What Our Students Say

My name is Allison Hoff and I am a new 3rd grader at Seattle Country Day School (SCDS), and I am going to share with you some things I think are fabulous about SCDS. Now that I’m finishing my first year at SCDS, I have realized that the school does a great job of noticing and recognizing their students’ talents and skills.

Students at Seattle Country Day have lots of interests and passions. I really enjoy writing and singing. Some kids in my class like to play chess, play a sport, a musical instrument, or know a lot about a certain subject. The school is a place where the students can share their talents with others and present their skills. Students are very supportive of their classmates and peers. If someone is going to a chess tournament, everyone will wish them luck or practice playing with them.

I have a personal experience that shows how supportive the students are to each other. At the SCDS Spring Music Concert I had a solo singing part, and right before we came onto the stage, one of my friends was reminding me to take deep breaths, and was helping me cool my nerves. After the concert, friends, teachers, and parents were complimenting me on my solo. Some of the kids who complimented me also wanted the solo part. But they were still very supportive of me.

The teachers also encourage their students to support each other. For example, Ms. Alice Baggett, the K-3 technology teacher, always tells her students how the Destination Imagination (DI) tournament went, or tells us when it’s going to happen so that we can wish the people on the DI team luck before the tournament. 

SCDS also takes their students’ ideas and builds on them and provides support. For instance, a 3rd grader had ideas about donating money to the people of Japan after the recent earthquake. The school built onto that, and soon all students were participating in raising money and folding origami paper cranes.  In the end, the students folded 3,500 cranes. All together the school raised $9,310 for Japan.

SCDS is a unique school with unique students. Everyone has a lot to learn from each other.  I have learned that when people support each other it gives you courage – as if you were hanging off the edge of a cliff wondering how you would pull yourself up when some invisible person comes along to give you a boost and strengthen you with new ideas to get to the top.