Music has found beautiful new ways to flourish at Waring School even while we're apart. More than 100 Waring students, families, alumni, and faculty collaborated to record a moving virtual performance of Bill Withers' "Lean on Me."
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Apart But Always Together: Waring Community Sings "Lean on Me"
By Graham Pearsall on 05/28/2020
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 7
By Graham Pearsall on 05/18/2020
Every Monday, for the past seven weeks, our Writing Department has invited the Waring community to participate in a communal writing project.
Each week, the Writing Department shared a new prompt and published some of the previous week’s best responses.
The resulting community-made journal is a powerful record of our time during remote learning and physical distancing.
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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.
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 5 and Next Week's Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 05/4/2020
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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Waring Teacher and Alumnus Collaborate to Make 3D-Printed Face Masks
By Graham Pearsall on 04/30/2020
Waring's three 3D printers are rarely silent while students are on campus and have continued to buzz even in their absence.
Francis Schaeffer, Waring's STEM Coordinator and FLL Coach of the Brickwolves, has kept the 3D printers in Waring's makerspace busy the past few weeks making face masks. Each mask takes about nine hours to print and another 40 minutes to assemble using instructions supplied by Waring alumnus Bennett Ahearn '03.
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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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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 3 and Next Week's Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 04/21/2020
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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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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The Waring Art Connector Project
By Graham Pearsall on 04/16/2020
Waring’s Art Department launched “The Waring Art Connector Project” just one week ago. Already alumni, students, parents, teachers, trustees, and friends, from Alaska to the Turks and Caicos Islands, have contributed more than 50 pieces of artwork to the collective gallery.
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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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Waring Alumni Combat Coronavirus
By Graham Pearsall on 04/10/2020
This week is World Health Worker Week, so today we thank the many Waring alumni who work every day to keep our communities safe and healthy. Here are a few of the many Waring alumni doing extraordinary things now to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Waring Artists Sketch Portraits for a Kinder World
By Graham Pearsall on 04/9/2020
Waring students helped promote intercultural awareness, friendship, and compassion by once again participating in the Portraits for Kindness Program organized by the Memory Project.
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Community Writing Project - Best of Week 1 and Next Week's Prompt
By Graham Pearsall on 04/6/2020
Every Monday, Waring’s Writing Department invites you to participate in its weekly writing project.
Last week the prompt was: “It's likely we are all seeing much more of our family than we are used to. Think about a time during the past week when you interacted with someone at home in a way that was surprising, funny, or interesting. Describe that interaction. You might want to include details of setting, timing, or dialogue.”
At the bottom of this blogpost, you will find this week’s new prompt. Everyone is encouraged to participate alongside our students. Please submit your responses to Jill Sullivan (no more than 250 words) by each Friday.
Below are three of our favorite responses from last week.
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In Memory of John K. Dineen, Waring Receives $100,000 Grant from Amelia Peabody Foundation
By Graham Pearsall on 03/2/2020
In memory of John K. Dineen, a Waring Board Member Emeritus, the Amelia Peabody Foundation has generously gifted the school a $100,000 grant in honor of the longtime friend of Waring School.
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Introducing the Accomplished Mentors of Waring’s 32nd North Shore Young Writers Conference (01/31-02/01)
By Graham Pearsall on 01/8/2020
Every winter for the past 32 years, Waring School has hosted the North Shore Young Writers Conference (NSYWC). The conference, led by professional, award-winning authors, includes two days of intensive writing, engaging workshops, and inspirational readings.
This year’s conference, which will take place on Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1, will be led by the following distinguished authors and writing instructors.
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Brickwolves Set Global High Score, Qualify for World Championship
By Graham Pearsall on 12/16/2019
No team in the world has scored more points in the world’s most competitive student robot contest than the Waring School Brickwolves this season.
During the awards ceremony at the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Eastern Massachusetts Championship on Saturday, December 14, it was announced that the Brickwolves’ 600-point run in the tournament’s Robot Game was a new global high score.
Nearly 40,000 teams from 100 countries compete in the FLL Robot Game. To date, no other team has reported a score greater than 560 points during a FLL-sanctioned competition.
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FLL Team Leads Community Workshop, Starts Robotics Club for Elementary Students
By Graham Pearsall on 11/22/2019
Earlier this week, members of Waring School’s FLL robotics team led an Introduction to Robotics workshop at Centerville Elementary School.
More than 40 young students attended the workshop to pick up the basics of EV3 coding and to learn how to computer program a robot to navigate a maze.
Because of exuberant interest in the workshop, the Waring School Brickwolves will expand the program to include a ten-session Introduction to Robotics Club for Centerville students beginning in January of 2020.
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Student Artists Show Work, Raise Funds for Trustees of Reservations
By Graham Pearsall on 11/21/2019
Eleven Waring artists showcased their stellar work at the Crane Estate Student Art Show and Sale earlier this month.
The gallery sale, with the theme Dynamic Motion, raised funds for the Trustees of Reservations, a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization.
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Waring Reaffirms Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, Adopts Updated Diversity Statement
By Graham Pearsall on 07/12/2019
Last December, students in the Waring Inclusion and Diversity Alliance met to give input on Waring’s Diversity Statement. An updated statement would reaffirm Waring’s commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community.
Several students wrote their thoughts down on notecards.
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Dolly Farha ’20 Organizes Toiletries Drive, Donates 100 Backpacks to Lifebridge Homeless Shelters
By Graham Pearsall on 05/22/2019
Earlier this month, junior Dolly Farha and Anna Marie Smith’s Tutorial delivered 75 backpacks stuffed with toiletries to the Lifebridge Homeless Shelter in Salem. Later, they delivered 25 more to Grace Center, another Lifebridge crisis shelter in Gloucester.
The content of the backpacks was collected and donated by participating Waring Tutorials.
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Waring Artists Sketch Portraits for a Kinder World
By Graham Pearsall on 05/7/2019
Last Special Day, Waring students participated in Memory Project's Portraits for Kindness campaign, making sketches of Syrian refugee children.
The portraits, they drew from photographs, were then flown halfway around the world and shared with the children who posed for a picture.
Video: Waring Alumni - Coast to Coast
By Graham Pearsall on 05/6/2019
We asked “Where has your Waring education taken you?” and alumni responded with selfie videos from all over the world.
They answered: Burlington, Vermont; South Bend, Indiana; Bologna, Italy; graduate school; teaching careers; music professions; and much, much more...
Watch the full video below.
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Join Us for the Spring Auction - April 27, 2019
By Graham Pearsall on 02/22/2019
This year's spring auction will be held at Waring on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The theme for the event is “Coast to Coast" and will honor our alumni who leave Waring to find success from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast and beyond.
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2019 Faculty Grant Program Award Recipients
By Graham Pearsall on 01/28/2019
Created entirely by Waring’s parent community to show their deepest gratitude for Waring’s teachers and staff, the Faculty Grant Program provides funding for Waring employees to pursue enriching experiences beyond the walls of campus. The Faculty Grant Program affords faculty and staff the opportunity to think outside the box, pursuing passions for subjects that they might not otherwise be able to access. In return, they will then bring that experiential knowledge back into the classroom to inform and enrich their students’ learning. In just two years, generous donors to the Faculty Grant Program have already made possible 11 grants. Read below about the amazing projects this year’s recipients will undertake with their grants.
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Waring Senior's Art Exhibited Alongside Professional Artist
By Graham Pearsall on 01/25/2019
For the next six weeks, at Waring Downtown (290 Cabot St), the artwork of Sarah Malboeuf '19 will hang alongside the abstract oil paintings of local, professional artist Miranda Aisling.
The initiative, organized by Miranda, aims to introduce Waring students to Beverly-area artists who have created a living around art.
Don't miss your shot at Hamilton Tickets, donate to Campaign to be entered in raffle
By Graham Pearsall on 10/12/2018
A generous donor has given Waring two orchestra tickets to see Hamilton: An American Musical at the Boston Opera House on Saturday, November 3, 2018, at 2:00pm. Anyone who donates to the Campaign for Waring by October 28 will be entered into a drawing to win the tickets valued at over $1,200. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 30.
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Campaign for Waring Announced
By Graham Pearsall on 09/22/2018
On Saturday, September 22, Waring School made a transformative announcement that marks an historic moment for the school. Head of School Tim Bakland and Chair of the Board Joanne Avallon officially announced the CAMPAIGN FOR WARING -- with the goal to raise an historic $6 million dollars for Waring students, faculty, and a new School Building.
To date, through the record-breaking support of donors from all constituencies as well as from foundation support of Waring's mission, Waring has already raised a remarkable $5.1 million in commitments toward the campaign goal!