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2019 PSAT Scores Available December 9
Sophomores and juniors will be able to access their 2019 PSAT scores online on or about December 9. Students who provided an email address during the PSAT administration should receive a message from the College Board linking them directly to the PSAT score portal. Students who do not receive such an email need not worry; they can simply go to psat.org/scorereport and log in to view their scores. If a sophomore or junior has an issue accessing PSAT scores, the student can call the College Board at (866) 433-7728.
read moreSecond Semester Textbook Ordering
The school’s online bookstore will open in early December for the spring term. You will receive an email announcing this and details about ordering deadlines to ensure timely delivery of your student’s course books for the fall term.
For orders shipped to Concord Academy please use:
STUDENT’S NAME, 126 Main Street, Concord MA 01742.
After receiving the email that the online bookstore is open, use this link to access an instructive video: https://vimeo.com/129701350
read moreHelp Make The End of Semester Sweet! Candy Donations Needed and Volunteers Welcome!
The Exam Treats Committee is looking for your help with one of CA’s sweetest traditions: delivering bags of treats to students’ mailboxes during end-of-semester assessments. If you would like to support this effort, we are looking for donations of candy — any type of individually wrapped candy (except gum, please), in any quantity. Your candy can be dropped off in the bin just inside the front door of Aloian by Thursday, December 12. You can also order candy on Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/): Select “Concord Academy, c/o Meredith Walsh, 166 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742.” Also, if you would like to join us for a fun hour or two in the morning of December 13 as we stuff the bags, please sign up through this SignUpGenius form. Thank you so much for your support! For questions or more information, please contact Missy Steiner-Griffiths P’20 at cgmsg@comcast.net or Antonia von Gottberg P’21 at antonia@alum.mit.edu.
read moreGeneral Break Details for Boarders
As we approach our first school break of the year, please take a moment to review some more detailed information for boarding families on the timing, transportation logistics, and specifics of every school break. Click here for details.
read moreGaining the Advantage: Girls Varsity Tennis Continues Its Winning Ways
In spring 2019, the CA girls varsity tennis team stormed into the NEPSAC finals for the second time in three years. We interviewed returning seniors Lily Gray ’20 and Ella Griffiths ’20 about the team and Hung Treiu P’18, who has coached the squad to the NEPSAC tournament four years in a row.
read moreConcord Academy’s Renewed Mission Statement Defines CA for Today & Tomorrow
Reaffirming Concord Academy’s core values, the school’s renewed mission statement calls on everyone to engage. See what learning looks like on campus today and how alumnae/i Eric Nguyen ’00, Izzy Lowell ’98, Tony Patt ’83, and Amy Longsworth ’76 are working to create a more just and sustainable world.
read moreSustaining CA
Concord Academy has become one of the first independent schools in the greater Boston area to adopt a holistic campus sustainability plan. Approved by the Board of Trustees in the spring, the plan defines targets in the categories of food, greenhouse gas reduction, building operations, and institutional support that the school has pledged to meet by its centennial in 2022.
read moreFeeding the Need
Seeing hunger in their communities, some CA alumnae/i have found their own ways to address it. Kezia Parsons Simister ’95 organizes donations to the Arlington, Mass., food pantry. Mim Locke ’64 lives and works at the Martin de Porres House of Hospitality in San Francisco. And Mallory Cerkleski ’16 manages a mobile farmer’s market that serves urban customers in Greensboro, N.C.
read moreFall 2019 Environmental Symposium
The lineup for CA’s Environmental Symposium lecture series this fall consists exclusively of young alumnae/ i who have been returning to CA to share their sustainability research and work. In October, Phoebe Chatfield ’14 spoke about her environmental advocacy work. On November 4, Sophie Drew ’15 presented about soil sequestering of carbon. Students, alumnae/i, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of CA are invited to attend the upcoming speakers’ talk.
Tuesday, December 3Performing Arts Center – 7:00 p.m.
Austen Sharpe ’14 and Eliza Thomas ’14 will discuss their recent internships with, respectively, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (renewable energy markets and policy) and the Cape Eleuthera Institute (tropical marine biology research).
Kim Holden ’84: Doula by Design
A life-changing trip to Nepal led this acclaimed architect to change careers and open her business, Doula X Design. “Now I’m helping one woman at a time, one family at a time,” she says.
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