It’s been a busy fall in our on-campus permaculture orchard! Designed, developed, and planted in late spring, the orchard’s approximately 250 seedlings (herbs, shrubs, and fruit-bearing plants and saplings) flourished over a relatively mild St. Louis summer, resulting in an abundant crop of rosemary, sage, and chocolate mint, among others. ...
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The move from Lower to Middle School is a big step all around—in terms of culture, content, and expectations. But judging from the science unit they just completed, our sixth graders have made the leap more than successfully—becoming ethologists (you’ll have to look that one up!) who are skilled at ...
We’re enjoying a semester filled with hands-on learning, classroom collaborations, and inclusive community events.
Deeply moved by the devastation and immense needs in Houston as Hurricane Harvey swept through the area, senior Olivia Denson initially felt both compassion—and frustration. “I was constantly looking for any opportunities to help them, but I was either underqualified or didn’t have the means to get down there,” she ...
Upper School student leaders have been gaining recognition and enjoying opportunities to work with outstanding peers from across St. Louis and Missouri in recent months.
In early October, senior Cameron Bania was among the 56 students honored as a 2017 Outstanding Student Leader by St. Louis County, at a ...
Renovated, student-centered spaces are infusing new energy and opportunities for collaboration into student leadership and performing arts activities at Principia School.
From Kyoto, Japan, to Kansas City, Missouri, more than 350 Upper School alumni and guests returned “home” for Reunion last month.
For some, reconnecting on campus was a relatively familiar event, as they had attended previous reunions; but for at least one Upper School and College alum, it was ...
When the story is about a clever monkey outsmarting a crooked crocodile, every child—whether in South Africa or here at Principia Lower School—is guaranteed to be all ears. And that was certainly the case when Dr. Daniel Sekepe Matjila, a professor and scholar of traditional South African poetry, praise-song, and ...
Orienteering and orientation, norm setting and night hikes, team challenges and tree art . . . Investing time and energy in a wide range of co-curricular activities during the first month of school is already paying big dividends at Principia Middle School.
“All of this foundation work—how you collaborate, ...
From web-design services to water-bottle sleeves to a restaurant deal finder, student-run enterprises are flourishing! Check out our budding business owners' recent “Shark Tank” experience.
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