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Educating students in PreSchool through Grade 12

Lower School News

List of 5 news stories.

  • Lower School students enjoying the Color Run at the Skiff Street Athletic Complex.

    Homecoming 2024: Hornets Moving Around the Hive

    In what turned out to be a perfect fall weekend, the Hamden Hall community celebrated Homecoming 2024 in style with our fourth-annual Color Run, alumni gatherings, and athletic games over at the Skiff Street Athletic Complex.
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  •  Lower School science teacher Emily Davies 2001 and the fourth-grade students looking at the creatures found in the seine net.

    Life Between the Tides: Grade 4 Explores the Intertidal Zones

    Fourth-grade students put on their water shoes and grabbed their clipboards and buckets as they spent a sunny Friday afternoon exploring the intertidal zone habitat of the East Haven shoreline at the beach home of Board of Trustees President Andrew Acquarulo and his wife Pam Acquarulo.
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  • Nino Ciampa of the The Hartt Salsa All-Stars. helping Lower School students learn the percussion instruments during the assembly performance.

    Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Under the Pines

    September 15 through October 15 marks the month-long celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, which recognizes and honors the rich history, cultural diversity, and contributions from Hispanic and Latino communities. Here under the pines, all three divisions are and will enjoy various activities and programming including a high energy, lively performance by musical guests The Hartt Salsa All-Stars.
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  • Grade 6 students with their diplomas following their graduation ceremony.

    Sixth-Graders Say Goodbye to Lower School

    Dressed in their spring best, 36 sixth-grade students said a bittersweet farewell to their Lower School journey as they celebrated a graduation ceremony in front of parents, families, and faculty hosted in the Taylor Performing Arts Center.
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  • Student curators in the Visual and Performing Arts Exhibit.

    Power of One: Grade 5 Students Curate Living Museum

    Swain Library was filled with curated exhibits featuring Florence Nightingale, Josephine Baker, Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Tyrus Wong, Elijah McCoy,  Milton Bradley, and other historical figures as fifth-graders took on the personas of inventors, activists, athletes, visual and performing artists, scientists, and writers in the recent Changemakers Living Museum.
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Did You Know?

Our Lower School classrooms have a 7:1 student-to-teacher ratio. In our PreSchool through Kindergarten classrooms the student-to-teacher ratio is 6:1.
Our Lower School students spend at least 160 minutes per week engaged in physical education, and our Grade 6 students participate in Middle School athletics.
Students in Kindergarten through Grade 6 explore the arts - both the performing arts and visual arts - for 140 minutes each week!
 

Views from the Lower School

  • 2022-2023 Slideshow

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  • Valentine's Day Bake Sale

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  • End-of-Year Slideshow

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  • Grade 1 Planting Seeds of Kindness

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  • A Million Dreams - Reading with Mrs. Wilonski

    A Million Dreams - Reading with Mrs. Wilonski

    A Million Dreams - Reading with Mrs. Wilonski

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  • First Day of School 2021

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  • 6th Grade Graduation 2021

    6th Grade Graduation 2021

    6th Grade Graduation 2021

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  • Living History Museum Commercial

    Living History Museum Commercial

    Living History Museum Commercial

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  • Maypole Assembly

    Maypole Assembly 2021

    Maypole Assembly

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  • At The Game Virtual Band Performance

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  • "What A Wonderful Life" Grade 2 Signing

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  • JA in a Day 2020

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  • Chinese New Year 2020

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  • STEM Family Night 2020

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