This week, Atrium students celebrated Field Day, a long-standing school tradition. Students cycled through 13 different activities across the campus. Grouped by mixed age Constellation, children participated in chalk drawing, kush catch, parachute games, tic tac go and bubbles outside.

For twenty years, students in Jill Ferraresso’s second grade class have been doing Heroism Studies: researching a hero from American history and then embodying them in a presentation before their class. While the project has transformed over the years, Heroism Studies are a hallmark of Atrium’s second grade curriculum; children learn how history is often driven by social justice visionaries.

Led by Performing Arts Specialist Sophie Rich ‘03, fifteen Middle School students performed The NeverEnding Story twice on Wednesday: once for their fellow students, and again in the evening for families and friends.

In Kindergarten (and in Pre-Kindergarten), children are already deeply involved in the complex task of becoming readers, which will continue for many years to come. Metaphorically, some have compared the process of learning to read with learning to drive, though learning to read well takes many more years to develop. In the same way that a driver must integrate and practice many separate skills, understandings, habits and awarenesses, so readers must do the same. It requires growing attention, stamina, working memory, self-direction and self-monitoring, and a healthy amount of independence, risk-taking, and confidence.  

On May 10, Atrium held the opening of our final 35th Anniversary celebration: the Atrium Art Show. Nearly 90 people celebrated Atrium's proud artistic achievements and our shared history. 

On Saturday, April 28, more than 60 members of the Atrium community gathered for our Community Day of Service, the second of Atrium's 35th anniversary celebrations. 

Five Atrium faculty members have recently been recognized for their teaching achievement in the form of admission to institutes, partnerships and fellowships run by highly respected organizations.

By noticing and wondering, Originators are able to understand more about the world around them while building fundamental skills for future science learning.

In mid-March, fifth to eighth grade girls launched Girls' Voices Theatre Club, specifically designed to foster girls' voices and identities.

Wonder is this year's theme for students and faculty at Atrium, and the lessons happening at school right now illustrate how wonder is all around us.

First graders are very busy right now with a project that combines their mathematics and science curricula with hands-on experience: building window boxes. 

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Each of Atrium's students placed in the top 10 in their division in at least one of their events at the Massachusetts Science Olympiad, and even won the school's first gold medal. 

On February 28, Atrium screened the movie Angst for Middle Schoolers and their parents. 

Atrium held its Freedom & Justice Assembly, which celebrates the efforts of the heroes who fight for social justice and equality around the world through song and poetry.

Atrium third graders recently finished a three-week pilot program with Parts and Crafts, a makerspace in Somerville that encourages creativity combined with experimentation. 

Nadlly, an Atrium seventh grader, won first prize in the Crescendo International Music Competition at Carnegie Hall, competing against musicians from across the Northeast as well as Canada, Germany, Korea, Austria, and Russia.

As part of their social justice curriculum, second and third graders spent a day volunteering at Cradles to Crayons in Brighton. 

Rachel Morrison '90 has become the first woman in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Cinematography for her work on Mudbound.

On January 6, Atrium hosted our first-ever Film Festival in celebration of our 35th anniversary.