Recently grade 3 students visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This visit supports a case study of the historic Western African Kingdom of Benin. This is a comparative study alongside explorations of the Lenni-Lenape of North America and later the Dutch in Europe from the 15th through 17th centuries.

Upper division social studies teacher Duane Bailey-Castro is currently one of the featured artists at the new Bronx Children’s Museum.

Upper division social studies teacher Duane Bailey-Castro is currently one of the featured artists at the new Bronx Children’s Museum.

One of the primary goals of technology classes at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's is to integrate technology instruction into the classroom curriculum. The second grade does a year-long study of the seven continents, their geography, native animals as well as the cultures of the people who live there. Ms. Blake has aligned her curriculum to include technologies from around the world.

There are many different people who help students become lifelong readers. A child’s parents, teachers, and peers all contribute to that child’s life of reading through bedtime stories, the first book read independently, conversations about favorite books, and other milestones on the journey to shaping a life-long love of literature. But one very important step in the life of a young reader happens right here in the C. V. Starr Library at St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s.

Rehearsals are in full swing as seventh and eighth graders prepare for their upcoming performance of A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of the classic science fiction novel written by former faculty member, Madeleine L’Engle.