by Kerstin Pintus | WSP Handwork Teacher On September 10th, WSP students and I, their handwork teacher, participated in a Living History event “A Walk Through Time” at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum. Representing the "golden days" of the rancho period, 1833...
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WSP’s Roots and Branches in Full Bloom on GrandFriends’ Day
by Marina Budrys | HS Faculty and GrandFriends’ Day Event Coordinator On the night before the Los Altos campus GrandFriends Day, I woke up many times. I’m no diagnosed insomniac but I definitely struggle to sleep when big events or new responsibilities are on the...
3 Surprising Things about WSP’s FIRST® Robotics Tournament
by Christine McQuade Hsu | Advancement Director WSP hosted a FIRST® Tech Robotics Qualifying Tournament on the Mountain View campus earlier this month. The STEM group that convenes the event is named First—but the event was a first in other ways, too: until now, WSP...
WSP Hosts FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Tournament
by Melanie Ingler | Communications Coordinator 16 local schools competed in a FIRST Tech Challenge Qualifying Tournament at our beautiful campus in Mountain View earlier this month. For many teams, this was one of the first in-person competitions since the start of...
Lunar New Year Then and Now
An interview with WSP Parent and Early Childhood Assistant, Yixin Zhang by Christine McQuade-Hsu | Advancement Director How did you celebrate the Lunar New Year when you were growing up? I was born in China and grew up in China. Although we have many festivals,...
Welcome New Board Member Vikrant Batra!
Vikrant Batra is joining the WSP board as our newest trustee. He shared an enlightening conversation with alumna board member Alyssa Woodman to introduce him to the wider community. What drew you to WSP? We’ve been a part of Waldorf schools for the last eleven years....
Kids, Tech, & Tension
An interview with Pierre Laurent on the new film #KidsonTech by Kora Feder | WSP Writer We all know how challenging it can be to limit our children (and honestly, ourselves) from overusing technology. #KidsOnTech, a new documentary film co-produced by WSP’s very own...
Foodraiser: This is What Learning Looks Like
This past Sunday, amid a torrential downpour and high winds, the 11th grade (along with some magical helpers) fed 50 people a seven-course dinner and raised some serious funds for the Food Justice Initiative. What started as a dream and seed project in their tenth grade Research Methods Class is slowly but surely becoming a reality.
Together Again: September Update from our Pedagogical Administrative Team
by Pedagogical Administration Team This year our senior class selected the theme of togetherness to open the new school year for the high school, and we have taken up their inspiration to bring togetherness to all that we plan and create together as an entire school...
Four Ways to turn Shopping into Giving for WSP
Did you know that when you shop for yourself and your loved ones, you could be generating donations to WSP—at no cost to you? We encourage you to consider these four easy ways to support the school in a big way, with little effort on your part. It’s community actions like these that give us the added resources to continually enrich our programs.