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In Ms. Yorston Art classroom students look at art in a new perspective, using the color wheel. Learning about pigmentation, students identify primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. A fun project so far this year is making personalized pins made out … Continue reading →

[embedit snippet=”new-dance”] Mr. Weagle’s 7th Grade Gifted students, Ms. Costello’s 8th Grade Gifted students, and Ms. Tome’s dance students attended an incredible dance performance by Sankofa Danzafro today at the Kravis Center. The dance troupe then visited Palm Springs and … Continue reading →

Ms. Tome, our dance teacher, has taught here for sixteen years. She began studying dance when she was three. She continued studying at Dreyfoos High School of the Arts, and then studied at Southern Methodist University. She is a great … Continue reading →

[embedit snippet=”njhs”] It was a beautiful ceremony where forty-five students, all with a 3.75 GPA or higher, were welcomed into the NJHS. Mr. Bermudez, the club’s sponsor, officiated. Congratulations to all! Darlene M.

[embedit snippet=”seesay”] Oftentimes one student’s wrong choice affects our whole learning environment. We have to work together as a community to stop that from happening. That’s why we use the School District app www.studentprotectionapp.com. Load the app, and then select … Continue reading →

Led by an exuberant and enthusiastic Ms. Faust, the Green Rays are cleaning up campus with their recycling initiatives. Classrooms have co-mingle containers for bottles and glass and bins for paper. Green Rays have also installed a bin to collect … Continue reading →

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This year Palm Springs Academic Games team competed in three games in Social Studies, Presidents, Current Events, and the Theme round which was Greek and Roman Mythology.  Practices started at the end of December and continued through January and into … Continue reading →

For the past couple weeks, in Ms. Turner’s Language Arts Classes, students have been reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. The novel is about a boy named Jonas who has been selected to be the next Receiver of Memory in … Continue reading →

Palm Springs has announced the 2017-2018 boys basketball team, and they are Staviss B., Angel O., Alberto C., Nicolas T., Preston M., Jailin C., Patrick M., Brayser M., Terrence J., Anderson F., Carlos H., Adrian P., and Zadarius R.. Ms. … Continue reading →