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Día de los Muertos: Honoring Our Loved Ones

November 4, 2024

Academics,
In the Classroom

On November 1, our Lower Campus community celebrated Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with a presentation from our third grade class. Our third graders spent the month of October studying Día de los Muertos and…

Archeological Discoveries in the Classroom

September 26, 2024

Academics,
In the Classroom

Our sixth graders put on their archeologist hats this past week as they participated in group projects centered on archeological discoveries. The first stage of this project actually began over the summer, when students dove into the book…

AP Students Meet with Syracuse Professor

May 30, 2024

Our AP Computer Science Principles Course (AP CSP) is a year-long, project-based, advanced placement course taught at IMS by Jason Barillaro. This course is exclusively offered to ninth grade students and teaches the fundamentals of Python and the history and…

Triumphs in Diplomacy: Model UN Team Shines at Conference

December 14, 2023

Academics,
In the Classroom,
In the News

– by Sammi D’Angelo On Sunday, December 10th, ten students traveled to the Millbrook School to participate in a Model United Nations conference, competing against other students from Millbrook and Dutchess Day School. Model UN is an…

Team Gray Sweeps the Academic Bowl

May 15, 2023

On Tuesday afternoon, Maroon and Gray competed in our annual academic showdown known as the Academic Bowl. Hosted by Mr. Mcglone, the teams faced off across a series of subject areas raging from serious to silly, and even took on…

Troutbeck Symposium Highlights Under-told Stories

May 10, 2023

Academics,
Arts,
In the Classroom

The second annual Troutbeck Symposium was held in late April/early May this year, showcasing student research projects which highlight under-told histories of BIPOC communities. Troutbeck lies in Amenia, New York, and has a…

The Socratic Seminar: Critical Thinking in the LAD Classroom

March 28, 2023

“Sometimes I think of this exchange of ideas as an affirmation of humanity.” On a recent Wednesday morning, students in Mike Wilson’s Language Acquisition and Development (LAD) classroom were engaged in a…

IMS Student Wins Middle School Math Contest

February 2, 2023

Academics,
In the News

A group of IMS students competed in a middle school math contest back in November and walked away with top honors. The event was primarily for independent middle schools and sponsored by The Hotchkiss School, whose math club created the…

4th Graders Move Up

July 21, 2022

On June 9, 2022, the fourth grade class looked out from the Assembly Hall stage with smiles of pride, and certainly some wistfulness, as they listened to celebratory remarks from Head of School Jody Reilly Soja and Head of Lower…

Academic Bowl 2022

June 7, 2022

Representatives from team Maroon and team Gray went brain to brain in the Annual Academic Bowl on May 26th. Global Language Department Chair Tom McGlone was in his element, firing questions and quips at each team, on a…

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