Posts by Meg Sacks
Child Safety Matters Programing Helps Educate Students
St. Mark’s Campus The St. Mark’s Campus is continuing its partnership with the Monique Burr Foundation to deliver the Child Safety Matters program. The program educates and empowers children and all relevant adults with information and strategies to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to bullying, cyberbullying, all types of abuse, and digital abuse dangers. Over the past few weeks,…
Read MoreThird Grade Developing Writing Skills
Beaches Campus Third grade students in Ms. Wilson’s class presented self portraits in words last Friday as part of their writing exercise. The writing workshop setting supports children in taking their writing seriously and viewing themselves as writers. Writing workshop is a student-centered framework for teaching writing that is based on the idea that students learn…
Read MoreVideo Highlights Computer Science Curriculum
Munnerlyn Campus Computer Science instructors Margie Stevens and Scott Givonetti are working to vertically align the Computer Science curriculum, and to incorporate diverse, fun and creative STEM literacy as part of the ESJ student’s experience, whether in Middle School or Upper School. Students in Technology 8 and Intro to Engineering are featured in this video that shows…
Read MoreEarly Learning Program Students Begin New Study Units
St. Mark’s Campus Early Learning Program 2 students (2-year-olds) on the St. Mark’s Campus started their units of study last week. The units are designed to challenge the students to learn letters, numbers, colors, shapes, the five senses, and much more! Each week, students will learn songs, read books, and play with toys and manipulatives that build upon…
Read MoreMiddle and Upper School Students Receive Civil Discourse Training
On Wednesday Middle and Upper School students participated in Civil Discourse training as part of the school’s Health, Safety, and Well-Being program. Students watched a video created by the Civil Discourse team featuring students and teachers. The short video asked Episcopal students about their perspective on the difficulty of talking with others who have different…
Read MoreCollege Counseling Programming Preparing Upper School Students
Programming provided by ESJ’s College Counseling staff for students this fall has included Application Camp for seniors in August, which gave students the opportunity to get ahead on all of their college applications; a Zoom meeting for parents of seniors on September 3 to cover the nuts and bolts of the application process, as well as…
Read MoreCross Country Races at Craig Speziale Invite
Athletic News This past weekend the boys’ cross country team raced at the Craig Speziale Invite hosted by Ponte Vedra High School. Leading the way for the Eagles was Don Kohla ’21, placing in the top 50 with a time of 18:10. The girls’ cross country team opens up their regular season this Saturday at…
Read MoreFootball Defeats Bishop Kenny; Starts 1-0
Athletic News Football began their march back to the postseason on Friday night with a 42-38 win over Bishop Kenny! Tucker Tomberlin ’21 had a great night, throwing five touchdowns to seal the win. The Eagles are back on the road Friday night as they head to Englewood High School. You can watch all the…
Read MoreVolleyball Hosts Providence Tomorrow
Athletic News Volleyball earned their second win of the season during Senior Night on Monday, defeating Seacoast Christian in straight sets. They return tomorrow night to the Semmes Gym for a match against Providence. After tomorrow night, they are on the road until their last regular season match on October 8 against Fernandina Beach. JV…
Read MoreHonors Chorale Sings for Munnerlyn Campus Chapels
Fine Arts News Beginning this week a quartet of Honors Chorale singers will be performing for Chapel. These small groups of singers that are spaced across the stage are able to bring music to campus while following COVID protocols. Lauren Holland ’22, Chloe Weldon 21, Mary Tiller ’22, and Sofia Pecoraro ’21 sang Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen…
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