An overview video of our student’s Umbono Project learning journey to South Africa in June 2019. The trip included several interviews with prominent figures in South Africa such as Mamphela Ramphele, Thulani Mabaso, Pregs Govender, and Piet Meiring. Students also brought donation…
Mount Madonna School students interview Kamla Bhasin in New Delhi as part of their 2019 Learning Journey to India.
At start of their Boston-area history tour last spring, Mount Madonna School (MMS) eighth grade students did an exploration of several sites along the Freedom Trail, including a visit to the Massachusetts State House. It was there that a chance meeting led…
Mount Madonna School (MMS) is pleased to announce Priyanka Bharghavan and Noah Kaplan as the 2019 Co-Valedictorians, and Luca Peruzzi as Salutatorian. These students earned this distinction through hard work and focused effort, edging out their peers at the small Central Coast…
Although a little more wind would have been nice, Mount Madonna School sixth and seventh grade students made the most of their recent visit to Waddell Creek Beach north of Santa Cruz. The students came to the beach to fly their colorful…
We invite you to follow the experiences of the junior class during their learning journey to South Africa, June 14-July 2. For photos, video and student perspectives, see the trip blog: africa.mountmadonnaschool.org The following reflections were written in the weeks leading up…
On Saturday, May 11, Mount Madonna School (MMS) sixth and seventh grade students participated in the 10th Annual Middle School Model United Nations Conference organized by the Lyceum of Monterey County and held at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey….
The inaugural Mount Madonna School Art History with Studio class visited the de Young Museum in San Francisco on Tuesday to view the largest collection of Claude Monet’s late paintings ever assembled. The exhibit, Monet: The Late Years, featured twenty of the…
Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/29/2019, “Photo Gallery: Mount Madonna School students sit with the Dalai Lama,” photographs by Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel. View Photos
For the past decade, Mount Madonna School (MMS) teachers Ward “SN” Mailliard and Shannon Kelly have been using the Dalai Lama’s book, Ethics for the New Millennium as a core element of the senior year Values in World Thought curriculum. The program…
