Second eight gold, two silver medals for Mount

Schools May 20, 2013 0 Comments

by Tom Utescher Last weekend, Mount St. Joseph Academy’s final race at the 2013 Stotesbury Cup Regatta yielded the best result. The Magic’s second eight had taken the silver medal behind Holy Spirit High School at the Philadelphia City Championships two weekends earlier, but last Saturday at Stotesbury the Mount “Two-Vee” claimed the gold medal, [...]
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GFS MLK Day of Service celebrates Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin

Schools January 24, 2013 0 Comments

by Meg Cohen Ragas On Monday, Jan. 21, more than 450 people turned up at Germantown Friends School to participate in the 18th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service. Children and adults volunteered for 31 service projects, both on and off campus, ranging from creating books-on-tape for the Philadelphia Reads Literacy Program to assembling [...]
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Speaking Up on MLK Jr. Day of Service

Schools January 22, 2013 0 Comments

One key 21st century skill students at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy are learning through the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is the art of communication. That skill came into play this week on MLK Jr. Day of Service when second grade students in the school’s Lower School for Boys visited Germantown Avenue to make a pitch [...]
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Great MLK Jr. Day at Penn Charter

Schools January 22, 2013 0 Comments

The Penn Charter community collected 1,700 items, including new sports equipment, games, toys, learning supplies and books, for the new Police Athletic League (PAL) recreation center in North Philadelphia this month, and spent Monday organizing the delivery of the mountain of items. The youngest Penn Charter students and their parents worked to sort, tally and [...]
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For local students, King day is a ‘day on’ in their community

Schools January 16, 2013 0 Comments

by Brie Sosnov Every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the region celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in a Day of Service. It’s a way to commemorate King and his life teachings by turning a day off from work into a “day on” in community service. Every year, students [...]
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GFS students bake bread for a cause

Schools January 14, 2013 0 Comments

by Laura Jamieson Since 1999, Daniel Rouse’s second grade class has been baking bread for the Whosoever Gospel Mission, a men’s shelter in Germantown. Once a month, beginning in October and continuing through the end of the school year, the students and parent volunteers bake 16 loaves of bread for the men’s dinner that evening. [...]
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Jenks gets $1,300 grant for garden and nutrition program

Schools January 9, 2013 0 Comments

by Sue Ann Rybak J.S. Jenks Elementary School, 8301 Germantown Ave., will receive a $1,300 grant from RecycleBank to be used for a school garden and nutrition program. RecycleBank, which rewards people who recycle, made the grant as part of its Green Schools Program, which provides money for unique student projects that will green classrooms [...]
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