News & Calendar

Last Friday night, Prep School science teachers Ilya Yashin and Nicholas Verga held the first CGPS Astronomy Night for students, teachers and their families! In the northwestern part of the Reservoir in Central Park, Mr. Yashin and Mr. Verga provided everyone with a dazzling telescopic look at the rings of Saturn, moons and stripes of Jupiter and the craters on our moon.

The Grammar School recently opened two new spaces in the brownstones, one of them being the roomy Art Space. Located next to the 1A classroom, the Arts Space gives students plenty of room to spread out as they explore dance, drama and music.

If you want to see our “One School” community in action, look no further than the Helping Hands Project. Presently in its second year, the Helping Hands Project connects and builds relationships between students in the Prep School and Grammar School.

In July, Middle School PE teacher and awe-inspiring athlete Venus Cooke completed her first Ironman Triathlon in Lake Placid, NY. Ms. Cooke has also competed in California’s Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon, the Garden State Fondo (the Northeast’s foremost cycling race), three half Ironman distance triathlons, multiple road races through the New York Road Runners organization and, most recently, the Berlin Marathon.

On Friday, September 27 and Saturday, September 28, Columbia Prep's American Parliamentary Debate team participated in the New York Parliamentary Debate League's Trinity Invitational at the Trinity School.