WCDS News

WCDS Steps up for Food Pantry

WCDS student Yancy Argueta helps to unload the 1,000-pounds of donated food. Courtesy of Peter McMahon, WCDS 2021, Yearbook Editor-in-Chief The Rappahannock Food Pantry is one of the many organizations the Wakefield Country Day School Leo Club partners with throughout the year. Collecting almost 1,000 pounds of food again this year, Leo Club President Owen Schuster helped

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Meet Taylor Stynes

Welcome Ms. Stynes You may have spotted Ms. Stynes on the front lawn reading a book to our youngest students under a tree at the end of the day. Ms. Stynes joined WCDS with experience ranging from Headstart in Culpeper to The Goddard School in Gainesville, as well as the Langley Children’s Center in McLean.

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Welcome Ms. Pardo

Welcome to WCDS, Ms. Pardo!   Ms. Adela Pardo joined WCDS this Fall and teaches Spanish to Middle and Upper School students. Her education spans from Mexico City, where she studied Education for two years at Universidad Panamericana before transferring to Christendom College in Front Royal, to complete her Liberal Arts degree. She brings a

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Ms. Herman’s Hive

Ms. Herman’s Hive At the beginning of the school year, Ms. Herman sat down with the 5th-grade students to talk about a new extension to science class, Outdoor Education.  The conversation gravitated towards different ways we can help the environment, and how humans have affected the planet and ecosystems by using products such as single-use

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Welcome Mary Kruck

Mrs. Mary Kruck began her career teaching Middle School English and French at New Market Middle School. After earning her Master’s Degree at George Mason University, she spent a decade as a Professor at GMU, then transitioned to private schools including Highland and Middleburg Academy. Mrs. Kruck is currently teaching AP Language, British Literature, and

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WCDS Honors Its First Responders

Wakefield Country Day School would like to honor our WCDS family members —  alumni and parents — who are out there battling on the front-line during this unprecedented COVID19 global pandemic. “On April 19, we transferred our first nursing-home patient to Winchester Hospital. The patient was coughing and had a fever; she tested positive for the

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WCDS Honors Its First Responders

Wakefield Country Day School would like to honor our WCDS family members —  alumni and parents — who are out there battling on the front-line during this unprecedented COVID19 global pandemic. Michael Loving (Third from the left) Driving like Mario Andretti, but in a 50,000 pound truck, through DC’s infamous Ward 8, is all in a

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WCDS Honors Its First Responders

Wakefield Country Day School would like to honor our WCDS family members —  alumni and parents — who are out there battling on the front-line during this unprecedented COVID19 global pandemic. Today we honor Kimberly Pankow of Flint Hill, VA.  A 2014 WCDS graduate, who after receiving dual degrees from Virginia Tech in Health & Nutrition and

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WCDS Online Seminar Series

At times like these we all need to think what we can do to help.  As a modest gesture of our appreciation to the communities we serve, we are offering the following free online programs for adults and youngsters given by our Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, and friends. -Paul Larner, Head of School Donate to WCDS

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Writing Contest Winners

Wakefield students knocked it out of the park again this year.  Samuels Public Library held their 41st annual Holiday Writing Contest and seven WCDS students had winning entries; three additional students had artwork featured within the published book which included all the winning entries. Congratulations to the following authors: 2nd Grade: Braham Prather, Third Place,

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WCDS Welcomes Adjunct Faculty

Marine Bands, museums and wildlife foundations — what do these have in common?  All were recent topics at the monthly “Expert in Their Fields” talks presented to Wakefield Country Day School students and guests.  Colonel John Bourgeois’s history of “The President’s Own,” and the playing of his conducted “Stars and Stripes Forever” impressed young and

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Alumni vs. Students

Come one, come all! Change out of those holiday pajamas and put on your athletic gear. The second annual Silver Bell Volleyball match begins at 1:00 PM, December 26th. The Jon Lee Memorial Silver Bucket Basketball game follows. Thinking about attending? (For Current Students & Alumni) Let us know!

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Perfect SAT Math Score

Gwynn Major, Manassas, earned a perfect score on the math portion of the SAT.  Her combined total was 1530.  She is the Editor-in-Chief of the WCDS Yearbook and is a published author having written an article for Prince William Living magazine about students at Osbourn High School regarding their robotics club.  She is currently taking

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WCDS to Angkor Wat

Paul Larner, Chairman of the Board of Directors of WCDS, traveled recently to Lotus House, a community-based school in rural Cambodia. It was built 10-years ago by Carol Morale, a woman from Australia, and Sophia Yan, a monk from the local village. Larner became involved with Lotus House four years ago when he traveled to

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