Author: Emma Hobart-Sheran

SPARK CO-CHAIR CORNER: SPRING 2023

SPARK Co-chairs Jamie and Ashley Harmon and their children, Hazel ’26 and Hugh ’28. THANK YOU to all the Park families that did so much to make this a great year for The SPARK Campaign! We focused on building community with in-person events.  Our new family event had record-breaking attendance, and we also had strong turnouts at our events for Upper Division families and in the new Maker Wing. We brought…

THE MAGNIFICENT MAKERSPACE

This spring, Grade 4 teacher Eliza Botsford led students through an essay-writing unit. Students learned how to write an essay that was both structured and interesting to read. They developed claims for their essays that were personally meaningful, which inspired Grade 4 student Beata to write about her favorite place at Park – the Makerspace. She planned, gathered evidence, drafted, and published her essay, bringing it along to the SPARK…