News and Calendar

News and Calendar

On April 28, GMS will celebrate its Annual Scholarship Breakfast. This year's event features keynote speaker Mary GrandPre, a world-renowned illustrator best known for bringing Harry Potter to life through her brilliant pastel and black-and-white illustrations. Visit the Scholarship Breakfast page for more information. 

GMS is excited to offer a summer camp for girls entering 4th through 7th grade. The four one-week sessions will feature explorations in science, technology and the arts. The camp is sure to spark each girl's imagination, while she discovers, builds and creates!   To learn more and register please click here.

During the rainy months of January and February, GMS girls are exploring non-sport approaches to movement and fitness in their physical education classes. But both of these units extend beyond the physical, challenging the girls to expand their awareness of their local and global surroundings.

 

On February 3, author Rebecca Stead visited GMS and spoke to our entire student body. This January, her novel When You Reach Me won the John Newbery Medal for outstanding children's literature, the top prize for children's book authors. The novel is set in New York City in the 1970s, and tells the story of Miranda, a sixth-grader, who gets mysterious notes saying she needs to be saved from a future tragedy. The judges heaped praise on Stead's intricate book, explaining that every scene and word is "vital to the plot." 

The Girls' Middle School held its tenth annual Entrepreneurial Night event, the cornerstone of our Entrepreneurial Program, on January 24, 2010 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Twice each year, GMS students expand their horizons by delving into topics of their choice for Intersession.  Intersession is a weeklong, and consists of half- or full-day courses that take students out of their usual classroom settings and focus on the arts, technology, and outdoor exploration.  

This Fall, the 6th Grade Humanities classes read Paul Fleischman’s book Seedfolks. The novel, which is illustrated by Judy Pedersen, tells the story of a young girl’s journey toward building a community garden, and how it brings her neighborhood together.

GMS swept the Julia Morgan Count on Girls Math Contest in December, with the 6th grade team winning outright and the 7th and 8th grade teams tying for first place with Castilleja. One of our eighth graders also won the individual speed round competition. 

“It is so great to represent your school in a math contest and show that your school is a great school that loves mathematics.”   (GMS 8th Grade Competitor)

 “If every one of us did something to change even one person’s life for the better, this world would be an awesome place to live.” —GMS 6th grader

The More Active Girls in Computing program pairs students from The Girls’ Middle School with women in the high-tech industry for a year-long mentoring relationship. Mentors and mentees identify interesting research projects, software, or programming languages and explore the world of computing from a woman’s perspective.  During the 2008-09 school year, eight girls participated in the pilot MAGIC program and concluded their experience with a presentation to the rest of the mentors and mentees.

 We invite you to attend an Open House to discover the many opportunities The Girls’ Middle School has to offer girls in grades sixth, seventh, and eighth.  We believe that when you visit GMS you will see firsthand the energy of our students, the dedication of our faculty and staff, and the warm atmosphere of our campus.