For the fourth year in a row, Ravenscroft's student-led fundraising team for Crucial Catch has been recognized as the top fundraising school in the nation, exceeding their goal of $30,000 by more than $6,000, and once again winning the prestigious Pink Cleat Award.
Three Ravenscroft art students have been recognized for their submissions to the Fine Arts League of Cary Teen Show.
Six Middle School students took the global Pegasus Mythology Exam in March, with all winning awards for their performance.
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It’s significant, notes Head of School Doreen Kelly, that our mission statement begins with “the Ravenscroft community.”
“Notice it’s not ‘Ravenscroft School,’” she says. “In the most significant expression of who we are and who we aspire to be, we conceive of ourselves as a community first.”
How can something as important as health and wellness be taught to our youngest Ravens? The Lower School’s integrated approach — combining a fun and age-appropriate physical fitness curriculum and nutrition education with extracurricular opportunities, citizen leadership development and a foundation for social and emotional wellness — gives students the tools, knowledge and experience to make good choices for lifelong success.
Just over three years ago, Jeannine Benoit Adams ’01 said goodbye to her rewarding career as vice president of content marketing for a wildly successful Chicago advertising agency and, in her words, “bet on” herself instead — giving her full focus to her business idea, ReadyPretty.com, and, in the process, giving women a new way to shop boutique fashion from anywhere in the U.S.
Just as a master violinist dreams of making music on a Stradivarius, William Myers ’08 dreams of making his craft beer with a centrifuge.
With the roll-out of two new Upper School courses this year, Ravenscroft’s Speech and Debate program has developed into a rigorous series of electives that spur Middle and Upper School students to develop essential skills.
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Hear more from Tom Abrahams ’89 and “The Traveler” series in this December 2018 episode of The Kindle Chronicles podcast.
Read the June 2019 Houstonia Magazine article, “Tom Abrahams Says Goodbye to His ‘Traveler’ Series.”
Download a PDF of Summer 2019’s Campus Notes and see what students, faculty and staff are up to.
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