Theater Students Create Props

Middle and Upper School theater students took a break from memorizing monologues and scenes to make some hot chocolate. Although these delicious treats may look good enough to eat, they're actually props. In their prop-making unit, the students learned to identify and analyze a prop’s form and function and created props that would last for an entire run of a show - and beyond. That whipped cream you see?

Lightweight wall spackle fed through cake piping tubes and tips. Those sprinkles? Craft beads. The candy canes? Those are real but were kept in plastic so the food dye didn’t bleed into the spackle. Students across the divisions celebrated their creations with a toast around Baldwin's beautiful fireplace.

Middle School Orchestra Attends Philadelphia Orchestra Performance

This fall, the Middle School Orchestra, along with Orchestra Director Oxana Harlamova (P '14, '20), attended the Philadelphia Orchestra performance of “The New World Symphony” by Antonin Dvorak and "Double Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra" by Max Bruch, featuring Ricardo Morales on clarinet and CJ Chang on viola. The students were able to talk to the soloists and get their autographs.

Lower School Holds Door Decorating Contest

In December, the Lower School held a winter door decorating contest. Students in each class collaborated together on ideas for their design. Using various materials, they decorated their classroom doors to create a winter wonderland in the Lower School. Peter Greenhalgh’s Grade 3 class won first place, while Hope Feher’s Pre-K came in second and Mallory Becker’s Grade 5 class came in third.

Anatomy Elective Sculpts Human Skulls

Upper School students taking the Anatomy class worked on an interdisciplinary project, learning about the physical aspects (proportions, symmetry and form) of sculpting a human skull. Simultaneously, they learned about the cranial and facial bones.

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