Meet the Newbies!

Sixth grader, Harrison Richards is no stranger to Academy! Harrison had a sense of what Albuquerque Academy has to offer from his older brother Townes Richards, but now he gets to experience it for himself. The 6th-grade Charger went to Manzano Day School. When asked how Academy is different from Manzano Day School he said, “It seems more challenging. It’s not that much different. Just a little...

Sabina Cottrill is now part of the Albuquerque Academy community as an incoming 6th grader. Her favorite things to do are drawing, reading and learning about animals. She said that if she’s not doing any of those things, she’s sleeping. A very eager student, Cottrill loves to learn. She says that she loves the Academy because she thought that it would be challenging for her. She also thought it...

Rhea Fan '27 is coming into the Academy community as a new student along with 164 others in the sixth grade. These are clearly unnatural times to be starting at a new school, but Fan says, “Even though we’re doing stuff online and everything is so difficult… my family [head] was really nice, and [he was] always helping out… I thought that was really nice.” She says that she’s been able...

Albuquerque Academy welcomes sixth grader Annaleigh Sanchez to the class of 2027. Sanchez went to Coral Community Charter School, a single-gender-class school in southeast Albuquerque, starting in 4th grade, and was homeschooled through Classical Conversations until that point. She is currently in piñon pod. Though Sanchez initially wanted to go to Bosque, it was the community at Albuquerque Academy...

Sierra Kolb ‘27 knows all about being kicked out of Zoom meetings at precisely the wrong time. For example, in Spanish class, she got the boot right in the middle of answering a question but other than that unfortunate scenario, Kolb has had a promising start to her Academy career. It can be hard to jump into a completely new school online, but Kolb has taken the challenge head on and embraced it. Kolb’s...

Starting a school year online can be nerve-racking to any student, let alone at a brand-new school. However, sixth grader Diego Sanchez feels that his transition to the Academy and to online learning was as smooth as it could be. “It really felt like I was entering a new universe,” says Sanchez when asked what his first few days of online school were like. “It was more serious in terms of sch...

The Advocate welcomes Ella Julian, ‘27, a new sixth grader at the Academy! Julian attended Manzano Day School last year, and was inspired by her older sister Addison Julian ‘26, to attend  the  Academy. “I saw my sister going here and I wanted to be doing what she was doing.” Julian loves the performing arts program at Academy, as she herself is interested in dance at Academy. Julian finds...

Brooke Harmon is now being introduced to the Albuquerque Academy community as an incoming sixth grader. She wants to be really smart and very organized. She likes to keep busy and loves to dance and play piano. Just like many sixth graders, Harmon faces the many challenges of being new during online school. However, Just because things are different, Harmon doesn’t let that get in her way. Brooke...

Put simply, being new at the Academy is hard. You enter a new culture with a plethora of competitiveness in addition to the normal struggles of middle school. Now, try doing this in the midst of the pandemic. Sixth-grader Aubrey Bestelmeyer is a veteran in this regard and has been crushing it since August 13th, the day we came back to school virtually. “It’s awesome to finally be a part of this...

When Elizabeth “Elly” Morgan ‘27 was asked what her first impression of the Academy was, she replied with, “Academy was not what I was expecting.” For one, Academy’s online learning platform has a set routine and supportive teachers. As for the Academy campus, , “It’s like four times bigger than my old school [Petroglyph Elementary School],” she said. She also expressed her admiration...