School & Community News
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Alumni Update: Alex Wilder ’08
By Alex Wilder After Ashwood, I did a year at Camden-Rockport Middle School before attending high school at Camden Hills. I loved my time at CHRHS, where I participated in the choral program, the musicals, and the nordic ski team. I did my undergraduate degree in Musical Studies at Oberlin College, after which I returned…
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A Little Fun in Language Arts
Students in the Writing Club revisited our study of character traits by tagging each other with positive character traits. Left to right: Clementine, Frances, Oliver, Vivian, and Ceri. Giggles abounded and many kind compliments were given!
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Students Participate in Library Poetry Contest in Celebration of National Poetry Month
Several Ashwood upper grades students recently submitted original poems to the Rockland Public Library’s “Anything Goes” Poetry Contest in celebration of National Poetry Month 2021. We’re proud to announce that, of the three finalists selected in the under 13 category, all three are from Ashwood! While the finalists’ poems can be found on the library’s…
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Alumni Spotlight: Alec Donoso ’02
I am currently serving as an officer in the US Navy, and I have just been stationed in DC, after finishing up a three year tour assigned to a Whidbey Island based Navy squadron. While there I had the chance to deploy to the Mediterranian, the Middle East, and the western Pacific.
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Brianna Shepard ’00
Brianna Shepard (class of ’00) was in Maine recently, and stopped by Ashwood to visit EC Teacher Marianne Bockli and take a walk around the campus. She really enjoyed showing her husband Tim the school and fondly remembering her time there as a student. Brianna is currently spending winters in Colorado where she works as…
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They Float!
As part of their Waterways/Ways of Water block, Class 1-3 made tiny canoes out of beeswax. Today, they sent them off for their first voyage on the stream. They really float! Science in action.
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Alumni Update: Emma Berryman-Moore ’10
I graduated from Ashwood in 2010, which feels impossibly long ago! I attended Camden Hills Regional High School and graduated in 2014, before moving on to the University of New Hampshire, where I graduated summa cum laude with a dual-degree in environmental economics and international affairs with dual minors in political science and French. While…
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Off on a Tangent
The snow is gone, and the plow stakes are no longer needed. It was the perfect opportunity for Class 4-8 to do a little campus clean up while trying out their recent lessons on tangents by building a model of Leonardo d Vinci’s fastenerless bridge.
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Ocean Waves by Class 1-3
Can’t you just hear the great waves crashing and sighing? And do these paintings remind you of something? See below.
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More Mandala
For me, school days at Ashwood have been a sweet refuge from all of the disruptions of the past year. Nowhere has this more evident than in art class each week, when the upper grades students settle in and begin working on their mandalas. A hush quickly settles over the room. Gradually, as the students…