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Sixteen Students Awarded Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
By Rick Wilson on 02/3/2021
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French Skits Shine Online
By Graham Pearsall on 05/28/2020
French classes had to get creative this spring to keep Waring's French Skit tradition alive. While a transition to remote learning could have put a stop to the fun, shared performances, classes chose to get innovative and created many outstanding online plays. Check them out below!
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Waring Students Sweep Top Prizes in Poetry Contest
By Graham Pearsall on 05/26/2020
For the second year in a row, Waring students have swept the top three prizes at the Beverly Public Library’s Teen Poetry Contest.
Students from 15 schools submitted more than 500 poems for consideration. Waring students accounted for eight of the twelve finalists in the high school division and two of the fifteen finalists in the middle school division.
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68 Students Medal in National French Contest, 3 Students Lead Nation
By Waring Faculty on 05/26/2020
The results of Le Grand Concours 2020 are in and impressive!
Sixty-eight of the 147 Waring students who participated in the National French Contest were named national laureates. For the first time ever, three Waring students led their division by posting national high scores.
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 6 and Our Final Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 05/11/2020
In March, Waring’s Writing Department announced a weekly community writing project.
Every Monday, the Writing Department shares a new prompt and publishes some of the previous week’s best responses.
Three Juniors Qualify for Prestigious National Merit Scholarship
By Graham Pearsall on 05/11/2020
More than 1.5 million students from across the United States took the Preliminary SAT test this fall. Finishing in the top 4 percent of all test takers were three Waring juniors—Cole Cunningham, Sparhawk Mulder, and Griffin Wells.
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 4 and Next Week's Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 04/27/2020
In March, Waring’s Writing Department announced a weekly community writing project.
Every Monday, the Writing Department shares a new prompt and publishes some of the previous week’s best responses.
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What Remote Learning Looks Like at Waring - Four Students Break Down a Typical Day
By Graham Pearsall on 04/22/2020
On March 24, Waring School switched to a remote learning plan in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Faculty began conducting classes via Zoom and Google Classroom, music teachers continued with voice and instrument lessons, and our Athletic Director shared weekly workout schedules. Our Writing and Art Departments challenged our community to participate in weekly writing prompts and community art projects. Musicians began to share weekly #TuesdayTunes performances on Waring’s Facebook and Instagram, and we continued to gather every Friday for a (virtual) All-School Meeting.
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Students use Zoom to Workshop Poems with Accomplished Poets
By Graham Pearsall on 04/17/2020
Since Waring School implemented a remote learning plan, students in Michelle Ramadan’s Humanities Class have met regularly on Zoom to continue their discussion of World War I.
To conclude the unit, the ninth and tenth graders have been working on a poetry and art response to the poignant novel, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Yesterday, April 16, they were joined in class by four accomplished poets.
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 2 and Next Week's Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 04/13/2020
Every week since Waring implemented a remote learning plan, Waring’s Writing Department has invited students, faculty, parents, and friends to participate in a weekly writing project.
Every Monday, the Writing Department announces a new prompt and shares some of the previous week’s best responses.
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Fourteen Students Awarded Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
By Graham Pearsall on 02/3/2020
Students from across Massachusetts submitted more than 12,000 pieces of art and writing to this year's Scholastic Art and Writing Contest sponsored by The Boston Globe.
Rising to the top of the extremely competitive contest were 14 Waring students who received 16 awards. Leading the way were seniors Gyani Pradhan Wong Ah Sui and Benny Weedon who both won multiple awards.
Le Temps Retrouvé - January 2020
By Graham Pearsall on 01/29/2020
The latest edition of Le Temps Retrouvé, Waring School's journal of student art and writing, is now online!
The student-made journal includes work by every class year, from Core to Group 5. Within the journal’s pages are personal essays, poems, and school news as well as sketches, photography, linear function art, and much more.
Health Classes Participate in Self-Defense Training
By Graham Pearsall on 01/22/2020
Throughout the winter and spring, all Waring students will be participating in self-defense training as part of their health class.
Leading the instruction are alumni parents Shihan Kendall Buhl and Sensei Caroline Buhl, of The Dojo in Salisbury.
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Inventive Middle Schoolers Design Balloon-Powered Cars
By Graham Pearsall on 12/11/2019
Design. Test. Refine.
For the past several months, eighth graders in Waring's STEM science class have been using 3D-modeling software and 3D printers to design and then print the parts for a balloon-powered car.
The course emphasizes a design-build process and the use of the scientific method to observe problems and test solutions.
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Introducing the Newest Members of Waring’s Faculty and Staff
By Graham Pearsall on 08/26/2019
Waring is excited to introduce three new members to the school’s faculty and staff for the start of the 2019-2020 academic year. Learn a little about each addition below.
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69 Students Medal on National French Contest, 2 Students Post Perfect Scores
By Waring Faculty on 05/21/2019
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Waring Students Sweep Top Prizes in Poetry Contest
By Graham Pearsall on 04/26/2019
Of the 26 poems chosen to be finalists in Beverly Public Library’s 23rd Annual Teen Poetry Contest, 15 were composed by Waring School students. Sweeping the top three places in the high school division and grabbing a third-place finish in the middle school competition were four members of the Wolfpack.
More than 500 poems were submitted to the contest and blindly judged by three local, published poets. Twelve of the thirteen finalists in the high school division were written by Waring students.
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Middle Schoolers Connect with History on School Trip to Alabama
By Graham Pearsall on 04/8/2019
Twenty-five eighth graders from Waring School in Beverly, Massachusetts, walked up Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery towards the Alabama State Capitol building. It was late March, and the camellias that surrounded the building’s grand marble staircase were in full bloom.
Fifty-four years earlier, almost to the day, 25,000 protestors marched up that same avenue and gathered near the same steps. For five days and four nights, the civil rights advocates had marched 54 miles along U.S. Highway 80 from Selma to the Statehouse.
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Student-written Musical to Premiere Saturday, April 6
By Graham Pearsall on 04/3/2019
The final project required just a story plot, character summary, and song outline. Sarah Bradshaw '19 wrote an entire musical.
While enrolled in "American History through Musicals," a summer course at Harvard University, Sarah was so inspired by the class' content that she couldn't stop at just the concept for a musical.
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Waring Senior named National Merit Finalist
By Graham Pearsall on 03/1/2019
Gareth Buhl, a senior at Waring School, has been named a finalist in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition.
More than 1.6 million students entered the competition by taking the PSAT, National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test in the fall of 2017. Less than one percent were named semifinalists and even fewer (just 7,500 students) were named finalists last month.
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Nine Waring Students Awarded Prizes for Art and Writing
By Graham Pearsall on 02/4/2019
Students from across Massachusetts submitted nearly 20,000 pieces of art and writing to this year's Scholastic Art and Writing Contest sponsored by The Boston Globe and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Rising to the top of the extremely competitive contest were seven Waring artists and two Waring writers. Leading the way were Gold Key recipients Will Stomberg '20 and Arion Carraher-Kang '21 as well as Silver Key winner Julia Kautz '19.
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Le Temps Retrouvé - Special Edition Released
By Graham Pearsall on 01/26/2019
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Another edition of Le Temps Retrouvé is hot off the digital press.
From the editor, Head of School Tim Bakland: "Waring School is a place of ideas and 'voices' — voice in its many forms, written, poetic, artistic, musical, athletic, whimsical, serious, adventurous, and all the rest. Le Temps Retrouvé is one of many venues in which you’ll find the very essence of Waring School through student expression."