English and creative writing teacher Haley Campbell and the Class of 2017 would like to share a project that has been a long time coming! Some of you may have even heard about the “secret project” that the students were working on…
Colorful, handmade books, authored and illustrated by Mount Madonna School (MMS) students will be on display May 6 at the 34th annual Student Authors’ Fair at Capitola Mall in Capitola. The event will feature hundreds of books created by students from throughout…
This winter the high school participated in Yes! Magazine’s National Student Writing Competition. There were six winners chosen from 2,000 submissions, and two of the winners are part of our community. Mara Peruzzi was one of three Powerful Voice Winners. Imogen Cockrum…
From the year of the rooster to the Mayan calendar, Ukrainian pierogies to hip hop dance, folk tales, belly dancing and classical ballet, all have impacted America’s unique “melting pot.” It’s this melting pot – and the myriad cultures that contribute to our…
We hope you had the chance to attend the powerful Creative Writing Reading this past week! Mount Madonna’s talented high school students shared an impressive array of humorous, reflective and poignant literary works. Huge thanks to English and Creative Writing teacher teacher…
In addition to time spent in The Factory, Mount Madonna School (MMS) makers’ space, elementary students at MMS also engage in wide variety of hands-on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) projects in their own classrooms on a regular basis. One…
In the documentary The Music of Strangers, musician Yo-Yo Ma says, “I’m always trying to figure out at some level who I am and how I fit in the world, which I think is something that I share with seven billion other people.”…
Jill VanGee, from the Santa Cruz Symphony, visited Mount Madonna School’s fourth and fifth grade students to educate them on the families of the orchestra and, in particular, the intricacies and unique qualities of the violin and viola. VanGee demonstrated different techniques associated with…
At the annual Winter Concert on December 16, students preschool to fifth grade demonstrated creative self-expression through the arts. Students created visual art work such as paintings, drawings, wooden holiday houses, and moral hero bottle dolls. They sang songs from a variety of…
Creativity with textile arts is a hallmark of Isa Stead, Mount Madonna School (MMS) parent, elementary science lab assistant and first grade dance teacher. In addition to sewing, dyeing fabric, felting wool, and spinning yarn, Stead creates weavings, small and large scale,…
