From the Living Building Class members: With eye-popping art, the Living Building Class has redesigned the west end of Flag Hall in the Commons. We have included solar facts and jokes, weekly net energy reports, the weather, and the news (local and within the community). We have done this to...
From 5th and 6th Grade Science teacher, Anneke Nordmark: In the first weeks of school, 5th graders visited Allens Creek, which borders Harley’s campus to the south, to make observations of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. We planned to study these types of habitats over a period of time and decided...
It was a sunny and warm afternoon in October when the Class of 2024 made their way to the varsity soccer field to throw around some pumpkins! The fourth grade students were challenged to create a device at home which would propel either a candy pumpkin or a real pumpkin/gourd....
The eager students in the Food and Farm Lab class worked last week to harvest the honey from our two resident bee hives, with the expert help of Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss. The flats which were full of honey and had been capped off with wax were removed (after...
We were honored to have Dr. Susan Spencer engage with our students and faculty on Thursday, October 16th, and were inspired by the information she shared during her mini-residency at Harley. She concluded her stay with a presentation to the public in the evening on transitioning from fossil fuels to...
The Food and Farm Lab students in this first trimester of school have some sweet ideas about farming and about entrepreneurship. In an earlier post, you were introduced to our volunteer bee keepers, Adriana Lozada and Arthur Rothfuss, as they taught the 9th grade English students about our Harley bee...
The Design Thinking Lab in the Workshop and Project Space in the Commons is a hotbed of creative ideas, active construction, and constant reflection… The Middle School flex time design thinking students have been working on designing and creating prototypes of “dream spaces” for work and hanging out with Commons...
If you have ever walked into the Greenhouse in the Commons and thought to yourself, “Hey, this isn’t really that green”, then this post is for you! The seventh grade science classes are working this fall with their teacher, Carli Rivers, and our Commons educator, Ja’Daiza Johnson, to design, prototype,...
Many thanks to Erin Berg, US English teacher, for sharing and writing about this experience, and to Michael Frank, US Digital Media teacher, for taking the photos! “In preparation for our next book in our 9th grade English class, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, we attended a...
Taking advantage of the Ocean Conservancy‘s annual International Coastal Clean-up on September 19th, Peter Hentschke (Upper School Biology instructor) led an intrepid band of students to Charlotte Beach to rid it of waste and garbage. The group included Wenyi Zeng, Lillian Scalia, Adrian Bell, Lily Kegl, Jacob LaDue, Sam Reeder,...
