The Willow School has again been named an "Exemplary School" by the Arts Schools Network. Ms. Neelis, our K-12 Arts Director, successfully completed the designation process on behalf of our amazing, talented student artists and staff. We are thrilled to share this honor with 13 schools nationwide who will be celebrated this fall. Arts Schools Network is a collective group of arts leaders and thought partners joined together in their pursuit to be valuable contributors in the arts learning ecosystem. Membership includes leaders from K-12 arts schools, universities, colleges, organizations and individual members from across the country. Willow first received the designation in 2014.
Here are a few reminders for MS this week:
School dismisses at 12:30pm from May 22 - 25.
Lockers need to be emptied by Tuesday, May 23.
The last day for aftercare is Wednesday, May 24.
School starts at 8am on May 26.
School dismisses at 12:00pm on May 26.
More fun goodies for our teachers- thanks to our online tutoring program Paper for recognizing our amazing teachers!
Ms. Bagneris and Ms. Sanchez completed a culminating project for a tree core lesson. Every Team 7 student participated in this meaningful scientific and creative experience. The art installation is on display in the corridor of the Nashville side entrance.
6th grade students had a special session with local author Marti Dumas. We sincerely appreciated the visit. Students learn more about Marti Dumas' books and she gave advice to inspiring authors.
The Willow Class of 2023 were the special guests at the Lower School Morning Meeting today. We celebrated them with blue and gold spirit, special graduation hats made by the kindergarteners, and, of course, the singing of "Learning the Willow Way," led by Mr. Barrau. We all wish them well as they officially graduate next week!
Today, we celebrated the winners of our Paper Math Missions contest. Students who completed the most Math Missions activities on Paper (our online tutoring program) received lots of fun items from the company.
Today, two of our teachers received special prize boxes from Paper (our online tutoring program). These boxes were to thank them for all of their hard work with using the program with their students.
Today, we had our first-ever Arts Fest! Many of our 7th grade students made presentations from their exploratory classes for the 5th and 6th-grade students. It was a wonderful celebration of the Arts!
PTSA meeting tonight, 6pm, in our HS campus library, 3rd floor. Hope to see you there!
Congratulations to our Prides of the Week and our Leaders of the Pack!
We are thrilled to welcome our rising 5th grade (current 4th graders) for a special visit to the Marsalis campus today!
Many of our middle school students joined our high school students in a second line on the Drew Brees Family Field to celebrate recent athletic successes. Our high school girls tennis team took home the state title this year and our high school girls' track won the 4x800 meter relay. The second line recognized these exceptional accomplishments and all of the Willow tennis and track athletes.
Willow Middle School took home first place in the Louisiana Scholastic Chess Championship, K-6 held in Baton Rouge. The top three finishers are all Willow 5th graders in K-6: I. Felix, 1st; Q. Moore, 2nd; L. Culotta, 3rd Way to go, Willow!
This week's Thankful Thursday video honored our amazing teachers. Happy Teacher Appreciation Week. Click on the following link for the Thankful Thursday video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EnaG1j_4SCWrJtsdjVyZgCmD-4XEz4f_/view?usp=drivesdk
We love our Willow School teachers and they are grateful for Teacher Appreciation Week!
Willow took home first place in the Louisiana Scholastic Chess Championship, K-6, in Baton Rouge. The top three finishers are all Willow 5th graders in K-6:
Isaiah Felix, 1st
Quintin Moore, 2nd
Luca Culotta, 3rd
This is the highest level of scholastic competition in the state. They played 5 rounds over the span of a day. We are very grateful to Coach Nick and all he has done to further chess for these students. We also hope more students will join the team next year!
Congrats to all of the performers in last night's first ever Willow Middle School piano recital!
6th-grade theater presented their Antigone Greek Chorus Projects this week after making paper plate masks with Mr. Martin. All the groups did a fantastic job!
7th grade Strings class concert tonight, 5pm, Marsalis Auditorium. Join us!