“Discovery Days” is an annual event for Middle School students and provided a stellar start to the 2023-24 school year. After only one week in class, students ventured off campus for two-three days to participate in a variety of hands-on,…
Weilenmann School of Discovery bid a formal farewell to the eighth grade class on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Student speakers, faculty remarks, musical performances, a gift book, families, friends, and the awarding of diplomas marked the occasion. Our best wishes…
Recently, the Middle School Jazz Band, led by Nathan O’Bryant, gave a lunchtime performance at the Park City Senior Center. The crowd was lively and even started dancing! One of the audience members happened to be a musician herself. She…
To broaden their understanding of the novel, Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, 7th grade English students invited a select group of community members to participate in a panel discussion. The multi-award-winning novel tells the story of a young black man…
How do students liven up a month with no holidays or school breaks? At WSD, the answer is Spirit Week, which happens in the middle of March, the “longest” month of the school year. During this week, students and teachers…
The new art installation in the Auditorium is a topographical map of the Park City Ridgeline. It is the culmination of three years of planning by the Art Department, and the creative efforts of students in grades 6, 7, and…
Last weekend, WSD’s mobile classroom, a 10-passenger van known as “Moby,” took eight Middle School students to the Ogden Valley for a winter campout. The destination was Dancing Moose Farm, an educational farm for ecology and sustainable living, founded by…
In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the event at which Romeo first sees Juliet and falls in love is the famous Capulet ball. As part of their study of the play, seventh grade English students recreated the ball – designing their…
Middle School life science students have gained an appreciation for the complex and fragile systems that make up our world. By creating their own ecosystems in a jar, students have been able to observe the way in which living organisms…
Recently, WSD Middle School students immersed themselves in two uniquely American art forms. Thanks to outreach from the Utah Blues Society, students participated in a Cigar Box Guitar workshop that also celebrated the importance of blues music in American history…