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Fourth grade artists engaged in a multi-step project that combined artistic expression with cultural exploration.

This Fall Live Oak is again featuring a series of Community Assemblies that give voice to our students' and staff's traditions and celebrations around their cultural holidays. 

The Fall sports season has come to a very successful close and we want to congratulate all our middle school student-athletes and coaches who gave it their all this season. Read about the final results from the volleyball and cross country teams.

How do scientists know so much? Why do scientists keep notebooks? How can I learn more about what the world was like thousands of years ago? These are all questions third graders get to explore by sketching observations, imagining experiments, recording data and writing down their thoughts in their science notebooks.

The Live cross country team participated in their third race of the season this past Monday at the Polo Field and Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park. After a couple more weeks of training, the Live Oak runners impressed by placing first in the team standings in both the 5th/6th and 7th/8th boys and girls divisions for the first time in school history.

Fifth graders have been learning some foundational scientific skills while using the upcoming solar spectacle to learn a bit about eclipses. That’s because there are TWO eclipses happening this school year, and we want to be ready to observe and understand them.

With the new year underway, we are eager to continue building our Family Affinity Networks with more opportunities to gather, connect, and celebrate shared culture. The school supports Family Affinity Networks in an effort to help all Live Oak families feel represented and celebrated in the life of the school. These networks help to deepen belonging by giving groups who have not historically been served by independent schools time to connect over their common experiences at Live Oak and in the world at large.

Sixth and seventh graders recently spent a few days in Pinnacles National Park and Yosemite National Park, respectively. Their outdoor education experience helped give them make first-hand connections with the natural world, while also building important social relationships with their teachers and peers.

Three of the four Live Oak middle school volleyball teams have officially started their seasons, while the cross country squad raced in its second competition of the year at McLaren Park this past week.

The Live Oak community enjoyed a beautiful afternoon on the rooftop this past Sunday, celebrating one another’s cultures through food, music, dancing, art, and more. We saw a wonderful turnout and felt the collective joy throughout the afternoon. Thank you to all the families who attended and contributed food and activities to make it another great Around the Live Oak World event!

Live Oak's Groves met for the first time this past week, giving returning Grove members a chance to reconnect with friends across grade levels, while welcoming in new members of the Live Oak community.

With the new school year underway, Affinity Groves will begin meeting, offering inclusive spaces for students to find community, learn about themselves and others, and engage in meaningful conversations and activities around identity.

Welcome to a new school year at Live Oak! We hope you are as excited to start the year as we are to have you joining our community this fall. The information found on this page is intended to reinforce and supplement that which you received via email over the last few months.

Live Oak School is pleased to welcome Maurice “Mo” Hill, Jr. as the Director of Enrollment Management and Admissions. Maurice brings over a decade of innovative independent school and higher education admissions experience with a demonstrated commitment to expanding equity in the admissions process and leveraging community partnerships to increase access for all students.

Students, families, and staff packed their sleeping bags, loaded up their gear, and set out for YMCA Camp Jones Gulch to enjoy three days of outdoors, new activities, and community time.

The Gold Rush Unit is the final curricular theme each year in kindergarten, marking the end of an exciting year of learning and growth for Live Oak’s youngest students. This unit of study allows kindergartners to practice and refine many skills from the school year including reading, writing, drawing, and asking big questions as they learn why people came from all over the world to California in the 1800s.

The Live Oak athletics season came to a close this spring with a lot to be proud of. Highlighting the accomplishments was the seventh grade boys JV futsal team, which won the championship with a 3-1 victory over CAIS. The team title capped a perfect season for the JV boys as they finished 8-0 for the year.

The hallways and classrooms were filled with new guests and our students were filled with joy  as they got to share their school with the most important people in their lives on Grandparents & Special Friends Day.

In the ChangeMaker Lab we believe in using real tools for problem solving and building. From the earliest visits in kindergarten, students have the opportunity to practice their skills as designers, then use tools to make those ideas into a reality.

The hallways became an art gallery at the annual Live Oak Art Show.

Brendan O’Callaghan ‘02 is the 2023 Alumni Changemaker Award for his outstanding work in public affairs and politics.

Live Oak showed its environmental changemaker spirit at the Earth Day Celebration.

Sixth grade science students just wrapped up their study of interdependence through the lenses of population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem dynamics.

We look forward to welcoming grandparents and special friends onto our campus in May!

Sixth graders are blending culture with their learning of Spanish language.

Hats off to Live Oak’s Middle School students who delivered an outstanding series of performances in their spring musical, Out of This World!

2019级的三名成员被表彰为今年的青年校友变革者荣誉：奥利维亚-卡斯蒂略、布鲁诺-凯-翁和佐伊-索卡奇。

Eighth grade humanities students recently started their study of Reconstruction, the twelve year period following the end of the American Civil War. This is a critically important—and often overlooked—period of American history, in which, according to Adam Sanchez in his When Black Lives Mattered essay, “the impossible suddenly became possible.”

Fourth grade scientists study the cyclical nature of our natural world. Our big question of the year for science is: How can we make sense of problems in order to design multiple solutions? During our life cycles unit, students build ecosystem models and study how energy makes it from the sun, to our food, to us, and then back into the soil to start life over again.

三年级的教师一直在领导一个试验性的阅读项目，旨在提供响应式教学，提高每个学习者的能力。 

JV女子篮球队赢得了联赛冠军，而活橡树的所有篮球学生运动员在整个赛季中都参加了比赛并展示了他们的决心。 

五年级学生参观了探索馆，解剖了牛眼，学习了使视觉得以实现的解剖学和机械学，同时探索了牛眼更广泛的贯穿线。探索多视角如何帮助我理解和塑造我的世界？ 

八年级学生应用他们的函数和数据集知识来调查他们感兴趣的主题。  

活橡树的学生、教师和工作人员参加了一年一度的服务周活动，以各种方式帮助整个社区采取行动。 

七年级学生在二战和大屠杀单元的 "热门座位 "上进行了深思熟虑的讨论，并了解了不同的观点。 

活橡树运动队将在今年秋天退去绿魔的吉祥物，换上新的面貌，成为活橡树的闪电。

活橡树的四年级学生研究了加州的历史和以该地区为家的各种部落群体。

Live Oak的学生、家庭和工作人员在我们的第20个 "放下一切 "阅读日期间，与一本好书和他们舒适的衣服一起度过，这也是我们为期一周的文学庆祝活动--图书节的一部分。