For our graduates most of all, the reality of the end of the year is setting in. Evening with the Graduates and graduation rehearsals are starting, and with the play over, most of the other milestones of their eighth grade year are now behind them. It's exciting and terrifying all at once.
Read MoreFirst graders recently completed their Body Projects, life-sized models of their own bodies - built from the inside out.
Read MoreEach year, the A.B.M shows up in a different place on campus (which means its size changes each year as well) and without prior announcement - so its arrival is always a surprise event.
Read MoreIn upper school at GUS, we work to foster a community committed to helping students get the most out of their GUS education. Working in partnership with their teachers, GUS students are known, loved, and appropriately challenged.
Read MoreHappy Teacher Appreciation Week! While we are always grateful for the amazing educators here at GUS, this year, they truly went above and beyond.
Read MoreIt was a beautiful day to celebrate community and spring - and the joy and hope that come with it.
Read MoreThe 8th Grade continued their year-long poetry studies into April, which is National Poetry Month.
Read MoreDiversity, equity, and inclusion are not new concepts at GUS. For me, the head search really made that clear. So far this year, you’ve heard from a number of our faculty members about their journeys with this work, and I think it is important to also share a bit about my own.
Read MoreTo demonstrate the vastness of our solar system, 6th graders scaled it down - to fit entirely on the GUS campus.
Read MoreAs part of our human body systems unit, seventh graders were challenged to use compassion, empathy, and ingenuity to design prototypes to help someone with one of the following health conditions: asthma, muscular dystrophy, or stroke.
Read MoreIn Life Skills over the last couple of weeks, we have maintained our course digging into topics related to the theme of social justice.
Read MoreThis year for Earth Day, we’re calling on our community to make a pledge to make one small change to help restore our earth.
Read MoreEagles lead the way! From team challenges to personal reflection, the Eagles program is designed to harness leadership skills in 8th and 9th grade teens.
Read MoreWe are deeply saddened by the tragic murders that took place in Georgia this week. Our hearts go out to the victims and families, and we formally stand in solidarity with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
Read MoreInspired by The Feelings Book by Todd Parr, pre-K students share their feelings, and also share artwork from their recent exploration of the elements that make up 'ourselves' and 'others.'
Read MoreKindergarteners have been discussing ways to take action and to stand up for what they believe in. They created colorful posters about what “fairness” means to them and participated in a march around the classroom holding up their posters.
Read MoreThe Wax Museum project is what Fourth Grade Teacher Laura Doyle describes as a “passion project.” Students are able to pick a person they’re interested in learning more about from any part of history or any part of the world.
Read MoreEagles lead the way! From team challenges to personal reflection, the Eagles program is designed to harness leadership skills in 8th and 9th grade teens.
Read MoreThis week, students in 8th grade Latin completed the “Rome in A Day” project, for which each student was tasked with researching and building a scale model of a significant structure from the city of Ancient Rome. Here, Upper School Latin Teacher and Dean of Students Cori Russo shares a bit more about the annual project.
Read MoreIt’s been almost a year since a pandemic came out of the likes of science fiction and movies and into our reality. I recently reread the March 2020 letter to the community delaying the return to school, we were so hopeful it would be a week or two. Well, we all know that weeks became months and next thing we knew we were reimagining graduation, summer camp, the start of school, and nearly every aspect of school life.
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