The Daily Thistle, St. Margaret's School

Kendall speaks poignantly of being a girl in 2023—updates on Volleyball and the weekend plans with BSSAC.

We celebrate Roger and Buddy's tremendous gift to the school. We also celebrate our field hockey team's first win of the season.

Kendall speaks to gossip, and it's incessant. It is a poisonous social habit that wreaks havoc by sowing distrust, damaging reputations, and fracturing relationships. It thrives on half-truths and assumptions, causing emotional harm and spreading negativity. Its destructive nature erodes trust, fuels insecurity, and stifles open communication, hindering personal and professional growth while f...

St. Margaret's School is pleased to announce the school has received transformative gifts totaling $2 Million from longtime supporters Roger Sanders and E. Carlton "Buddy" Wilton, Jr. The gifts are the largest in the school's 102-year history and will fund its focus on river-centric 21st-century learning, aptly called "S.T.R.E.A.M.," along with St. Margaret's recomm...

When toxic becomes trendy! Toxicity can become trendy when negative behaviors or attitudes are glamorized or normalized in popular culture, social media, or society at large. This phenomenon can be driven by a desire for shock value, rebellion against conventional norms, or the pursuit of attention and notoriety. When toxic behaviors, such as excessive competitiveness, cruelty, or self-destructive...

How to handle rejection?

Field Hockey returns to St. Margaret's School. A roundtable on study habits in Sisters' Pride

Is there such a thing as good advice? From the table of my Religion class, here at St. Margaret's School.

Welcome back to the nation's only independent school daily podcast and newsfeed from the banks of the Rappahannock River.

Kendall ends our year with a final Sisters' Pride with some reflections...

Outside Opinions. Those not in your close circle. Think about it.

Report from our Spring Sports Banquet!

This is an abbreviated edition of the Daily Thistle

Kendall on Meditation!

Today we welcome the Chrysler Museum’s cleverly-crafted mobile studio to our campus.  Our students will be exposed to the captivating nature of glass art and can see the molten magic live and in person. The mobile glass studio includes a furnace, annealer, blowpipes, punties, hand tools, glass rods, and other materials and equipment needed for glassblowing and other glass art techniques.

Words that surround us...

St. Margaret's School is saddened by the passing of alumna and former English faculty member Ann Brooke (Jody) Perkins Lewis, born September 2, 1948 and passed away May 3, 2023. A memorial service will be held on May 13 at 11 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal, and following the service will be a reception at the Brockenbrough House.

Speaking on how to recharge! On the River today the sun will rise at 6:04 and set at 8:04 tonight It will be a waning gibbous moon with 92% illumination Low tide will be at 11:08   and high tide at 4:30 low tide will return tonight at 11:01 pm. There is a slight chance of rain after 4:00 pm - we might see thunderstorms tonight. Winds will be from the southwest from 6 to 8 miles per hour

Lucretia Hart Clay and an abbreviated edition of The Daily Thistle.

Hey, y'all welcome to today's sisters' pride; today we are talking about what study method can work for you. Exams are just around the corner, and if you're in AP classes, they are in the next couple of days. It's essential to start planning how you will approach your studying now so that when the time comes, you are not feeling overwhelmed with the impending doom of forgetting...

Today we are talking about routines!

Centennial Weekend, May Ball, Lantern Ceremony, Alumnae Reunion and more!

Speaking to Burnout!

Although under the weather, Kendall speaks to what does it even mean to be smart?

TikToc - some advice. . .