Middle School Overnight

It was a great TWO days of leadership, community building and new opportunities for our Middle School students on Thursday and Friday at Camp Henry Horner.

One of the Middle School faculty commented on how great it was to see different groups of students socializing together, with the groups of students changing even over the course of the two days as students had the opportunity to get to know each other outside of the classroom. New friendships were formed, new experiences were undertaken, and for some students they engaged in activities that pushed them outside their comfort zones. This is a "good" kind of stress as it helps build "muscles" for life.

See a few photos from the trip below. The faculty are loading all of their photos and videos in a Google Drive folder. To see them CLICK HERE.

Where Else But Roycemore? By Mrs. Wendy Griffin

After contemplating the successes and challenges of the first several weeks of the 2019-20 school year, a “culture of kindness” came into my heart as the overarching theme. Kindness is defined as “the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.”

In our community, kindness is often reflected in empathetic or compassionate acts. One day, a faculty member tripped and fell at the top of the stairs. Within minutes, two high school boys assisted her to her feet and made sure she was okay. The response of these students exemplified kindness; the teacher felt cared about instead of embarrassed. Where else but Roycemore!

Within a week of the beginning of Middle School, one was hard-pressed to discern who had just started at Roycemore and who had been a student for years. Perhaps, the daily Homeroom circles of greeting are promoting kindness, or perhaps we attract kind students into our community. Or is the kindness attributable to our parents, who gently and delicately support our work with their children? Perhaps, it’s all of the above and even more… Whatever the reason, we value kindness and appreciate the opportunity to experience it every day.

Roycemore students have the opportunity to create a mural that will go to Japan next August

Kids Guernica-Nagasaki Peace Mural Project- will take place this Monday and Thursday

Roycemore will be participating in a global collaborative art project this week to commemorate the upcoming anniversary of WWII. Our students will work with Dr. Miyazaki, Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University and Roycemore parent to 8th grader, Xavier, to create a peace mural that will be displayed next summer at the 75th anniversary of the commemoration ending World War II. Painting will take place after school this Monday and Thursday, and preliminary planning happened while we were at Camp Henry Horner. All students are encouraged to participate! PLEASE SIGN UP HERE!

Roycemore Book Fair is coming- volunteers needed!

Humanities Highlights!

The sixth-grade practiced thinking like historians. We evaluated a fictional scenario, The Lunch Room Fight, from Stanford History Education Group. We tried to think about how perspective, bias, and motivation all contribute to the way a story is told.

The seventh and eighth graders continued studying WII and the decision to drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They also began writing their Patriot's Pen Competition essays.