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Seventh grader Claire Davidson and classmates gave rave reviews to the Middle School’s first three-day, sleepover Outdoor Education Camp. Students slept in tents, cooked outdoors, studied and explored nature, and came home grubby, tired and happy.
Parent conferences • Crazy Hat Contest • Campus Ministry Forgiveness Candles • Priory Players’ Adventure at the Priory School • Physics egg drop contest winners are Ross Anderson, Roxanne Crittenden and Laura Nowell • Sixth Grade trip to St. Mary’s Cathedral • Movie club afternoon flicks • Thanksgiving treat – free doughnuts at morning break
December
Canned food drive nets 27,640 cans plus $6,000 in cash for charity – Junior Class won the highest- average-per-person goal • Parent Association retreat and Christmas coffee • Middle School brings wrapped gifts and makes baby blankets for needy families • Middle Schoolers’ Secret Santas week• Coats, jackets and blankets collection for the homeless • Winter concert • Final exams • Christmas Holiday!
Hair-moussing, twinkie-eating, human-pyramid- building and other high-jinks contests livened up Spirit Week. Another kind of contest was in chess. To help everybody keep track of the moves in the international chess match, ceramics students made a giant chessboard with moveable pieces and mounted it on Red Square.
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The crosier is a staff symbolic of a shepherd’s crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office. This one was hand made by Father Martin for Bishop Richard Garcia, who carried it at his investiture ceremonies as auxiliary bishop of Sacramento recently. The four mother-of-pearl inlaid dots are symbolic of the four evangelists, Matthew Mark Luke and John. This is the most recent in a series.
Sunshine, good food and great music were, as always, highlights of the Priory Family Picnic in September. This year, Portola Valley’s Town Council presented a Proclamation commemorating the school’s fortieth anniversary.