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. ...
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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 ...
Senior Siwa Asinga (above) brought home three medals from the Class 2 State Track and Field Championships. She won the 100 m dash in 12 seconds flat, .22 seconds faster than her time in the prelims and a personal best. She also won the 300 m hurdles in 43:32, setting ...
Principia School hosted its second annual BioBlitz on May 10 and 11. Despite cool and sometimes-wet weather, more than 250 school students from the St. Louis area—along with many families and community members—explored portions of Principia School’s 300+ acres of oak-hickory forest, prairie, ponds, and creek beds in order to ...
It’s not unusual for Principia School to be mentioned in local sports news, but recently a 2019 grad and the School itself received one-of-a-kind writeups about photography and food, respectively.
Garrett Sheets (US'19, pictured left) was profiled extensively in a Tamron e-news article. (Tamron is a photographic lens manufacturer.) ...
For Upper School seniors, the final month of school wasn’t filled with classes and exams . . . it was senior project time! Keeping up this Principia tradition, members of the Class of 2019 spent the weeks leading up to graduation pursuing their own interests—from costuming to statistical analysis. ...
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