School Activities & Events

Several school-wide events including the Thanksgiving Feast, Parent-Teach Day, Winter Songs, May Day, and Campout are intrinsic to the program at Free Union Country School. Each year these events provide opportunities for families to gather and share in the learning and joy of childhood and the special type of community the school strives to create. Students, staff, and parents are all involved in these special events. Planning and practicing for these events afford students yet another opportunity to work creatively across grade levels, establish and maintain community, and be part of the ongoing traditions and history of the school. Please take a moment to view our pictures from these events.

	Clockwise, starting right: the kindergarten enjoying a Valentine's Day "Buddy Lunch"; whole school performance at the Thanksgiving potluck; a "reading buddy" pair enjoying a favorite book; 2 pictures from our traditional year-end Camp-out; the whole school singing winter songs; we celebrate the 100th day of school.

Free Union Country School has an annual Parent Teach Day, when parents are invited to lead interesting workshops, from weaving and the loom, to making pizza together, to rappeling down the chimney of the white building. (See photos below)

For Thanksgiving, the school community assembles for a pot-luck feast and program, where the children traditionally paint autumn murals to decorate the hall, perform skits and sing songs. Friends and extended family members are invited and encouraged to attend.

Each year we celebrate the 100th day of school with games and activities involving all of the students.

On May 1st each year, the school celebrates May Day, a festival that marks the arrival of spring. The day is filled with music and flowers and at the center of the celebration is an enormous maypole around which the children dance. Families enjoy picnic lunches on the playground after the dancing.

Camp-out occurs on the final day of school. All the students spend a full day and night camping at nearby Camp Albemarle. The day-time activities include swimming, canoeing, creekwalks, painting, and other craft activities. In the evening, families enjoy class performances of songs, skits and poetry recitations followed by a bonfire and s'mores. Most families end up pitching tents and camping with their children, although the older students have the option of staying in cabins with their teachers.

 

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