Cafeteria service to expand in fall
Gabriella Vulakh, Web Editor
May 28, 2019
The SAGE food service is expanding to provide lunch for all students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 at no additional cost in the 2019-20 school year, resulting in an increase of approximately 37% more students relying on the cafeteria for their midday meal. “In order to provide the proper lunchtime ...
Students ask anonymous health questions during class meetings
Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter
April 28, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Health professionals led conversations split by grades during class meetings last week about various health-related topics. Students had the opportunity to write down anonymous questions on notecards that were collected and answered out loud by the health professional leading their discuss...
Suicide prevention assembly equips students
Mason Cooney, Copy Editor
March 8, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE A speaker from San Francisco Suicide Prevention informed students in assembly about signs an individual is suicidal and how to respond. “What I wanted students to get out of assembly was to learn ways to help themselves or other people if an emotional crisis situation were to com...
Exchange student visits from New Orleans
Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter
March 6, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Sophomore Emily LeBlanc is experiencing the life of a Sacred Heart student in San Francisco as she stays with her exchange host, sophomore Audrey Scott, this week. “I did an exchange in London last summer and I had a really good time,” LeBlanc, who goes to Academy of the Sacred ...
Overseas for college
Gray Timberlake, Senior Reporter
February 14, 2019
Attending college overseas can give students a focused education with independence, all for a fraction of the cost of schools in the United States. “Finances of international schools is a huge draw for students,” College Counseling Director Rebecca Munda said. “The cost tends to be lower than most s...
School fined for improper sorting
Jordan Russell, Sports Editor
February 14, 2019
As 2020 draws nearer and the timer for San Francisco’s goal to become a zero waste city ticks down, Recology, the city’s waste management company is cracking down on trash sorting by fining many residents, businesses, and institutions — including Convent & Stuart Hall. “It’s not uncom...
Growing up
Gabriella Vulakh, Web Editor
February 14, 2019
Convent & Stuart Hall is seeking approval from the City of San Francisco to change the Broadway Campus’ conditional use permit to increase enrolment by 200 students. “Over the next few years we will look at our K to 12 program to see where it makes most sense to implement these additional...
More than code
Gray Timberlake and Mason Cooney
February 14, 2019
After 50 years of teaching computer science and mathematics as well as leading Convent as head of school, Convent & Stuart Hall awarded Doug Grant the Niehaus Family President’s Excellence Award and named a recently-donated endowed Chair of Computer Science after him. “Mr. Grant received the...
Assembly touches on empathy, leadership
Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor
February 1, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Students discussed the qualities of being a leader, specifically empathy and kindness, after watching two videos on the topic during assembly. The first video titled “Empathy” gave stories of patients and family members in a hospital while prompting watchers to imagine standing in others’ shoes. “It made me tear ...
IB seniors complete forensic simulations
Mason Cooney, Copy Editor
January 16, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE International Baccalaureate seniors solved simulated murder cases in class as part of an interdisciplinary science activity required by the IB Programme. “I did a lab that investigated how physics can be used to analyze blood spatter patterns in crime scenes,” senior Emma Hubbard...
Seniors serve community
Gabriella Vulakh, Web Editor
December 18, 2018
Instead of sitting in a classroom during B Period on Red Days, senior Jessica Louie leads routine stretches and reviews vowels and numbers in the memory care unit for residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's and dementia Louie says that after physical and mental exercises, she either dances with resid...
Wellness club brings finals goodies
Mason Cooney, Copy Editor
December 17, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE An abundance of Lucky Charms, muffins and hot chocolate greeted students who walked onto the Pine-Octavia Campus this morning for their A Period finals. “I got hot chocolate before my Ethics final,” junior Sofia Telfer said. “I had been feeling a little under the weather so a war...
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
August 17, 2019 • No Comments
WEB EXCLUSIVE All seniors met with college admissions representatives to work on their Common Application Essay and get a head start on any other supplements required in the...
Students take part in leadership training with alumna
August 14, 2019
Ceremony celebrates excellence in academics, service
June 5, 2019
June 5, 2019