Students worked hard all semester with rehearsals and successfully performed following the School's Covid guidelines of masking. Please watch the entire performance, directed by Riya Sahasrabudhe here.
Video and Text of a talk by Dr. Bennett that was shared with students in Morning Meetings during the week of September 21-25 in the Middle and Upper School
Good morning students. I'm very pleased to be able to talk with you for a few minutes about the upcoming presidential election. To start, I'd like to just note what I won't be doing in this talk.
The annual Senior Retreat was held at Snowbird last Monday (9/21). The Class of 2021 was able to visit with Andrew Menke, our Head of School before boarding buses to go up Little Cottonwood Canyon. He asked them to embrace two words as they approach this final chapter of their Waterford journey - courage and grace.
As shared during a Middle and Upper School Assembly on September 11, 2020
My mother was in ninth grade walking to her best friend, Susan’s house along the cookie cutter suburban streets of her neighborhood. If it had been a year earlier, she would have been wearing black mary-jane shoes and a burgundy plaid dress, but she was in high school now. Public school, so she wore pants. A man walked out the front door of his house house as she passed and told her the news.
Although some things look different this year - we are wearing masks, students are sitting slightly further from each other, and we are even more mindful of having clean hands than ever before - we have seen, in these first few days, the beauty and joy of learning together again. We are grateful to have teachers and students back on campus, both online and in-person. Enjoy this video, narrated by Dr. Melanie Battistone, Lower School Head and Dr. Brandon Bennett, Associate Head of School.
Below is an excerpt from Head of School, Andrew Menke's address to all faculty, staff and students of Waterford School on the First Friday of the year.
Excerpt taken from an All School Opening Faculty Meeting Talk by Nancy Nebeker, Dean of Students
Good morning to everyone - especially to the newest among us. We look forward to getting to know you in the coming days. It is so good to be back - even in this virtual gathering.
I am 100% certain that I never “expected” to be asked to speak about building community while wearing a mask. But 2020 has thrown the “expected” out the window and here I am sharing some thoughts about wearing a mask at school as we look to the start of this new school year.
As written by Lisa Potter, science writer, University of Utah:
We are only a few short days away from the start of the 2020-21 school year and we are beyond excited to see you all!
Waterford's Head of School, Andrew Menke, shares this video message to welcome you back to our historic year ahead. Monday can't come soon enough!
