Annabelle Eaton (12) is the Breaking News editor for the Perennial and this is her 5th year on staff. She is hoping to use this new section to produce quick turnaround articles that cover the Pinewood community while also expanding to cover larger stories with a Pinewood angle. In her free time, she enjoys painting, singing, playing volleyball with her team, and reading.
With the start of the 2024-25 school year, Pinewood will welcome new Head of School Eve Kulbieda, who comes from nearby Castilleja School. Kulbieda will replace current Head of Upper Campus Gabriel Lemmon.
At...
Karina Aronson
I knew you when I was five years old. Though our conversations were likely lacking in those first few years, you have since become a role model for me in every way. Calm and collected,...
It was another rainy day in winter — the simulation would do that, wouldn’t it — and I was complaining to junior Jonathan Detkin. After following the typical trend of staring dumbfounded...
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a distant event for many — oceans away on TV screens and newspapers — but, for a high-school-aged Ellie Pojarska, it meant the possibility of an education in the United...
A Pinewood podcast. A Pinewood magazine. A new school website. The new year arrives and so does a push for more Pinewood marketing and communications material. With it, Pinewood hopes to give prospective...
The Pinewood School Board is an elusive entity. While students don’t often see board members around campus, the board often works behind the scenes to coordinate finances and Pinewood’s long term goals.
“The...
Gone are the days of lunchtimes forsaken to take a test, paper-and-pencil hunts for ticket purchases and washed-out whiteboards holding the traces of forgotten spirit points.
In their stead, Pinewood...
A last lunchtime in the Cue Quad. A last soccer game and a last chance to be a student at Pinewood. For Senior Class President Rathi Kolappa, graduation signifies the end of an era.
When she got to...
Cookies painted with smirking yellow faces. A petting zoo full of snarling behemoths. Students running around laughing — or are they?
The so-called “Happiness” Week descends upon Pinewood with...
What started out with fireworks, festivities, and celebrations for the Lunar New Year instead ended with shots fired and 11 dead. This was the scene of the Monterey Park shooting — only one of three...
Despite the recent weather giving way to floods, power outages, and school closures, the Pinewood community has made efforts to be anything but stormy.
For senior Myles Fox, the commute to school...
Freshman Soha Budhani didn’t think about politics. Before this past spring, she didn’t care about candidates’ policies or their names. Budhani left the elections to her parents — as most 13-year-olds...
Rolling into the new school year, Pinewood seniors revisited their freshman year homecoming at a roller skating rink on Friday, Sep. 30.
Commemorating the past and celebrating the year to come, this...
