GREENWAY STUDENTS WIN AT STATE-WIDE HISTORY COMPETITION

For the 8th year in a row, Greenway School students took top state honors and will be advancing to the nation-wide National History Day competition in June. All five of Greenway’s competing students were selected to move up to the national competition. Winning First Place in their categories were Kiyoko Reidy and Ruth Simberloff. Abbey Huber, Emma McLeod, and Miriam Ryburne all earned Second place. In addition, Abbey Huber won the prestigious Margaret Lindsley Warden prize for the best project in Women's history in the junior division. This year’s theme was Innovation in History: Impact and Change.

 

2010  LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD  WINNERS !!

      Greenway School students placed first in all of the middle school categories at the Linguistics Olympiad, held at Middle Tennessee State University.    This is the fourth year that students from our private, independent middle school in West Knoxville have participated and won top honors.

    To compete, students were given a packet of 11 different linguistic problems to solve in two hours.   Each year the exercises include identifying word formations and deciphering proverbs from other languages, finding commonalities among English words, and decoding cryptic messages.  Linguistics is the topic of one of several “Focus Groups” through which every Greenway School student rotates each year.   

LIZ SHUGART  NAMED OUTSTANDING HUMANITIES TEACHER

Humanities Tennessee has chosen to present Greenway School’s Social Studies teacher Liz Shugart with an Award of Recognition for Outstanding Teacher of Humanities. The award brings a stipend of $3,500 for Ms. Shugart to attend an oral history workshop focusing on collecting stories during times of crisis. It also will fund her plan to have an oral historian work with middle school students at Greenway in collecting stories from local residents displaced by TVA or by the Manhattan Project.

Ms. Shugart has been teaching at Greenway School for ten years. In 2004 she was named a National History Day Teacher of the Year. In 2008, Ms. Shugart was chosen by the NCTA (National Consortium of Teaching on Asia) to go on an intensive study trip in China and Japan. Humanities Tennessee is a non-profit organization that focuses on grant-making, cultural development of the state's museums and historical organizations, and supporting studies of community history and culture.

 

2010 NATIONAL HISTORY DAY - Regional Competition Winners
 

GREENWAY STUDENTS TAKE TOP HISTORY HONORS

For the eighth straight year, Greenway School’s students have advanced to the state level in the National History Day competition. At this year’s regional competition March 1st at the University of Tennessee, Greenway students were awarded two First Place prizes, two Second Place awards and one Third and one Fourth Place award plus one special award. Because the top three students in each category advance to the Tennessee state competition, Greenway School will be represented by five students in Nashville on April 17th..

This year’s theme was “Innovation in History: Impact and Change.” Kiyoko Reidy won First Place for her Individual Performance and Emma McLeod won Second in that category. Ruth Simberloff placed First for her Historical paper. Miriam Ryburne won Second Place for her Documentary and she also won the prestigious Dan Shannon Award for Best Use of Primary Sources. Abbey Huber’s Historical Paper won Third Place and Meg Endsley placed Fourth in the Showboard category.

Greenway hopes this will also be its eighth straight year of having students advance to the nation-wide competition in June. Greenway began participating in National History Day in the competition’s second year, 2003. Greenway students have advanced to nationals every year and three have placed at the national-level NHD. Greenway Social Studies teacher, Liz Shugart, was named a 2004 National History Day Teacher of the Year.

 

 

 

GREENWAY SCHOOL TEAM WINS MATH BOWL

    Greenway School’s 7th grade team placed First in the annual Pellissippi Math Bowl, competing with other seventh-grade students from 30 Knox and Anderson Counties schools. Individually, Greenway 7th grader Timothy Blackwell placed 3rd and Sam Shadwell placed 4th.  Timothy also ranked 10th in the entire state of Tennessee.  He is the son of Stephen and Aleka Blackwell.  Sam is the son of Cliff and Jane Shadwell. Other members of Greenway’s winning team were Stephen Bassett, son of David and Laura Bassett, and Blaire Toedte, daughter of Ross and Sharon Toedte.

    Overall, 604 students competed. Oak Ridge Associated Universities helped fund the April 25th, 2009, competition, which was hosted by Pellissippi State Technical Community College. The event was sponsored by the Math Departments of Austin Peay State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Pellissippi State TCC, the University of Memphis, UT-Martin, and Walters State Community College. A Greenway School team has scored within the top two places two years in a row.

 

 

GREENWAY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ART IN GALLERY SHOW

    Greenway School students got what all young artists dream of – their own showing in an art gallery. On Friday evening, May 2nd, Unarmed Merchants, a new art gallery downtown, featured a work of art of every Greenway student. Some of the students' works were auctioned to benefit the school's fundraising effort to build a house in Haiti. The students' creations included papier mache clocks, ceramic mugs and oil paintings . “The students really understood the possibilities of these various media. I am amazed at their creativity – and their generous spirit in offering their work for the benefit of charity,” said Greenway School's art teacher, Liz Shugart.

    The event was part of Knoxville's traditional First Friday Gallery Hop, when all downtown art galleries are open from 6 to 9 PM. Unarmed Merchants -- which generously donated 10% of the evenings sales to the Haiti charity, over $750 -- is located at 129 S. Gay Street.

  

 

     

GREENWAY SCHOOL TRAVELS BACK IN TIME

At Greenway School’s Fall 2007 Medieval Faire, the school’s entire campus became a medieval village. Greenway’s 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students transformed themselves into people of the middle ages. Jesters and puppeteers delighted the crowds, players performed medieval dramas, knights demonstrated arms and armor-making, weavers and herb growers taught their lore, and parents and visitors feasted on stew and tarts baked from medieval recipes as the students serenaded them with medieval ballads.Student-crafted puppets tell the story of St. George and the Dragon.

Typical of Greenway’s “Connected Curriculum,” the Medieval Faire was the combined focus of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Math, Art, and Music, to unify the students’ learning experience. Every student also participated in a project-based learning course, in which they cooperated in small groups to research specific aspects of Medieval culture. At the Faire, they presented what they had learned in colorful demonstrations. The students performed two dramas based on Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales: What Women Want Most and Chanticleer and the Fox.

 Students share their research on the types of chain mail and what they learned by making chain mail themselves.

These students built and demonstrated a medieval weapon known as a trebuchet.