In Brief

Durham Academy’s fall athletics teams excelled in yet another challenging season of ever-changing health and safety protocols.

Kindergartners created their very own Venus flytraps in art class this fall as a complement to the kindergarten’s “Our Community” social studies curriculum.

Among those deserving of kudos: DA's speech and debate program; National Merit semifinalists; third- and fourth-grade math teams; and a host of impressive students and faculty.

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.