With almost a month of classes under their belts, students and faculty at the School and College have settled into the new routines in place for in-person instruction—sanitizing hands, wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and so on. While these protocols alter the learning experience, they do not define it. Students ...
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Robotics, software engineering, mechanics, circuitry, digital media arts. This reads like a college course catalog, but peer over the large monitor in one of the two new School IDEA Labs and you’ll find a fourth grader heavily focused on animating her digitally drawn car. Across the lab, her classmate is ...
One week after winter break, friends and family gathered in the Lower School gym to watch Middle School students perform Frozen Jr. The sold-out production, which enthralled the audience, was all the more incredible because students had put it together in just one week of intense work, dubbed “Theatre Week.” ...
On a chilly evening in late November, Middle School students and their families gathered in the Middle School Center to recognize the high-quality work students had accomplished throughout the semester. Projects from all subjects—science, social studies, mathematics, language arts, integrated studies, and Spanish—adorned the walls, tables, and parts of the ...
In a 3–2 comeback victory, the varsity boys’ soccer team clinched the Class 1 State Championship against St. Paul Lutheran of Concordia. Their first championship since 2015, it was sweeter than ever in light of last year’s loss during penalty kicks.
Refusing to be rattled by St. Paul getting ...
This communication from Principia’s Board of Trustees is to announce a new pilot admissions program for exploring how we can effectively “enlarge the tent” of Principia to better fulfill our mission in today’s world. We wanted to share with the Principia community the context and rationale of our decision. ...
In the last two days of May—and with a nod to the school’s founding in 1898—Principia launched a 1,898-minute fundraising campaign highlighting our exceptional faculty and staff over the years. Leading up to the campaign, alumni shared their gratitude for the lasting impact Principia faculty and staff have had on ...
Principia School hosted its second annual BioBlitz on May 10 and 11. Despite cool and sometimes-wet weather, more than 250 school students from the St. Louis area—along with many families and community members—explored portions of Principia School’s 300+ acres of oak-hickory forest, prairie, ponds, and creek beds in order to ...
Eighth graders at Principia and St. Louis Catholic Academy partnered on service projects benefiting each other's school. See them in action!
At the start of this semester, Middle School students put on a polished performance of Aladdin, Jr.— after only one week of intensive rehearsal, set-building, costume design, and learning sound and light tech! See highlights of their terrific talent—and teamwork.
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