Marymount School

Class II concluded their unit on New Amsterdam with Dutch Day on March 5. The girls went back in time to New Amsterdam in the 1600s. Wearing period costumes, they learned what it was like to not have electricity and to work by (battery-operated) candlelight. The students took their weekly spelling test in horn books [...]

On March 4, the Lower School had a very special treat: a jazz band gave a performance in an assembly! Jazz singer Jesse Palter, accompanied by the other three members of the Jesse Palter Quartet—Marion Felder on drums, Ben Williams on bass, and Mike Jellick on piano—filled the auditorium with music to the delight of [...]

On February 19, Marymount’s AP Biology class traveled to the Dolan DNA Learning Center West, in Lake Success, NY.  Students completed a bacterial transformation laboratory in which a harmless strain of E. Coli was manipulated and engineered to have additional DNA (genes). Students inserted a plasmid with the ampicillin resistance and green fluorescent protein (GFP) [...]

In the past month, Class II has enjoyed a very special extended project designed by their art teacher, Jennifer Croson. After learning about the life and artwork of painter Georgia O’Keeffe, renowned especially for her studies of flowers, skeletons, and the scenery of the American southwest, Class II students went to the Whitney Museum of [...]

On Wednesday, January 6, the Lower School ushered in the new term with an assembly presentation from Allie Michels, daughter of Robyn Lipman, the Lower School administrative assistant. Ms. Michels, now a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, told the students about her trip to Kenya in the summer of 2007 with the [...]

On the morning of Wednesday, December 16, Class II proudly opened their Algonquian Museum, the grand finale to their in-depth study of Algonquian history and culture. The Algonquians, one of the most numerous of North American peoples, included in pre-colonial times tribes ranging throughout New England and the eastern regions of Canada. They also populated [...]

As the culmination of their fall term, Marymount’s Class III had the opportunity to watch cow eyes being dissected on Tuesday, December 8. After studying light and color for much of the term and learning about the anatomy of the eye, the students were well equipped to identify the different parts of the eyeball. On [...]

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? As music teacher Sarah Mehaffey tells her students, you have to practice, practice, practice! And that’s exactly what the girls in Classes I and II have done: since September they have been exploring Cuban, Chinese, and American Folk music through the Musical Explorers program sponsored by Carnegie Hall.  [...]

In the Lower School, students learn about science all over the place; they discover that science affects every aspect of their lives, from the food they eat to the sounds they hear to the way they see. Science teacher Margaret Siciliano introduces the girls to the world of scientific ideas by exploring familiar places and [...]

Religious Studies in the Middle School emphasizes the importance of exploring our own spirituality—and also of exploring the resources around us, in particular New York’s many museums. Recently, spiritual life coordinator Alice Kearney Alwin has led two field trips for Classes V-VII to museums: first the Metroplitan Museum of Art, and second the Museum of [...]

Marymount’s Literary Lottery gives Upper School students the chance to see some of the world’s finest authors and poets in person at events in New York City, primarily at the 92nd Street Y. The lottery, run by writer-in-residence Cathy Blackburn, is made possible through the Maggie Murray Fund and has allowed students to see such [...]

The Upper School African Studies class received a visit on Tuesday, October 27, from four members of the Hararghe Catholic Secretariat of Ethiopia, brought to Marymount by Mr. Jerry Stanton, parent of Amelia ’09, through his work for Catholic Relief Services. Ms. Caroline Brennan, who also works for Catholic Relief Services, accompanied the Secretariat members [...]

Marymount’s Middle School had an unusual visitor on Tuesday, October 6: a pilgrim from Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts, acting and speaking in every respect as a man hailing from the year 1627. Francis Cook—or “Goodman Cook,” as he taught the students to say—visited first Class IV and then Class VII, taking both grades on a [...]

Every Wednesday the Lower School gathers for their weekly assembly.  It is a time to come together as a division, to celebrate special occasions, to hear from guest speakers, and to share important information about the life of the Lower School.
On Wednesday, September 23, the Lower School had the treat of an assembly on Irish [...]

It is no surprise that Marymount’s English department assigns summer reading to its students each year.  What is more unusual is the School’s departmental summer reading program, in place since 2002.  To emphasize the importance of reading for students and teachers of every subject, each department in Marymount’s Upper School chooses one book that explores [...]