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,...

Editor's Note:  This spring, Rectory 8th-grader, Yoyo Z., wrote an essay for The New York Times 2020 Student Editorial Contest. She wanted to express her deep concerns about the initial discrimination directed towards people of Chinese heritage when the COVID-19 health crisis first started to spread...

With fewer obligations to fulfill during such an unusual time (i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic), it’s easy to let yourself slack off. However, with motivation, it’s just as easy to achieve astonishing improvements. Isolation is a precious opportunity for us to work on forgotten hobbies since there are...

Editor's Note: The following is a recounting of the trip that Leon K. took with his mother from Woodstock, CT,  back to China this past spring (2020). As a writing assignment, his tutor, Mr. Warnick, asked Leon to keep a daily journal of his trip and to take photos along the way, so that he could describe...

Did you know that Rectory’s Spanish teacher, Mrs. Kara Burke, has a blog about cooking? And did you know she has a twin sister named Marni? Well, we are excited to tell you about the cooking blog that Mrs. Burke and her twin sister have online; it’s called Twin Tastes, and you can check it out here:...

China is famous for a variety of foods and unique ways of cooking them. We wanted to introduce you to a few unique, but delicious Chinese foods that we have eaten personally and that are considered to be delicacies in China. They are expensive and are usually eaten in authentic Chinese restaurants and/or...

If you've been staying current with The DiRectory, you know that the students in Mrs. Haines' 6th-grade class have been studying the elements of poetry throughout the spring term. Each week the students wrote a new poem, and then the class voted on their top three favorite poems. The attached video includes...

Gently, and gradually, Myron woke up. Opening her eyes, she saw nothing. There was no difference whether she opened her eyes or not; the plain and silent darkness filled her vision. Myron tried to touch something to help her stand up. She stretched out her legs and arms, but could only feel the nothingness...