![Carlmont’s open house website provides an interactive experience for families to check out student work. Gay Buckland-Murray, the instructional vice principal, stressed the importance of the continuation of an open house, despite the abnormal circumstances. “Open House is a chance for students and families to ‘see’ teachers/classes that the student has been involved in all year [and say] ‘here’s the teacher/class that I’ve been talking about’. It’s a chance to look back in that sense to what has been happening this year,” Buckland-Murray said.](https://scotscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screenshot-2021-05-05-6.00.00-PM-900x506.png)
Carlmont’s open house goes virtual this year, with a website showcasing student work and course information. In past years, the open house has been a tool for families to see projects done in classes, meet teachers, and visit classrooms. It was also a way to view the workload for future courses...
The flow of events is constantly under the watchful eyes of campus site supervisors at Carlmont High School. Whether it be at a school-wide assembly or during a passing period, campus security monitors everything that happens on-site. Though their duties were somewhat reduced during distance learning,...
Summer school will operate under the hybrid structure to maintain COVID-safe education this summer. Students may attend summer school to retake failed classes or earn the final credits needed for graduation. There is also a summer school program offered for rising 9th graders to assist them with...
The difficulty of online education has been a mixed bag, but being a special education student adds an extra wrinkle. Each special education student has different experiences in remote learning. They each require unique resources to be effective learners; however, some resources are harder to deliver...
With students returning to campus, classes have had to adapt new strategies for learning. Not all classes have students sitting at a desk and taking notes for the entire period. Carlmont’s music and physical education (PE) programs have implemented new formats to continue teaching. In an...
Live theater is an inherently fickle medium. Anything could go wrong: technical difficulties, costume mishaps, forgotten lines -- but whatever obstacles present themselves, the show must always go on. Perseverance is within the fabric of live theater, and not even a pandemic is enough to stop the...
Eight months after the start of the school year, 300 members of the Class of 2024 were welcomed to campus, some for the first time, for the Freshman Assembly. In the past, the Freshman Assembly, or Freshman Orientation, would take place the day before school. All freshmen would arrive at Carlmont...
After a year of adjusting to COVID-19 procedures and distance learning, Carlmont brought back some normalcy and tradition for the Class of 2024. The Freshman Assembly, traditionally known as the Welcome Back Assembly, invited freshmen to the football field on Wednesday, April 21 for games, music, snacks,...
Carlmont released their AP testing schedule with many options for at-home testing and gave more information about the digital exam software. According to the College Board, this year’s Advanced Placement (AP) testing is in three different testing windows called administrations. Administration 1...
With Carlmont implementing the hybrid model and students rolling back into school, the administrators plan for a smooth transition into the 2021-2022 school year. With the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, the administration must consider the ever-changing guidelines when constructing a master schedule...
