Emphasis Week

Each spring semester, students participate in Emphasis Week. During this week, students and teachers put aside regular school activities and take part in faculty sponsored courses, community service activities, week-long field trips, or career-oriented internship programs. At the conclusion of Emphasis Week, students share experiences during an all-school presentation.

Examples of recent Emphasis offerings include: African Drum Making, Appalachian Trail Hike, Animal Activism, International Cooking and Culture, Silver Jewelry Making, Doghouse Construction, Katrina Relief, Strategy Games, Green Building, Florida Marine Life, Sailing, and Knitting and Quilting. This year's international trips include a Spanish language immersion trip to Spain, a trip to Florence, Italy to focus on the Renaissance, and a student (8th graders and Upper Schoolers) filmmaker's trip to England to participate in the Bridge Film Festival.

Students select from Emphasis offerings published in the Fall. All students participate in an activity of choice, regardless of ability to pay. Necessary funds are acquired through group fundraising efforts.

Emphasis Offerings for 2010 - Click here to read about last year's spring Emphasis Offerings, or see a shortened list below.  Next year's offering will be posted later in the fall.

Local Emphasis Offerings Spring 2010:

Games of Strategy
Movement, Yoga, Hiking
Multicultural Explorations
Kitchen Chemistry/Home Crafts
Art of Puppet Making
Animated Film Fesitval
Science Fiction
Appalachian Trail
Sound Recording: Engineering/Mixing/Mastering
PACEM
Guerilla Film Project
Mural Painting
Work Hard, Play Hard
Pinata Making
Playing with Fire
Service Extravaganza

Travel Emphasis Trips Spring 2009:

Civil War - Gettysburg
Katrina Relief in Mississippi
Soccer Training in Florida

Games of Strategy group takes on chess.

Cooking Emphasis makes delicious treats.