Below is our newest article for Weelunk, and one our school family gets first dibs to check out. We hope you’ll consider coming next Tuesday, January 24th at 6:30. Let’s Talk About Bullying. You may have noticed billboards around town recently suggesting just that. Next week, Wheeling Country Day School will again take on bullying,...Read More
At WCDS, we try to continually facilitate an environment in which students can think about ways to personally affect their community and world. Now obviously a fourth grader is not going to run for president or open a school in the ‘real world’. But here, when you’re a student preparing for a leadership role in...Read More
Our newest Head Space video features our Head of School, Liz Hofreuter, discussing how WCDS uses grades as feedback in the ongoing process of learning. ‘What does a grade mean to you?’Read More
In our latest installment of our new series, Head Space, our Head of School at WCDS, Liz Hofreuter, talks about Grandparents Day 2016, the role of grandparents in a the lives of our young students, and how it’s not about the gumdrops.Read More
As I woke last Friday for Grandparents Day to the realization that yes, the temperature drop will, in fact, directly coincide with the buckets of rain heading into the area, I found an odd smile creep across my face. Maybe I was just delirious and my body picked laughter as it’s chosen defense mechanism. I...Read More
*This post is part of a series on Annual Report updates. More in the series include A Reggio Emilia Classroom… and Mapping the World By Heart* Way back in the day (in 2012), the fifth graders here at WCDS began implementing a new and exciting program. This was something that would challenge them to actively determine their...Read More
*This post is part of a series on Annual Report updates. More in the series include Robotics is Alive at WCDS and Mapping the World By Heart* “…a hundred ways of listening, of marveling, of lovinga hundred joys for singing and understandinga hundred worlds to discovera hundred worlds to inventa hundred worlds to dream.” -from The Hundred...Read More
In the Inaugural Head Space, a new WCDS Media series devoted to continuing the conversation among our Wheeling Country Day School family. Our Head of School, Liz Hofreuter, talks about the gift of failure and the power of keeping the pencil in your child’s hand.Read More
Many apologies for the delay! But this week you’re in for a treat with a double episode and blog. Enjoy! So our first week, Joe and I (Luke again) saw a bunch of ‘handshake deals’ that made the kids feel well ahead of the game in terms of crises solved. ‘We solved seven in one...Read More
