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.   

 


 GREENWAY STUDENTS WIN STATE NHD

For the 7th 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, 2009. This year’s theme was “Individuals in History: Actions and Legacies.” Winning First Place in their categories were 2 eighth graders and 1 seventh grader. The first place winning topic in Web Design was “Alan Turing and Breaking the Enigma Code.”   Individual Performance presentation about Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, won first place at the state level. And our seventh grader won first place with a Historical Paper on John Steinbeck. For work on “Jesse Owens’ Race for Equality,” another Greenway student  won Second Place in Individual Documentary.

In addition, Greenway is proud of four alumnae who won at the state level --they attend Bearden High School and West High School. 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.

 

 

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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.