
With three senior captains at the helm, Big Blue looks to continue on their improvement last season.
With three senior captains at the helm, Big Blue looks to continue on their improvement last season.
After losing to Ridge in the finals last year, Big Blue takes the Skyland Conference Tournament crown this season.
Recently, three leaders of Pingry's Girl Code Club tested their mettle at a female-only hackathon hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Read on to find out what award-winning app they developed!
Don't miss this year's Upper School Winter Musical!
Big Blue Swim Teams are making a splash this season!
"Close your eyes. Picture your life 5-10 years from now. Take a mental snapshot of what that looks like, and store it away in your memory—because that's the last time you're ever going to see it."
Can Big Blue win the Skyland Conference Mountain Division title this spring?
After last year's breakout season, during which they secured a state sectional victory, Big Blue girls are focused on another strong run.
Facing some of the best teams in the country, the boys' and girls' teams finished 17th and 16th, respectively.
Concertmaster of Pingry's orchestra, she has been named to the All-Eastern Honors Orchestra.
Middle School students naturally begin to yearn for greater independence, pushing boundaries while still relying on them to feel safe and cared for. Our task, as educators, is to provide the structure, challenge, and support they need to grow into happy, healthy, responsible young adults who will contribute to their school and the larger community.
To answer this charge, we push boundaries with them, encouraging students to thoughtfully engage in a host of academic areas, from health and humanities to mathematics and music. We develop the body through through physical activity, from dance to outdoor education to interscholastic sports. And we inspire the spirit, offering guidance through close relationships with faculty advisors as we encourage individual development, and a safety net, should they falter.
This safety net arrives in the form of an advisor, assigned to each student, as well as an advisory group. The advisor serves as a guide, helping the student negotiate both the academic program and the school’s social experiences. Each child is also part of an advisory group that meets formally three times a week in a dedicated advisory period, as well as during a daily Conference Period, a time during which students may work on homework, meet with other academic subject teachers to discuss ongoing and upcoming work, or work on group projects. Integral to Pingry life, Conference Period is a way in which advisors guide the maturation of strong study habits and time management skills.
A collaborative approach to teaching and learning, one in which we guide each student’s journey to meaningful self-discovery while providing fun, creative opportunities for personal, social, and academic growth—this principle is central to Pingry’s Middle School program.
Our Middle School curriculum serves a dual role: conveying important information while guiding students' critical thinking skills from simple memorization to more thoughtful, independent analysis. Our faculty challenges students to support their opinions with facts and to question the world around them, readying them for success in the Upper School.
Our curriculum supports the liberal arts background that Pingry believes to be an integral part of each student's educational foundation. Students take courses in English, history, science, math, and world languages including Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Mandarin Chinese. Remembering that students are at different stages in their development, our math and world language classes are grouped by student ability. And because our students are on a campus that spans Grade 6 to Form VI (Grade 12), they can be challenged according to their level of readiness. Our Middle School curriculum is appropriately challenging, and for those students demonstrating greater aptitude, we can encourage them to take courses beyond the walls of the Park B. Smith ‘50 Middle School.
In Grade 6 and Form I (Grade 7), all students take drama, art, and performance music, and in music, they may choose from among band, string ensemble, and chorus. Form II students (Grade 8) can select an elective for two of the three trimesters. The entire Middle School participates in a four-day activity block that exposes students to a variety of ways to be physically active and part of a team experience. We maintain a “no-cut” policy in Middle School sports, so students have the chance to participate in a team sports experience regardless of their ability level.
At the end of this three-year period, students move on to the adjacent Upper School, armed with the confidence and critical thinking skills needed to realize success in a familiar, yet challenging environment.