This Spring’s Downtown School Dispatch contains news about our student-athletes attending the Drake Relays, the Teaching Garden and the 2015-2016 school calendar. You won’t want to miss this edition! Click on the picture of The Downtown School Dispatch to read more about what’s going on at The Downtown School.

Zachary Jacob, Beatrice Sullivan, Ryan Huang, Olivia Vald, Aiden Jahangir and Rachel Brauch represented the Downtown School last Friday evening at the Drake Relays. Coach Clark and Coach Watson said they did an excellent job!

Read all about it! The students in Mrs. Kate Badger and Mrs. Jennifer Mann’s classes wrapped up their study of colonial times and the U.S. government by creating a newspaper: The Downtown Daily. In order to build the newspaper students dissected a real newspaper, applied for positions on the news staff, and acted as reporters, junior editors, layout specialists, advertisers, and more.

DMPS will again offer breakfast and lunch over the summer months to children 18 and younger. The number of sites has grown, and so have the number of meals served. Last summer, DMPS staff fed children 28,722 breakfasts and 79,698 lunches. DMPS has sponsored a summer meal program for more than 30 years. Click on the headline for more information and a list of sites.