To kick off the new school year, SCDS added new restaurants to the hot lunch menu and increased lunch prices. New lunch options include Sourdough & Co., The Old Spaghetti Factory, Round Table Pizza and Mountain Mike’s Pizza. In the…
Two Country Day high schoolers competed in the elite Gladiator Mock Trial competition July 22-24 in Atlanta, Georgia. Senior Samhita Kumar placed 15th with an honorable mention, and junior Grace Zhao placed 28th. This was Zhao’s first year participating in…
This school year, Country Day has lost Valerie Velo, a staff member liked by students and staff alike. Grace Strumpfer, ’17, will take her place. After joining Country Day in 2017, Velo has held many roles: Assistant to the Head…
Country Day announced 2022-23 COVID-19 policy revisions in a recent schoolwide email. The major changes include optional masking indoors and outdoors, less frequent COVID-19 testing and the elimination of the Pick-Up Patrol app. All policy changes follow the Sacramento County…
Country Day students attended orientation on Aug. 29, 2022, beginning the school year with familiar traditions. The class of 2023 arrived at 6:30 a.m. for senior sunrise. After breakfast in the quad, seniors walked through the lower, middle and high…
WASHINGTON, D.C Thousands of people assembled outside the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to voice their views on the court’s decision to eliminate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Thomas Anfang was among them. The 20-year-old resident of Winchester, Virginia,…
The 2021-22 school year is coming to a close, and with the exit of the senior class, The Octagon, Medallion and Student Council have selected new leaders for next year. For The Octagon, the school’s newspaper, juniors Adam Akins and…
For years, freshman Cara Shin identified herself as an active participant in the classroom, but, seated in the back of French III, she found that confidence dwindling. She was overwhelmed by her lack of foundation in French, and for the…
In a May 2 email to the SCDS community, head of school Lee Thomsen urged families to consider wearing masks in classrooms. The recommendation comes in response to five positive COVID-19 cases in the lower school in the last week….
In response to an “uptick in exposure” to COVID-19 on campus, the school is distributing two COVID-19 antigen tests per student so students can test outside of on-campus testing windows, according to an email sent out to the SCDS community…
