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The Saints Go Marching In…

St. Christopher’s Upper School students begin their day filing into the chapel to gather together as a community for prayer, song, announcements, and programs. Teachers and adminstrators fill in the spaces around the students to begin the day with inspirational words from chaplin, Melissa Hollerith.   Filing out again, students and teachers rush off to classes throughout [...]

Girls Going to School at St. Christopher’s

St. Christopher’s School is an all boys’ JK-12 school.  Our sister school, St. Catherine’s, is three blocks away.  Both schools have single-sex classes JK-8.  Grades 9-12 have a coordinate program and share classes.  Students in Grades JK-7 are together in the after-school program, Extended Day.  We interviewed students in the Upper School and in Extended [...]

Jamming for the flashjam

Listen to Bentley students sight reading a new jazz piece. They might sound like it is raining cats and dogs!

FlashJam 2010: Video Interview

In Step with the Prep Continued…

“We don’t get babied like the freshmen and don’t have it as hard as the seniors,” says sophomore Tom, a second-year student at St. John’s Prep who lives in Topsfield. In that, Tom tells the story of his life and that of his fellow sophomores at this Danvers prep school for young men: being in one’s second-year isn’t a [...]

Harry Potter transfers to CHA – Babblechat Update

According to recent investigations by the Babblechat team, there are multiple reports that Harry Potter, the famous wizard from the Hogwarts School of Wizardry, is transferring to Chestnut Hill Academy along with his friend Ron Weasley.  Hermione Granger, the third member of the wizarding trio, is expected to transfer to the Springside School for girls. Evidently, [...]

The Insider’s View

The term “Lazy Hazy Days of Summer” is virtually nonexistent at Ensworth High School. What I mean by that is that there is a LOT going on during the summer at Ensworth. Today there are camps – basketball, baseball, cheer to name a few, there are students enrolled in academic summer school courses – just [...]

An Outsider’s View – Ensworth in the Summer

I spent the day at Ensworth prepared for a professional development experience in social media and technology applications, and was instead sent on an anthropological study of the Ensworth campus during the summer, with the directive of reporting back the findings. And what findings there were! Instead of the usual ghost town atmosphere that permeates [...]

Bootcamp Mission: Should you chose to accept….

Ok folks, this is Antonio and you are off to the races. Teams Babblechat, Kaynoodle and FlashJam. Your know your mission. Just a recap! Create content in 2 hours that speaks to the following prompt: “Capture the essence of a university campus a the start of the summer break.” How will you capture the essence of the school [...]