Today’s post is from guest author and CPLS Guidance Counselor Melissa Gossard. Today’s post serves to reach out regarding the significant role screen time plays in our children’s’ lives. Some days it feels like a blessing and other days it can be tough to sort through as a parent. I’m […]
Today’s post is from guest author and CPLS Librarian Rachel Duncan. National Reading Day was celebrated on January 23, 2018. If you survey the Cair Paravel Latin School literature lists, you’ll find that CPLS, more often than not, aligns with the “older” literature standards. Often, educators are primarily concerned that […]
Today’s post is by CPLS mom and guest author Rachelle Colombo. In the hallway between our family bedrooms hangs a hand-lettered quote from Mother Teresa. It reminds us, as only one who left an indelible mark on the world can, how exactly that is done. It reads, “I alone cannot […]
Tristan Marsh graduated cum laude from CPLS in 2016 and this holiday season he is more than 700 miles away at Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He doesn’t know it, but a very special package will soon arrive in his mailbox. In high […]
Walk near the gym on Friday morning and you’ll hear it before you see it. The music is bouncy and features a bombastic marching band. Kids are laughing and jumping around with their arms and legs moving in unison. And the song keeps playing long after you think it should […]
Today’s blog post is from guest author and CPLS 8th grade student, Noah Long. On June 8, 2017, I left the United States of America and flew to Zambia, Africa. For three weeks my team (Martha Elford, Will Eagleman, Saya Eagleman, Michele Eagleman, and I) worked with […]
Samantha Mooneyham graduated from Cair Paravel Latin School in May of 2017. Just before graduation she learned that she had been selected as one of six undergraduate students to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. Sami spent her […]
For a brief time each summer, striped canvas tents selling fireworks pop up on the Topeka landscape drawing buyers of all ages. Carter Brian,13, rings up a sale behind the cash register inside one of these tents and mentions to a customer that if he buys another cone fountain, he can […]
During the weekend of April 6-8, 2017, CPLS 2014 graduate Tyler Brown was invited to present at the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) National Convention at the University of Memphis in Tennessee. According to the CUR website, “The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals […]
The CPLS Lady Lions Soccer Team has had a great start to their season and with that, includes an amazing game versus a much larger team, the Seaman High Vikings on Monday, March 27. Here’s a recap from soccer coach Doug Woolery: Because of KSHAA rules, CPLS is not allowed […]