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Athletics Wins!
With two strong coaches, the Priory girls tennis team is making great strides, with both the team and the individual players improving their games in the past two years.
Athletics is still the most popular co-curricular activity at the Priory, with some 77 percent of high school students and 95 percent middle school students playing at least one competitive team sport.
WPS’s Third Year With
Special Olympics
Priory Middle School students were
the hosts to some 200 children with special needs at a September 30 Special Olympics event held on the front playing field. WPS students planned the event, set up soccer training stations, and coached the young participants through the events, often celebrating successes with a cheer or a high-five.
Doughnuts Are Forever
Students celebrated a very successful Hurricane Katrina fundraiser in traditional Priory fashion with doughnuts on Red Square. In this case, it was a doughnut-eating contest among the classes.
‘Local’ Resident Students—A GrowingTrend
Anselm House is now home to resident girls and Benedict House to boys. New students Hope Marquardt and Kim Szabo, shown studying in Hope’s dorm room, are examples of a growing trend—students from Bay Area communities who choose to board for the educational benefits and often go home for the weekend.
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