GA News

There are critical skills and life lessons to be gained through sports, says GA head Molly King.

Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, will deliver the graduation address at Greenwich Academy’s 193rd commencement on Thursday, May 21.

Bobby Walker, Jr. joins Greenwich Academy as its first Assistant Head of School for Student and Community Life.

Op-Ed writer charges upper school students with nothing less than transforming American culture.

Each year, just before Thanksgiving, Raether Athletic Center hums with excitement.

What do a Norwegian toilet cleaning solution, a Haitian margarine, and a South Korean shampoo all have in common?

For a half day each fall, the GA Symposium offers the Upper School community the opportunity to examine a topic of national or global impact at a deeper level and from multiple perspectives. It’s fitting that in its 10th anniversary year, it focused on the centennial of American women securing their right to vote. 

When the Daedalus editorial team learned the Upper School was scheduled to have two author visits in one week, it got them thinking—GA provides its students so many opportunities to pursue their interests in literature and writing, why not find a way to celebrate that as a community?

Greenwich Academy’s Group V/VI Newbery Book Club welcomed a special guest last week: Dr. Padma Venkatraman, author of The Bridge Home, one of the novels on the club’s reading list.

On Tuesday evening, students, alumnae, parents, and past parents gathered for the second panel in the Leading the Way speaker series, titled “Unpacking Entrepreneurship: Mindset, Motivation & Ingenuity.”

Citizenship, friendship, and school spirit are the hallmarks of the Middle School’s annual Community Service Day. 

Girls in PC through Group II spent last week’s assembly time enjoying a menagerie that included everything from a bald eagle to a blue whale. 

Last Wednesday the Noble Room was packed with GA and Brunswick students opting to forgo eating lunch with friends and instead hear from “Miss Polly” Sheppard and Rose Simmons, two members of Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, SC.

On September 11, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 65th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

GA girls don’t just head back to school, they celebrate it. And that celebration is led by the senior class.