After each semester at Middlesex, we gather to celebrate the academic achievements of our students at the Academic Awards Assembly. At this week’s assembly, we acknowledged work done in the 2014 fall semester. For a full list of students receiving honors, please click here. To open the assembly, history teacher Dr. Munro discussed the philosophies of two educators: Frederick…
In 2013, Concord, Massachusetts (home of Middlesex School) became one of the first communities in the nation to ban the sale of single-serve plastic water bottles. Campaigns against plastic water bottles argue that bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year (see www.banthebottle.net). Proponents of bottled water bans…
On the first day of semester break, Arts Division Head Tom Kane and six Middlesex students spent the day at Concord’s 80 Thoreau, helping serve at their annual charity brunch to raise money for the Greater Boston Food Bank. The students supported the 80 Thoreau staff, who were donating their time for the day, by checking coats, waiting and bussing tables, and working the dishwasher…
At Middlesex, our Community Life program is about teaching and ensuring healthy living in our community. At regular assemblies and meetings designed to stimulate open conversation, we address a range of topics and issues. This week’s topic was inclusivity. Students and faculty met in combined advising groups to share their stories – for four minutes each. The premise behind the exercise is that…
In his recent Chapel talk, senior Miles Petrie discussed the “winter blues”: the tendency for energy to wane in the winter months and for monotony to set in to otherwise dynamic routines. Describing Middlesex as a gold mine, Miles offered the advice to dig for gold in all that one does at the school. Below are excerpts from his Chapel,…