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Senior Exhibitions 2009
In the top photo Eva is checking the kiln as her ceramic torsos and body parts being fired for her Senior Exhibition entitled “Figuring It Out: an Exploration in Human Form.” Below, Rob is presenting the paper he wrote on the songs he’s about to perform for his Senior Exhibition on “Chanson Gaillards: a Study [...]
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Project Week is the culmination of every semester at The Putney School. Students take what they’ve learned and put the knowledge to work, whether as a solar hot water pre-heating system for one of our dormitories, an exploration of dance in a variety of environments, or picking apart the world power structure to see how [...]
In a fortnight and a half, the Class of 2009 will be doing something similar to what the Class of 2008 is doing here. What then? What happens to students who graduate from a school that doesn’t teach to the test, doesn’t do backflips of joy over AP courses, and has students demonstrate the use [...]
At The Putney School, semesters don’t culminate in cram sessions for final exams, although there is a bit of scurrying to finish up larger writing assignments. In place of exams that measure what information the student has retained, we invite them to demonstrate their mastery of the knowledge they’ve acquired by completing two 20-hour projects [...]
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