2018 Fall Sports Awards
Congratulations to our fall athletes on an outstanding season! 2018 Varsity Fall Sports Records (W/L/T)Boys' Varsity Cross Country: 17-9Girls' Varsity Cross Country: 17-15Varsity Field Hockey:...
View ArticleAlumni Newsletter - November 2018
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View ArticleAmerica Recycles Day Marks the Start of the RCDS Recycle Challenge
November 15 marked both America Recycles Day, a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling, and the start of the RCDS recycle challenge! The goal of the challenge is to...
View ArticleRCDS Robotics Competes in Tournament
RCDS sent two robotics teams to Jericho, N.Y., for the first VEX Robotics competition of the 2018-19 season. Twenty-eight teams from across New York and New Jersey competed, with the RCDS teams...
View ArticleProject Spotlight: Abacus
Mandarin Abacus#RCDSspotlight features cross-departmental, cross-divisional projects created by students at RCDS.Class:Mandarin 1Faculty:Joanne Shang, Gail SestitoProject Goal:Using 3D printers to...
View ArticleRecord Number of Alumni Athletes Return for Thanksgiving Games
A record number of Wildcat athletes, spanning 34 years of RCDS graduates, returned to the ice rink and basketball court on Friday, November 23 for the Alumni Thanksgiving Games. Congratulations to...
View ArticleDecember 2018 Lower School Principal Column
Barbara Shea, Lower School PrincipalThe Lower School Library is a hub of activity where students regularly seek books for pleasure reading and find resources for topics that are being studied in their...
View ArticleDecember 2018 Upper School Principal Column
Jon Leef, Interim Upper School PrincipalI was interviewed by a student reporter for our newspaper, Rye Crop. She asked me for one thing that I thought the students should know about me. That was a...
View ArticleChallenge Success Provides Insight Into Finding Balance
On November 26 and 27, RCDS welcomed Jon Kleiman of Challenge Success to present to students, families, faculty, and staff. Challenge Success's mission is to partner with schools, families, and...
View ArticleStudents to Share Learnings and Reflections from SDLC
Last week, RCDS student leaders and faculty traveled to Nashville to attend the NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference and People of Color Conference. SDLC is a multiracial, multicultural...
View ArticleKyle Bryant from "The Ataxian" Inspires RCDS Community
This week, Parents Committed to Diversity and The Office of Diversity and Inclusion presented a talk by Kyle Bryant, a cyclist and activist for the neuromuscular disorder Friedreich's ataxia (FA). Mr....
View ArticleA-Chord with Kids Celebrates End of 13th Season
In 2012, two RCDS Upper School students founded A-Chord with Kids, a volunteer program through which Upper School students share their love, knowledge, and appreciation of music with children at the...
View ArticleSenior's Volunteer Work Featured by Save the Sound
E. E. Ford Community Engagement Fellow, Nishan Shehadeh '19, was featured in Save the Sound's community newsletter. This summer Nishan collected samples of Long Island Sound water and analyzed them in...
View ArticleRCDS Skills Spotlight: Ice Skating
Every winter, RCDS lower school students lace up their skates and take to the School's ice rink during Physical Education classes. Students love ice skating, of course, and learning to skate also...
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