Tag: middle school

January 8, 2025
Middle Schoolers Take the Stage with Macbeth
Our middle school cast took The Tragedy of Macbeth to the next level with a dynamic performance – featuring intense fight scenes, witches' prophecies, and even a surprise hip-hop twist! 🎤✨ The energy was electric, and the storytelling unforgettable. At…
December 13, 2024
Flag Football Team is Undefeated!
Today, we’re giving a huge shoutout to our incredible flag football team, coached by the amazing Coach Nick! Their undefeated season was a true testament to hard work, growth, and leadership on and off the field. From families to opponents…
September 30, 2024
Caught Reading Banned Books!
The middle school library was buzzing during Banned Books Week! In library class, students had deep and meaningful discussions about the First Amendment and the harms of censorship. And in humanities, 7th graders pulled books from our shelves that have…
September 16, 2024
Middle School Electives in Full Swing
What do Soccer, Broadcast Journalism, Embroidery, and Geocaching have in common? These are just a few of the many elective classes our middle schoolers have to choose from this fall! Our year round electives allow students to explore their passions…
April 12, 2024
Honoring Day of Silence
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Today middle school students, faculty, and staff showed their support in myriad ways during our observance of Day of Silence, a student led event sponsored by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (@GLSEN) to bring awareness to the experiences…
February 9, 2024
PS Students Take On the KidWind Challenge
Prospect Sierra 7th and 8th grade engineers blew us away at this year’s @KidWind_Project NorCal Challenge at @calmaritime! They won 1st place gold, placing at the top of the middle school teams and outscoring all but one high school team! 🥇 The students'…
December 14, 2023
Student Council Supports Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center
Through a series of student stores, our middle school student council raised funds to create hygiene kits for the Women's Daytime Drop-In Center (@womensdaytimedropin)! After purchasing practical and cozy items like socks, hats, toothbrushes, and sanitary pads, they gave materials…
October 17, 2023
Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, our middle school Spanish students collaborated on a mural made of Spanish speaking countries' flags shaping huge wings. We love seeing our Latinx community members and allies standing proud below the words "Orgullo Latinx" (Latinx…
February 9, 2023
PS Students Create Wind Turbines for Local Design Challenge
Congrats to nine of our students who attended and placed at this weekend's KidWind turbine-design challenge held at Cal Maritime! 8th graders scored 3rd and 6th graders scored 2nd overall among middle schools, and now qualify for the national event in Boulder,…
January 20, 2023
Master Piñata Maker René!
Did you know that our facilities crew member René is a master piñata maker? Our Bilingual Spanish students were lucky to have him as a recent guest speaker in class, where he explained the significance of the "conos" in the…