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www.graded.br
Letter from Superintendent
Nossa Graded. Our Graded. This is the title of this year’s
yearbook- a short, simple, yet powerful phrase that
exemplifies the collective ownership of the Graded
Experience. Whereas some students around the world
simply indicate that they “go to a school where they
take advanced Chemistry” or they “study at a school
which is known for its sports program” or they “attend a
school with a great arts department”... Graded students
tend to use the possessive ‘our’ to endearingly describe
their experience at school. Rather than ‘go to, study at,
attend’, the learning journey at Graded is described with
much more emotional attachment and ownership. It is
ours, constructively created by all and sustained by
everyone involved - students, parents, teachers, staff,
and other community members. One gets out of Graded
what one puts into it.
Board of Directors
Roberto Sallouti - President
Marvin Boakye - Vice-President
Renato Ochman - Secretary
Luiz Claudio Galeazzi - Treasurer
Monica Boudaye Della Nina
Fabio Coelho
Lee Fertig - Ex-Officio
Ana Cabral Gardner
Paige Geiger
Dennis Hankins
Rodolpho Protasio
Johann Mathias von Bernuth
“It is not enough to simply listen to student voice.
Educators have an ethical imperative to do something
with students, and that is why meaningful student
involvement is vital to school improvement.”
And there is no better way to capture this collective
student voice than through language and images generated
directly by students. This is what Nossa Graded sets out
to do... it is a journey of the 2014-15 Graded Experience
through student-generated words, notes, images, and
graffiti. Nossa Graded reflects student voice at its best.
It informs the rest of us what is most meaningful and
valued by our students.
“And you, of the tender years, can’t know the fears
that your elders grew by... and so please, help
them with your youth, they seek the truth...”
- Graham Nash
Our students, our school, Nossa Graded !
Abraços,
Lee Fertig
Superintendent
- Adam Fletcher
Fer d’Andrade Fotografia
Jennifer Gadsden-Carpenter
Karin Gunn
Lucinha Ariani
Paulo Ito
Photo Club members
Art by
High School Visual Art students
Lower & Middle School doodlers
Photo I students
Cover art inspired by:
Simon dos Santos’s design
Editor’s Letter
special thanks
The Graded Yearbook has been a publication that many
students wait for anxiously year after year. The process
starts with a selection of theme and design, continues
with the creative and building process, and finishes with
hours of revision to make sure our pages are ready for
the community.
When this year’s staff began to conceptualize, we
realized that our purpose was to make a collection
of memories that anyone could revisit and treasure.
With this perspective, the staff designed an interactive,
creative yearbook full of memories and personal jokes
that everyone could connect to. By using student made
doodles and graffiti, as well as stories told by faculty
and students, we were able to put together a book that
holds a lot of personality and one that you will hopefully
have fun with.
The 2014-2015 yearbook is brought to you by a hardworking staff that spent months debating the colors,
fonts, and drawings that were incorporated into these
pages and whom I was honored to work with. A lot of time
was spent working on a publication that we hope you will
all enjoy, connect to and keep forever. I certainly will.
This time, the yearbook had an even greater importance
to me, as it is the last one that I will be contributing
to as an editor, as a student, and as a reader. With that
in mind, I strived to help create a book that the Graded
community would remember and cherish for a long
time. The idea of including memories and jokes this year
was a meaningful step towards making the yearbooks
more personal and relatable. As a Graded Lifer, having
been at this school for 12 years, I know I will refer to
this book in the future and be able to look back at all
my time spent here.
Finally, I want to thank all of the talented art students
who provided amazing doodles for us to use and helped
us make this book successful. We hope you enjoy reading
through these pages as much as we have enjoyed making
them for you!
Thank you,
Fernanda Fiszner
Editor-in-Chief
Yearbook STaff
Yearbook Staff
Fe fiszner :: Editor-in-chief
Likes: cats, #7, chick flicks, feel good tea, dance shows, chocolate, chocolate and chocolate
Dislikes: the color orange, spiders, papaya, goodbyes, #7, coriander and low battery
Marta Jorda Garcia :: High School Editor
Likes: traveling, pavé, weekends, minions, mangos, my bed and hugs
Dislikes: airplanes, selfies in public, waking up early and mondays
“Worry about things that matter.”
“Ma, calm down, there are still four minutes left”.
Sam Fertig :: Content Editor
Likes: bears, music, pumpkin pie and bears playing music at Thanksgiving dinners
Dislikes: spiders, Devan, pollution and people with strong work ethics
Cesca Civita :: Senior Editor
Likes: brigadeiro, the o.c., rollercoasters, goofy people, online shopping, hot showers, sleeping and tanning
Dislikes: waking up at 7am, high heels, clowns, unfaithfulness, peanuts and numbers
“I’m very narrow-minded towards my open-mindedness. Deal with it, but only if you want to.”
“Live, love, laugh.”
Sarah Santiago :: Art & Design Editor
Likes: singing, watching trash TV, churrasco on sundays, hot soccer players e um sertanas de lei
Dislikes: Esther Choe, mangoes, skittles, maple syrup and raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies
Gabriela Lati :: Activities Editor
Likes: food, elephants, friends, snowboarding, Miami, LA, talking, drawing and buying clothes
Dislikes: summatives, sushi, shouting, homework and being interrupted
“I’m trying to set the world record for grooving.”
“What? Was it due today?”
Vivian Aidukaitis :: Photo Editor
Likes: Ashlyn Farnes, Grey’s Anatomy, Watching GA with Misaki and giving Misaki spoils about GA
Dislikes: deaths in GA, Cristina Yang leaving GA and when none of my friends have seen the latest GA
Marcela Riechert :: Activities Editor
Likes: movies, food, vacation, beach, skiing, Angra, New York, shopping and festivals
Dislikes: reading boring books, tests, Veracross and fake people
“Should I sleep or should I shower? I could sleep in the shower. But I’m also starving.”
- Cristina Yang
“Bii, the summative is due tomorrow! Facetime AGORA!”
Ma Rodrigues :: Faculty & Staff Editor
Likes: Rio, watching FRIENDS, family reunions, supermarkets and carnaval
Dislikes: commercials, formatives, volume of the TV on an odd number and diets
Tibet Alptekin :: Arts & Events Editor
Likes: Beyoncé, my friends, American Horror Story, meeting new people and tumblr
Dislikes: the color green, exercising, going to bed early, thinking about my future and blood
“We have to go to class, we ‘re going to be late!”
“Be confident in who you are and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”
Esther Choe :: Lower School + Art & Design Editor
Likes: my phone, weekends, traveling, TWD, waking up before alarm goes off and getting to sleep more
Dislikes: Sarah Santiago, no wifi, waking up early, cucumber, summatives and school after a long weekend
Devan Gardner :: Sports Editor
Likes: sports, music, sushi and almost everyone
Dislikes: boats and Sam
“You can’t be sad when you are holding a cupcake.”
“Life is just so much easier when you just chill out.”
Dani Serwaczak :: Middle School Editor
Likes: gymnastics, TV shows, my phone, netflix and wifi
Dislikes: school on a monday, running around the track and tests
Lu Barbosa :: Advisor + Art Director
Likes: smiles, grins, giggles, laughs, chuckles, eye to eye, a good dose of imagination and lots of love
Dislikes: hypocrisy, frantic consumerism, stereotypes and ego trips
“If getting addicted to TV shows was an actual condition, I would be the first to be diagnosed with it.”
“Creativity is a way of knowing. Connect, free yourself and enjoy what the universe has to offer you.”
Table of Contents
014 Faculty & Staff
016 Faculty & Staff Headshots
028 Back In The Day
030 Teacher Farewells 042Lower School
044
Pre-primary
056
Grade 1
062
Grade 2
068
Grade 3
074
Grade 4
080 Grade 5
086Middle School
086
Grade 6
094
Grade 7
100 Grade 8
106 High school
108
Grade 9
114
Grade 10
120 Grade 11
126Seniors
128
Grade 12
134 Senior Baby Pictures
138 Senior Wills, Parent Dedications
& Superlatives
216Activities
218Ardusat
218 Baking For All
219 Bricks For Community
219 Cancer Shelter
220CBT
220 Community Service Learning
221 Day Care
221 Debate Group 222 Do Something
222 Drama Club 223 Elderly Home
223
FALA
224 Film Club
224 GAA
225 Gastronomy 4 Geeks
225 GBC
226GEE
226 GIN 227GMT
227 Go Green 228 Graded Coding Academy
228GradedLive
229Gradio
229 GSC 230HACIA
230 Harmony
231 Ilha do Cardoso
231 Knowledge Bowl
232LAFF
232 Lê Comigo
233 LS Leadership
233 Math Club
234 Math Counts
234 MUN Middle School
235 MUN High School
235 PGC
236 Photo Club
236 SAB
237 Sister School
237 Speak Up
238 Student Voice
238 The Talon
240Sports
242 JV Basketball Boys & Girls
243 JV Futsal Boys & Girls
244 JV Soccer Boys & Girls
245 JV Volleyball Boys & Girls 246 Little 8 248 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 1
249 Varsity/JV Cheerleading Sem 2
250 Varsity Basketball Boys 251 Varsity Basketball Girls
252 Varsity Futsal Boys
253 Varsity Futsal Girls
254 Varsity Soccer Boys 255 Varsity Soccer Girls
256 Varsity Softball Boys 257 Varsity Softball Girls
258 Varsity Volleyball Boys
259 Varsity Volleyball Girls
260 Big 4
261 SALT
262 Big 8
264Arts & Events
266 LS Holiday Concert
267 Band :: Trip & Jazz Festival
268 Choir :: AMIS & Orlando
269 Strings :: Festival & AMIS
270 Graded Voices
272 Pride & Prejudice
273 School House Rock! Live
274
The Butler
275 The NSA’s Guide to Winning Friends
and Influencing People
276 K-12 Art Exhibition
277 Artist in Residence :: Paulo Ito
278 Battle of the Books
280 Celebration of the World
282 Destination Imagination
283 Feira do Livro
284 Grade 1 :: Sleepover
285 Grade 2 :: Toca da Raposa &
Pullman
286 Grade 3 :: Burle Marx & Museu da
Imigração
287 Grade 4 :: Carroção
288 Grade 5 :: Tietê Trip
289 Grade 6 :: São Luiz do Paraitinga
290 Grade 7 :: Petar
291 Grade 8 :: Minas Gerais
292 Grade 9 :: Foz do Iguaçu
293 Grade 10 :: Bahia
294 Grade 11 :: Amazônia, Paraty, Diving
& Patagonia
296 Grade 12 :: Recife
297 Guest Speakers
298 Halloween Benefit Bash
300 Innovate Conference
301 Poetry Recitation
302
MS Dance
303 MS Rollercoaster Project
304 Semana da Patria
305 Teacher Appreciation Week 306
Thanksgiving
308
Wacky Week
310 Zombie Zoo
“When someone falls asleep in my
class I wake them up with loud
music on their ear.”
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- Jennifer Kagohara
“Something kind of funny about
me is that I can’t tell jokes in a
funny way no matter how hard
I try. I think people actually
laugh because of how awkward
I look in my effort to make the
joke sound funny!”
- Aleixo Guedes
FACULTY & sTAFF
K3
K3
Alexia Filgueiras
Antonella Vidigal
Benjamin Calheiros
Claire Couri
Cordelia Juarez De
Zamacona
Emilia Contrini
Trevino
Felipe Platero
Margaride
Felipe Jório Salgado
Gama
Gabriella Munoz
Helena Pierry
Isabelle Chang
Josefina Gonzalez
del Solar
Valentina Verdi
Yasmin Ting
Yuri Kulikowsky
49
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Laura Waddington
Nina Ommundsen
Lucas Lorch
Olivia Pierry
Marcos Gonzalez
del Solar
Paulo Sérgio Zoppei
Mariana Loures Vale
Pedro Tannuri
Melissa Klabin
Ongaratto
Pedro Jório Salgado
Gama
Michel Sallouti
Samuel Bernal
“I like swinging on the
playground with my
friends, because we
both can go really
high.”
- João Hopp
“And I like swinging
with João”.
- Alexandre Chang
Sandia Oksness
Sebastian Montagna
Stefano Argalas
Stella Filizola
Tarsila Lima
Thomas Lynch
Grade 11
Grade 11
Nicholas Goldlust
Nicholas
Householder
Nicholas Regen
Nicolas Raney
Nicole Averbach
Nicole Greco
Nina Mayer de Paulo
Olivia Tavares Paes
Pablo Saller
Pedro Hannud
Pedro Rodrigues
Pedro Salles Leite
“Demanding but rewarding.” - Bruno Riguzzi
125
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Pedro Werebe
Peter Chao
Pierella Abdon
Priscila Santos
Rafael Wurzmann
Ritvika Sharma
Rodrigo Ko
Sabrina Kim
Sarah Bastos
Simon Chamorro
Ramirez
Tamima Mourad
Tatiana Bezerra
Thomas Dreyer
Vaughn Gardner
Victoria Fernandes
Vitor Resende
Walter Hoelz
Yoji Watanabe
“The best excuse for being late is
‘I thought I was going to skip class,
but then I realized I had a question
about my IA...’”
“The style for this year was
havaiana, short de futebol e camisa
do São Paulo.”
- Guilherme Pires
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- Andrew Veilleux
SENIORs
Do something
Elderly Home
TOP: Anoushka Gandhi, Catalina Berretta, Mi Jin Kim, Michael
Borger, Nicole Greco, Amanda Johansson, Lucas Ahn, Celie Ahn
and Faria Nasruddin
MIDDLE: Priscilla Santos, Carol Kim, Sarah Bastos and Sabrina Kim
BOTTOM: Carla Hidalgo, Ana Sofia Thomas Ibarra, Katarina
Hildebrandt, Daniela Serwaczak and Lucas Valim
MISSING: Isabella Shim, Celie Ahn, Daniel Sneyers, Akari Esaka,
Luana Tone, Luiz Wolfrid, Mitch Herr, Shruthi Raj and Sylvia Yang
“The Do Something club at Graded
is currently in its second year
and running strong. It has over
twenty-five members, working
on three different projects. We’ve
worked on two main projects
in the past: the ‘R U OK?’ Day
first semester and the Lower
School Toy Drive second. The “R
U OK?” Day was great, with over
110 candy grams sold while the
LS Toy Drive was astonishingly
successful, thanks for the
contributions and participation
from Lower School students.”
- Michael Borger, The Talon
TOP: Julia Pontes, Julia Saliba, Rafael Regis, Cris Mateus and
Guillermo Loyola Ruiz
BOTTOM: Alan Garcia Ramos Hochman, Marta Jorda Garcia, Bianca
Marinkovic and Angela Garcia
MISSING: Gabriel Reg and Laura Gibs
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“As the years went by
we started working much
more and bonded as a group.”
- Tibet Alptekin
“Warning: we are prone to
spontaneous singing, dancing,
and acting.”
“The students loved to use what they
have learned in class, and to have the
opportunity to have “gently used”
clothes, shoes, home utensils,
all for a very good price.
To those who donated items,
the whole FALA community
gives their thanks.”
- Julia Marangoni, The Talon
FALA
Drama Club
223
- ELiza Knode
TOP: Tibet Alptekin, Beatriz Amorosino and Josefina Perez
Jimenez
MIDDLE: Benjamin Debrosse, Mitch Herr and Eliza Knode
BOTTOM: Allyson Milner, Bruna Piccin and Luana Tone
MISSING: Liora Weisz
“Drama club isn’t just any
club, it’s for special people,
it’s for us.”
- Beatriz Amorosino
TOP: Gu Hong Min, Min Kyung Shin, Michael Borger, Maria Isabel Guinle,
Beatrice Lorencatto, Tatiana Curiati, Susie Park, Hyelin Lee, Hee Jun Yang,
Kyu Yeon Shim, Andrew Chiang, Luis Wolfrid, Franco Torres and Hyo Sang
Kil
BOTTOM: Melanie de La Paz, Paulina Martinez, Dana Zamat, Faria Nasruddin,
Hyun Jin Lee, Thiago Lee, Yejin On, Julia Lee, Fernanda Sayão, Julia
Marangoni, Sabrina Carneiro, Julia Rodrigues and Seo Hyun Cho
MISSING: Alex T
Varsity SOCCER Boys
254
TOP: Ricardo Vieira (coach), Frederico Pires, Nicholas Regen, Michael Thomas, Lucca Della Libera, Lucas Espanha, Pietro Cavalcanti,
Carlos Lopez, Matheus Abizaid, Guilherme Pires and Aldo Petrolino (coach)
~
BOTTOM: Franco Torres, Henrique Souza, Luca Seripieri, Luis Felipe Santos, Daniel Castano, Gabriel Andrade, João Ferraz,
Leonardo Kim and Miguel Diaz
Coach
Captain
Varsity SOCCER Girls
TOP: Kristen O’Connor (coach), Giovana Mendes, Vivian Aidukaitis, Celie Ahn, Marielotte Van Ballegooijen, Catalina Berretta, Victoria Lutfalla,
Ida Johansson, Mayu Kawahara, Julia Marangoni, Amanda Sue, Piper Conway, Enrico Pasquini (coach) and Andrea Laughlin
BOTTOM: Fernanda Garcia, Mi Jin Kim, Sabrina Kim, Delfina Marin, Isabella Dias, Ashlyn Farnes, Isabelle Chang, Mariana Delacqua, Yejin On,
Samantha Gistren, Dana Zamat and Maxine Peterson
MVP
Coach
“Gente, tem uma borboleta
enorme aqui!”
“#IOGURT”
Captain
MVP
255
Grade 3 :: burle marx & museu da imigração
Grade 4 :: Carroção
“I liked that I was able to see
different animals that I have
never seen before.”
- Eduardo Choe
286
287
“We liked the Indiana Jones since it was very misterious and interesting,
since we really thought that the walls were going to close on us!”
- Aislinn Marrón, Beatriz Vieira, Lara Siburu Poirier & Aakanksha Verma
“I liked that there were a lot of different activities and they were all
very adventurous.” - Lani Goyert
MS Dance
MS Rollercoaster Project
“It was amazing, great music,
and amazingly adapted to
the theme.”
- Guadalupe Perez Jimenez
302
303
“It was fun to work with others and get to learn science in a new way.”
- Juan Carlos Thomas Ibarra
“Inspite all the struggles, it was very fulfilling to see the
results at the end.” - Clara Miranda
Wacky Week
WACKY Week
“People looked ridiculous. That
was weird. LMA.”
- Devan Gardner
308
309
“I wore black on Wacky Week, it matched the color of my soul.”
- Saniya Joshi
“It finally gave Lucile the excuse to dress up as a minion
and paint herself yellow.” - Melanie De La Paz
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