Greenwich Country Day School - Spire Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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and Mistresses R Jane Kerrin Moffat, Cornelia St. John Mrs. Paul B. Howard Third W Gfddglf - A Mrs. John H. Burnes Mrs. Sidney H. 'fMagee Remedial Reading Remedial Reading 43

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Middle School Masters Welmar S. Bostder, Jonathan A. Woodhall, Charles A. Reynolds Fourth Grade . 1 . Q-Q t . ... ,4-. vt W. , . Q W Q .9 Q K Q a ll . ew it E 2 .r tt We ., , ,sl x 'w 6 v 1 4? i W 1 at Q X Q ,W t Ai if Q w 4 Q X Q fu vsrwgt t 11 t. at Q ,. gg-V ,.v. . , ,... .':. 1 1-f M-ev sff'5?4f w :. .'.:1-:V-Q:-:ta.151:I 5 ' f F V tker gsg r .:I'2r::i.f -3, . - T aww' ,+ tha may X Give e Edward L. Hicks, III David Griswold Sixth Grade Sixth Grade W. P. Vance Luedeke George L. Rives, Arthur E. Grant, Walter G. Neale, Jr Sixth Grade Fifth Grade 42

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Few breathers for Middle Schoolers 1 l w It's work time . . . ortplay time . . . or time to go home. Two new teachers greeted the Middle School students this fall: Mr. Woodhall in the fourth grade, and Miss St. John in the third. Mrs. Trum- ble, also new to GCDS and an apprentice teach- er, joined Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Burnes in the remedial department. An 8:20 chapel for the third through sixth grades begins the day. A brief assembly program follows chapel, and at 8:50 classes begin. One exception to this schedule occurs to allow for Friday plays. These assemblies start at 9:00 a.m. This change in schedule was brought about so that the children do not have to come to school early to prepare for the performances. The first play of the year, given by Mr. Griswold's class, showed the humor behind the financing of Col- umbus' voyage. Equally fine performances by other grades followed at bi-weekly intervals throughout the year. There are three classrooms in each grade, and the boys and girls receive most of their instruc- tion from their homeroom teacher. Reading and, in some cases, arithmetic sections are grouped according to ability and performance, otherwise the regular classroom grouping is on a hetero- geneous basis. Art, music, printing and shop classes are also an important part of this basic schedule, and stu- dents also have one period each day in which to start work on their flood of daily homework. All grades now have annotated reading lists which help the student immeasurably in choosing books for leisure reading. The audio-visual de- partment, under Mr. Griswold, adds to the pleas- ure of history, geography and science with its collection of over three hundred film strips. As always, the children of the Middle School participated in the annual clothing drive for chil- dren of needy countries and in the UNICEF and Red Cross drives. The children also police the school grounds and care for their homerooms. While more than 250 students are currently enrolled in this department of Country Day, the Middle School has retained the flavor of the traditional homeroom type of school, with em- phasis on the language and arithmetic skills.