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Upper School students from Marymount School of New York are partnering with students from Marymount High School (Los Angeles) to assist in the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans, Louisiana. Follow the blog here.

Class VI students benefited from two visits to the Morgan Library and Museum to culminate their study of medieval Europe. On their first visit, students observed the Museum’s collection, primarily western manuscripts assembled to illustrate the history of manuscript illumination. Students were able to see significant masterpieces from the ninth to the sixteenth century.
The second [...]

Class IX catapulted through history in late February during the annual World Civilization Festival. The festival is a centerpiece of the Class IX program and allows students to actively highlight their learning and share it with their peers.
With the advice and support of faculty mentors from two of the Integrated Humanities disciplines (English, History, Art [...]

Class I studied kente cloth from Ghana, Africa with art teacher Jennifer Croson and learned that each tribe identifies with a significant pattern. The students then designed their own patterns with a partner, using the iPad. They used the RSHM goal this year, to awaken a consciousness of social justice, for inspiration. [...]

Kindergarten students use a variety of manipulatives to discover number sense, numerical operations, estimation, and spatial reasoning. Students form numbers using sand, glitter and glue, “floam”, and play-dough, making tangible examples of the numbers they know.
Among their math activities, they have itemized and recorded objects in mystery bags, making a special note of groups of [...]

Class V students recently visited the exhibit “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs”  at the Discovery Center in Times Square just before its final engagement there. The exhibit contained an array of possessions unearthed from the tomb, as well as antiquities representing his family and his contemporaries. Class V teacher, Anne Townsend remarked, [...]

As part of their short story unit this year, Class VII students incorporated technology into the creation of their own “fractured” fairy tales. After reading several short stories and discovering the literary elements contained within, students read an updated Princess tale entitled “The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet” whose protagonist gives up [...]

As a real-life extension of mathematics, Middle School math faculty, Anna Berezkina, Linda Liang, Anne Townsend, and Coco Yang along with Class I head teacher, Eileen Burke, recently accompanied Class V to the 18th Annual “Canstruction” competition at the World Financial Center. In a unique charity and community service project that takes place in over [...]

Students from Christine Tesson’s AP French class reached across the Atlantic by way of Skype to converse with seventeen-year-old Lucas Eldin. The dialogue, ranging from inquiries about sports and high school choice to protests and diversity, gave students the chance to have an authentic conversation in their target language. The girls noticed a poster behind Lucas’ [...]

This fall, Class I has been studying seeds and plants in science. Lower School science teacher Margaret Siciliano explained, “They grew small gardens with different types of seeds, compared seed types, dissected seeds, and learned about seed dispersal.”
Recently the students took their knowledge to the New York Botanical Gardens, exploring the Children’s Garden, looking for [...]

To kick off their year-long social studies unit of New York, Class II took a neighborhood walk. The girls were asked to pay close attention to city scenes and activities that surround them everyday. After making a lengthy list of what they saw, heard, and smelled, the students chose a scene to write about and [...]

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 [...]

This year Marymount has gained memberships to two New York institutions that will allow the School to increase yet further its use of the resources surrounding us in Manhattan.
The first institution is the Rubin Museum of Art, located on West 17th Street, which houses an incomparable collection of art and artifacts from the Himalayas. The [...]

One of the most treasured resources at Marymount has always been its close relationship with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located just across Fifth Avenue from the School.  The Museum’s proximity has meant that students have unparalleled access to artwork from all over the world.  Now, thanks to a special agreement between Marymount and the [...]