Lower School Winter Dance 2023

We are excited to bring back a Summit tradition: the Lower School Dance! All Lower School families are invited to attend with their student(s) on Thursday, February 16th from 6:30-8:00 pm (no school on Friday 2/17). Use the link below to register for this memorable night!

Upper School Winter Mixer 2023

Sixth through Twelfth Graders are encouraged to save the date for the Upper School Winter Mixer on Thursday, February 16th from 8:30-10:30 pm (no school on Friday 2/17). Use the link below to register and invite guests.

Financial Aid Applications for 2023-2024

The 2023-2024 financial aid applications are now open. Summit families must reapply for financial aid through FACTS each year. FACTS is a third party system and will review your application and return the results to The Summit. You will need either your 2021 or your 2022 tax documents, your 2022 W2s, and receipt of your personal property taxes for your application. The review process can take up to two weeks to complete. 

Current Summit families are asked to submit their financial aid applications before February 28, 2023. Student enrollment contracts will be sent to families via the FACTS Enrollment Portal (the same as the 2022-2023 enrollment process) on March 1, 2023. Please note, BOTH a completed financial aid application and completed enrollment contract are needed to finalize enrollment for the 2023-2024 academic year for families seeking financial aid. 

We have a limited amount of financial aid available each year. Financial aid funds will be open to new families after March 15, 2023.

If you have any questions about financial aid or the application process, feel free to email or call Linda Renfroe, Summit Finance Officer.

Summit Gala on Friday 4/21

The Black and White by Candlelight - 18th Annual Gala benefiting The Summit Preparatory School will be held the evening of April 21, 2023, at the brand new Judy Thompson Executive Conference Center on the Drury Campus. This is the signature event for The Summit, an event that inspires and connects the community with our mission while having a great time! 

There are several supporter and event sponsorships available. If you are interested in more information about these sponsor opportunities, please contact Shelly Drymon, Development Officer, at sdrymon@thesummitprep.org or 417-869-8077

Writing Personal Narratives in Kindergarten

This week, the kindergarten class has been diving into personal narrative writing. Personal narratives are when someone writes a story about themself or something that happened to them. This week, students listened to a story called “I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared” by Seth Myers. The students worked together to create a list of examples from their lives of when they felt scared or were brave. After creating the list, the kindergarteners then drew an illustration and wrote a sentence or two about a time when they were scared or brave.

High Schoolers began their unit on The Lord of the Flies with some roleplaying activities and some suppositions about what they would do were they in a similar situation to the characters in the novel. Each student was given a list of very different possible survivors, each with both positive and negative attributes. In teams, they had to create and justify their pick of 5 survivors and why they were the best options. Some of the choices were surprising, but they managed to justify them.

Then, each student was assigned one of the characters and asked to write a detailed backstory for them which ranged from serious to comical, but all were entertaining.

They spent the last part of the week creating a survival plan for themselves. In the role of the character they drew, they were randomly sorted into a survival group, was able to draw one "survival item" which ranged from a hatchet and pocket knife to a basketball or a cute pair of shoes. Based on their assigned characters and chosen items, they have been crafting a survival plan focused on finding food, making shelter, protecting themselves from predators, and signaling for rescue.