ZABRINA RICHARDS, JUNIOR, ARUNDEL LIBBY VERDELLI, SOPHOMORE, SOUTH PORTLAND WYATT LAPRISE, SENIOR, LYMAN HENRY BENOIT, JUNIOR, ACTON SAMANTHA LAFOND, JUNIOR, KENNEBUNK SAM NICHOLS, SENIOR, WATERBORO NATE SPIELMAN, SENIOR, ARUNDEL ALEX MORIN, FRESHMAN, KENNEBUNK CLAIRE BROWN, SENIOR, WELLS MANDI DONEGAN, SOPHOMORE, ARUNDEL IAN KRUGER, SOPHOMORE, [...]
The New School would like to thank all of you that bid on our awesome Silent Auction items! If you won an item, and are now wondering how to get your hands on your prize- here is the run down! Please make sure that all items are paid for by connecting with Janet in [...]
Claire Brown, a senior at the New School, recently received some exciting news from Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. She has been selected from a competitive pool of candidates to receive a S-STEM Grant. These scholarships are awarded to students who expressed strong interest in the S-STEM objectives of nurturing data-savvy scientists and [...]
THE NEW SCHOOL PRESENTS IT'S FIRST EVER 'VIRTUAL TALENT SHOW' The theater class is organizing a virtual talent show for our New School community. Everyone has talent--Think outside the box for this event! Maybe you are working on your skateboard tricks? BMX tricks? Play a song, perform a magic trick, read a poem, train [...]
Jason Daley is co-teaching a film studies class as part of his senior project. In his own words: For my senior project I am studying film. Film has been a passion of mine since I was young, which has made this project very enjoyable. Some of my favorite films are Blade Runner, 2001 a [...]
In Devon's Words: For my senior project I have created an illustrated educational book about arthropods of the American Northeast. It’s a fact about me that’s usually received poorly by people, I’m fascinated and enamored by armored invertebrates. Beetles, moths, centipedes, millipedes, isopods, crabs, and spiders. I feel that much of the stigma levied [...]
On Friday, September 20 Ally and Brad skipped school with Samantha, Dorcus, Emma, Zabrina, Dawn, Avery, and Henry to attend the Global Climate Strike in Portland. The Portland Press Herald estimates there were over 2000 youth and their supporters present at the event. This strike was an outgrowth of Fridays for Future, a global [...]
Early in the 2018-19 school year, students expressed interest in a journey to the Azores, an isolated Portuguese island group in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Students and teachers spent much of the first semester planning the trip and learning about the Azores. During the early part of the second semester, the group [...]
Structured Academic Controversy: Teaching Strategies in Action, by Brad Lopes Was Abraham Lincoln a racist? Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime? Did the 14th Amendment really abolish slavery? These are the kind of questions that have troubled historians and teachers alike for many years. It is human [...]
