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The Middle School has a student-led Diversity Council that echoes the Student Council and the Honor Council. Learn more here about how it works and its recent activities.
Lumen: Shedding light on all things Gilman
The Lumen blog is an In-Depth Look at Fun and Interesting Activities that are Happening throughout the Gilman Community.
![Third Grade Travels the Continent]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1530560954/gilman/ry2bucyhmbloplt1ictf/DoD-Jefferson.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1530560954/gilman/ry2bucyhmbloplt1ictf/DoD-Jefferson.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1530560954/gilman/ry2bucyhmbloplt1ictf/DoD-Jefferson.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1530560954/gilman/ry2bucyhmbloplt1ictf/DoD-Jefferson.jpg","width":1200}])
During Day of Discovery, our third grade boys experienced the Lewis and Clark Expedition and participated in some of the activities that the Corps of Discovery may have gone through as they traveled across the continent.
![Beyond the Basics]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518709427/gilman/qb3va9ao78p2wo55zojg/aadi-double.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518709427/gilman/qb3va9ao78p2wo55zojg/aadi-double.jpg","width":450}])
Lower School boys learn about empathy and community every day. We encourage them to imagine being in someone else's shoes.
- Lumen News
![Going Against the Grain]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518710271/gilman/nun5xogxa05q8ep97rbp/aj-in-shop-coat-with-students.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518710271/gilman/nun5xogxa05q8ep97rbp/aj-in-shop-coat-with-students.jpg","width":449}])
While most schools have dropped woodshop in recent decades, Gilman offers a comprehensive design and woodworking program that begins in Prep-One and continues into Upper School.
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- Upper School
![Getting Creative]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518714226/gilman/dv3fmd7cjekwyk1bwfio/LSHolidaypostimg_42871.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518714226/gilman/dv3fmd7cjekwyk1bwfio/LSHolidaypostimg_42871.jpg","width":450}])
How will you keep your little ones busy and entertained over the holiday break?
- Lower School
![Mapping Gilman]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518714625/gilman/oc3a53hzr81iulvmbzut/screen-shot-2017-11-20-at-11-12-35-am.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518714625/gilman/oc3a53hzr81iulvmbzut/screen-shot-2017-11-20-at-11-12-35-am.png","width":450}])
Recently my third grade class paired up with Mrs. Lisa Whittaker at the Bolton School in Bolton, U.K. to do a lesson on community cartography.
- Lower School
![Archives: The Dreaded Bag]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518645694/gilman/eymzf9tpxyoe1zhnwarl/img_0923.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518645694/gilman/eymzf9tpxyoe1zhnwarl/img_0923.jpg","width":473}])
An artifact that is sure to bring dread to hundreds of Middle School alumni, "The Dreaded Bag" was recently uncovered in the MS Social Studies Department.
- Archives
- Lumen News
![Back to School]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518708816/gilman/kgjb2bpgrszzi8wu6fli/tufts.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518708816/gilman/kgjb2bpgrszzi8wu6fli/tufts.png","width":450}])
Just a few days after the end of the school year, Gilman college counselors accompanied 30 rising juniors and seniors on a tour of seven New England colleges.
- Lumen News
![Third Grade Archival Video Project]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518710139/gilman/z69zepjlbm2bfycxqloo/screen-shot-2017-05-23-at-12-56-31-pm.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518710139/gilman/z69zepjlbm2bfycxqloo/screen-shot-2017-05-23-at-12-56-31-pm.png","width":449}])
To culminate a year-long partnership between 3A and the Gilman Archives, the students created a historic record of their own.
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- Lumen News
![The Evasive Art of Poetry]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1518710321/gilman/rsn5v65ejwkonopftagm/Tulipsimg_3340.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1518710321/gilman/rsn5v65ejwkonopftagm/Tulipsimg_3340.jpg","width":450}])
Maybe it’s fitting that National Poetry Month happens in April, full of rain and clinging winter, cut through by bright days of tulips and pink dogwoods. April often can’t decide what it is. Does this “cruelest month” signal transition? Is it a battle? Shifting prelude to May’s more confident colors?
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- Upper School