Students and faculty start the new year with chapel

Sophia Aeby, Video Editor

January 7, 2019

WEB EXCLUSIVE Convent kicked off the new year with chapel to recenter and calm students and faculty for the start of the second semester. Chapel was led by Head of School Rachel Simpson and Chair of Community Life Paul Pryor Lorentz. Student and faculty began with a musical Espacio —listening to In th...

Grades to be submitted a week after classes resume

Jordan Russell, Senior Reporter

January 3, 2018

WEB EXCLUSIVE Second-semester courses began today as students returned to campus with a week to finalize work from the first semester before the submission of final grades next Tuesday. “[Submitting] grades after break gives teachers the opportunity to have a narrative face to face with the stu...

Five ways to fight ‘senioritis’

Lisabelle Panossian, Editor-in-Chief

May 4, 2017

The Senior Class may possess lessened motivation to complete large-scale class projects or study for final exams as many colleges released decisions and the final semester of the school year comes to a close — a time when an issue many former and current high school seniors could identify with ari...

Four grades, four retreats: Participants give insights on annual experience

Asha Khanna, Senior Reporter

March 21, 2016

With the third quarter coming to a close, each grade took part in the annual spring class retreats Thursday, Friday or Saturday last week, but they were structured differently this year. Juniors were the first to leave Thursday for an overnight retreat at Camp Newman, returning to school Friday af...

Some teens use ADHD meds to ‘cope’ with academic pressure

March 28, 2013

The light-green Prius idled in a parking lot behind a Bay Area high school as the driver, a cheerleader, executed some mental arithmetic uncommon to high school math classes. After a minute of silence between buyer and seller, the cheerleader turned around, declared the price per 30 mg, accepted her p...