Woodside Priory School

On Saturday, we had our fourth Community Day of the year. All the kids piled into a bus, and we headed down to Santa Cruz to spend time on the beach on a beautiful, sunny day. The Prefects came up with some different team-building activities in the early afternoon before a late lunch. Then for [...]

My apologies for the very long break between posts! Below are some slideshows from activities this winter. We will try and update more frequently for the remainder of the school year. Created with flickr slideshow.Created with flickr slideshow.

Greg Somogyi, a former boarding student from Hungary who graduated in 2008, was signed by the Lakers! There was an article in the San Jose Mercury News about him earlier this month. Here’s the link: http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_21730493/priorys-somogyi-lands-nba Here’s an interview with Greg about what it’s like to go against NBA superstar Dwight Howard: http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_21730493/priorys-somogyi-lands-nba Greg’s younger [...]

Our First Community Day was on September 9th – sorry for the late post!  We started off with a scavenger hunt that took them to all corners of the campus.  After we that, the kids competed against each other by grade in a series of field day games including the three-legged race, egg toss, and [...]

Hi I’m Shi-Hao Hong, a senior prefect in the dorms. I come from Malaysia, a country in South East Asia, and have two younger siblings who live there – a brother and a sister. I have been studying and boarding at the Priory ever since my freshman year and my passions include running cross-country, breakdancing, [...]

Greetings!  We are excited for the start of the 2012-13 school year.  The beginning of the school year went very smoothly.  The Prefects – Daisy Alvarado-Munoz, Kaylen Chung, Shi Hao Hong, and Malik Reid – did a great job of leading the kids through some games and icebreakers that helped the kids get to know [...]

Hello to all- this is Myles here updating you on our annual ski trip we went on a couple of weeks ago. As you may have seen on weather reports, Northern California has been getting some great weather for January. This is nice for wearing shorts in the winter, but not so nice for snow [...]

Most of you have met our Residential Faculty member, Cynthia Sleight. But we thought a re-introduction might be in order now that it’s 2012. Here she is in her own words: Hello and Happy 2012! I wanted to take a moment to reintroduce myself to all of you. My name is Cynthia and I am [...]

We hope you all had a wonderful holiday break with the kids back home. We enjoyed our time away as well, but we’re excited to see the kids return. First semester finished with some fun holiday festivities here in the dorms. First the kids put up Christmas trees in the dorms and our dorm moms, [...]

In November, we had our 3rd (of 6) Community Weekend of the year. This time, it was a new event created by our Activities Coordinator, Myles Somerville. The event was called the “Class Showdown,” and consisted of the kids teaming up with the other kids in their grade and competing in little games over two [...]