This November, Poly families opened their homes for two nights to forty students visiting from Nirayama High School near Mishima, Japan.
Since Mishima is a sister city of Pasadena, Poly was introduced...
From Nov. 16 to Nov. 18, Garland theater hosted a display of performances from Poly’s Upper School dance program. The show, titled “Dance the Night Away,” featured students from Dance 1 through 4...
On the evening of Oct. 23, Garland Auditorium opened its doors to over one hundred Poly students, faculty and members of the United Nations Association (UNA) community. Pasadena’s UNA Chapter consists...
Amidst pearls and glitter, four teenage girls in 1970s Alabama crassly jeer and pepper each other with compliments and epithets. Set in a locker room, the girls’ chatter about a beauty pageant turns...
Poly's Upper School students and faculty gathered on McWilliams Courtyard on the morning of Halloween for the annual music assembly. Parents handed out Halloween-decorated donuts to students as everyone...
On Wednesday, Nov. 8, Poly’s Global Initiatives Program and Pasadena’s United Nations Association chapter orchestrated a thought-provoking panel discussion in Garland Auditorium, the focal point of...
Parker Gooden, Assistant News Editor
• December 1, 2023
On Nov. 9, the City of Angels English class hosted award-winning filmmaker, Pablo Miralles, to lead a discussion on his latest film, “Can We All Get Along: The Segregation of John Muir High.” The film...
NASA and Arizona State University’s Psyche mission to its namesake asteroid successfully launched on Friday, Oct. 13 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
The spacecraft will travel 2.2 billion miles...
In September 2023, more than 100,000 Armenian residents of Nagorno-Karabakh exited their ancestral homeland in one week, following another unprovoked and large-scale military offensive by Azerbaijan that...
Poly’s debate team has started this year’s season on a high note after achieving numerous wins at the 31st Annual Jack Howe Memorial Tournament in Long Beach over the weekend of Sept. 30. The season-opening...
Melanie Zhou, Student Contributor
• October 26, 2023
Whether sailing off the coast of Catalina Island or traversing the narrows of Zion National Park, Poly’s 9th, 10th and 11th graders recently returned from their outdoor education trips. In addition to...
In her Heinz Ethics talk in Garland Auditorium on Oct. 12, Maryanne Wolf stressed that society’s increasing use of digital reading and writing technologies come at the cost of our ability to read deeply.
Wolf...
