Clairbourn School News

Clairbourn students in preschool through fifth grade put on a spectacular performance of Willy Wonka Jr. on May 4, 2019. Music Director Rosemary Kiertzner, along with a helpful group of teachers and parent volunteers, provided a wonderful musical learning experience for the children and a delightful show for the audience. A special thanks goes out to parents Jason Nava and Ken Hong who helped trouble shoot sound issues with the show and helped backstage as well!

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information. 

The California Young Reader Medal (CYRM) program encourages recreational reading of popular literature among the young people of our state. Since its inception in 1974, millions of California children have nominated, read, and voted for the winners of the California Young Reader Medal.

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Some of you may heave heard that geese laid eggs on top of the Clairbourn School batting cage this spring.There were fears that the eggs would cook on the hot roof and not develop into chicks. There were also concerns that if the eggs hatched, the babies would be trapped on the roof with no way down. 

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On Thursday, May 16, students in the Clairbourn Symphony, which is made-up of students in the Clairbourn Band and String Ensemble, took a field trip to California Adventure to have a professional music workshop experience inside a real Disney recording studio. A Disney conductor-composer worked with the students. He taught them what it is like to be a professional studio musician. He gave them music to a scene from The Lion King movie, and gave the students only three minutes to learn it. Then, he rehearsed the Clairbourn Symphony, teaching as he went.

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The Pre-Kindergarten class Butterfly Unit included watching caterpillars spin a cocoon and change into butterflies, making butterfly wings that each student could wear, and a release of the insects in the butterfly garden.

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information. 

Junior Pre-K through Grade 5 students experienced the culinary joy of using fresh raw ingredients from the garden to make a healthy and tasty snack.  Dan Allen from Farmscape showed them how to make a nut and dairy free version of pesto with basil, garlic, and olive oil, seasoned with a little bit of salt and pepper. Students smashed garlic and fresh-picked basil using a mortar and pestle and then added in the other ingredients.  They tasted the pesto on carrots and peas to round out the experience.

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information.

As part of their STEM studies on Friday, middle school students were challenged to design a sail car, powered by wind from a large fan. Students designed a variety of sails – ranging from traditional sails to inventive sails with wings.  Some groups were so successful that the cars rolled over 12 meters. The overall winning team that made it the farthest with the fastest time was Barbie Z. , Jenny C., and Cyanne J. . Great work!

The following teams had the best score in their grades: 6^th Jake & Anthony C. – 1180 cm. 7^th Barbie Z., Jenny C., & Cyanne J. – 1257 cm. 8^th Brandon O., Blake W., & Jason L. – 1257 cm.

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information.

The Annual Instrumental Concert (Grades 4 to 8), is Clairbourn’s student showcase for demonstrating knowledge of and progress with playing a string or wind instrument. On Thursday May 23, the beginning, intermediate, and advanced groups for strings and winds presented three songs apiece to a packed house filled with younger students, parents, and staff. Each group that performed demonstrated the students’ learning journey through Clairbourn’s music program. Students in the beginning levels presented simple folksongs like “Mary Ann” and “Polly Wolly Doodle,” while advanced students played more complex and harmonized pieces like, “Apollo 13” and “Jurassic Park.” Thanks go to Clairbourn music teachers Rosemary Kiertzner and Ann Mize for organizing this memorable and moving concert.

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information.

Fourth-graders put on a live show in the Clairbourn Multi-Purpose Building dressed as famous explorers on Wednesday, May 29. Parent and student visitors were free to choose from a circle of student exhibits and could listen to memorized 30-second biography speeches activated by pressing the “on buttons.” Dressed in hand-made costumes, each student shared fascinating highlights from the lives of their explorer, made great eye-contact, and practiced their speech projection skills so everyone could hear them in the room buzzing with exciting explorer tales.

Clairbourn School Provides Private School Education for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Middle School Grades | Serving Families in the Pasadena, California, Area and Surrounding Cities (K-12 Private Schools) | Clairbourn is a 501(c)3 charitable organization. Click here to request information.

New CFA President, Stephanie Nava, the Executive Board, and the CFA Chairs were installed in their new 2019-2020 school year positions at a special luncheon held at the Rose Tea Garden in Pasadena.  Outgoing CFA president Stephanie Chang presented a check to Head of School Dr. Amy Patzlaff for $137,000 worth of proceeds from CFA events which the school gratefully received. She then gave a moving speech summarizing the CFA’s accomplishments from the current school year and thanked all the parents who went above and beyond to decorate, serve lunches, plan events, and to make a million other things run on campus.

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