Seniors attend college workshop
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
August 17, 2019
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 college application process. “It was very helpful to have these representatives because we got to learn about the admissi...
Community engages in Reconciliation service
Amy Phipps, Reporter
April 9, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Students gathered for Reconciliation service in the Little Theater during Collab today. “I think what’s important about Reconciliation is that it is about forgiveness, and that often gets lost,” Egan said. “One of the most challenging acts of kindness that you can give to y...
Freshmen study world religions
Olivia Rounsaville, Reporter
January 31, 2019
WEB EXCLUSIVE Freshmen began a unit on Confucianism and Taoism this week in their World Religions class. They have also been studying Buddhism, Sikhism and Hinduism this semester. “I think that in a world that is diverse and where people’s religions are huge parts of their identity, knowing a...
All politics are local
Caroline Thompson, Senior Reporter
December 18, 2018
When Ellie Miller Hall, ’07 left Convent High School 11 years ago for college on the East Coast, she had no idea she would one day return to her hometown of San Francisco to help build the future of the City. Miller Hall has been working as a legislative aide for District 2 supervisor Catherine...
Juniors discuss race and its impact within community
Caroline Thompson, Senior Reporter
November 27, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE Ten Convent & Stuart Hall juniors met during Collab today to discuss race and white privilege with ethics teacher Michael Campos and People of Color Student Union advisor Allyson Maebert. The discussion, open to all juniors in Campos’ ethics class, focused on an assembly put o...
Winter sports commence
Madeline Thiara, Reporter
October 30, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE While fall sports volleyball and cross-country continue into championships, athletes began winter sports season yesterday with tryouts and preseason for soccer, basketball and wrestling. “Soccer has been the most popular winter sport in past years,” Athletics Director Elena DeSantis sa...
Día de los Muertos chapel honors loved ones
Amy Phipps, Reporter
October 29, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE Students gathered in the Chapel today to celebrate the Mexican holiday — Día de los Muertos — and to honor dead family members and loved ones. “It is a rich tradition, not only in Mexico, but in the United States and Latin America,” theology teacher Bryan Lorentz said. “T...
Leading by example
Jordan Russell, Sports Editor
September 27, 2018
Varsity tennis walked onto the courts this season with a new head coach who is both an alumna and a former Convent tennis player. “Tennis is my family’s sport so I’ve played since I was three,” Erin Minuth ’11 said. “I took lessons in elementary, middle and high school. Once I got ol...
Girls lacrosse team plays first game
Sophia Aeby, Reporter
April 26, 2018
The newly formed Convent lacrosse team ended their first season with a scrimmage victory against Bay High School’s JV team. The lacrosse team was added as a spring sport this year and will become a varsity team next year. “We practice two days a week and people have been pretty consistent showing up,”...
Presentation on climate change
Caroline Thompson, Reporter
April 23, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE George Gigounas, a representative from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gave a presentation about climate change in Syufy Theatre this morning in honor of Earth Day. Adopted by most of the world in 1992, the UNFCCC aims to manage the levels of greenhouse gases i...
Students make posters for state championships
Gabriella Vulakh, Senior Reporter
March 21, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE Students spent lunch today creating posters for Stuart Hall’s basketball team’s state championship game against View Park Preparatory High School this Friday. High students, teachers, faculty and students from Convent Elementary and Stuart Hall for Boys who were admitted early decisi...
Students choose classes for next year
Caroline Thompson, Reporter
February 27, 2018
WEB EXCLUSIVE The courses for the 2018-2019 school year were released in early February, and students were allowed to begin registering for classes on February 15. “It took a long time for me to finalize my course requests, especially when it came to deciding which level I wanted to take of each subject,...
Adele Bonomi, Sports Editor
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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...
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