News Archive
The Unseen Work That Keeps Winsor Going
Winsor had some invisible help staying healthy during the past few cold and flu seasons. Well, not visible to the human eye, anyway. Thanks to Winsor’s portable ultraviolet (UV) light sanitizer, the school’s facilities and janitorial teams—led by John Crompton, director of facilities and construction—have been able to maintain exceptionally clean and healthy spaces for…
Spring Rally: A New Winsor Tradition Takes the Field
On Saturday, April 11, Winsor brought student athletes, families, and fans together for a day of clinics, competition, and school spirit for the first ever Spring Rally. Below, Associate Director of Athletics Katrina Hable shares her reflection on the new event: The day began with a clinic led by our varsity lacrosse and softball student-athletes,…
Paleontology Students Get Hands-On Experience with Deep Time
Standing at an outcrop of rock in central New York, Winsor Science Faculty Ken Schopf’s students could see about 380 million years into the past. Part of Mr. Schopf’s Upper School paleontology course, the two-day excursion to this fossil-rich site—and to the Syracuse University laboratory where they would later analyze the samples they gathered—was a…
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…
International 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…
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 leaders—Chloe Lien ’29,…
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 ’77 and Josefina Bondoc DeBaere ’75, 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 “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…
Student 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,…
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 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…