This year’s Rectory Student Council members were announced to the Rectory community via email on Friday, October 9th, after an online election spanning just over three days: October 5th through October 8th. The following are the winning members. For on-site students: Giana B., Tyler M., Cesar R., and...

To encourage students to read for pleasure, each term Rectory students must read a book of their own choice and write a book review about it. This fall, Rectory librarian, Mary Tiebout, introduced some new book review formats. The most popular of these was the Acrostic Book Review. Many students chose...

Look into a mirror, what do you see? A face. A strange but familiar face. A face with a mask. Open your phone, and go to your pictures. What do you see? Another face. Your face. Look back into the mirror. What do you see? Your face, from a different time, a different world. Our world today seems like...

The Rectory Community voted and Ms. Siobhan O'Neil announced the winners of our first-ever Pumpkin Carving Contest. All of the entries were creative, unique, and fun to look at. Thank you to all students and teachers who participated and sent us photos of their carved, drawn, and painted pumpkins. And...

January 2020, the terrible COVID-19 spread in my country, China; it killed a lot of people. My parents originally planned to come to Pomfret, CT, to spend the Chinese Spring Festival with me, but because of the pandemic, they cancelled their trip. I missed them and worried about their health. Thanks...

Rectory's very first "Pumpkin Decorating Contest" is happening now, from October 23rd thru October 31st, 2020. It's open to all students in Grades K-9, so put your creative thinking caps on!! Ms. Siobhan O'Neil, one of our resident Halloween aficionados, invites you to participate in a pumpkin decorating...

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the "hybrid" return of students to school this fall, Rectory faculty and administrators are on a mission to "build community" to welcome our students back and make them feel at home. Teachers are working diligently to plan lessons and activities to help students get...

Welcome to the little theater of Rectory! Another summer has gone by, and Rectory has already had a few successful weeks of school. Let’s capture some of the great scenes on our campus over the course of these first few weeks.   Scene 1: Who is that Wolfie? When you drove through the main parking...

The Great Gatsby, what a finely written masterpiece! It is a romantic story on the surface, but there are fine details and hidden themes concerning America throughout the novel. Its characters symbolize various groups of people living in the 1920s. Daisy and Tom are among those considered the old aristocrats,...