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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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. ...
On May 26, the Principia School community gathered with families and friends in a packed McCalmont Gym to celebrate the accomplishments of the Upper School Class of 2019.
Head of School Travis Brantingham (US’94, C’98) congratulated the students on their accomplishments, noting, “You have built robots, competed in state ...
Eighth graders at Principia and St. Louis Catholic Academy partnered on service projects benefiting each other's school. See them in action!
“When you enter this loving school, consider yourself one of the special members of an extraordinary family.” Written large on a handmade poster, these words greeted Principia eighth graders on a recent trip to St. Louis Catholic Academy, a K–8 school serving at-risk, predominantly minority students in the heart of ...
Upper School teachers Lynne (Elrick, C’01) Scott and Jim Moser (C’04) were honored among the five finalists for the 2019 Loeb Prize for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics at a ceremony this month at the Saint Louis Science Center. Principia was the only school to have two teachers in ...
Upper School freshmen and sophomores spent a week in April exploring the “Gateway to the West.” By foot, bus, and train, they navigated the city of St. Louis to gain deeper insights into its origins, art, entrepreneurial spirit, and social challenges—and to generate solutions where needed.
Urban Experience week ...
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