Scroll down for the chance to experience a day in the life of a St. Andrew's student!
8:29 a.m.
While most Middle and Upper School classes start at 8:40 a.m., there are a few classes and offerings that meet before the school day begins. Here, Lucy Ward '24 leads a group on executive functioning.
8:48 a.m.
Middle School students are each assigned to advisory groups. These advisories meet in the mornings three days a week and in the afternoons four times a week.
8:58 a.m.
Once Morning Meeting is over, Upper School students are on to their first class. In a typical week, Upper School students rotate between seven classes and an advisory period, assembly, chapel, or time for clubs to meet.
10:16 a.m.
When you find a good book, you have to share it with a friend! The pre-kindergarten reading curriculum is designed based on the Orton-Gillingham approach, offering a structured framework for students to recognize distinct sound units. Through explicit, direct, sequential, and systematic multi-sensory instruction in pre-kindergarten, this method teaches pre-reading skills, emphasizing phonological awareness through rhyme recognition, syllable identification, and phoneme isolation, blending, and segmentation.
11:58 a.m.
Students in Environmental Science are learning about key indicators of our planet's health. The students tested tap water samples and a collected sample from a local park to understand issues of water quality and quantity.
12:04 p.m.
Bruder Garden is a favorite spot for the preschool students. They enjoy picnicing in the garden, working on outdoor journals, identifying plants and bugs they find, and of course, finding the best trees to climb.
Nearby, other Lower School students enjoy climbing, crawling, and sliding in the Lower School's Outdoor Learning Space.
12:11 p.m.
Lunch is provided by SAGE Dining Services and features a hot entree each day in addition to salads, soups, sandwiches, and fresh fruit.
1:22 p.m.
Students in Sara McAuliffe's English 8 class focus on authors' use of literary devices in dystopian literature to scaffold the skills of literary analysis.
2:29 p.m.
Students in science and design are working on building wind vanes and anemometers. The students wrote their observations and discussed the information they collected through their investigations. Part of the discussion involved identifying how the wind affected the anemometer and how to calculate the speed of the wind using the anemometer and a timer.
3:51 p.m.
Each trimester, different after-school activities are offered for Lower School students. Students on the First Lego League Robotics Team work on a project with the help of an Upper School student.
4:56 p.m.
After the academic day has ended, Upper School students take part in sports practices and competitions. Our athletics program includes 21 varsity sports, with students competing primarily in either the MAC or ISL leagues.