Imagine spending a luxurious Friday afternoon reading your favorite book, embroidering a pair of jeans, building a robot, or playing Ultimate frisbee.  Who wouldn't want to kick their weekend off spending some time pursuing a passion, learning a new craft, or just unwind after a long week? At The Girls' Middle School every Friday afternoon is joyful, relaxing, and filled with opportunity as students rush off to Electives, their last class of the week.

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When April rolls around, GMS celebrates with our annual Spring Intersession.  Students leave the usual classroom environment behind and venture out in small groups for an array of unusual and exciting offerings. This year’s courses ran the gamut from organic gardening to jewelry making to learning to Zumba!  Here are just a few of the featured offerings:

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GMS will host its Annual Scholarship Breakfast on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. This year's event will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, and features a keynote address by well known Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Diane Greene.
 

At The Girls Middle School, another exciting Fall Intersession has just passed, with students splitting into small classes to try out everything from hanging ten on long boards to handcrafting unique ceramic jewelry. Like every year, the range of class options was very exciting, and at the end-of-week assembly the girls shared Glee-inspired choreographed song/dance numbers, data gathered during a week of geological fieldwork, garden benches they built themselves, and pumpkin pies they learned to bake in celebration of the season.