St. Andrew's School

IT'S IN THE MAIL Coming soon to your mailbox, the summer Highlander is full of photos and highlights from graduation, end-of-the-year events, and alumni news!

SLIME TIME Stretchy, gooey, sticky, colorful SLIME! It's slime time this week at St. Andrew's. Campers are making different types of slime using a variety of materials. This hands-on, interactive, educational, and fun camp is definitely a favorite.

St. Andrew's junior Gaby Van Brunt is a shining example of what it means to be a student athlete. Check out this article from Savannah Morning News. Congrats Gaby from all of us at St. Andrew's.

Welcome to the newest member of our football coaching staff. Harold Zion Edwards will serve as the Assistant Varsity Football Coach this fall. He brings 11 years of coaching experience to the team. Welcome to St. Andrew’s, Coach Edwards! #saslions

Coach Jack Miller joined the St. Andrew's community in 2006 as the head varsity football coach. He led the team to the state semi-finals in 2008. We send our love to the Miller family.

St. Andrew’s celebrates Black History Month

This week is National School Counseling week and we want to give a shout out to the best school counselor in Savannah...Elizabeth Bush. Much of the work of School Counselors is done behind the scenes, privately and confidentially. This makes observance of this national awareness week even more critical, bringing attention to the importance of supporting students in a holistic way. We want to publicly express our appreciation and gratitude for the tremendous work that Mrs. Bush does everyday!

Spotlight is on our St. Andrew's School students who selflessly are making a difference for Cancer Research by being a part of Students of the Year for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Savannah, GA. Kinnett Howard and Taylor Hamilton make up the "Stand 4 A Cure" Team and Caroline Kurinij co-leads the team "Answer for Cancer" together with St. Vincent's Academy students. Today is World Cancer Day and we appreciate the active roles these wonderful individuals play in the fight against cancer. Thank you for serving our community! #makeadifference #fightcancer #LLSSavannah

St. Andrew's Middle School in Action Seventh graders are starting their transition from Physics to Chemistry this week. Today’s experiment allowed the students to explore the viscosity of liquids to help them understand how molecules move within substances. St. Andrew's: Where Life Meets Learning!

ST. ANDREW'S MODEL UN TEAM COMPETES Congratulations to the St. Andrew’s Model United Nations team and Dr. Michael Howell (team sponsor) for a great performance at the GSU conference this past weekend. Gordon Standing '23 (Fiji) and Anna Spitalnick '23 (Finland) received honorable mention for their work in the World Health Organization and UN Environment Assembly, respectively. St. Andrew’s also received honorable mention as a team. UN team members include: Henry Bush '23 (Fi...nland) - World Health Organization Thomas Hill '23 (Estonia) World Health Organization Ismaeel Easahak '24 (Fiji) - Human Rights Council Sydney Minton '23 (Estonia) - Security Council Anna Spitalnick '23 (Finland) - Environmental Assembly Gordon Standing '23 (Fiji) World Health Organization Alice Young '23 (Honduras) World Health Organization See more

HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at St. Andrew's School.

Who Am I? Self-awareness building exercises like this unique self-portrait lesson in 1st grade helps our students learn a lotboth about themselves and their own creative potential. Check out these portraits, masks included!

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST These students are creating architectural drawings of mid-century modern homes in art class with instructor Geoff Byrne. For this challenge, students are developing a plan and executing their designs. The next step will be the creation of 3-D mini replicas. Is it art? Is it design? Is it mathematics?

Welcome Back, LIONS! Here's to 2021.

Need Childcare on January 4th? The AfterCare staff is pleased to offer care for ages 3 through grade 8 on the January 4th teacher workday from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. at $40 per child. Follow this link to register your child: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSesdXC4tsCUYgc0W/viewform

Hey Class of 2021! The countdown is on to graduation! 144 Days until the big event.

7th grade basketball at home

Ending the Semester with a Song The Lower School wrapped up first semester with a little song and dance. Thanks to Ms. Lonce for leading our youngest students in winter and holiday songs. Happy Holidays from all of us at St. Andrew's!

DISCOVERY DOME Maria Dixon challenged her design tech students to build a huge planetarium out of cardboard. The students first created small model prototypes to test their dimensions, cut out triangle shapes, painted them white, and fastened them together using rivets. Stay tuned next semester. The students will be adding a projector to the 8 foot wide dome, turning it into a real planetarium to view virtual worlds. St. Andrew's: where life meets learning!

Congrats to our own Stephanie Karian in the St. Andrew's Lower School. Check out the story on WTOC.

We look forward to a brighter NEW YEAR in 2021 together!

The Auction item for "Head for the Day" was celebrated this week: Ms. Chloe Krebs was in charge of Lower School on Tuesday and had a full day of huge responsibilities. From ensuring morning carpool went smoothly, declaring a no homework day for all of Lower School, having breakfast with first grade, ensuring everyone enjoyed a morning treat, enjoying lunch with her assistants, meeting with the Head of School to seal the deal on a Purchase Order, and inviting all LS to enjoy a Jenni's Treats on Streets at the end of a long day before organizing dismissal and carpool, it was a hugely successful day for Ms. Krebs and she was heard to say "this is hard work." #saintandrewssavannah #auction #lowerschool #headfortheday #greatjob

Congrats to these seniors for getting the Homecoming Win tonight!

Need Childcare on January 4? The AfterCare staff is pleased to offer care for ages 3 through grade 8 on the January 4th teacher workday from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. at $40 per child. Follow this link to register: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSesdXC4tsCUYgc0W/viewform

SWEET STRUCTURES Using colorful gumdrop candies and tooth picks, these budding engineers are building 3D geometric structures. The best part of this activity is how it allows children to think and problem solve to come up with a variety of solutions for the best structure.

GET YOUR YEARBOOK Don't miss your chance to purchase the 2021 Yearbook at the $65 price. The cost increases to $80 on January 2, 2021.

We are getting ready for "Hoopfest" basketball games this week in memory of Gray Solana to increase awareness of SADS (Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes) Foundation. The tournament supports the GRAY SOLANA EMERGING LEADER AWARD at St. Andrew's to include a $1,500 college award to a deserving student. Thanks to these companies this tradition that started in 2016 will continue in Gray's memory in 2020: Ambos Seafoods, Dan Vaden Chevrolet, Roger Wood Foods, Hale Marine Services, and First Chatham Bank. Sponsorships and Donations are still available at https://saslions.square.site/. First games will be Thursday 12.17.2020 at 5pm and 6:30pm and same times again on Friday, 12.18.2020. #hoopfest #grasolana #saintandrewssavannah #firstchathambank #danvadenchevrolet #ambosseafoods #rogerwoods #halemarine

Lions win against Trinity Christian! Go Lions!!!

ESPORTS SWEET SIXTEEN The St. Andrew's Rocket League team has made it to the round of 16 in the playoffs. They will play Forsyth Central High School out of Cumming, GA this afternoon at 4 p.m. Here is the link to watch the matches (all at 4 p.m.) this week: https://www.twitch.tv/saslions. Also attached is the tourney bracket which shows the tournament starting from the round of 32 (we started with 128 in the tournament).

As we are looking forward to the final piece of Homecoming today, we have so much to be thankful for! Our kids were able to be in school, enjoying a Halloween Parade and a Woof-O-Ween Dogs of Carpool extravaganza; homecoming week with fun to be had every day on campus; our Fine Arts department bringing home 1st place in the GISA Regional One Act Play competition today; and a Homecoming Football Game to look forward to tonight. with 6 hrs to go, we have raised over $160,000 thanks to an amazing St. Andrew's community! #saintandrewssavannah #sasgivingday #onedayallin

Last week the Georgia Music Educators Association had its first round of All State virtual string auditions with video submissions. Sydney Minton '23, Ellie Rich '24, Anna Spitalnick '23, Savannah Wilson '22 and Nathan Zimmerman '23 advanced to the second (and final) round. We are very proud of our young musicians and teacher Fred Devyatkin. A special thanks to Jason Rich for shooting and editing the videos.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Junior Class Fruit Sale! We have a few extra gift boxes available for purchase pictured below. Perfect for neighbor, teacher or client gifts. Each box is $20. Pick up times for these and any other orders delivered to St. Andrews are: Tuesday: 3:00-3:30 Wednesday 2:00-3:30 Thursday: 2:00-3:00 Friday: Schedule a time with Wendy Sutton

REGION WINNERS! Congratulations to the Fine Arts Department, whose production of Tuck Everlasting won the GISA Regional One Act Play competition in Vidalia, GA today. Alice Young and Hellena Tran were also recognized with awards for Outstanding Performance. The cast will travel back to Southeastern Technical College next month to compete at the state level.

One call out to our community brought us to cross the $150,000 level - we are deeply grateful to be top of mind for giving to many. Thanks so much for working towards our ultimate goal! #saintandrewssavannah #sasgivingday #onedayallin #gratitude

The amazing support to the St. Andrew's community this week and this morning has been unbelievable! Thank you to all that made the number jump to over $134,000 this morning and it isn't even lunch time yet! There is till time to give today - about 13 hours actually to be a part of this campaign to benefit our school, students, faculty and staff! So we are making a call to all SAS community members to consider moving us closer to our goal - We are feeling so grateful for working together to be all in! #sasgivingday #saintandrewssavannah #onedayallin

It’s Homecoming Parade Day and the seniors are ready! This year’s theme is Historical Events. The parade will be on campus so if you plan to watch please arrive between 1:45-2:00. To ensure the safety of our students the entrances to campus will be closed starting at 2:05 and will reopen for carpool at 2:55. The Lions host Trinity Christian at 7:30 with crowning of the Homecoming Queen and Court at halftime. All upper school students are permitted to attend the game tonight. Go Lions!

Friday, October 30, 2020 will be the highlight of our new St. Andrew's Giving Day Campaign: "One Day. All In.", which we soft-launched last Friday October 23rd. At this time, we have raised over $113,000 for this campaign. Thank you for joining the spirit of St. Andrew's School. #saintandrewssavannah #sasgivingday #onedayallin #gratitude

Our fun-loving young soccer players with Sweet Feet GA/SC making those feet work magic! #tormentafutures #saintandrewssavannah #soccer