Gateway Chess League Awards May 4 The annual League Awards dinner will be held at 6 pm at the Golden Corral Buffet, 6110 S Lindbergh Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63123.  Any student who played in the Wednesday high school competitions or the Thursday Wydown tournaments is invited to attend.  We will meet at the restaurant, but Howard can drive three...

In the world of careers, when one door opens, the other closes and so will it be for me at the end of the school year when I open a new career door at St. Louis University High School. There, I will be joining a growing team of professional counselors and contributing to a community-wide Design Thinking Process for college...

On April 10-11, Grace Gerbi, Callista Martin, and A’Dana Smith participated in Excellence in Learning at the University of Missouri Medical School.  They were selected to attend this two day program with approximately 50 students and their teachers from the St. Louis Area.  While on the Mizzou campus, they: Solved a medical case using Problem Based Learning (PBL), the same method used...

Soccer Crossroads 1 Kennedy 0 Crossroads 2 Hancock 1 MRH 1 Crossroads 0 Baseball Hancock 17 Crossroads 3 Brentwood 9 Crossroads 1 Coming Up This Week 4/13-Baseball vs. Lift for Life 4PM at Cool Papa Bell Soccer vs. Metro 4PM at Midwest Soccer Academy 4/14-Soccer vs. Lutheran North at Midwest Soccer Academy 4/15-Track and Field at Lutheran North Relays 4PM...

Friends, On Monday when I welcomed students back from spring break, I told them that I was looking forward to the fun activities that are a part of the last two months of school: prom, athletic events, The Addams Family, a middle school dance, field day, graduation, and others. I shared that as much as I am looking forward to...

The National High School Chess Championships were held in Atlanta, Georgia this year.  Crossroads has a tradition of doing well in Atlanta, and this year was no exception. Our U800 team finished 2nd in their division.  Four players finished with 5-2 records for a team score of 20 points.  Evan Chen placed 19th, while LaVaughn Caradine, Blake Fondren, and Jonathan...

Three Crossroads seniors, Yossi Rovinsky, Gabe Felsher, and Tova Cohen were among over 18,000 people who attended the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington DC on March 20-22. More than 4000 of them were high school and college students. Not all attendees were Jewish. Many of the Pro-Israel activists were African-American, Evangelical Christian, and from...

The 2016 Crossroads Spring Musical, The Addams Family, will be performed the April 12–17. We need lots of help from theater and non-theater parents who are willing to volunteer time and donations for a variety of needs during that week. Parent efforts help to ensure this event is a success and supports the Theater Department and its students. Parent volunteers provide healthy dinners...

State and Nationals Both State and Nationals fall during spring break this year.  State is a day-long trip on March 19th.  The cost for State is $10 per player.  We will depart from Crossroads at 6 am on Saturday, March 19th.  Students have been given a form to fill out and return to school, with their $10, by next Wednesday....

Boys’ Basketball The Varsity Boys’ Basketball team had the type of season that can test the very qualities that we feel and hope that athletics at Crossroads builds.After concluding this very difficult season, we discovered that our kids are built to sustain such qualities. This was a young team that had a great many growing pains. Many of the returning...