This week we gathered for our first Combined Chapel (1st -12th grades) since the 2019-2020 school year. We typically have these chapels four times each year to bring together much of our community in worship and celebration. One of my favorite moments in chapel this week was the singing of This Little Light of Mine. The Gospel lesson was Jesus Calms the Storm. In the reading, Jesus is asleep in the boat on the Sea of Galilee when a mighty storm blows up threatening to sink the boat, the disciples call out to Jesus in fear, he awakes, asks the disciples why they have so little faith, commands the storm to be still, and the disciples respond to his power with awe.

I spoke to the students today to assure them that God is in the storm, or the whirlwind, which we heard in the first lesson from the Book of Job. Jesus was asleep in the boat without worry, so was the storm really going to swamp the boat? Also, some of the disciples were fishermen, who should have been used to navigating boats in the storm, but maybe the anxieties and fears of the others overwhelmed them as well. We have to be thoughtful and courageous so that we all don’t fall to pieces in the face of a storm.

I said that the students may encounter storms throughout life, in the classroom where they may be gripped by worry or fear, in athletics, before tests, including standardized tests which

3rd -8th graders will take next week, and when giving presentations, with a highlighting of the declamation and senior project presentations in the spring. We can overcome the anxieties and fears we have about these things because they are things that we can do and God is with us in these storms.

I hope that our students will know that God is with them through the storms they face

this year and that God will calm their worries and fears just as Jesus calmed the storm

that frightened the disciples.

God’s blessings,

Frank Sawyer

St. Thaddeus Campus:  

Please take an opportunity to come and meet our Head of School, Frank Sawyer, and our Head of Lower School, Joanne Morton, and get to know each other better at any of the following parent receptions. RSVPs are not required. There is no childcare provided.

Come and join us for a cup of coffee in the morning or a glass of wine in the evening. All receptions will be in the St. Thaddeus Large Parlor (school cafeteria).

Aiken Prep Campus:

Please take an opportunity to come and meet our Head of School, Frank Sawyer, and our Head of Middle and Upper School, Mike Buck, and get to know each other better at any of the following parent receptions. RSVPs are not required. There is no childcare provided.

Come and join us for a cup of coffee in the morning or a glass of wine in the evening. All receptions will be in the Aiken Prep Campus Auditorium.

As a part of a unit on nursery rhymes, Kindergarten students enjoyed a special visit from Mother Goose last Friday.  Using different modalities of learning - acting, coloring, chanting, etc. helps young learners to better master beginning reading skills. Thank you, Frances Reynolds, for serving in the role of Mother Goose for our students.

Studying in the Parlor

5th Grade before Chapel

Drama Class

7th Grade Literature: The Outsiders

Palmetto Fellows Scholarships

Mead Hall is proud that many of our graduates have earned the Palmetto Fellows Scholarships and that our students have two ways that they can earn this state scholarship. The South Carolina Palmetto Fellows Scholarship is a merit-based program that recognizes the most academically talented high school seniors and encourages them to attend college in South Carolina.

Administered by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, Palmetto

Fellows may receive up to $6,700 their freshman year and up to $7,500 for their sophomore,

junior and senior years. https://www.che.sc.gov

Here at Mead Hall Episcopal School, students can qualify to be a Palmetto Fellow at the end of their sophomore, junior or senior year by satisfying all of the following criteria:

● being ranked as one of the top two students

● earning at least a 1200 on the SAT or a 27 on the ACT

● earning at least a 3.5 Cumulative GPA

The first path provides a total of six opportunities for each Mead Hall student to receive the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship. For the second path to the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, students who are not ranked as one of the top two students at the end of sophomore, junior or senior year may also qualify to be a Palmetto Fellow by satisfying all of the following criteria:

● earning at least a 1400 on the SAT or a 32 on the ACT

● earning at least a 4.0 Cumulative GPA

For more information on the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship, please visit: https://www.che.sc.gov

Our Director of College Guidance, Dr. Felicia Pontoo, is always happy to answer questions about this scholarship and other opportunities that our students have for scholarships and awards. 

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Mead Hall Ball Caps have been restocked!

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MEAD HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

St. Thaddeus Campus

​129 Pendleton Street, SW

Aiken, SC 29801

​Phone: (803) 644-1122

Fax: (803) 641-9543

E-mail: stoffice@meadhallschool.org

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Aiken Prep Campus

​619 Barnwell Avenue, NW

Aiken, SC 29801

​Phone: (803) 648-3223

Fax: (803) 648-9961

E-mail: meadhall@meadhallschool.org