Last year, Mrs. Schramm was seeking a way to combat Zoom fatigue with her sixth grade social studies students while, at the same time, capping off the classes’ unit on Ancient Egypt. Enter the Getty Museum Challenge, which is (and only…
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Mrs. Schramm’s students participate in The Getty Challenge
Middle School Students Participate in a Roundtable Discussion with Historic America
On Monday, November 2, Rhoades Middle School students participated in a Rhoades Foundation sponsored roundtable discussion with Historic America, “Assessing the Strength of Our Democracy on the Eve of the 2020 Election.” Dr. Watts prepped Middle School students for the roundtable by discussing the meaning of democracy, the election, and…
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Rhoades School Families Donate 100 Bags of Food to Casa de Amistad
For the past five years, middle school students from the Rhoades School in Encinitas have volunteered one Thursday a month with young students at Casa de Amistad, a non-profit organization that provides tutoring and mentoring for underserved youth in North County. Although COVID-19 suspended their monthly “Club de Tecnologia” in…
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Three Rhoades Students Selected as Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS
Three Rhoades students – current 8th grader Tejas Ravi (pictured) and recent graduates Arjun Chatha and Bhadra Rupesh – were selected as members of the Top 300 MASTERS in the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS®. Broadcom MASTERS® (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering…
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Math Madness: Keeping LS Students Challenged and Connected with Distance Learning
Since Rhoades moved to distance learning in mid-March, four of our advanced Lower School math classes have participated in an online competition known as Math Madness. They competed against other schools all around the country (and one team in Russia) in answering a…
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Rhoades School Students Excel at County Science Fair
All of the Grade 7 and 8 students from The Rhoades School qualified to compete at the 2020 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. Our 47 students earned 30 First Place Awards, 13 Second Place Awards, and four Third Place Awards. The students also received two Grand Awards, 60…
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The Rhoades School Participates in National Poetry Month
Our school may be closed for students, but through our distance learning program, our students continue to grow, learn, and produce amazing work. One of our school-wide programs in April was participation in National Poetry Month. Across grade levels, students participated in various ways by reading, analyzing, and creating original…
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Rhoades Students Make Cranes to Provide Hope During Covid-19 Crisis.
To thank all of the healthcare workers and first responders who are working tirelessly to keep us and our families safe, some Rhoades students created 1,000 paper cranes to send to our local hospitals as a symbol of good health and hope.
Rhoades School students Zoom with students in Bangladesh
On Monday, twenty-eight Rhoades middle school students met with students in Bangladesh over Zoom. The Girl Rising Club partners with a non-profit organization called Speak Up for the Poor that provides education opportunities for hundreds of girls in Bangladesh. Some of these high school girls live together in a dormitory,…
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