There's so much happening at the end of the year that we really can't put it all into words. Click through some photos of end-of-year events including our Class of 2025 graduation, Class of 2029 (8th grade) promotion, varied awards ceremonies and speeches, a chess tournament, the 2025 Stanbridge Bowl, yearbook signing, Student Government, a K-3 trip to SF Zoo, and some favorite photos of the year thrown in for good measure.
​Have a restful, relaxing, and rejuvenating summer!

Elementary Art students painted huge flower paintings to decorate Hayden Hall for the spring season and the Spring Sing annual musical event. Students also worked with clay and made small textured bowls as well as other independent clay pieces of their choosing throughout the season. Once dried, students painted them using acrylic paints. Lower and Middle Elementary students made our solar system, including the sun and Earth's moon, out of paper mâché in their classroom with Harriet and Tevita. Once dry, they brought them into the art room and closely examined photographs of what each planet looked like so they could replicate the surface of their planets to look like the actual ones. They mixed paint colors and added texture to their planets, too! Upper Elementary students spent time working with oil pastels, creating beautiful feathers and landscape drawings. 

Middle School Art students have been drawing, painting, and working with clay. With the start of spring, students created watercolor flower paintings that were hung up on display brightening up our school in Hayden Hall and the Middle School Hallway. Students learned about different types of vortexes and how to draw them using special shading artist pencils and blending stumps. They shaded their drawing adding many light and dark values in order to make their vortexes look visually three-dimensional. They also worked with clay to make small textured bowls and had the opportunity to paint them.

High School Art students continued to enhance their drawing skills by working on many diverse sketchbook assignments, some realistic and some optical illusions. They were introduced to using special drawing pencils and blending stumps. They shaded many of their drawings using a wide range of lights and darks from the value scale. All students had an opportunity to make small textured bowls using different shaped molds and texture to press on to the surfaces. They painted their hand-built ceramic bowls. Some students explored the Procreate application on iPads and spent time drawing with the Apple pencil, shading foods such as a slice of refreshing watermelon or a delicious looking piece of cake.

(Please send in a paper grocery bag with your student on Monday, so they can bring home these awesome creations soon. We often run out of bags this time of year!)

– Camille Geraci, K-12 Visual Arts Teacher

ELEMENTARY
Elementary Students have been exploring LEGO engineering. We’ve explored pattern and symmetry using LEGO bricks, along with building mini cities and finally, going big with a skyscraper build. Exploring with LEGO has been great for us to use math as part of our engineering studies and students have had great conversations as they talk about their buildings and the techniques they use.
– Tasha Hudick, K-8 Science Teacher
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MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle School students are finishing up with their unit on Simple Machines. Our last few projects have been a blend of Science, Engineering, and Art, incorporating our concepts of balance, mechanical advantage and gearing into moving sculptures. We are tinkering with Automata, mechanical sculptures that are built out of cardboard that feature cams and a crankshaft to mechanically move a scene on the top of the small structure. Students are putting their scientific knowledge to work and problem solving as they try to capture the right movement to animate their art. Look for the finished products when we return from Spring Break!
– Tasha Hudick, K-8 Science Teacher

HIGH SCHOOL
As Q4 begins, High School Science is shifting into 4th gear! Biology just finish Genetics and Punnett Squares and is now giving their un-divide-d attention to Mitosis & Meiosis. After that, we'll take a whirlwind tour of the Human Body. Chemistry finally finished Stoichiometry (or the Math behind Chemistry) and are transitioning to a different kind of solution: Solutions! Physics is gearing up for their Conservation of Energy test before sipping from the trough of Waves. And finally, Systems of the Human Body finished digesting everything about the Digestive System and are getting nervous about the Nervous System. That's a lot to cover. But that's okay because here at the Stanbridge Science Department, Science is our middle name!
​– Jay Huston, High School Science Teacher

MS Art Silly Sandwiches
This art prompt delivered such deliciously silly titles as Dessert Sandwich; the Honey Carrot Cake Donut Sandwich; the Cool Crazy Heart Sandwich; Rainbow Dessert Sandwich; Mr Good Recipe Sandwich on Earth; the Most Hardest, Healthiest, Poisonous, Paperous and COLDEST Hamburger; the Submarine Sandwich (ingredients included a submersible boat!); ​Unedible School Supplies Sandwich; the Brawl Stars Sandwich; Heart Attack 9,000... and more!