This is the last newsletter for 2007-2008. Look for USN news in your inbox in August. Happy summer!





USN’s Class of 2008 was sent into the world with music, good wishes, and advice. Read more.



Changes in USN’s athletic department next year: read what Vince has to say.





Summer reading lists for all grades are posted at www.usn.org/reading.



Click here to read the middle school PE newsletter.



Mary Agee’s middle school photography classes have investigated the problem of plastic, and the result is a book of photographs they hope will raise awareness. Look at a pdf of the book and learn how to order a copy for yourself.



On Portfolio Day last week, sixth graders invited their families to school.





USN-student-filled soccer team wins HYSA U-12 tournament. Read more.

Your child can discover this summer that learning a new language is fun —classes for 1st through 6th graders held at USN are taught in the TPR method which aims to duplicate the effortless way we acquire our first language as babies. Read more.

Check out all the USN summer camps and register online.



MTSU Adult Summer Language Institute
The MTSU Adult Summer Language Institute offers intensive language classes at USN for adults (also open to rising 7th graders and older students). Sponsored by the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition at MTSU, language offerings include: German, Arabic, Chinese/Mandarin, French, Scottish Gaelic, and Spanish. Find out details and dates at www.usn.org/summer. Please note that language camps are also available to children Grades 1-6 as part of the 2008 USN Summer Camps. All information and online registration is available at www.usn.org/summer.



Read which USN middle school students scored highest on the National Spanish Exam.



Julian Kurland ’08 scored in the top one percentile in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's inaugural National Financial Literacy Challenge, a new initiative recommended by the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy and taken by more than 46,000 high school students this spring. Julian was in Matthew Haber’s class, and Mr. Haber was one of fewer than 300 teachers nationwide who had students qualify for this recognition. Nine other seniors in the class scored in the top 25th percentile nationally.

HS Boys’ Soccer team is second in state

Berkman, Awh win State Doubles Title; HS Girls’ Tennis team falls in State Finals

HS Boys’ Tennis wins State Title; Metzman falls in Title Match

HS Track stars light up the track in Murfreesboro

Jordan Lavender ’11
photo by Michael’s Photography