January 22, 2018
Based on the current forecast from the National Weather Service, Mounds Park Academy is planning for a regular school day tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23. If anything changes, we will notify families as soon as possible via email, text, voicemail, the website, and social media.
Regardless of the forecast, conditions tomorrow will be less than ideal. Please use great caution when traveling to campus and note that tardies will be excused. As always, if you determine that your commute is too difficult, the absence will also be excused.
Please take good care and we hope to see you tomorrow!
Every year, MPA Lower School students contribute to various community service projects. One project that has become a familiar tradition at MPA is the Birthday Box program. This program provides a box of birthday essentials for children who are celebrating birthdays in less fortunate situations. These gift boxes, decorated by all grades of the Lower School, will be packed with cake mix, frosting, candles, books, toys, and handmade birthday cards. Collecting more than $1,200 in change this year, the students are sending 80 Birthday Boxes to Emma’s Place, a social services organization in Maplewood.
We are so excited to introduce the first annual Mounds Park Academy Maker Fest!
Mounds Park Academy presents Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet for this year’s Winter Show! In this new interpretation, Romeo is a young woman. The most famous love story in the world takes on new life and new meaning as two young women discover who they are and who they love. Set against the backdrop of family expectations, social norms, and a dominant heterosexual culture, Romeo & Juliet’s star-crossed love echoes with haunting familiarity and danger in these modern times. The show will take place in the Black Box Theatre on January 26 and 27 and February 2 and 3.
Mounds Park Academy’s Nordic Ski Team has made school history! For the first time ever, an MPA nordic team has been ranked in the state—the boys’ ski team is proudly sitting at number five out of ten spots. This is also the first time that MPA has had two individual skiers ranked at the same time!
Over winter break, our facilities staff was busy making some important enhancements to our 32 acre campus. A long list of work completed included new carpet in Ms. DesLauriers’ classroom, additional partitions in the boys’ main hallway restroom, a new dishwasher in the kitchen, a new fence on the northeast side of the building, and deep cleaning. A warm thank you to our facilities staffers for their efforts! We appreciate all they do to keep our campus clean and beautiful!
The Lansing Sports Center will once again be open this winter to MPA families and their friends from 9 AM-12 PM on the following dates:
We had so many members of our community join us for a viewing of Screenagers, followed by energetic and intriguing discussion. For those who were not able to attend, we will be hosting an additional viewing and discussion on campus Tuesday, January 9 from 8-10 AM in the Recital Hall.