Seventh grade Chinese language students taught first graders about Chinese New Year through engaging activities and crafts.

Lower School Principal Barbara Shea on learning a new language to become global citizens.

The contest asked students to read articles and then compare how the Sears catalog and Amazon impacted the way Americans purchase goods.

Thanks to the generosity of the Kleinbard Family Endowment for Professional Development, RCDS faculty, staff, and administrators participated in a workshop facilitated by social-emotional learning specialist and mediation expert Carla Pugliese

Beloved RCDS community concert celebrates 25 years

This annual four-week challenge encourages all to be informed recyclers for life

View photos from the 2019 Winter Band Concert.

Lower School Principal Barbara Shea on learning a new language to become global citizens.

"In many ways, our lives today are overwhelmed by stimuli that challenge and frustrate our desire to be happy. What is one to do in such an ethos? How do we protect our emotional well-being and teach our children to do the same, fostering an environment that is positive and healthy for young people in which to grow up?"

The Rye Country Day community has so much to offer, and I want to make sure everyone feels welcome and eager to participate.

Leadership Column by Director of Public Purpose Rebecca Drago

Leadership Column by Upper School Principal Jon Leef. How can we partner in order to ensure that our children develop the habits of mind to contemplate what is meaningful and to look for and embrace opportunities to positively impact the world around them?

"One of the most germane aspects of the RCDS Portrait of a Graduate's definition of citizenship for middle schoolers is the focus on awareness, specifically, the Portrait's focus on students' practicing empathy and perspective taking, examining local and global issues, showing openness and flexibility towards differences in opinion, recognizing stereotype and bias, and embracing and understanding the importance of diversity."

Lower School Principal Barbara Shea on expansive learning and awareness at Rye Country Day.

Looking ahead to the 2019-20 academic year, Mr. Nelson shares school news and campus updates with the RCDS community.