Check out just a few highlights of what’s been happening at Speyer!
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From welcoming award-winning authors to exploring Pascal’s Triangle, from kicking off our all-school art project to celebrating National Chess Day, our gifted learners have been busy since the first day of school. Read on to find out what’s been happening at Speyer!
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We are back! A few snapshots to show what we’ve been doing in the first few days of the 2021-2022 school year. What will our Speyer students discover this year?
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Our students are exploring the history of the original people of New York with a specific focus on the ingenuity of the Lenape people as it relates to invention. With a behind-the-scenes peek into the American Museum of Natural History by an anthropologist and a very special visit from two individuals based out of Ketchikan, Alaska who are working to revitalize Native cultures, our students were able to see how what they are learning comes alive beyond the classroom.
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Spotted off the Boulevard and Zooming into California State University, East Bay: our Speyer girls at their first "Rocket Girls" workshop! Joined by Dr. Danika LeDuc, a chemistry professor specializing in biophysical chemistry and Associate Dean at College of Science at Cal State East Bay, this was the kick-off event for a series of workshops just for our girls launched by the Affinity Group for Parents of Girls!
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From writing newsletters to discovering the history of NYC, all of our students have been hard at work! Check out a few of the highlights happening at here in our Speyer News Round-Up!
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The Speyer Legacy School is thrilled to share that we have hired our next Head of Lower School, Dr. Heather Pinedo-Burns! In the words of Head of School Larry Donovan: “Heather’s experience and expertise and her many positive personal qualities make her the best fit for Speyer.” Dr. Pinedo-Burns is currently the Director of the Hollingworth Preschool at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Words are powerful tools, but right now, they’ve been more difficult to utilize. Sometimes we just don’t have the words to convey what we are feeling, how we are doing, or just the world at this moment. However, something pretty amazing happened (virtually) at Speyer on Friday that gave us a restored hope in finding words to help us cope with what was happening. Speyer’s eighth graders held (perhaps the first-ever) 8th Grade Zoom Poetry Recitals During COVID-19 Social Distancing. They were the culmination of their Distance Learning poetry unit, during which they tackled three key questions: Is it a poem? Why did she write it? and, Is it any good?.
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Did you know Dragons are excellent at math – at least Speyer Dragon Math-letes are! Case in point: the recent victories at MATHCOUNTS Manhattan! Yes, Speyer’s Math Team competed against a huge field of public and independent schools and came in third overall, first among all independent schools and is headed to states!
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