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Middle School

12 years ago

Instrumentalists Honored by Selection to All-State; One Selected for National Youth Orchestra

Five Harker instrumentalists were selected for the 2014 All-State Honor Band and played in formal concerts over the weekend, and another student was selected…

12 years ago

Kudos: Middle School Musicians Shine at Annual Piano Competition

In early February, four Harker seventh graders placed high at the United States Open Music Competition, an annual piano competition that has highlighted the…

12 years ago

Summer Institute Combines Academics and Fun for Middle- and Upper School Students

Come June, the upper school campus will be filled with students in grades 6-12 who are participating in Harker’s Summer Institute (SI), a unique…

12 years ago

Eight Middle School Students Win Scholastic Art Awards, Including Gold and Silver Keys

Eight Harker middle school students have won prestigious Scholastic Art Awards for their outstanding artwork. Two received the coveted Gold and Silver Key Awards,…

In the News

12 years ago

Grade 8 Students Letter-Writing Campaign Yields Tangible Results

When grade 8 students in Cyrus Merrill’s history class began an assignment in the fall writing letters to their national representatives in Washington, D.C.,…

12 years ago

Middle School Students Bring Game of Candy Land to Life

Candy Land was the theme of a recent Fun Friday Program sponsored by the middle school’s BEST (Blackford Enrichment & Supervision Team). During the…

Sports

12 years ago

Soccer Teams Win Blowouts While Raising Money for Charity; Basketball Teams Own Strong Records After Close Games

Eagles fans! Soccer Harker’s upper school soccer teams competed last week in the annual Kicks Against Cancer games, putting up big numbers in the…

Global Education, Languages

12 years ago

Visiting Japanese Exchange Teacher Observes Classes, Creates Art Projects with Students

Maruko Ishigami, a visiting exchange teacher from Tamagawa Academy K-12 School & University – Harker’s sister school in Tokyo, Japan – was touched by…

Global Education

12 years ago

Visiting WFLMS Students Meet Harker Buddies, Become Immersed in American Culture

Learning how to make Native American dream catchers was one of many exciting activities students from the World Foreign Language Middle School (WFLMS) in…

harkerathletics, Sports

12 years ago

Eagle Report – Middle School

This article originally appeared in the winter 2013 Harker Quarterly. Teams across the middle school sports spectrum finished with solid records, with our junior…