Sewickley Academy's Private School Blog

The secret to a good summer ... is a good book!

Check out the recommended titles below for summer reading for kids in middle and senior school.

It will only be a few short weeks until you hear this repeated phrase coming from the mouths of your children. Now's the time to start gathering books to keep your child entertained during those dog days of summer!

Last Tuesday, as part of this year’s Sewickley Series – and through the generosity of the Albert and Bertha Sector Speakers Fund – a panel of distinguished scholar athletes and Sewickley Academy alumni addressed our Middle and Senior School students. We were joined by Carol Semple Thompson ’66, Kimwood Partenheimer ’71, Gloria Lozano ’00, and Tom Droney ’10. In this clip below, we hear from Tom about what he has learned through athletics:

In this screencast, Sewickley Academy's Director of Admission and Financial Aid Brendan Schneider will show you how to search Twitter for people, terms, and your school's name.

In honor of Earth Day, we thought you might be interested to know how Sewickley Academy has made efforts to go green!

Over spring break 2013, six Sewickley Academy students traveled to Germany as part of the exchange with the Erasmus-Grasser-Gymnasium - an exchange now in its 34th year. For two weeks, the students stayed with host families, attended school, and toured the country. This is their journey.

On Friday, April 5, Sewickley Academy had its second Day of Service, a full school day committed to service projects both on and off campus throughout Allegheny County. All members of the Academy community – students, faculty, staff, and administration – volunteered to make a positive impact on issues regarding the environment, social justice, hunger, and poverty. Check out some of the day’s projects:

Sewickley Academy joined Classrooms Without Borders (CWB) in sponsoring a Teen Service Trip to Israel from March 17-28, 2013. Three Sewickley Academy juniors, along with several teens from The Ellis School and Shadyside Academy, spent their spring break working at The Children’s Village in Karmi’el, Israel. The Children’s Village is home to some 275 underprivileged children who live in mispachtons, or family units, of 12 children each. Each U.S. student was assigned to work with a particular mispachton during their time at the Village.

Many here at Sewickley Academy are already thinking about next school year, especially as transitional meetings for Grade 5 into 6 and Grade 8 into 9 take place. In the Senior School, students were asked to indicate preferences for courses that might be offered next year – to ensure that the actual offerings align with student interests. One of the new options for next year will seem anachronistic to some but reflects both a response to student and parent interest as well as a commitment to providing the serious, classical foundation that can help propel so much dynamic and creative thinking: Latin is coming back!

The seeds have been planted for a spectacular outdoor learning center in Sewickley Academy's Secret Garden, and we are excited to watch it flourish with each new season.