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Ninth graders Alexis Rodgers, Deyanté McKinstry, Daly Baker and Audrey Magnusen, were among the 33 students who delivered “Dove bags” of food for 43 local families on Fri., Dec. 15. 

Country School students participated in its first Hour of Maker. For the past two years, there was a similar event, Hour of Code, which focused on computer programming. However, this year the school decided to do a hands-on Maker project. Working with their buddies, every student built their own Car-Bot. View a video and photos of our students participating in this activity.

Two Upper School teams celebrated undefeated seasons this fall. Girls’ Field Hockey recorded a final tally of 9-0-1 against perennial powerhouse teams including Greenwich Academy and Sacred Heart of Greenwich. 

Eighth and ninth grade students spent the week of Sept. 11 on grade-level trips to Camp Dudley and the Appalachian Trail. 

New Canaan Country School welcomes several new faculty members and staff members this year. They arrive at Country School with range of experience from a variety of schools. “Joining us this year are an immensely talented group who are passionate about educating children and transforming lives,” said Head of School Rob Macrae.

New Canaan Country School has named Christopher Santa, Maria Flores and Amira El Hattab as the 2017-2018 Horizons Scholars. They will attend New Canaan Country School this fall as fifth, sixth and eighth graders, respectively, and have been participants in the Horizons Program at New Canaan Country School for several years.

More than 30 Country School alumni, faculty and former faculty members have joined Horizons for the summer. "Horizons benefits greatly from the passion and talent of our NCCS teachers and assistants," says Executive Director Kerry Stevens.

New Canaan Country School held its Closing Exercises on Thursday, June 15. Head of School Dr. Robert P. Macrae encouraged the 45 ninth grade graduates of the Class of 2017 to develop an attitude of gratitude and practice positive habits of body and mind.

New Canaan Country School students in the Upper School division (grades 7-9) made a strong showing in the recent 2017 national World Languages exams.

On May 24 and 25, New Canaan Country School eighth graders presented at the school’s annual World Congress, a hallmark event of their year-long study of world cultures.

The second grade took visitors on a road trip across the United States this week. For months, each second grader studied a particular state, learning about everything from topography to cuisine, traditions to native species. VIEW PHOTOS.

At Country School, igniting student’s curiosity can be as simple as taking a walk in the woods. Seventh grade science students do just that, spending their first trimester exploring the school’s 75-acre campus - much of it woods and trails - as part of their life science curriculum. 

New Canaan Country School’s Middle School Robotics Team participated in the eighth annual ROBOnanza!, a competition for Westchester and Fairfield County independent schools held in Greenwich, May 13. The “Cougar Bots,” (robots built completely out of LEGOs® and programmed by the fifth and sixth graders), contended against robots from other schools in three levels of challenges. 

Maddie Barto ran around the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island followed by her classmates.  She was scanning the 700,000 names inscribed looking for the name of her great grandfather, Vincenzo Biocca, an Italian Immigrant. Success – Maddie was thrilled!

We are pleased to welcome Holly Donaldson Casella ’04 to the position of Director of Alumni Affairs, beginning July 1. Holly has stayed connected since graduating from Country School, having served as a reunion class chair and a panelist on several alumni networking events.

Country School seventh graders delved into American history and the process of lawmaking during their three-day trip to Washington D.C. last week. View photos.

The fifth grade visited The Cloisters (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) as a complement to our medieval unit in English and social studies.

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The sixth grade Probability Fair combines mathematical and statistical principles of probability with hands-on experiential fun and games.

As part of a study on identity, second grade students have been writing poems describing the color of their skin.

Eighth grader Dania Zein was chosen to participate in the 2017 Connecticut Western Region Middle School Music Festival held March 17 and 18. 

New Canaan Country School welcomed acclaimed children’s book author, Kate Klise, to campus March 6 to speak to students about the craft of writing.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who made Teacher Appreciation Day a success on Tuesday, March 

Country School first graders celebrated the Lunar Year with a dragon parade, a peacock dance, noise makers and gongs at their weekly Lower School Assembly. View photos.

Members of the New Canaan Country School faculty and staff wowed the school community with their songs, dances and skits at “Time and Talent for Service,” on Feb. 3. View photos.

New Canaan Country School’s varsity squash team took home Division VI Champion honors at the 2017 Head U.S. High School Squash Championship, held Feb 10-12. 

The New Canaan Country School girls’ squash team earned a fifth place national ranking following three days of hard-fought matches in the 2017 U.S. Middle School Team Squash Championships held at Yale University Jan. 27 - 29. 

Sixth graders wrote and delivered speeches on issues about which they are passionate – the importance of sports and arts in schools, child labor, homelessness, pets, homework. The speeches were thoroughly researched, well-rehearsed and delivered with courage and confidence!

New Canaan Country School Boys’ varsity basketball placed second among the five independent schools who participated in the annual tournament held Sat., Jan. 21 in Greenwich.

New Canaan Country School students collected more than 1,000 toothbrushes for a project that culminated on Jan. 25 with more than 50 volunteers – Country School students, parents and grandparents – who worked side by side to assemble dental supply kits for the Stamford-based humanitarian aid organization Americares. The kits will soon be distributed to 30 different clinics across the country through Americares’ Oral Health Project.

On Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, New Canaan Country School welcomed to campus guest speaker, Yusef Salaam, who as a young teen was wrongly convicted of heinous crimes against a female jogger in Central Park in 1989, and more recently was featured in the Ken Burns documentary: Central Park Five. Mr. Salaam joined the school’s faculty, staff and parents for their third annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast and delivered powerful thoughts about today’s civil rights realties in America through his unique story. 

Updated: The 2017 Alumni Award presentation honoring Maurice "Mo" Vaughn '82 has been postponed. We will inform you of a new date and time as soon as possible.

The Alumni Council is pleased to announce that Maurice “Mo” Vaughn ’82 will be presented with the 2017 Alumni Award. Mo is scheduled to return to campus Friday, May 19, to accept the honor and to share with students, alumni and guests highlights of his career in both professional baseball and as an active supporter and contributor to several community-based organizations and charities. All are welcome to attend.