This afternoon, a group of Gateway sophomores hosted a holiday party for the fifth grade students at Sarah Greenwood K-8 School in Dorchester. The Greenwood and Gateway students enjoyed decorating sugar cookies, sparkly snowflakes, and snazzy New Year's party hats for the holiday season. Thank you to Ms. Washington for allowing us to celebrate the holidays with your Grade 5 students and teachers!
(You might be wondering, "Where are the Greenwood students?" We do not post any student's photo online without written permission from a parent or guardian. This explains why the fourth photo above is of our Gateway group's "cookie afterparty"!)
12/21 Holiday Party at Sarah Greenwood K-8
Trip to Tufts University 12/8
On Wednesday, 33 Gateway sophomores and juniors were hosted by the admissions office of Tufts University in Medford, MA. Upon our arrival, our group engaged in a college admissions discussion with Mr. Walker Coppedge, the Tufts admissions officer in charge of the Boston region. Two Tufts undergraduate students then led us on a brisk tour of some of the main campus buildings, before leading us to our free dinner in one of Tufts' undergraduate dining halls.
Despite the seasonably low temperatures, we enjoyed a very warm welcome by Tufts University. Thanks to Ms. Style and Mr. Coppedge for arranging this special opportunity for our students!
Good Luck Charms for our Seniors
At today's Gateway Honors Assembly and Thanksgiving Celebration, our sophomores honored our senior students who have submitted early college applications, by presenting them with good-luck gifts consisting of handmade college pennants and smiley-face stress balls.
I am especially grateful to our cheerful crew of sophomores who crafted the pennants with great care and creativity - all 34 of them! Don't they look amazing?
Making Blackberry-Powered Solar Cells
On November 18, Mrs. Drurey's Chemistry Honors class participated in a daylong visit by scientists from Beyond Benign, a green chemistry education nonprofit based in Wilmington, MA. Our Gateway 10th grade students undertook an experiment in which they built small solar cells sensitized by the dye of blackberry juice. And they worked (albeit on a small scale)!
Thank you to Mrs. Drurey and the staff of Beyond Benign for providing our students with such a cool laboratory experience!
Addressing Current Events in SAT Prep - Turtle Edition
In another SAT Prep weekly foray into current events, we learned about ordinary citizens who have invested extraordinary efforts into protecting the breeding grounds of sea turtles. The creative wrap-up to this reading activity was a timed challenge for our students to master a moderately difficult origami turtle design. It was not so easy, but a number of our students successfully hatched their origami turtles!
