Grace Church School-Upper School

Upper School Special Progams:

Community Service

Students Caring for Cooper Union Park

Annual Grace Church School Community Service Volunteers Cleaning up the East River Park

Students volunteering at a soup kitchen during the annual Upper School YSOP community service day

Students stage a peace march in honour of MLK at Union Square Park

Electives

The Robotics Elective set to test their newest creations

Student Government

GCS STUDENT COUNCIL 2007-2008

PRESIDENT Ben Smith

VICE PRESIDENT Abdallah Dudhia-Mahdi

SECRETARY-TREASURER Sam Warren

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES/ ALTERNATES

5M Vienna Kaylan Oliver Chernyk

5R Takuma Makihara Ali Dawes
6D Kate Ginna Nicholas Munves

6R Helen Abbott Daisy Krolik
7R Julian Chaix Noah Beckwith
7W Cody Cintron Jack Moulton
8MW Hudson Orbe Eva Baumgardner

8SW Livia von Bonin Duncan Abbott

ClassTrips

At the Great Wall, China

Grade 6 Trip to Greenkill Outdoor Environmental Center

At The Golden Pavilion, Kyoto, Japan

GCS 7th and 8th Graders at the Taj Mahal

Riding Elephants in Jaipur

Rickshaw Ride Through Old Delhi

Upper School Class Projects:

Gracious Spaces: Take A Virtual Tour of Grace Church School
7th Graders working in Mr. Plenge's Computer Classes armed themselves with digital still cameras and photographed different classrooms and special areas of interest in and around the GCS campus. By taking 360? photographs of the various scenes and later stitching them together into seamless panoramic images they were able to map out a complete tour of the GCS school campus.

Below are examples of some of the panoramic still images and a link to the complete QuickTime VR panoramic video tour:

QuickTime Player (get it here) and a FAST internet connection (DSL Cable or better) is required to experience the best viewing of this video tour.

Students at work in the Upper School Art Studio designing their porcelin plates

Digital Blues
Another on-going inter-disciplinary project in the Digital Arts Center is a project with the 8th Grade Music and Art students working under the guidance of Ms. Abrams and Mr. Plenge to compose and mix digital music for their Blues Poems they write each year as part of their studies of American Jazz and Blues.
Using MIDI keyboards, microphones, computer music sequencing tools and recording software the students play and sing all of their own compositions set to the standard 12 bar blues form.
Follow any of the links below to hear samples of some of our students' work:

Action Heros: From Pencil to Pixels
5th grade Students from the Art Studio classes create a fictional Action Hero and render their black & white characters in pen and pencil before coming to the Digital Arts Center where they then scan and digitially colorize their Action Hero with the image editing tool Adobe PhotoShop®. After adding the finishing digital touches to their hand-drawn characters they then add titles and special effects to create simulated comic book covers.

The last stop in this 6 week special project is a trip to the Writing Workshop instructor to add a biography and short background story to round out their Action Hero project. The finished artwork and biography is displayed each year in the Lehman Arts Center showcase for the school-wide community to experience.
Follow the link below to a page containing some of these Action Heros.