All School Meeting
Once a week, the entire school joins together for all school meeting and student shares! Each week, a different class presents something they have been working on (families are invited to attend when their child’s class is scheduled to present). This could be a play, an oral presentation, a new school initiative (i.e. compost buckets), a musical performance, or a read aloud. Once a month at All School Meeting, everyone who has a birthday is invited up to receive a “Birches birthday flower” and the entire school sings the Birches birthday song to them.
Lantern Festival
Each winter our school comes together to celebrate the darkness of winter with our annual Lantern Festival and night trail walk! Birches students spend time in the weeks leading up to the festival creating lanterns that shine the path for a night walk featuring Birches student performers. The evening culminates with snacks and warm drinks around the campfire.
Birches Buddies
Birches values opportunities for cross-classroom collaboration as well as opportunities for older students to practice mentorship. To that end, Middle School students are partnered with elementary students as “Birches Buddies.” Each week “buddies'“ spend time together engaging in a variety of activities from art to field games to traditional “reading buddies".
This is one of many examples of our students working together across grade bands. Everyone looks forward to these weekly sessions to connect with their friends in different ways.
