Day: December 1, 2015

Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11/30/2015, “2015 All-SCCAL girls volleyball.”

The 2015 ALL-SCCAL Girls Volleyball awards were announced recently and one coach and four Mount Madonna School student athletes are were recognized:

 

While her husband M’bor beat an energetic rhythm on his Senegalese d’jembe drum, Oumou Faye, garbed in colorful clothing from her west African homeland, wasted no time in arranging a group of Mount Madonna School (MMS) middle school students in rows to teach them lyrics and a series of choreographed movements for the KouKou dance.

 

Watching the students learn the movements (and at times joining his father to beat a drum) was the couple’s youngest ch

This year Mount Madonna School (MMS) took the largest Model United Nations (MUN) delegation it has ever had to Stanford University’s MUN conference. Our students participated in a variety of committees, ranging from a historic crisis committee dealing with the Opium Wars, to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Each of our 14 delegates was asked to engage fully with their fellow delegates and to work on resolving the issues set before them.