Falcon Report: Spring Sports Begin April 3, 2025 With spring sports fully underway and rosters finalized, this week has seen our teams begin their competition schedules.Varsity Tennis hosted Kent on Wednesday, falling 5-4 in a closely contested match. The team is looking to build on last year’s successful… Read More
IMS Students’ Groundbreaking Research Achieves Top Honors at Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair April 1, 2025 Academics, In the News The 2025 Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair was held this past month with over a hundred middle school and high school teams from across the state gathering to showcase their research. The statewide fair is judged by… Read More
Connecting Literature to Lived Experience March 11, 2025 Academics, In the Classroom “I’m going to share things with you that my father couldn’t share for 40 years of his life.” Health and Wellness teacher Nora Yasumura was addressing the eighth grade students, who had been reading Julie Otsuka’s historical fiction When the… Read More
Winter 2025 Sports Awards March 5, 2025 Every season, we celebrate the accomplishments of our athletes with a gathering on the Upper Campus. Players share speeches and highlights from the season, and coaches give awards to individual athletes for their sportsmanship and effort.Certificates for Most Valuable Player… Read More
A Summit to Combat Climate Anxiety February 26, 2025 Academics, Faculty and Staff, Life Through Service, Sustainability “Students are feeling a lot of climate anxiety right now” expressed Alex Weyerhauser, IMS Science and English teacher. “That’s why this summit was so important. It gave us and other educators tools to help students channel that anxiety into something… Read More
12 Angry Men: Director’s Note February 20, 2025 This winter, Indian Mountain School’s Theater Company endeavored to do something new – a staged reading with only a few short weeks of rehearsal, to be mounted in the round as the last production in the old Assembly Hall before… Read More
CLASS Essay Contest Winners February 14, 2025 Every year, over a thousand students from across the country compete in the Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools (CLASS) Essay Contest. We are thrilled to announce that of those more than a thousand students, IMS had five… Read More
U.S. Middle School Team Squash Champions February 10, 2025 On January 30, five members of our varsity Squash Team traveled to Philadelphia to compete in the 2025 U.S. Middle School Championships Tournament. Our team had a huge task in front of them that weekend, with eighty-six middle school programs… Read More
Notes From Simon’s Rock Field Station January 30, 2025 Academics, Life Through Service, Sustainability One month ago, eleven ninth graders returned from the island of Montserrat after an incredible ten-day sustainability program. Tom Stewart logged his reflections here. Field Notes from Tom StewartIMS Director of Sustainability Programming & Initiatives Date: 2024-12-06… Read More
Then and Now at IMS: Catherine Quaintance ’14 December 20, 2024 Alumni, Faculty and Staff After graduating IMS in 2014, Catherine Quaintance attended Berkshire School and then graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics. Ten years later she found herself back in the halls of IMS, this time as… Read More
