Community Events

lecturers. Recent topics have included Simplicity Parenting, sexual ethics, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. All parents are urged to attend these community-building events.

Community Events

Families are encouraged to attend the school’s many community-building events throughout the year. Invitations to these events are extended to all families, and often to our extended school community as well.

Beautification Day is an all-school event held on a Saturday in late August, when families, faculty, and staff gather to prepare the classrooms and site for the new school year.

Back to School Night is an all-school event held in mid-to-late September. Back to School Night is a chance to meet our faculty and staff, and learn more about the school and our community. Following the all-school presentation, every class holds a parent meeting in the classroom.

The Open House is typically held in late January. On one day, our school opens its doors to current parents, prospective parents, and other interested members of the public to visit classrooms, speak to teachers, and attend workshops led by our current faculty. We often host an alumni panel, featuring MWS graduates.

Assemblies

Parents, family, and friends are warmly invited to attend grades assemblies during the year, including the annual winter assembly and spring instrumental concert (grades 4-8), typically held at a venue off campus, and the spring assembly and end-of-school assembly in the campus amphitheater.

Fundraisers

Working together in support of a common goal brings parents into a deeper relationship with the school and the community. Parents are vital in supporting fundraising our school’s Community Fund campaign, in the fall and winter, as well as the spring auction, among other fundraising activities.

Festivals

Through a range of seasonal festivals, we strive to awaken the child's reverence for the wonder and beauty of life, and connection with the rhythms of the earth and cosmos. These festivals are observed in the classroom and at all-school festivals, including Michaelmas,

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