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Fields of Means: Wellesley’s summer of new sports turf

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As summer begins to roll to an end, millions of dollars worth of new turf fields are popping up all over town in preparation for the upcoming school year and sports seasons.

Two new Sprague turf fields, part of a $1M makeover, are still being rolled out. The parking lot next to the fields is piled high with bags full of plastic pellets waiting to be spread across the two fields to add buoyancy. The sheer amount of plastic used to make these fields was overwhelming.

Turf being rolled out onto Sprague.
Turf being rolled out onto Sprague.
Bags of pellets in Sprague parking lot

 

Scraps of turf snaked around the edges of the Sprague fields

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New turf fields have also been rolled out at Dana Hall School, getting them closer to completing the Turf Field Project before the school year begins. The fields are part of a $1.8 project undertaken by Dana Hall this summer.

Dana Hall Field looking close to finished (08/14/19)
Dana Hall field looking close to finished (08/14/19)

 

Wellesley College has also invested in a new turf field for its athletics department in the middle of its outdoor track. The field was being painted and is closed until this weekend when Wellesley College teams will begin using the new field for practice.

Wellesley College Turf Field
Wellesley College turf field

 

And finally, the new Boston Sports Institute on Rte. 9 has finished the indoor turf field and is almost ready for Wellesley Youth Soccer, Wellesley Youth Lacrosse and the Boston Bolts club soccer team to begin using the field. There is both an upstairs and downstairs section from which fans can watch.

Indoor turf field at Boston Sports Institute
Indoor turf field at Boston Sports Institute

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Digging into Dana Hall’s big construction project

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On May 29, Dana Hall School in Wellesley held a ceremony outside, facing Grove Street, and announced the Turf Field Project. The ceremony was conducted to show the importance of the project to the school and to thank  donors who made it possible. The Turf Field Project is outlined in the Vision 2025 strategic plan, which set many goals for improvement at the girls’ 5th-12th-grade school between the years 2018 and 2025. 

Turf Field Construction (7/30/19)

 

Head of School Katherine Bradley stated during the ceremony that the Turf Field Project “will benefit all students, not just the ones who wear the cleats and mouth guards”. She’s confident that the field will only help the unification of the Dana Hall community, as “sports are community builders.”

To honor the outgoing Director of Athletics, Health, and Wellness John Suby, the turf field’s spectator sideline will be named Suby Sideline. Bradley has called Suby, who retired this year, a “tireless cheerleader” for Dana Hall.

Along with the field, the project includes a new stone wall entrance-way to the school. “Middle Road”, as Director of Communications Liza Cohen tells me Dana Hall-ers call the road leading into the campus from Grove Street, is being moved 80 feet to the left. This addition to the project is possible because of funds raised by parents of the class of 2019. 

The overall $1.8M project is expected to be finished for the start of the 2019-20 school year. Check out the school’s website for updates and live coverage of the construction. 

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Dana Hall hosting forum on girls and stress on May 2

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On Thursday, May 2, from 7–8:30 p.m., Dana Hall School will host The Forum: A Conversation on Girls and Stress. This program is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

This discussion will focus on adolescent girls and stress. While girls are aspiring to even more ambitious academic goals than ever, they also report higher levels of stress and a stronger reaction to stress than their male counterparts.

At this evening event, a group of educators, scientists and clinicians who work with girls and young women from childhood through the collegiate years, will share recent research findings, as well as discuss and share practical strategies to help parents, teachers and students devise methods to perform well in the classroom, while also mitigating stress.

Panelists include Robin Cook-Nobles, Ed.D., psychologist, who has been working at Wellesley College since 1986 and has been director of the Counseling Service at the
Stone Center for more than 25 years; Christina Dolce, Psy.D., NCSP, a clinical and educational psychologist at McLean Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School; and Renée Spencer Ed.D., LICSW, a professor at the Boston University School of Social Work whose research interests include youth mentoring, adolescent development and gender. Rebecca Platt, Psy.D., Dana Hall Middle School Counselor, will serve as moderator for the event.

For more information and to register, visit www.danahall.org/springforum19. Questions may be emailed to [email protected].

 

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Dana Hall School earns CompSci diversity award

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Dana Hall School is among the inaugural group of institutions to win a College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science A course. Out of more than 18,000 secondary schools worldwide that offer AP courses, Dana Hall School is one of only 685 to accomplish this.

Schools receiving the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have either 50% or higher female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or a percentage of the female computer science examinees meeting or exceeding that of the school’s female population. 

AP Computer Science A students learn to design and implement computer programs that solve problems. 

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Dana Hall students to present Wintertime play on Jan. 24

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The Dana Hall Upper School presents its student-directed play, Wintertime, on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m., in Bardwell Auditorium. The
performance is free and open to the public.

Wintertime, written by Charles Mee, is directed by Dana Hall juniors Greta Gordon ’20 (a Wellesley resident) and Abby Litvak ’20. The play is set at an idyllic woodland vacation home, just before New Year’s Eve, where a modern family getaway turns topsy-turvy.

Bardwell Auditorium is located on the Dana Hall campus at 37 Cameron Street. Please note that Bardwell is not handicap accessible. For more information, please call (781) 235-3010 ext. 2731 or visit www.danahall.org.

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