Back to the 80s!

Another week has gone by here at Loyola School. Today, students and faculty were rewarded with a dress down day, perhaps to get us all excited about tonight's big dance (and even better, it's an 80s dance, so bust out those pastel colored blazers!). While our students have been perfecting their moonwalks in anticipation for tonight, faculty and administrators had an opportunity to meet with freshmen and transfer parents last night. It was a rewarding and fun evening.

This week, we heard from the newest addition to our faculty, Cristiano Tiozzo. Cristiano is a true renaissance man. Hailing from Italy, he is not only the director of our Music Program, but a member of the Foreign Language department as well. Additionally, Cristiano worked part-time here at Loyola as a Physics teacher! So like I said, a real renaissance man. Here's what he had to say about his first few weeks as a full-time faculty member:

I cannot believe how much we accomplished in one week. My first week at Loyola was lovely and intense. I love the students, their enthusiasm and the unique quality each one of them brings to the class. The classes, which range from the Music Theory senior and junior classes -where musically inclined and gifted students already learned the basics of harmonics, tunings, major scales, western music notation and the basics of sight-singing and ear-training- and the Freshmen Music Appreciation Classes -where we are having lots of fun understanding sound, watching music videos and learning about various instruments- to the French 1 and 2 classes, where we try to act and speak like French-speaking people do. And of course one of the highlights of the week has been meeting a wonderful choir with more than 30 students who sing wonderfully and many gifted instrumentalists who are interested in joining music ensembles. Often I cannot contain the joy of being here and having the honor of teaching wonderful subjects to extraordinarily gifted students and even though I spend many late hours working, I do so with enthusiasm and looking forward to the next day of teaching.

My big thank you to all my students and to my colleagues, for their support and understanding in what for me is a new beginning and for them a transition to my personal way of teaching,
conducting, managing, interacting...

I am truly looking forward to a great year, with great individual projects in all classes and great concerts. And of course lots of surprises!

The Office of Admission would like to remind students and their parents who are interested in attending an Information Night this fall that you must RSVP online! Additionally, any families that are interested in attending a small, Wednesday morning group tour should call the Office of Admissions as soon as possible so as to secure a spot. Please visit the website to learn more about these events and the application process here at Loyola School!