As the school year is back in full swing, many students are asking “What did you do this summer?” Here is how PCDS students are responding to the question: Sophomores Grace Bower and Madi Faulkner...

Promposals are embedded in high school culture across the US, and PCDS is not immune. What started as a simple “Will you go to prom with me?” has transformed into an elaborate performance. Glitter,...

Nestled between classrooms and the Grassy Knoll, the Brewster Library is a place where students can gather and immerse themselves in knowledge. But in recent years, the library’s endless expanse of books...

Prom is the most iconic event at every high school. Past the glitz and glamour, most don’t realize the amount of time, effort, and precision that goes into planning a prom. By the time students start...

A warm spring morning, the long walk into first block, a feeling of sleepiness, boredom. But suddenly, a friend appears, arms full of drinks with the iconic AJ’s logo and green straw, with the first...

From March 15-24, the PCDS French program explored the cities of Paris, the Loire Valley, St. Malo, and Normandy. All students from French I to Special Topics were eligible to participate in the trip....

The Capitoline Museum in Rome was filled with tourists slowly taking in its galleries. Around them, four high school students and a Latin teacher wove urgently through rooms with a single goal: find the...

“Qué rico es el latino. Hoy se ve,” declares a man standing before towering fields of sugar cane. A bachata guitar riff cuts through the stadium air as Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show begins.  On...

On a quiet morning in her middle school classroom, surrounded by maps, textbooks, and decades of memories, Ms. Sheila Marks reflected on a teaching career that has shaped generations of students, one lesson...

Each day, dozens of PCDS students sit in brightly colored chairs in classrooms on the west side of the Upper School Quad. They are there to learn Spanish. But in the back of their minds, they raise a glaring...