Wax Museum: Director’s Note May 15, 2025 This year’s spring musical, “Wax Museum,” marked the first theatrical production in the new Qianxun Performing Arts Center. The original IMS student production electrified audiences during its two-night run. It has set a new precedent for the caliber of our… Read More
IMS Eco Art & Writing Contest Winners May 1, 2025 Arts, Sustainability The ‘Mountain, Pond, Marsh and Star,’ IMS’ Eco Art and Writing contest spans the month of April to celebrate our community’s interdisciplinary connection to the natural world for Earth Month. Members of the IMS Community, including students, faculty, staff, and parents, were… Read More
Earth Day Celebrations April 28, 2025 Academics, Sustainability This Earth Day, our Lower Campus came alive with hands-on learning, environmental stewardship, and inter-campus collaboration. Under the guidance of Ms. Friel, students from the Mountain Sustainability Council, the Sustainability Elective class, and other student volunteers with a passion for… Read More
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
