Recent News
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Join Us for Our Fourth Annual Bees for BARCS
We are pleased to announce our annual school-wide fundraiser to support the Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter (BARCS), by creating a Bees for BARCS team to represent Calvert School on October 26 at BARCStoberfest in Patterson Park. We hope you can join us in supporting this meaningful student-led initiative to help a great organization. Each year, BARCS cares for 12,000 animals in the Baltimore area by providing shelter and medical care.Read More -
Lower School Character Education is now Pillars
Our Lower School Character Education class has a new name, Pillars. Pillars represents the emphasis placed on the four Calvert Pillars of Respect, Compassion, Honor, and Responsibility. These words, like real pillars or columns, ground us as well as hold us up. While they are "big" words, our Lower School students know responsibility as recycling, respect as welcoming new students in the classroom, honor as apologizing when one says something hurtful, and compassion as being a caring friend. We break these words down and then open them up to our young learners.Read More -
Kicking Off the 2019-20 Calvert Fund
Over 80 Calvert Fund volunteers gathered at 2 Oak Place on Tuesday evening to kick off the 2019-2020 Calvert Fund. This annual event serves as an opportunity to thank our dedicated volunteers for their leadership, generosity, and advocacy.Read More -
An Exciting Year Ahead for Our Middle School Hives Program
Our Middle School hives are buzzing! Last week, Hives were revealed for our Fifth Graders and new Sixth Grade students as they were welcomed into their new family. The hives program has an exciting agenda for this upcoming year for our Middle School students.Read More -
Calvert's Alumni Authors
Calvert School’s alumni community boasts many successful authors whose articles, books, screenplays, and other works cover a diverse range of topics and interests. The early foundation received at Calvert provided these writers with the skills necessary to produce notable content. It is no surprise that the authors, poets, playwrights, journalists, essayists, memoirists, and novelists who attended Calvert first have been among the most well-known writers in America.Read More -
A New Leadership Certificate Program in our Middle School
Calvert School is proud to announce the launch of our Leadership Certificate for our Seventh and Eighth Grade students. Sponsored by The Institute for Leadership & Purpose, the Leadership Certificate provides an opportunity for interested students to engage in a deeper learning experience over their final two years at Calvert. Elements of this new program include weekly meetings, guest speakers, cornerstone projects, and a leadership portfolio. Last spring, thirty-two Sixth Grade students were accepted into the certificate program, and this fall they have entered as our inaugural, Seventh Grade cohort.Read More -
Summer Campus Improvements
While students and faculty were enjoying their summer breaks, our campus received a few upgrades. The Lower School lobby has been restored to honor its original design. Our Fifth and Sixth Agers will enjoy a new space-themed playground, and our Middle School students now have access to a dedicated writing space to hone their writing skills.Read More -
Space Exploration and Engineering with the Calvert/Quest Summer Camp
Read MoreThis summer, Calvert continued our partnership with Hamilton Elementary/Middle School by hosting the Calvert/Quest MGP Summer Camp. This Middle Grades Partnership (MGP) program forges connections between public and private school communities, and we. This free, four-week program allowed Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Grade students to learn about engineering, space travel and exploration, and city planning. The students also enjoyed two field trips together. -
Six Weeks of Summer Fun!
Our six-week Summer at Calvert program saw another successful year with returning options and new partnerships!Read More -
Lower School Teachers Focus on Positive Mindsets Over the Summer
Lower School teachers, Peggy Szczerbicki and Kim Miles, spent last week in Boston, MA at the Learning and the Brain Summer Institute which focused on promoting positive school climates and motivation in students.Read More
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Join Us for Our Fourth Annual Bees for BARCS
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Lower School Character Education is now Pillars
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Kicking Off the 2019-20 Calvert Fund
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An Exciting Year Ahead for Our Middle School Hives Program
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Calvert's Alumni Authors
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A New Leadership Certificate Program in our Middle School
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Summer Campus Improvements
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Space Exploration and Engineering with the Calvert/Quest Summer Camp
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Six Weeks of Summer Fun!
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Lower School Teachers Focus on Positive Mindsets Over the Summer
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Jay Parker, Director of the Institute for Leadership & Purpose
"We have reached a culture of leadership when students inspire other students, a trend that is powerfully emerging at Calvert."
Calvert School is a coed independent lower and middle school.
