2026 Winter Athletics Banquet and Season Recap
Last month, on March 9, students, families, coaches, and Winsor administrators gathered in Carolyn McClintock Peter Hall for the annual Winter Athletics Banquet to celebrate another season of accomplishments on the courts, on the rink, and in the water. The banquet honored this year’s basketball, ice hockey, squash, and swimming teams with remarks from their…
Read MoreInternational Night Offers a Winsor World Tour
International Night returned to the Brock-Wilson Gymnasium this week for its biggest year yet. The event was a celebration of the many cultures, traditions, and cuisines that come together to form the Winsor community. Across 40 tables, more than 120 participants—students and their families, as well as faculty and staff—offered some 300 attendees small, meaningful…
Read MoreWellness Project Assembly Offers Tools for Finding Inner Peace on Life’s Journey
Students, faculty, and staff each showed up to last week’s assembly in the midst of their own journeys. Some were stressed about a deadline, others were anxious about an interpersonal conflict or troubled by something happening in the world outside of Winsor. But on that Friday, February 13, the Wellness Project student leaders—Chloe Lien ’29,…
Read MoreChris Player Awarded Inaugural Bondoc Family Fellowship
At an all-school assembly on January 30, Science Faculty, STEM Coordinator, and Innovation Lab Coordinator Chris Player was awarded the newly established Bondoc Family Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The three-year fellowship, established by alumnae Victoria Bondoc ’77 and Josefina Bondoc DeBaere ’75, was created to recognize and support the compensation for a…
Read MoreErin Cantos Wins the Pennypacker Prize
The Pennypacker Prize is awarded each year to a teacher who is in at least their third year of full-time teaching at Winsor. Created in 2002, the award is “given annually in the name of Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger ’52, with respect and admiration for the educational excellence of the Winsor School and the memory of…
Read MoreStudent Directed Plays Honor Those Lost and Those Remembered
Last month two Winsor students, Sienna McCabe ’27 and Robin Chávez Shirman ’27, presented their student-directed plays as a part of a joint program titled Lock & Cover, performed three times from January 30–31. The culmination of months of work by these directors, their casts of Winsor student actors, their technical crew, and their teachers,…
Read More5 Pieces of Advice for Parents During the College Application Process
So often, the college process is viewed as a finish line: the prize waiting at the end of a long and demanding race. But that metaphor misses the point. Heading off to college isn’t an ending at all; it’s a beginning. It’s a moment of possibility, when students step into greater independence and start shaping…
Read MoreClass I Play Celebrates the Magic of Creativity
The Winsor community was treated to a fable of childhood wonder on Friday, January 16, with the Class I play, The Magic Paintbrush. This year’s production, written specifically for Winsor’s Class of ’33 by Theater Director Jeremy Johnson, was an original musical adaptation of the Chinese folktale of the same name, with original music by…
Read MoreHow One Alum Is Reimagining Life in Space
First taking the stage at an all-school assembly and then dropping into classes like AP Physics to meet with students, emerging technologies designer Sana Sharma ’10 returned to Winsor. “‘Emerging technologies designer’ is a fun way of saying I couldn’t quite choose between the sciences and the arts and have found a way to do…
Read MoreWhat Should I Do This Summer?
Planning for the summer months has taken on a life of its own, as students wonder how their activities might influence future college applications. It is understandable that they feel pressure to “make the most” of their time, given the rumors circulating about the importance of programs, classes, or internships. In reality, summer activities are…
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