Every year, Orme faculty member Ilcen Reyes spends her Spring Break traveling with students through EF Tours to foreign countries, with the desire to learn more about the world. This year, Ilcen brought five Orme students – Julee Alden, Arely Chavez, Cheyenne Grant, Leonie Mayer and Nyx Vazquez – to Costa Rica. The trip exceeded […]
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To raise awareness and open an important dialogue, Orme students and faculty participated in a Hunger Banquet on Wednesday evening, March 4. The meal was scheduled into the day as a teaching and learning moment. Through sharing this event and meal together, we hoped to raise our students’ awareness of hunger in the world. Entering […]
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Orme’s Fine Arts Festival wrapped up on Saturday, February 21 with Grandparents Day, when students displayed their final art creations, and the Hip Hop Dance and West African Drumming workshops gave inspiring performances. Led by many returning professional artists, students spent an intensified week in various workshops, learning new skills, exploring their own creativity, and gaining […]
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This fall, Orme teamed up with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in Mayer, Arizona. Eight Orme students made the decision and commitment to volunteer with BBBS and provide this valuable community service and outreach to others. On Saturday, January 31 we had our first Big Brothers Big Sisters Meeting. Eight ‘Bigs’ from Orme (Julee, […]
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Orme Students recently ventured up to Flagstaff, Arizona on a weekend trip to ski and snowboard for the first time this season. Eighteen students were accompanied by faculty members Ilcen Reyes and Adrienne Baker. Head of School Bruce Sanborn also went along on the adventure. Bundled up in warm gear, everyone was delighted to see […]
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Two Orme School Latin students, Rose Mayer and Ashley Coffey-Stonebraker, were awarded bronze medals for their performance on the 2014 National Classical Etymology Exam. This national contest is sponsored annually by the National Junior Classical League. Etymology is the study of word origins. The National Classical Etymology Exam tests students’ ability to handle both Latin […]
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The Orme School (Arizona) has received a $1.5 million grant from The Burpee Foundation in New York. The grant consists Burpee Foundationof seed money for growing Orme’s “Food For Founders Hall” initiative.
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On December 12, 2014, Orme Senior Chau Bui received very exciting news. She was accepted to the Cornell University Engineering program. Chau has studied at Orme for two years, joining us as a Junior international student from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Passionate about math since she was a small child, Chau told us: “Math has […]
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