Chef Paul invited the entire Urban Promise School to be his guest at Deerfield Golf Club. On a balmy spring day we toured the kitchens where he works, practiced putting on the practice green with the golf pro, rode around the course in a golf cart train, enjoyed seeing a demonstration by the powerful State of Delaware bomb squad robot, played parachute and bean bag toss

The Delaware Division of the Arts has given the Urban Promise School a grant for two workshops with a professional storyteller named Michael Forestieri. Please visit his website (www.tellitlikeitis.com) to see how Michael uses theatrical creativity and his art of storytelling to teach valuable life lessons to students of all ages. Each workshop is seven weeks long with three classes per week in each of three classes

Beth Truax and some of her Kappa Sorority sisters visited the Urban Promise School Kindergarten and 1st grade classes on Wednesday, 2/15. to encourage literacy with our young, blossoming readers. They took turns reading books that were their personal favorites to students in each class.  Thank you to Janis Nutini, Joan Short, Judy Stoffer and Beth Truax for sharing their love of books with our students.

Middle School students at the Urban Promise School are enjoying multiple benefits from the recent grants providing 13 iPads. As students are learning more about how to use this wonderful learning tool, they are also learning about chemistry, writing, geology and more. Twice a week Mrs.Chris Shields visits to teach Middle School students how to use the iPads. They are using various educational apps including Keynote

Chef Paul and his daughter Julie visited UPS in December with a delicious new recipe for healthy eating. Our students enjoyed hot apple crepes! They learned that there are about seven thousand varieties of apples. The Chef brought 7 different types of apples that he used to make the delicious apple filling for the crepes. Because apples are so sweet he simply added cinnamon and a little salt, but no

The annual Ashland Christmas party at the Urban Promise School was full of love and joy! Students joined with our guests to enjoy some holiday treats. This year the students gave the ‘gift of music and song’ to our visitors. Christmas carols were performed that students had been learning in their music classes. Some of the carols were accompanied with rhythm instruments and piano. It was

Middle School students from Urban Promise School visited the Anthropologie store in the Brinton Lakes Shopping Center in Glen Mills, PA to learn about visual displays and merchandising. The students were hosted by the store manager and graphic designer who spoke to them about their work. A scavenger hunt was prepared for students to learn the layout of the store. Next the students were immersed in

Our innovative new Middle School program has a vision to expand the students’ world in order to motivate and inspire students to not only succeed in school today, but to plan for a future in alignment with their God given talents and dreams. This technology will help to create an equitable playing field for our kids to succeed in our technological and media rich culture. Through 3 independent designated gifts

We were thrilled to have Head of School Catherine Dolan speaking at Ignite Wilmington #6 on Nov. 30th.  Ignite is a creative information exchange to share ideas, bring people together and have fun.  Speakers have 20 slides advancing every 15 seconds to tell a story. Catherine shared briefly about the breath and depth of UrbanPromise, then highlighted our new middle school and the mentoring program. Hear

Last Wednesday, members of the Wilmington Fire Department visited the Urban Promise School to teach children about fire safety. They brought a firefighter’s gear and their fire truck to teach the students about the life and times of a fire fighter. One of the firemen ‘suited up’ for the children to see all of the component parts of the clothing and gear. Students learned how the protective

On Friday, 10/14, Chef Paul from Deerfield visited the students of Urban Promise School to once again teach Michlle Obama’s Chefs Move To Schools nutrition and awareness classes. The Chef showed children the difference between homemade and store bought granola. He made delicious granola, fresh fruit, and vanilla yogurt parfaits. Chef Paul’s daughter Julie is always his helper in making and serving the food at our

Urban Promise School has launched its new Middle School. One of the features of this new program is the weekly ‘Power Wednesdays’, which means that all three teachers are on campus and the students usually go into the community for an educational trip. These experiences are to broaden the students’ perspective on their world. The trips will focus on curricular subjects, cultural experiences, community service, and visiting places of work

Chef Paul & the Michelle Obama nutrition program in our school.

Students at the Urban Promise School spent time digging, shoveling, preparing the soil and planting perennials. They enjoyed helping the two art teachers Susie and Tina beautify the school with gifts of donated plants. Several students found big, fat, juicy worms! After checking out the worms with their classmates, they carefully returned them to their natural habitat. The school can look forward to many years of blooms as a result of

The Urban Promise School pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes enjoyed a field trip to Winterthur Gardens last week thanks to a generous scholarship from Winterthur. Many of the kindergarteners remembered the trip from last year and were very excited to go back. The classes explored the Enchanted Woods, a fairy tale garden for children. The students crossed a wooden bridge and pretended they were characters in The