Sports360 Editor Brad Cesmat visited The Orme School this fall. We were very pleased to have Brad and his crew spend time with us on campus. Their visit led to a terrific news piece on the Sports360 website by Nicholas Welter, and we wanted to share it with our website readers as well. Nicholas wrote, […]
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Orme students in the General Biology class this fall are growing a Three Sisters Garden. The class is reading botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweet Grass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. The interweaving of science and plant reciprocity is a focus of the project. The students’ gardens are growing beautifully, […]
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Every weekend, our faculty Duty Teams plan both on and off campus activities for students. Each Duty Team has several Prefects serving on it, and the Prefects help come up with fun ideas and things of interest for students to do. There is always plenty to do on campus on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays. […]
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Congratulations to our very own Eco Martinson, who was named Champion in the 2017 Arizona Hunter Jumper Association’s Pony Medal Final this past weekend. Eco and her pony Bugsy (whose show name is ‘Tradition’) competed in Tucson. Two weekends ago Eco also won the championship in the category of Children’s Pony Hunters. Eco is quite […]
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This fall, Orme hosted an Obstacle Course Competition for Equine Trail Sports. We had over 30 competitors and their horses take part in different trail obstacles. Some of the obstacles included a raised wooden bridge, “jousting” pumpkins, throwing a spear, walking through a Native American campsite, side passing over logs, and several other fun challenges. […]
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After classes, Monday through Friday, students participate in sports and activities. They are able to sign up for a variety of fall, winter and spring options. This winter, Yoga has been added as one of those activity choices, and is proving to be quite popular. Students are finding out that Yoga, which can increase their […]
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Who says you can’t have fun while learning something new. Certainly not the students in Mrs. Strobel’s chemistry classes! In recognition of Halloween last week, students studied the Periodic Table of Elements, and then carved pumpkins to represent 40 of those 118 elements. In the AP Chemistry class, students performed a lab in which they […]
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Led by Orme mathematics teacher Steve Wolfe, four teams of our Mathletes attended and participated in the NAU (Northern Arizona University) Math Competition held in Flagstaff, Arizona. For their first meet of the year our teams did quite well, going up against 50 teams and approximately 190 students from other high schools. Only the top […]
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