sobkoviak and alumni parent Ross Bryan for sharing their time and talent to capture…
Morgan Hill Life, 1/27/2018, “Mt. Madonna students push the envelope with ‘Urinetown’; cutting-edge satire looks at balancing human rights against a lack of resources,” by Marty Cheek. Mount Madonna High School students pushed the envelope of environmental theatrical story-telling and made a…
Register-Pajaronian, 1/25/2018, Community Briefs: “Mount Madonna School presents Urinetown.” WATSONVILLE — “Urinetown, The Musical” will make a splash at Mount Madonna School with three performances. The musical is set in a dystopian “near future,” where decades of drought have led to water shortages…
The 2017 All-SCCAL Girls Volleyball awards were announced recently and several Mount Madonna School student athletes were recognized: Second Team: Indigo Kelly, Paola Jacobs Honorable Mentions: AnMei Dasbach-Prisk, Mara Peruzzi “These four athletes did an outstanding job competing for their team and representing…
This fall the freshmen and sophomore English classes participated in the Yes! Magazine Writing Competition, a national writing competition with roughly 2,000 participants each quarter. Last year Mara Peruzzi received an award in the Powerful Voice category and Imogen Cockrum was the…
Eighth grade and high school students crowded around in a semi-circle, but at a safe distance, to watch as senior Zachary Wagner, standing atop a courtyard picnic table, prepared a visual to support his explanation of why lightning creates thunder. As they…
This fall, the Mount Madonna School (MMS) eleventh grade U.S. Government and Politics class joined 200 other local high schoolers at the Santa Cruz County Civics Summit held at Cabrillo College. The stated purpose of the Civics Summit was to “deepen students’…
