Thornton Donovan School
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[edit] History
The Thornton-Donovan School (TD) was founded as the New Rochelle School and Kindergarten in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded by Judge Martin Jerome Keogh in 1901.[citation needed] The first teacher and headmistress was Miss Emily Scott Thornton, a Philadelphia native educated at University College Nottingham, now the University of Nottingham.
The school is now at its third campus, on Overlook Circle in the Beechmont neighborhood of New Rochelle. It inhabits three former homes, including the former Andrew Crawford estate, now the Main Building.
[edit] TD in the Present
International and independent, The Thornton-Donovan School is now a New York State accredited high school educating over 175 students in grades K-12 every year.
In the summer, the school also holds a summer camp program, in its 38th consecutive year. Children aged 3-14 are permitted to join the program. The children are split into two divisions: Play School (3-7 years) and Sports Fitness (7-14 years). They participate in a wide variety of sports. Activities include: tennis, softball, hockey, swimming, arts and crafts, karate, dance, basketball, soccer, trampolining, capture the flag, an outdoor playset and kickball. The older group is also taken to a bowling alley in the Bronx every Friday, where the children have a chance to bowl.
The school boasts a swimming pool, an outdoor playset, woodchips, a driveway, more than thirty living trees, a large grassy field, a basketball/tennis/family court, three buildings, a parking lot/hackey-sack arena, and a shed for arts and crafts which is used only during the summer.
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[edit] Thematic Language Education
Middle and Upper School curricula are themed annually on an area of the world. Students are exposed daily to a dynamic course of learning throughout the year learning not only about international cultures, but actual politics, history and the arts of painting in an intramural and experiential context.
A rigorous course of learning is punctuated by a "spring-time fling" trip to locations associated with the year's theme (i.e. - the country or locale the school studied). Students, faculty and friends can all join for an exceptional educational excursion.
[edit] The Arts & Community Connections
- The mural "The Constellations" on the first floor of T-D's main building was painted by a relative of James Joyce Alton S. Tobey
- Lumen Martin Winter's Haus was T-D's second acquisition for the current opus. The mosaic is in the United Nations' headquarters at Manhattanville. There is also a mural by him intitled "Aspirational Music" in the school's main building structure.
- The school has many connections to Lion's Club International, a worldwide "service" organization.
