Featured Stories
Dancing With The Santa Fe Stars!
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. What a fabulous gala Saturday evening! Seven amazing Prep parents, coupled with terrific instructors, showed how they could shake, rattle, and roll at Dancing with the Santa Fe Stars! These brave and talented dancers performed to hits from Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Singin’ in the Rain, and other ...
Santa Fe Prep Tanzania Project Update
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Teachers and student leaders from all four schools involved in the Tanzania Penpal Project met over Skype for the first time last week: Santa Fe Prep, the Irkisongo School in Arusha, theMajani ya Chai School, and Azania School in Dar es Salaam. 8th grade global studies teacher Dan Murray, 9th grade biology teachers Lindsey ...
Mamma Mia: The Musical!
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. It's not the movie. It's not the sequel. It's MAMMA MIA: THE MUSICAL! It came first (well, after Abba) and is, by far, the best iteration of this timeless classic ...
December Traditions At Prep
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. We celebrate two traditions at Santa Fe Prep this time of year: Hot Chocolate Grams and Candy Cane Bingo. During lunches, Student Council members have been selling Hot Chocolate Grams, and they will make and deliver them (sometimes with a holiday song!) during the last two review days before final ...
Winter Arts Night
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Please join us for our Winter Arts Night on Wednesday, December 5, 2018. The event will begin with an art opening at the Meem from 5:00 - 5:45 pm, followed by performances in the Driscoll Auditorium from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. We hope you are able to join us as we celebrate our students' ...
Breakthrough Profile
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Meet Viviana Ornelas! Viviana applied to Breakthrough Santa Fe because of the resources it could offer on her path to college. After her second summer with the program, she has learned that Breakthrough is as much about academic achievement as it is about personal growth and community. This 8th grade ...
Middle School Reading Initiative
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Fall is new book season, and the Prep library has a bunch of new books in—and more on the way! We have a few favorite Young Adult (YA) authors and some new books in a YA series: Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak (author of The Book Thief), Lu by Jason Reynolds (Book 4 in ...
Prep Outdoors
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. There was no lightning threat in any direction; swirls of mist climbed the valleys, with pools of sunshine in the distance; we were working our way up the shoulder of Santa Fe Baldy at about 12,000 feet above sea level; and I was struggling. After all of my preaching about ...
Understanding “The Other”
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Beneath bluebird skies in our upper school quad on Friday morning, 57 members of the Class of 2018 celebrated their graduation from Santa Fe Prep. (You can catch the video of the ceremony here.) Our commencement speaker, Teresa Leger, suggested that growing up amid the diversity that ...
Prep Benefit Concert—June 5
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Tickets are selling fast for Big Head Todd and The Monsters at The Lensic on June 5 at 8pm! Get your tickets today! A premium $140 ticket gets you one of the best seats at The Lensic, AND includes a pre-party with drinks and food at The Palace from 6 to 7:30pm! ...
Santa Fe Prep Tanzania Project
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Five student leaders from the Santa Fe Prep Tanzania Project met with Dr. Jane Goodall on Sunday, February 25 before her presentation at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on current threats facing the planet and her five reasons for hope in these complex times. Dr. Goodall recognized our students for their leadership in developing an eighth ...
Day Y At The Roundhouse
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. DAY Y is an important day every year for youth at the state capital. Students learn directly about the political process here in New Mexico and share their voices by serving as delegates at the Roundhouse. Delegates observe legislators on the House and Senate floors, participate in a panel discussion with ...
New At Prep: Shakespeare Club
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Santa Fe Prep's Shakespeare Club will perform in the second annual Youth Shakespeare Festival, December 9, 2017, at 3:50 pm at the New Mexico School for the Arts. Ninth grade students Margaret Tambke, Thomas Tambke, Eli Witsenhausen, Emma Tsosie, Revely Rothschild, and Julian Gallini-Ivry will perform a scene of wit, comedy and ...
By Youth For Youth: The Convergence Project
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. By Youth For Youth: The Convergence Project is a teen-run organization working to create opportunities and events for youth in the Santa Fe area—and a TAP project here at Prep. The events are designed, produced, promoted, and fundraised by teenage volunteers with the purpose of building community, providing creative spaces, and ...
College Reps Introduce Students to Options Across the Country
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. Over the past month, close to 100 college representatives have visited our campus from all over the United States and abroad: small liberal arts colleges from Maine to Tacoma, Washington, Universities in Scotland, and flagship state schools such as UC Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin. These representatives provide ...
Native American Heritage Month Celebration
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, and to celebrate our vibrant community of Native students, faculty and staff, Santa Fe Prep invites you to join us for FEAST DAY on Friday, November 10, 5:00-7:00 pm, in Prep's Dining Hall. Feast is a time when Pueblo families and invited guests ...
The Parents’ Association Donates $135,000 To Our school!
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. The school year is over, and it's time to celebrate months of hard work and fruitful explorations. Though the students are not the only ones who can bask now in the glow of their accomplishments—parents should, too! Every parent is automatically a member of the PA, which exists to ...
Riding On The Edge Of Greatness
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. We held Prep's 50th Commencement exercises on Friday, June 2 on a glorious morning in the renovated upper school quad. Mayor Javier Gonzales, our speaker and the father of Cameron '17, acknowledged that these seniors are "riding on the edge of greatness" and encouraged them to make the most of their ...
Middle East Studies At Prep
Posted by & filed under Featured Stories. The Santa Fe Prep History Department and the Council on International Relations hosted a symposium on the Syrian refugee crisis this semester. Participants included the senior class, a group of 10th grade students, and a student delegation from the United World College. In preparation, students wrote detailed policy proposals ...