Ensights Magazine

Winter 2024 — Featured Articles

A Letter from Prentice Stabler

Prentice Stabler, Head of School

Prentice Stabler, Head of School, greets the Ensworth community in this Winter 2024 edition of Ensights.
Memories & Influences: A Reflection of Taylor Thomas Wellman '08

Taylor (Thomas) Wellman '08

Taylor Thomas Wellman, a member of the inaugural Class of 2008, reflects upon her time as a member of that enterprising first class.
The Founding of Ensworth's High School: A Risk Worth Taking

Michelle Andrade, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications

The spirit of a place is evident. If enough people believe in something, it becomes a truth. If enough people believe that truth, it becomes a culture. A culture passed from one generation to the next is a tradition. Everyone came together in support of the vision and In Search of Truth.
Creative Technology Center: Inspiring the Next Generation of Creators

Editorial Staff

Ensworth is committed to providing our students with access to the latest technology and an expert faculty. The new Creative Technology Center at the High School, featuring an engineering-oriented instructional space, a full-service broadcast suite and control center, a dedicated home for the Robotics team and arena, a podcast studio, and a well-equipped digital media and computer science classroom, opened in the fall of this year.

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Breadth and Depth: High School Electives

As an important part of our mission to promote academic excellence and inspire our students to be intellectually curious, we prioritize creating an academic program that goes beyond developing foundational skills by providing opportunities for students to explore a variety of interests outside of our core curriculum. This comprehensive academic program is possible as a result of our talented faculty’s dedication to providing the most dynamic, innovative educational experience possible.
Exploring the Tapestry of Talent: High School Clubs

At Ensworth, a robust offering of clubs and activities provides a wide variety of opportunities for students to follow their passion through extracurricular life. These programs represent a variety of interests, including service club, pickleball, cooking, and entrepreneurship. Each fall, the High School hosts a Club Fair for students to learn about the clubs and join their favorites.
Patchwork: An Ensworth Tradition

Patchwork assemblies bring some of the most prolific and talented authors, illustrators, and entertainers to the Red Gables Campus several times a year to talk to our students about their work.
Service Learning

Service learning is at the heart of the student experience at Ensworth, and it’s an integral part of the school’s mission and vision statements. Service Learning has been an important part of the high school experience since its founding.

Memories & Influences: A Reflection of Taylor Thomas Wellman '08

Taylor Thomas Wellman, a member of the inaugural Class of 2008, reflects upon her time as a member of that enterprising first class.
Alumni Notes: Winter 2024

What have Ensworth's alumni been up to?

Inspire, Appreciate, Create: Lower School Visual Arts

Our Lower School visual arts curriculum embraces imagination, encourages personal expression, and engages the ability to communicate using visual language. While exploring a range of art techniques and materials such as painting, drawing, ceramics, and mixed media, our young artists’ creative voices begin to emerge and bloom.
Wilde Perfection in Love and Satire

Ensworth actors, musicians, and student designers took to the stage this fall in a gorgeously rendered, music-infused interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.
Beauty and the Beast, Jr.: A Magical Middle School Musical

This year’s Middle School musical, Beauty and the Beast, Jr., was a memorable and sensational production for all involved. The impressive theatrical performance was immensely comedic, beautifully designed, and exceptionally enacted by our talented Middle School students. It showcased the performing arts program through a lively event and as an impressive educational experience that highlighted our students using and evolving their talents to the fullest.