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Our youngest Bears have a new home in the Freeman Family Lower School. Find out why the bigger space and new location has the entire Lower School community full of excitement.
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A new opening week program provided an in-depth introduction to what it means to be a Landon Middle School student. Find out how students established and renewed connections with their peers and Teacher-Coach-Mentors through experiential learning.
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Students, faculty, and staff are settling into the new Boehly Upper School! See some of the new spaces and hear from students, alumni turned faculty members, and more familiar faces.
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Landon's opening day Convocation ceremony featured speeches from Head of School Jim Neill and Student Council President Kevin ’24 that focused on the year ahead. Here are lightly edited transcripts of those remarks.
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A new crop of musically inclined Upper School students has revived The Clef Dwellers, an acapella group with a rich history at Landon.
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New computer programming and digital citizenship courses as well as new STEM spaces in all divisions are among the significant upgrades to the student experience at Landon.
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The Lehrman Atrium has a brand new look that honors the past and recognizes who Landon student-athletes are today.
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Grade 5 students participated in the World Peace Games. Teacher Chris Hughes describes it as Model UN, meets Risk, meets Dungeons and Dragons!
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Brandon Harwood, an Upper School Spanish teacher at Landon from 2008 to 2019, is now a professional recording artist after 20 plus years of writing songs and performing. He released three singles in the spring of 2023.
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Grade 7 students completed a hands-on sustainable home challenge. Find out what they learned about carbon tax as they prepared to test the strength of their homes.