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  • Second Annual STARFEST

    Second Annual STARFEST Shines at Kent School

    On Monday, December 2 Kent School students in Grades One and Eight will partner to identify constellations and perhaps get a glimpse of the International Space Station as it passes overhead under darkened skies on Kent School’s riverside campus. Heidi Usilton, Middle School Science Teacher said, “The conditions are ideal for the Second Annual STARFEST. Kent School’s rural campus enjoys minimal ambient light. The naturally dark evening skies along with the new moon and clear weather provides the perfect backdrop for stargazing.”

    STARFEST at Kent School is a collaboration among Lower School Science Teacher, Meghan Ferster and her First Grade class who will work with Middle School Science Teacher, Usilton and her Eighth Grade class. Both classes have been studying space and the solar system over the past several weeks. Eighth Grade students will help First Grade students locate and identify different constellations and then share knowledge gained through their research. First Grade students have also been researching constellations and will be able to share their findings with an Eighth Grade partner
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  • Kent School Raises Nearly $250,000 in one month for Innovation Center

    Barely more than a month after the September opening of school, the Kent School Board of Trustees is turning its attention to completing the $2.3 million Together We Soar campaign. And the response has been electrifying.

    "In four short weeks, we have raised more than $240,00 from six donors," Board chair Megan B. Owings said. "Alumni, parents, grandparents and friends of the School are rallying to support our plans to fund the final $1 million to construct the new Middle School Innovation Center. It's an exciting project that will include 2000-square feet of classrooms for Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics and will benefit every student at our school, not just our middle-schoolers."
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  • Middle School Moments Matter from the Kent School Blog

    Driving home recently from The 1911 Group annual Heads Conference in Princeton, New Jersey, I passed a billboard on the highway that read Middle School Moments Matter. It was an ad for a school I do not remember, but I have been reflecting on these words for the past week because of their simple truth.
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