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September 1, 2010
Beechwood Weekly
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June 9, 2010
Beechwood Weekly
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Beechwood Weekly
Principal's Message
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Beechwood News & Events
Events
GoogleServe Helps at Field Day
Beechwood was fortunate to have been involved in GoogleServe this year. With the help of HandsOn Bay Area, 20 outstanding Google employees spent an afternoon at Beechwood where they helped facilitate our annual "Field Day", and then stuck around after to tackle some much-needed painting jobs around campus.
3rd & 4th Grade Camping Trip
The 3rd 4th Grade Camping trip was filled with numerous banana slug kisses, giant redwood trees, and hot dogs on a stick. The students hiked nearly 5 miles, went swimming in the icy cold river, and sang campfire songs. It was a great trip, and they look forward to doing it again next year.
Alladin, Jr. Comes to Beechwood
Every other year, Beechwood puts on a musical production. This year we did Aladdin, Jr. and it was amazing. Our outstanding Music and Drama teacher, Mrs. Emilee Getter, called upon every ounce of her talent and energy to direct and design this year's production. We also greatly appreciate the many members of our school community who gave of their time and talent to make this happen for our kids. Most impressive was the way that the children formed themselves into a team where each member was valued and appreciated. The two performances were stellar because of the commitment to excellence by all involved.
Top-Notch Musicians Vist Beechwood
Beechwood School endeavors to educate the whole child. In doing so, we strive to expose our students to the performing arts through field trips, music classes, musical productions and visiting artists. Recently we had two outstanding groups come to Beechwood to perform for our students.
Through Stanford Lively Arts, we were able to arrange a performance from renowned percussionists So Percussion. They performed for the entire school and did a special class for our 5th Graders. Here's a clip of that class:
We also were treated to a performance from the Saint Michael Trio, who are resident artists at Menlo College. The children loved the music and asked great questions of the musicians who patiently answered each of them. Here's a clip of the Saint Michael Trio:
Beechwood values creativity and Beechwood values the arts!
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News
October 9th 2009
Nobel Prize Winner's Visit to Beechwood Featured in Palo Alto Weekly
Mario Cappecchi, a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist from the University of Utah, paid a visit to Beechwood and spoke with fifth- through eighth-graders. A story about the visit was published in the Palo Alto Weekly. Read more »
September 16th 2009
Beechwood art at Menlo Park Children's Library
Beechwood's entire Third Grade Class has their artwork on display at the Menlo Park Children's Library for the next two weeks. Please stop by to see it if you have a chance. The Library is located at 800 Alma in Menlo Park. Tim Goode of the Friends of the Menlo Park Library is the director of the Library's Annual Book Fair Youth Art Contest is very impressed with our students and with their teacher, as you will read in the letter which he delivered to the Prinicipal.
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February 20th 2008
Beechwood article in the Almanac
The unassuming entrance to Beechwood School is accessible only by turning right at the end of the Onetta Harris Community Center’s driveway. Outside of Menlo Park’s Belle Haven neighborhood, this small private school of fewer than 170 students isn’t well-known. Despite the lack of attention, it’s been quietly — and successfully — educating children from the community, and neighboring East Palo Alto, for 20 years.
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