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Wellness 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 leadersโChloe Lien โ29,…
Chris 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 โ77 and Josefina Bondoc DeBaere โ75, was created to recognize and support the compensation for a…
Erin 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 โgiven annually in the name of Henriette Pennypacker Binswanger โ52, with respect and admiration for the educational excellence of the Winsor School and the memory of…
Student Directed Plays Honor Those Lost and Those Remembered
Last month two Winsor students, Sienna McCabe โ27 and Robin Chรกvez Shirman โ27, presented their student-directed plays as a part of a joint program titled Lock & Cover, performed three times from January 30โ31. The culmination of months of work by these directors, their casts of Winsor student actors, their technical crew, and their teachers,…
Class 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 yearโs production, written specifically for Winsorโs Class of โ33 by Theater Director Jeremy Johnson, was an original musical adaptation of the Chinese folktale of the same name, with original music by…
How 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 โ10 returned to Winsor. โโEmerging technologies designerโ is a fun way of saying I couldn’t quite choose between the sciences and the arts and have found a way to do…
CEO Mira Mehta โ02 Encourages Young VCs and Entrepreneurs to โStay Curiousโ
Running a Nigerian tomato paste company was never part of the plan for Mira Mehta โ02. But when you โstay curious,โ as she encouraged students in Winsorโs Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship Club, life takes some fascinating turns. โI thought I wanted to be an Olympic athlete,โ she told the club on a recent visit to…
Thankful for Grandparents and Grandfriendsย
Eager older learners streamed into the Wildcat Room ready to start their school day at Winsorโs annual Grandparentsโ and Grandfriendsโ Day event. The special program brought more than 160 visitors to campus the day before Thanksgiving break. While the whole school enjoyed a festive morning snack of cinnamon sugar donuts, students with grandparent and grandfriend…
Local Author Sparks Rich Classroom Discussion
Local Puerto RicanโBostonian author Elizabeth Santiago visited campus last week for a conversation with two sections of AP Spanish, a course for which students had spent the summer reading her debut novel Claro de Luna. The book, which explores colonial history, Taรญno identity, gentrification, and the power of community, became the foundation for a wide-ranging…
Winsor Crew Finds Speed and Spirit on the Charles
More than 250 supporters gathered on the dock at the Winsor Belmont Hill Boat House to root for the Winsor crew at the 60th Head of the Charles Regatta. โI hope everyone gets the chance to experience what a special treat it is to be a part of the Winsor community on such a prestigious…