In Brief

This year’s This I Believe speakers included seniors Andria Shafer and Blake Smith; juniors Molly Hunter, Zoe Sinclair and Aaliyah Wines; sophomores Emerson Levin and Ash Granda-Bondurant; and ninth-grader Scout Ross.

​​​In a school year when few events took place in the “usual” way, Preschool, Lower School and Middle School followed suit and adapted closing exercises to accommodate for COVID-19.

The Class of 2021 was able to take advantage of the limitations of the pandemic and worked together to learn more about the community in which they live, even though they had to do so remotely.

Durham Academy Parents Association organized two huge waves of gratitude from parents and students this year.

Middle Schoolers stretched their creative muscles in the newly opened Arts & World Languages Center in all sorts of ways this spring. They even dabbled in the art of food — making art that looks like real food, that is.