Archive for August 2022
School Day Out 2022
The first Friday of the new school year means School Day Out at Eastern Mennonite School. Classes were cancelled on August 19 — the first Friday of the first week — to make space for students to open their circles and welcome in new friends. The 118 middle school students enjoyed games and activities at…
Read More2022-23 Launches with Call to Widen the Circle
“Community” was a theme during the first week of the 2022-23 school year and the preceding week of faculty and staff conference with a similar call. Widening our circles was a subtheme as teachers, staff, and students began to think about what makes a community welcoming to all. The school year opened August 16 with…
Read MoreChoral Music Library Finds New Home
More than 300 linear feet of shelving space – the length of a soccer field — are now dedicated to housing the choral sheet music library at Eastern Mennonite School’s choral room for grades six-12. The installation came over the summer with volunteer vision, labor, and talent when an upgrade in the sixth grade classrooms…
Read MoreSet Your Spirit Free With Jazz at EMS
Set My Spirit Free: Jazz Music’s Soul Connection is the title of a combination concert, worship service, story telling and poetry event at Eastern Mennonite School, Sunday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. The 90-minute program will contextualize the uniquely American art form of jazz music and celebrate its place in the worship traditions of the…
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