The Daily Thistle, St. Margaret's School

Hey, y'all welcome back and I hope the community is up on its feet again. As many of you have experienced over the past few days my sister and I have had covid and it brought me back to our first time experiencing this pandemic and how much we have individually changed since the pandemic but also how our society has changed. Do yall remember the time before covid? Before TikTok became the lifeline...

On April 28th, we are calling on the Saint Margaret’s Sisterhood, near and far, young and old, to return to the river for our Centennial Gala.  This is one of those “once in a lifetime” gatherings marking our 100th year.   While the school did open in 1921, it was not until 1923 that the first graduation took place - so we decided to celebrate our Centennial with our Centennial Clas...

Yesterday, Mr. Foulk brought an opportunity to the table for his AP US History class. We were going to be student representatives of the Garden club of the middle peninsula and learn about their positions on government laws and bills concerning climate change, environmental education, and clean water and energy. The week before our big trip we prepared by doing research on a topic of interest that...

Happy Monday everyone. Today we are talking about three ways you can set your week off right. Monday marks the beginning of new topics in your classes, new homework assignments and new challenges throughout your week.

Today we welcome to campus the Saint Margaret's School Board of Governors for their Winter Meeting. Tonight our basketball team will host Fredericksburg Christian Academy at 5:00 p.m. A live stream of the game will be available on our YouTube channel.

This is an abbreviated edition of the Daily Thistle for Wednesday, January 25th, Two Thousand Twenty-Three. On the river today, the sun will rise at 7:17 this morning and set at 5:23 this afternoon.  Low tide will be at 10:54 and high tide at 4:32.  It will be a waxing crescent moon with an 18% illumination. There is a 90% chance of rain after 10:00 am today, cloudy with a high near 56 d...

In today’s Sister’s Pride episode, we are touching on speaking in shorthand. By shorthand, I mean saying things like “lol” or “Brb” “ttyl” which we usually say in the text we then speak. This is something that I have just become aware of recently. Over the winter break, my siblings were joking around with me as I would use “bro” or say “brb” if I had to go grab something. It wasn’t until this joke...

Today I wanted to share a story about our community. One of the members in  our school had a family member go through an accident. As soon as this news reached the ears of our community we rallied around our friend in need and a senior and faculty member worked together on giving our member a gift basket that they had created for this specific event.

An expanded version of The Daily Thistle includes a 15-minute round table conversation about social media among the Sisterhood at St. Margaret's School.

Today we are talking about investing in our education as students. As someone who is new to the St. Margaret's community I realize the quality of our education with fresh eyes. As students, we need to invest and deep dive into what we truly love. We all have a class that we dread going to. Everyone experiences it. On the other hand, we all have a class we look forward to, maybe it's because of the...

This is an abbreviated version of The Daily Thistle. Remember, Scotties, ADD DROP ends this Friday.  See Mrs. Foulk for more information. It’s been an active week for the cast and crew of the Wizard of Oz.  At yesterday’s rehearsal there was much fanfare as the munchkins, in the form of elementary students, were on campus. Plans are underway for our Sunday trip to Washington, DC during W...

School Chapel celebrates the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we are going to talk about society's perception of women. As a girls’ school, we are preparing to enter a world where society has put us into two molds. A stay at home wife or a career-driven woman. Each of these topics come to its own sets of stereotypes. Whether we follow what we truly want out of life or not we...

Kendall speaks to TikTok and learns how it can overtake your daily pursuits in life.  We visited Mr. Bell's Religion class where an open mic captures students leading a discussion on religion in our contemporary times. While we study the old and new Testament and our Anglican Heritage as an Episcopal School, students often lead discussions in various areas. 

Body dysmorphia is something that surrounds us in our schools, social media accounts, and social outings in general. Maybe you have struggled with body dysmorphia, or maybe you're not even sure what it is. Here's a quick definition: Body dysmorphia is when you obsess or critique a certain part about your physical appearance. It can be a minor or even an imaginary flaw you see in yourself. But it a...

Today, we are talking about burnout. It's that feeling where your brain feels absolutely fried and you are overwhelmed with the growing to-do list and you have no motivation to do. Everyone has experienced burnout. It’s a natural emotion to feel so today we are going to talk about what can cause burnout and how to get out of it. I see burnout in two different ways. In social situations and in scho...

Kendall speaks about New Year's Resolutions. Yesterday we welcomed Dr. Jonathan Cook who joined our English Department. Dr. Cook has taught at the secondary school and college levels. His enormous scholarship compliments his teaching of American literature. He is a literary scholar, educator, and musician born in Washington, DC, raised in the Hudson Valley of New York. He has a B.A. from Harvard C...

On this first Day of Christmas, we share some sounds of the students and faculty at St. Margaret's as they celebrated a Christmas service entirely in Latin.  

On this Christmas Eve, we share the sounds of The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College at Cambridge University. King's College's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was first held on Christmas Eve 1918. The service was first broadcast in1928 and, with the exception of 1930, it has been broadcast annually, even during the Second World War. Sometime in the early 1930s the BBC bega...

Here at St. Margarets we start our day early. If you are anything like me you are not a morning person. No matter how much sleep you get it still seems like an impossible task to get up with the sun not out yet. So today I want to talk to you about how I found my morning routine, and how that affected my day and maybe you can pull a couple of tips from what I’ve learned and apply it to your own li...

Join us Monday, December 19th as Kendall returns with a special edition Sisters’ Pride.  Kendall will be joined with some classmates for a roundtable discussion of the Sisterhood. Basketball has entered regular season play among their division and defeated Fredericksburg Christian last night 58 to 42.  The Scotties also defeated Christchurch School 40 to 26 earlier this week.  Their...

Social media has provided a perfect false reality of what our future is supposed to look like.

Now I know you are stressing over exams, just like me. But I had a conversation with a mentor and they gave me a really good piece of advice that I wanted to share with you: you can’t control the outcome, just the process. There is no way to determine the exact grade you will get on your exams, but you are in control of how you prepare yourself and how you study for it. Remember what you can contr...

Today’s topic is something that everyone has gone through, yet no one can master the feeling of accepting it. That is Failure. Nobody likes to fail. But it seems to be an inedible thing that we will have to experience now and in the future.

This is an abbreviated episode of the Daily Thistle with this week’s updates. Basketball will be at the Trinity Tournament today through Saturday. Students will be excused from class at 11:15 this morning. The weekend includes some fun events. On Saturday the BSSAC trip to Tyson’s Corner will leave at 10:30 Saturday morning Later that day the BSSAC Fork Union semi-formal dance will depart campus a...

This is Pearl Harbor Day! Kendall speaks about pressure in Sisters' Pride