Sports Recap, Week of January 9 Tough conditions and strong competition made for a tough week for the Aardvark skiers and basketball team. Kyle Nitzsche and Reilly Osborne kicked off their racing season at Berkshire East on Wednesday, while the girls’ …

Mr. Gay’s 9th grade humanities class (nicknamed the Hu-Manatees) read Plato’s Symposium, a 4th century BCE dialogue in praise of love. Next, the students generated their question for a 9th grade symposium of their own. Their question they came up with? …

Mr. Almeida’s Physics 1 class uses their understanding of static equilibrium to determine indirectly the mass of a mystery object.

After losing on Tuesday to Mohawk, the girls’ basketball team picked up its first win of the season against BART on Wednesday. In a thrilling nail-biter that went into overtime, the girls fought hard to prevail 16-14. It was a full team effort with eve …

Congratulations to Emily Caffery ’06 on her accomplishments in the theater!  Read about her latest endeavors here:  http://www.recorder.com/Former-Leyden-resident-pioneers-living-room-plays-6598875

French IV students found goodies in their shoes left outside the classroom on Saint Nicholas Day, Dec. 6.

Ben S-G and Henry W-W trying to connect with their reading of a García Márquez novel by making “carimañolas,” a Colombian appetizer made with yucca and cheese.

The Arts and Culture Council at its annual international potluck luncheon. Members contributed foods from most continents.

Mr. Gay’s 9th grade Humanities class has been studying ancient Greek rhetoric by using Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War as a guide. As a class they analyzed Pericles’ Funeral Oration from Thucydides, and also Thucydides’ famous “Melian …

From the Desk of Dr. Bloomfield: Standing for Your Own Ideas Recently, Ms. Tirk directed my attention to this article citing a Stanford University study on information sourcing, as it bemoans that young people today struggle to discriminate between fac …