One of the things families notice almost immediately at Glen Urquhart School is that learning doesn’t stay neatly contained within classroom walls.
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Upper School math teacher Bradley Cooke turned December math into pure magic with her student-run “Gingerbread Business” project.
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new podcast, now available to stream on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Dylan Comb attended GUS from kindergarten through 8th grade, graduating in 2003. From there, he went on to Pingree School and then on to the University of Vermont. He received his Master’s degree in marine biology from Northeastern University in 2016.
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Compost at GUS with Green Beverly’s drop-off compost program!
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I have always loved school and learning for its own sake, and this is the kind of philosophy and way of thinking that I try to cultivate with my middle school-aged students. I want them to learn to enjoy the process of learning, even when it is difficult and frustrating and when the material is challenging and not easily grasped on the first pass.
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The White Shirt Project, created by Dawn Southworth almost thirty years ago and specific to GUS, asks students to become more culturally literate while also thinking about who they are, where they are, and where they are going, core themes of a GUS education.
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The TWEEN years can be tough. The good news is, we’ve got some pointers for surviving this tricky time. The bad news is that the only ‘normal’ thing about being a tween is that everything feels (as your tween might say) ‘sus’, and we mean EVERYTHING.
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Grace Bertagna attended GUS for sixth through eighth grade. From GUS, she went on to graduate from Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School and then UMass Amherst. This fall, she began a year of service with AmeriCorps through which she is currently working at a community health center in East Boston.
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