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Throughout the year, in advisory, classes and special assemblies, we will be exploring this year’s sustainability theme: ENOUGH!? Through this lens we can ask revealing questions about material and non-material aspects of our lives. When do we have enough? How much is enough? How much is too much? We recently looked at our personal collection…

Budding authors and illustrators unite! Westside School’s Pre-Kindergarten students are teaming up with Explorer West students in an exciting and creative project that brings art and story-telling together. The youngsters in Claudia Ross-Weston’s and Nancy Levine’s Pre-K classes create the artwork and, later in the week, the story within the picture is reported and written…

The 6th graders have been clambering to prove what they’ve learned since their last boat-building project, and today they got underway. Using what they learned from a previous boat as well as research on famous boats,the students were eager to apply the lessons learned from famous, and not so famous, sinkings. Plans were drawn, materials…

Ever notice that we live in a loud and busy world? EW performs a simple daily ritual to quiet things down and gain a little quality time with ourselves – but together! For about 6 years EW has enjoyed a tradition of 15 minutes of quiet choice reading after lunch, 4-5 days each week. The…

The 8th grade fanned out to three different destinations on Mt. Rainier for early September backpacking: Owhyhi Lakes, Berkeley Park, and Glacier Basin. We enjoyed perfect weather, wildlife and blueberries galore, and spectacular vistas.Mt. Rainier is absolutely teeming with wildlife! Our early fall sightings included black bears, mountain goats, marmots, pika, a doe with it’s…