Our soccer team’s successes added extra excitement to what is always a fun time of year. Dress-up days, Halloween Candygrams, the Halloween Costume Contest, the Pep Rally, and the Homecoming Dance made for a very full week of fun. Many thanks to Student Council for coordinating the week’s events. Saturday night’s dance, An Evening Under the Stars, was a beautiful way to end this week of celebrating …
Stuco’s Annual Canned Food Drive
Crossroads College Prep Student Council is sponsoring our annual canned food drive to help hungry people in St. Louis as Thanksgiving approaches. The canned food drive ends Friday, November 14th. Participation in past years has been outstanding – let’s make that happen again! This is a competition among classes. Points are added up and divided by the number of students …
Program Notes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Christopher Limber, the director of the Crossroads fall play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, wrote the following program notes for the play. It has been my distinct pleasure over the past 5 weeks to work with an immensely talented group of students on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We have explored our telling of the play, investigating its …
SCAA All-Conference Teams Announced
Congratulations to our student/athletes who were recognized as All-Conference performers. Seniors Andrew Kowalkowski and Caleb Hill were named 1st Team All-SCAA for soccer along with juniors Peter Hamilton and Ivan Boyers. Senior DJ Corbett and junior Tyler Doll were named to the 2nd Team. In volleyball, sophomore Kieran Uhlmansiek was named 1st Team All-SCAA while junior Elizabeth Birch was named …
Chess News, November 4, 2014
The next Saturday tournament is November 15th! We will be playing in the Gateway Fall Open at Lindbergh High School. Depart from Crossroads: 7:15 AM (sharp) Tournament ends: 5:30 pm, with awards following. Return to school by 7 pm Cost of tournament: $12, cash or check payable to “Gateway Chess League” United States Chess Federation membership is required for this …
Excellence in Mathematics Contest
Thirty-six upper school students participated in the Excellence in Mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematics Educators of St. Louis and the math department at St. Louis Community College Forest Park. More than 800 students from the greater St. Louis area participated. The Crossroads students performed very well again this year. There were awards for grade team and individuals. The team …
Excellence in Mathematics Math Competition
This Saturday, November 1, 2014, 38 Crossroads College Prep upper school students will participate in the annual Excellence in Mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematics Educators of Greater St. Louis and Forest Park Community College. Last year the 9th grade finished second and the 11th grade finished fourth in the small-schools division. Joe, Gerry, Kim, and Mark are looking …
This Past Week in Athletics: 10/15-10/21
Girls’ JV Volleyball 10/15 Crossroads 2 Bayless 1 Girls’ Varsity Volleyball 10/15 Bayless 2 Crossroads 0 10/20 Crossroads 2 St. Paul 0 (District Quarterfinal) 10/21 Kingston 2 Crossroads 0 (District Semifinal) Boys’ JV Soccer 10/15 Bayless 2 Crossroads 0
Mastery Learning Project
The Curriculum Committee has an academic challenge program called the Mastery Learning Program. This program is open to Upper School students and is designed to provide an opportunity to explore a topic or execute a project that falls outside the boundaries of typical high school courses. For example, a student could choose to write a children’s book in Spanish, construct …