The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Inc. offers scholarships for college undergraduate students, high school seniors who will be college freshmen in fall 2016 and graduate students who are enrolled in accredited colleges and universities. Applications are due March 1.Scholarships are available for students majoring in horticulture, floriculture, landscape design or architecture, conservation, forestry, sustainable food and farming, agronomy, city planning, environmental and [...]
Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to offer scholarships
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Zen room to open at Marblehead High School
Harried teenagers trudge into French class at Marblehead High School, toss their heavy backpacks to the side, grab a yoga mat and settle in for what they say is the favorite part of their school day - a guided meditation.“I have a lot of stress and anxiety from being over-scheduled and over-worked at school,” said Marblehead High senior Lexxi Seay. “I always feel 90 percent more relaxed after meditating here.”MHS French teacher Violaine Gueritault [...]
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Marblehead High School teacher unpacks Planet X
A day after news broke that a potential planet lurked in the abyss of the solar system, resident and local science teacher James Keating said his lesson on the Doppler effect gave way to curious questions from his Marblehead High School astronomy students.“It’s current events at their best for the classroom,” said Keating. “All this stuff – lets the kids known science is an evolving process – and doesn’t shut down when you’re [...]
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Marblehead fifth-grader hatches chicken-sitting service
Michael Piper, “almost 11,” has found a unique way to build a nest egg--running a chicken-sitting service.“My clients go on vacation for a weekend, and I chicken sit for them,” he said.And to his knowledge, he is the only hen-sitting outfit in town.The Village School fifth-grader runs it with limited help from his parents, but his siblings inspired him, he said.A successful “air-plant terrarium” business run by his sisters, [...]
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Marbleheaders become Explorers
Marblehead’s Linda Weltner is busy preparing her new course for the Explorers Lifelong Learning Institute – and that usually involves a lot of research, reading, and, of course, finding the right costume and wig.“The classes are packed,” Weltner said. “I see it it as performance art in a way. I love the students because their minds aren’t fossilized. They’re ready to hear new ideas.”Explorers is a popular learning [...]
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Author dissects racism, white privilege
Author of “Waking Up White,” Debby Irving, whom a local group, Marblehead Conversations on Racial Justice, brought to town Sunday, opened her lecture talking about growing up in “the white bubble”of Winchester in the 1960s.“Dads went to work,” said Irving, adding that moms cared for the nest and were given “$20 weekly allowances.”Doses of “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” [...]
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Luminescence moves on in ICHSA competition, high school a cappella has North Shore roots
Marblehead High School’s all-female a cappella group, Luminescence, placed third at the International Championship of High School A Cappella (ICHSA) Northeast Quarterfinal on Saturday, Feb. 6 at Danvers High School. They will be competing in the Northeast Semifinals at Galvin Middle School in Wakefield on March 5.“They’ve been working hard,” said MHS Choral Director Andrew Scoglio. “I’m very happy for them that their dedication has paid [...]
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Award-winning musician Alastair Moock comes to the Glover School
Grammy-nominated folk singer Alastair Moock has been conducting songwriting workshops with third graders at the Glover School in Marblehead every Tuesday for the past three weeks. On Tuesday, Feb. 9 the third graders debuted the school song that they wrote with Moock at an all-school assembly. They also had the opportunity to teach their song to the younger grades.“We are very fortunate to have received a grant from the FMPS (Friends of Marblehead Public Schools) that [...]
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Brownies get REAL with book drive
Brownie Troop 76298 got real when it took on journey that led to delivering more than 1,500 books to the Reading Educational Assistance Learning program in Lynn.“I did not think we would get a lot (of books),” said troop member Campbell Crane, 9. “I thought maybe 60, but we got a lot.”Troop Leader Kathleen Collins said the girls decided to work towards a journey badge, a four-part project that results in the Brownies understanding that they are part [...]
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Marblehead High School seniors earn 'super honors'
Four Marblehead High School seniors earned the Massachusetts Association Association of School Superintendents’ Certificate of Excellence and the National School Development Council Award for academic growth and students in learning.During a recent School Committee meeting, Superintendent Maryann Perry distributed the certificates of excellence to Adam Linsky and Caroline Tripodi, both of whose grade point averages put them in the top five percent of the Class of 2016. [...]
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MHS search down to two candidates
Community members heard directly from the two finalists, who topped more than 40 applicants vying for the Marblehead High School principalship.The meet-and-greet for finalists Brookline High School Principal Deborah Holman and Beverly High School Assistant Principal Daniel Bauer in the MHS library Tuesday was a benchmark in the months-long search and, in many ways, a job interview.One parent asked the question that was perhaps on most attendees’ minds –and [...]
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Turning to Town Meeting, Marblehead school seeks to tidy up traffic
With an eye toward alleviating traffic congestion, Tower School officials want to build a horseshoe shaped driveway off Cornell Road, but it needs Town Meeting approval before breaking ground on the estimated $750,000 project.Tower and town officials said the development project hinges on the passage of a Board of Selectmen-sponsored article at Town Meeting. The article request attendees abandon a portion of Colgate Road, a public byway that [...]
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Marblehead High School student artists win awards
Marblehead High School is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the country's longest-running and most prestigious award and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. Over 50 artists, authors, critics, educators and skilled professionals blindly judged works based on originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal vision or voice—the original three criteria of the program’s founding in 1923. These judges [...]
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In Marblehead, Village students learn ‘The Story of METCO’
Michelle Chalmers says she spent her years in Wellesley School District schools unintentionally in the dark about the purpose or history behind METCO, the Massachusetts Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity.All she knew growing up was the students in the METCO program were her friends and they rode buses from Boston to Wellesley on school days.“I didn’t know what METCO was; no one ever talked to me about it,” she said.She learned about the [...]
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Gerry School showing its age
Teachers and administrators have done a good job making the Gerry School inviting and functional, but school officials wonder how much longer they can keep it up.“They’ve done a beautiful job … but how much can we do with an inadequate facility?” Technology & Operations Executive Director Ken Lord asked rhetorically.Lord, along with schools Superintendent Maryann Perry, spent Monday morning pointing out the aged school’s inherent charm, [...]
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Needs of students and state forcing shift in higher education
When Carlos Santiago, the state's commissioner of higher education, was an assistant professor of economics early in his career, instructors viewed themselves as gatekeepers, often telling students that only a fraction of their peers would make it to graduation."We were proud of that," Santiago told lawmakers and staff Wednesday. "That was the gatekeeper. That was what higher education was all about. It [...]
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Marblehead High School principal transition in 'early stages'
Beverly High School Assistant Principal Daniel Bauer said Monday he feels honored to be selected as the new Marblehead High School principal.“It’s very exciting,” he said. “I will work to the best of my abilities to make Marblehead High School the best it can be. It will be a team effort.” ”Bauer’s appointment was announced by Superintendent Maryann Perry in a community-wide email last week.“Daniel is an outstanding [...]
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Two times a charm for Vets speller
Eighth-grader Ryan Grohe cut through the competition during the Veterans Middle School annual spelling bee, winning a trip to the regional bee in Lynn after correctly spelling “laceration.”When asked if he was surprised at his victory Grohe, laughed a little.“I was, actually,” he said.Grohe said he studied for the competition but not as much as he has in the past. He will be kicking his studying up a notch, however, now that he is headed to [...]
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Marblehead High School students back Sanders and Trump
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders banked on strong support from millennials to help keep his candidacy afloat in the commonwealth — and had the town voted the way of Marblehead High School it might have done the trick.While registered voters headed to the polls, MHS students held a presidential primary election of their own. The Vermont Democrat topped the ticket by a nearly two-to-one margin. Of the 472 ballots cast in the four-day mock primary, nearly half went to [...]
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Auction to benefit art scholarships
The students of the National Art Honor Society at Marblehead High School are organizing a silent auction at Zimman's fabric store at 80 Market St., Lynn. It will be on Saturday March 19, from 6-9 p.m. This is a major fundraiser for the scholarships that are offered at the end of the school year to NAHS students going to art school.Entry tickets are $10 each and there will be a cash bar. The Society will be auctioning students’ artwork as well as various services and gifts from [...]
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