February 11th Open House

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Please join us on Sunday, February 11th from 11:30-2:00 PM for our Open House. Learn more about our programs, meet current community members, and see firsthand how a Mooreland education combines purposeful, joyful, and expansive learning with 21st century skills in a small class setting.

Please don't hesitate to call us (860)223-6428 or email us mhsfrontoffice@mooreland.org if you have any questions. We can't wait to show you around! 

Mooreland Hill School Day at Good Cause Gifts

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Head over to Good Cause Gifts (384 Main Street, Berlin) on Wednesday, December 6th from 10:00am-7:00pm to shop and don’t forget to mention Mooreland Hill School for
20% of the sales to go directly to us. It's a wonderful local shop that has fine gifts and accessories including: women's clothing, jewelry, hand bags, scarves, Lilly Pulitzer, Kate Spade, and more! The holidays are just around the corner! 

MHS Trivia Night!

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Let’s have some fall fun!
Trivia Night: Thursday, November 9th 6:30pm – 9pm
Doors open at 6:30pm for table set-up trivia to start promptly @ 7pm

#1: Teams of up to eight people who know obscure facts and spew random minutiae are formed. As they say, the more the merrier! This is an incredible fun night that doubles as a fundraiser.

#2: Team names are created and represent the theme in which the team table will be decorated. The most creatively decorated table wins a COVETED prize. If you choose to be fuddy duddies and not decorate, that is ok, but , your table will look sadly sparse. Most tables are 60” round. Should your team be assigned a different shape/size, you will be informed.

#3: In celebration of fall, there will be souvenirs to purchase near the Bartender and the Concession Stand!! In addition to the traditional 50/50 Raffle, there will also be a Bottle Raffle.

#4: Team names and payment of $150.00 per team must be submitted by FRIDAY, October 27th to the MHS Front Office. (checks made out to MHSPA)

#5: First, second and third prizes for the winning teams will be gift cards to FINE restaurants in the area.

#6: The aforementioned Concession Stand will offer a variety of munchies for sale, including Cheese Trays and Guacamole/Salsa and Chips.

Past years were so much fun...please join us!

Mums the Word!

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Mooreland Hill School
2017 Fall Plant Sale

Large 9” Pots

Beautiful Colors:
Burgundy / Red    Orange / Bronze
Pink / Purple    Yellow    White

$8.00 each

Support Your School – Support Your Community

Flowers from the beautiful Karabin Farms

Order forms and money due by Friday September 16th
CLICK HERE to download an order form

Plants will be delivered to Mooreland Hill
Week of September 19th (exact date TBD)

Checks payable to: Mooreland Hill PA

Questions can be emailed to
Jamie Curley at papresident@mooreland.org

2017 Summer Reading

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The faculty sat down this year to talk about summer reading, its purpose, and our goals around it. We realized that we want students to learn to love reading, not look at it as a chore. While we know many of students do LOVE reading (and we LOVE that), others haven’t yet found the joy in sitting down and reading a good book. Because of that, we have decided to revamp our summer reading program at Mooreland. For part one of the summer reading requirement, we ask everyone (faculty and students alike) to read The Poet’s Dog by Patricia MacLachlan. When we get back to school, we will spend some time during the first week discussing the book in our individual classes as well as in multi-grade book groups.

Part two of summer reading will be free reads. We are asking all students to read the required summer reading book, and at least four other books. Students are not required to write book reports about each book, instead we are asking them to bring in the titles of the books they read with a short (3-4 sentence) review. At the beginning of the school year we are going to create an all school book list on one of our bulletin boards that we will add to throughout the year. Under each student’s name, the books they read over the summer (and those they read outside of school over the school year), along with their short review will be posted for everyone to see. That way we can all share in the joys of reading together - bonding over reading the same titles, asking friends more about a book they read, or deciding to read their next book together!

CLICK HERE and you will find a list of suggested books put together by the faculty. There are so many wonderful books out there, and we couldn’t put them all on our list, so please feel free to choose a book or multiple books on your own. All book descriptions come from Amazon. We can’t wait to see what we’ll add to this list once the school year begins!

Congratulations, Benjamin Czuprinski '13!

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Congratulations to Benjamin Czuprinski '13 on being named the salutatorian of the Class of 2017 at St. Paul Catholic High School. Benjamin will be attending Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y in the fall. There is a wonderful article about Benjamin's accomplishments in the Bristol Press. CLICK HERE to read all about Benjamin. Congratulations, Benjamin, from your Mooreland Hill School family! 

All School Trip!

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On Thursday, May 4th the whole school will head down to the CT shore for a day of fun and learning. The schedule for the day is as follows:

7:45am
Depart school on bus

9:00am - 12:00pm
Upper Grades Fields of Fire Adventure (high ropes and zip lines)
Lower Grades: Mystic Aquarium

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunchtime for all.

1:15pm - 2:15pm
Upper Grades: Glass blowing tour at the studio of Jeffrey P'an CLICK HERE for more information about his work
Lower Grades: Stonington Nature Center Tour

2:30pm - 5:00pm
Upper Grades: Mystic Seaport
Lower Grades: Ice cream and back to MHS by 4:00

5:15pm - 6:15pm
Dinner Out

7:15pm - 7:30pm
Return to School

It should be a GREAT day! Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the trip. We're really looking forward to it!

Vassar College Names Dr. Elizabeth Howe Bradley '77 Eleventh President

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The entire Mooreland Hill School community congratulates Dr. Elizabeth Howe Bradley '77, the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy at Yale University and a visionary global health scholar, on being elected the eleventh president of Vassar College. 

From Vassar College's announcement, "Over her more than 20 years at Yale, Bradley has garnered deep experience with residential college life as Head of Branford College, one of the university’s largest residential colleges for undergraduates, and broad leadership experience as the Director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and as founder and Faculty Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute." To read the entire announcement, please CLICK HERE. Dr. Bradley's position was also announced in the New York Times.