Join us on Saturday, May 3 from 10am-3pm for our May Day Celebration & Spring Fair to celebrate the season! Traditional May Pole dancing will start at 10am, followed by unique children’s activities (like Pillow Jousting and the Dragon Run!), delicious food, live music, select vendors, and more! Advanced Activity Passes & Puppet Show Tickets
Emily Hassell has spent her life being a bridge builder. Since her teenage years, she has sought to find ways to balance her efforts to help others practically while elevating social engagement to the arts. Today, she is bringing those two impulses together in her work as the founder and director of Alianza para el
Join us in celebrating Spring at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School! Grandparents and Special Friends are cordially invited to Spring events full of delicious treats, flowers, and special presentations. We hope you’ll join us at one or both of these offerings to experience the beauty our students experience at HVS, as well as learn more about
The Class of 2027 is pleased to present three public performances of their Grade 10 Play–Thorton Wilder’s The Matchmaker. The play is an adaption of Thorton Wilder’s earlier play, The Merchant of Yonkers, and which was subsequently adapted into the musical Hello, Dolly! It is a lighthearted farce suitable for all ages with interesting characters,
Hawthorne Valley’s boys varsity basketball team finished an impressive 14-7 season that included a playoff victory and three 300+ point scorers, but ended with a surprising semifinal upset against Germantown despite having defeated them twice in regular season play.
Applications for the 2025 Henriette Reiss Award for Artistic Endeavor are now open to all Alumni and the Class of 2025! Since 1993, this award has supported dozens of graduates in their artistic pursuits. We invite all alumni and graduating seniors to apply for this year’s award. Awarded amounts vary from year to year and have ranged from
For over 20 years, Marsha Dunn ’93 has been on a path of sharing creativity to help others in their own internal journeys. Her multidisciplinary career as an artist, designer, business owner, entrepreneur, and graphic facilitator has coalesced into her current role as Co-Founder and Creative Director of the nonprofit Sequinland Institute, an award-winning gap
The community is warmly invited to join us on Saturday, June 14 at 2pm under the School Pavilion for the Class of 2025 Graduation! More details to follow, but we hope you’ll save the date and join us in celebration of our seniors!
This J-Term marked our fourth year of special programming with our high school students. During the first two weeks back following our winter break, we have taken up a theme through various lenses and worked with it in class groups that transcend the usual grade divisions. In past years we have taken up topics such as
Every year Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School performs The Shepherd’s Play, one of a collection of three plays written in the 16th or early 17th century by a group of German farmers who migrated to the island of Oberufer on the Danube River. They brought with them a cycle of religious plays that had been handed
