February 23-27, 2026

It was a busy and exciting week, full of thrilling competitions for our Varsity Boys basketball team as well as our Science Olympians. For the second time in two years, our varsity boys won the conference championship and advanced to the Elite Eight round of state tournament play (read detailed articles about all three games below). Our Science Olympiad teams qualified for the state tournament in both Division B and Division C for the first time in school history, with the middle school team emerging as the overall winner of Saturday’s Division B tournament and TFS Emerald earning 2nd overall in the Division C tournament (details and photos below). Varsity LAX parents met about the upcoming season and more parent sports meetings will be happening in the upcoming weeks. Senior John B was recognized as a National Merit Scholarship Finalist and honored in today’s morning meeting (details and photos below). The entire Middle School enjoyed watching 7th grade Drama’s production of Cafe 007 today (details and photos below). 5th and 7th grade music classes performed to open the show - they were amazing as well. There was a lunchtime bake sale to support the work of our Geeky Girls group. 

Our Middle School team won the Science Olympiad middle school division regional tournament on Saturday and will advance to the state competition (details and photos below)! 5th graders are studying the phases of the moon. 5th and 6th grade Latin students are learning about Roman deities while 6th graders continue their study of world religions. 7th graders have adopted a specific endangered organism and are investigating the challenges these organisms face. 8th graders have been building series and parallel circuits, and calculating current, voltage, and resistance using Ohm's law.