The music program at Quest celebrated a culminating event last week with support from renowned ‘cellist and Director of Music at American University in Washington, D.C., Nancy Jo Snider. Ms. Snider spent three days at Quest capping off a music […]
Welcome to the Middle School Newsletter! Every Monday the Middle School classroom has a council, where we can make decisions about action items and give updates about our occupations. This Monday in council, a student mentioned an art competition going […]
The goal of the Middle School math curriculum is to develop sound critical thinking and problem solving skills while preparing students to transition into a more traditional high school level math program. Students are presented with lessons appropriate with their
March 8, 2019
I hope everyone enjoyed the snow-day this Monday!
As part of our study of the Industrial Revolution, we traveled on Tuesday to Woonsocket to The Museum of Work and Culture and learned about the people that worked
Dear Quest Families,
Last month, the Quest Board of Directors presented their annual State of the School report. A significant portion of the presentation was a review of the Quest Strategic Plan for 2014 – 2020. It was exciting to
Hello and Welcome to this Week’s Newsletter! As you might recall, over the past few weeks the Middle School Classroom has been busy building remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in science. The students worked on the ROVs for nearly three weeks […]
As the Capstone Experience for our third year students, we began the Narragansett Bay study with an introduction to its physical characteristics and inhabitants. Students spent the first several months of the study learning about salinity and density, collecting fish and […]
“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.” Maria Montessori As parents are introduced to Quest, […]
Middle school students have spent the last several weeks in science studying buoyancy, density, Archimedes’ Principle, pressure, and boat design. During a Fall visit to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, students watched real footage from some of their Remotely […]