In late August, Principia School took 10 students to the University of Missouri-St. Louis to participate in a Youth Empowerment Summit called YES. The Principia group joined students from many other high schools, public and private, to learn more about leadership and to take on real-world challenges in an effort ...
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The Upper School introduced a new Panther Block into their weekly schedule. Principal Christen Alford (C'88) explained its origin: “When I was working on this year’s schedule, I thought, ‘What if we had one hour every Friday that could have a different focus every time?’” When she presented the idea ...
In August 2019, a group of Principia School stakeholders—faculty, staff, parents, students, donors, alumni, and external educators—gathered to identify and explore our strengths and how to build on them for an innovative, sustainable, and future-ready school. See and hear highlights from our productive and busy two days. Read in-depth coverage ...
This video kicked off the School's recent summit meeting.
In early August, Principia School held a two-day summit meeting titled “Future Ready: Fueling a Thriving School.” A milestone event in Principia’s history, the summit brought together faculty, staff, alumni, current parents and students, Trustees, and friends of Principia ...
This communication from Principia’s Board of Trustees is to announce a new pilot admissions program for exploring how we can effectively “enlarge the tent” of Principia to better fulfill our mission in today’s world. We wanted to share with the Principia community the context and rationale of our decision. ...
Rachel Soney (C’90) joined the Preschool faculty one year into the School’s transition to a Reggio Emilia-inspired approach to instruction in the early grades. Soney wasn’t familiar with this approach, but she was open to the guidance the Cadwell Collaborative (a consultant group) has been providing as the School makes ...
This year’s Audubon magazine photography awards were announced in July, and recent graduate Garrett Sheets (US’19) received an honorable mention in the Youth category for this photograph of a bobolink.
Garrett shared this background story about the shot with Audubon : "At sunset the Dunn Ranch Prairie becomes a ...
For many decades now, Principia School has had some sort of dress code, with requirements changing over the years and varying across School levels. In the early '70s, Upper School girls’ skirts couldn’t be more than a certain number of inches above the knee. More recently, polo shirts with Principia’s ...
In the last two days of May—and with a nod to the school’s founding in 1898—Principia launched a 1,898-minute fundraising campaign highlighting our exceptional faculty and staff over the years. Leading up to the campaign, alumni shared their gratitude for the lasting impact Principia faculty and staff have had on ...
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