March 22-28, 2025

It was another big week of completing things here at Tandem. The Upper School cast of Mamma Mia! delivered a great show to audiences last weekend. What a treat! Check out photos from the show below. Our donations to the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank School Drive - 285 pounds total - were delivered. Thanks to all who contributed. Auditions for the spring One Act Play Festival were held and the plays are being cast. We hosted a screening of the film Citizen George as part of our Quaker programming - thanks to all who attended. Today there was a Clothing Swap in the Pavilion - students bring clothes to donate and go home with upcycled items. Lost and Found items got claimed. There were games and gorgeous spring weather in abundance this week and all are delighted that Spring Break is upon us!

In the Middle School, our GEM teams (Girls Excelling in Math) did well in their competition last weekend (details and photos below). 5th graders enjoyed a visit today from Tandem parent Adam Jackson, who spoke about his Cherokee heritage and what being an enrolled member means to him. 6th graders are creating travel logs for a trip along the Hajj Trail. 7th and 8th graders completed their March Madness Vocab tournament. 8th graders are reading and annotating their chosen Holocaust-themed book, picking from The Book Thief, The Diary of Anne Frank, or The Boy on the Wooden Box. 

In the Upper School, 9th graders are about to begin their TED Talk culminating project - a 2 to 5-minute video they create to answer the question ‘what is the meaning of life?’. 10th graders continue their study of the British Empire and are putting the very final touches on their Sophomore Seminar projects and narratives. Seniors are letting out a collective sigh at the end of two weeks of presenting their Senior Projects. Well done, seniors! Our Science Olympiad team competes in the state tournament at UVA tomorrow - see details below.