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The Wicked Witch Visits Renbrook
Emily Perzan, class of 1999, presented to Upper School students about her spending the past year playing the Wicked Witch of the West with the Broadway National Tour of The Wizard of Oz.
Read More ...Preventing Erosion in STEAM
CT Parrot Club Visits 7th Grade Science
As part of the seventh grade “Introductory Ornithology” unit in Life Science, Ginny August of The Parrot Club of CT brought along some of her winged friends!
Read More ...8th Graders Took in the Attractions in D.C.
8th graders took the annual trip to Washington D.C. recently and took in all of the sights and sounds the city has to offer. They toured the Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, and much more. The highlight was a Renbrook School wreather being placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Read More ...Wesleyan Students Visit Playscape Designers
Design and Engineering students visited Renbrook to meet with the playscape design representatives from the lower school. The Wesleyan students brought some introductory designs to show the Renbrook team as they progress in the prototype creation of a playscape designed for children of all ages and abilities.
Read More ...Thinking Outside the Box
For the past five years, students in Kindergarten through grade five here at Renbrook School have participated in the Global Cardboard Challenge inspired by Nirvan Mullick’s film, Caine’s Arcade. Each year, the children, divide into teams and are given the task of designing and building something mostly out of cardboard. They’ve created arcade games, a metropolis, and playgrounds for a guinea pig.
Read More ...Renbrook Honors Our Veterans
Renbrook upper school students led a Veteran’s Day assembly with an appearance from Abraham Lincoln (aka Mr. Wright). Renbrook alum Tori Hooker ’02 visited campus and share about her active duty in the U.S. Navy where she has been a corpsman (combat medic) for over 11 years and have been stationed all over the East coast. She spent three years working in the emergency room at the naval hospital in Virginia and three years on a guided missile destroyer doing anti-piracy operations. She moved back to Connecticut to go to school and see her family and spent four years as a reservist supporting the navy funeral honors program in New England. She was recently called back to active duty to run a medical mobilization department in a reservist support center in Connecticut. Tori says that the best part of what she does is getting to visit over 23 countries and swim in the middle of four different oceans.
Read More ...Renbrook School Holds Alumni Event
Renbrook School Holds Alumni Career Day
Renbrook School in West Hartford held its 3rd Annual Career Day with Renbrook alums talking about their various career this past Friday, November 2.
This program is for 7th- and 8th-grade students and is designed to give them an opportunity to learn about some potential careers/career fields from former Renbrook students who now work in those fields, to show them the often curvy road through life to a career/careers, and to instill a sense of being part of a community much bigger than their classmates and teachers.
This year four alumni were excited to return to Renbrook and to speak with students about their Renbrook memories, their career paths, and their successes and failures. Alumni guest speakers were Sophie Cottrell ’82 – SVP of Communications at Hatchette Book Group,
Max Sinsteden ’02 – Cofounder and Director at Olasky & Sinsteden, Ali Lazowksi ’06 – Founder and CEO of Bare Life and recent 40 over 30 award winner, and Friya Bankwalla ’08 – Digital Publicity Assistant at Penguin Young Readers.
Renbrook Students Participate in HMF Fit Kids Run
Senator Chris Murphy Visits Renbrook
Senator Chris Murphy came to visit our grade 5-8 students to talk about his life in legislative office and to answer a few questions form our eighth grade hosts. Thank you for visiting Mr. Murphy!
Read More ...Wesleyan Students to Build Renbrook Student-Designed Playscape
How might Renbrook students create a playscape that children of all ages and abilities would enjoy? K-5 students at Renbrook School worked on just that and Wesleyan University Design & Engineering students selected a Renbrook prototype to build to scale!
Read More ...Third Grade Oregon Trail Hike
Third grade set out for the “Oregon Trail” through the Renbrook hiking trails! Students worked together to build wagons in teams and traversed rough terrain with their wagons, making important decisions as a group along the way!
Read More ...JK visits Bushy Hill Farms
Apples and cider & donuts…oh my! A good time was had by JKDS at Bushy Hill Orchards in Granby,CT!
Read More ...Lower School Students Are Dreaming BIG!
JK Story Explorers Program
For the JK Story Explorers Program~we will be reading a fun story followed by a hands-on extension activity. Whether our intrepid~explorers find themselves hiking along Renbrook’s extensive trail system, collaborating on an abstract painting, or dramatizing their own fairy tale, this program is both enriching and just plain fun! Our hike was our activity following the story “Henry the Explorer”. Henry makes and then plants flags along the path he takes on his exploration, in order that he may easily find his way back home afterward. Renbrook’s Story Explorers made and planted flags along their path on Renbrook’s red trail.
Read More ...Why Project Based Learning?
Can you recall the projects you completed as a child in your school? Perhaps you made an instrument for music class, or a diorama for English class, or composed an oral presentation about a U.S. President. While assignments like these can be engaging, you probably don’t remember the specifics of what you learned, and there’s a good reason why. These types of projects only touched the surface of learning because they were not presented as a means to solving an authentic problem, which we now know is one of the keys to making learning memorable and relevant.
Read More ...Landforms in STEAM
Second graders learned about landforms by making their own! Students got to put different materials on their created landforms to see how it flows in Lower School STEAM.
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