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Local children enjoy a fun-filled St. Alban's Day with their new RE friends
Hundreds of children from 10 elementary schools across Miami enjoyed winter festivals on RE's two campuses on St. Alban's Day December 5. Ransom Everglades students teamed up to escort the young visitors to various stations offering games, activities and holiday treats. From meeting Santa to decorating cookies to riding trains on both campuses, the local children enjoyed every element of the annual carnivals that date back to the Everglades School for Girls.
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The visitors to the middle school hailed from Holmes, Wheatley, Santa Clara, Silver Bluff and Riverside elementary schools. Visiting the upper school were students from St. Alban's Child Enrichment Centers in Coconut Grove and South Miami and Shenandoah, Silver Bluff and Frances S. Tucker elementary schools.
Sophomores under the direction of faculty member Emily Aungst organized the upper school event, and the middle school event was directed by Student Activities Director Lenny Castaneda. Among the highlights: Upper School Dean of Student Petar Solomun played Santa at the upper school. Every student received a goodie bag, and had the opportunity to enjoy more than a dozen activities from lip synching to enjoying science demonstrations to writing letters to Santa. Special guests included therapy dogs, a juggler and stilts walker, a fire truck and police officer on a horse.
The day finished with all-school holiday performances on both campuses.
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Sophomores under the direction of faculty member Emily Aungst organized the upper school event, and the middle school event was directed by Student Activities Director Lenny Castaneda. Among the highlights: Upper School Dean of Student Petar Solomun played Santa at the upper school. Every student received a goodie bag, and had the opportunity to enjoy more than a dozen activities from lip synching to enjoying science demonstrations to writing letters to Santa. Special guests included therapy dogs, a juggler and stilts walker, a fire truck and police officer on a horse.
The day finished with all-school holiday performances on both campuses.
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Middle School
2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 250 6850
Upper School
3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.