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Author Barbara O’Connor Visits Inly with a Focus on Real-Life Connections

How does a writer bring a book—and a book talk—to life? For award-winning children’s author Barbara O’Connor, it’s all about making hands-on, real-life connections. For her visit with Inly Upper Elementary students on this fall, O’Connor brought in an assortment of trinkets from her childhood, including a rhinestone poodle pin and a [...]

Student Leadership Summit 2011

While many schools may not look at kindergarten students as leaders, Inly provides five-year-olds with a unique opportunity to be leaders and explore what that it means to them. On the day before school begins, Inly invites incoming kindergarten students to join the incoming third, sixth, and eighth graders for a Student Leadership Summit. This [...]

Inly Elementary Students Work with Water in a Hands-on Way

In Lower Elementary’s “Work of Water” the students in grades 1–3 learned how they directly affect the water around them. With help from the North and South Rivers Watershed Association and the Scituate Water Treatment Plant, the students got hands-on experience of how everyday things — like showering or driving a car — play a [...]

Upper Elementary Montessori Students Make Science Stick with Maple Syrup

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Throughout late winter on Inly’s campus, some puzzling contraptions greeted onlookers as they drove along Route 123. At first glance, they looked like faint white blobs next to the trees. Look more closely, and you might very well have asked yourself: Why are there tubes coming out of the trees and connecting to [...]

For Inly Students, Putting on Bugsy Malone is About More than Just Singing and Dancing

Inly students in the Upper Elementary program (grades 4–6) will bring the 1976 musical, Bugsy Malone, to life on Wednesday, March 2 in the Meehan Family Artsbarn at 7:00 p.m.
In the dress rehearsal video below, Head of School, Donna Milani Luther, explains how theater skills transfer into real life skills for students at Inly.
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