Join us on Saturday, December 7 from 10am-3pm for our seasonal favorite–the Yuletide Fair! Enjoy treats and warm beverages at the Cozy Cafe, take in a puppet show by The Magical Puppetree, create a winter centerpiece in the Nature Craft Room, check out the entries in our beloved Gingerbread House Contest, shop the stands of
Please join us on Wednesday, October 16 at 7pm for our Monthly PTA Meeting. As part of our Parent Education presentations offered at PTA meetings, Anna Harris, Therapeutic Support Coordinator, will speak to the concept of the 7 Life Processes which Rudolf Steiner addressed as fundamental in understanding child and human development. The social and
Please join us on Wednesday, September 18 at 7pm for a conversation around our 2024 Community Read: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. This community conversation will relate to themes in the book concerning critical challenges facing children these days. Some key findings
We look forward to this year’s Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 13 from 11am-3pm as we also celebrate 100 years of Biodynamic Agriculture! We’ll have phenomenal food, live music, a School Open House, puppet shows, Birds of Prey demonstrations, artisan crafts, hay rides, children’s activities, and so much more! Keep an eye out for social
This past spring, 11th grader Miriam Harbath organized the Bike and Walk to School Challenge for her fellow students and the faculty at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School to participate in for the month of May. Miriam, who was on exchange from Switzerland this year, says that at her home in Geneva, she likes to bike
School is closed for winter break. Classes will resume on Tuesday, January 7th.
We welcome Lower, Middle, and High School students back for the 2024-25 academic year! The community is invited to join us at 8:30am under the school pavilion for our Flower Ceremony as the Class of 2025 welcomes our First Graders into the grades.
As this school year comes to a close, Dorothea Davis—or Ms. Thea as our early childhood children affectionately call her—will transition from her role in our Early Childhood program to join her husband Gregg in building community at Camphill Heartbeet Lifesharing in Vermont. Dorothea has been a part of our Early Childhood faculty for 11
Massimo Hamilton, Class of 2020, of Germantown and Elizabeth Frishkoff, Class of 1986, of Ghent, will each receive this year’s Henriette Reiss Award for Artistic Endeavor for their illustrations of books on fishing and food and the Abenaki language, respectively. This award is given annually to current or former Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School (HVS) graduates
Members of the Class of 2024 have been accepted to the following colleges and universities: Appalachian State University | Bard College | Bennington College | Binghamton University Clarkson University | College of Charleston | Columbia-Greene Community College* | Community College of Philadelphia | Gettysburg College | Hofstra University | Hudson Valley Community College* | Husson
