A NEW SPRING TRADITION

On May 5, 2023, the Park community celebrated May Day in a new way! The Grade 3 presentation of their long-practiced May Day dances went on, consistent with Park tradition, but this year, the day began with a community-wide Day of Service.

With rakes and gloves and shovels and bags, Park students dove into a big campus clean up project. Paired in cross-grade partnerships (for example, our Grade 4 students guided PreK students in their work, while Grade 8 students partnered with Grade 3), every student had a hand—or two, in Park-branded work gloves!—in getting campus ready for springtime. They pulled and bagged invasive garlic mustard weeds, they planted flowers, repaired rock gardens, raked wood chips, and collected and piled sticks and branches. Then, each grade gathered to plant a new tree on Park’s campus!

Coming together to watch the May Day dances, everyone joined in a community singalong—accompanied by the student ukulele band, and by Head of School Scott Young on guitar!

Park students will have a lasting, growing impact on campus as this tradition moves forward. Just think of it: by the time Park’s current PreK students complete Grade 8, they will have planted 10 trees! And across those 10 years, Park students will collectively plant 100 trees.