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blast tumbling on mats, bouncing on trampolines, twirling through the air on trapezes, hanging from hoops, and climbing ropes. e goal of the semester- long "Performing Arts Workshop" is to get students comfortable with moving their bodies through space in a controlled manner, and this field trip gave them a chance to really move through space in ways that we can't replicate on campus. by Rebecca Damas, Director of Middle School 6th grade community service & field trips T R E V O R T R A N S L AT E S : Not wanting to "wind down" after having so recently "wound up," we held a full day of field trips and community service with our 6th graders on Wednesday, June 8th, just two days before the last day of school. e kernel of this idea came from our Performing Arts department. Looking for ways to maintain students' enthusiasm about performing arts and music, which had been under the heaviest COVID-related restrictions the past two years, Jennifer Rathbone (Grades 9–12 Performing Arts Teacher, Production Manager, and then Class of 2025 Dean) and Emily Ellis (Grades 6–8 Performing Arts Teacher) proposed that the 6th graders in this spring's "Performing Arts Workshop" attend a program at STREB, an "extreme action" choreography group and program provider founded by Elizabeth Streb, a MacArthur Genius Grant winner. e Middle School had taken its inaugural field trip to STREB in the fall of 2019, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to reconnect with the organization. Our students had an absolute Making up for lost time was this spring's hallmark as we resumed our typical school year activities: a live MiniTerm musical on stage without masks, lunch in the cafeteria, assemblies in the auditorium, and field trips and community service.

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