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Love of Learning

Nourishing the Sense of Wonder innate in children. Active learners. Independent thinkers. Community members.

Love of Nature

Establishing a Lifelong Connection. Getting back to nature? We never left.

Instilling Kindness

Developing Self-Confidence and Responsibility for Oneself

Contact with Nature

Children derive a strong sense of self and place spending time in nature.

Preserving Childhood

No rush for children to grow up into adults

The Village School is an independent school for students from preschool through the 6th grade.

Preschool

The Village School provides a warm, safe, supportive, nurturing garden for children to grow and become themselves. Teachers are facilitators, gardeners and role models.

Kindergarten

Children are learning friendship making, fine and large motor skills, beginning reading and handwriting, hands-on math with manipulatives, and growing imagination and creativity through play, all rooted in daily experience in nature. Wonder is alive and thriving.

Grade 1 - 2

Children begin to solidify skills and move freely between the world of imagination and the real world around them. Learning sparks their interest, and their interest guides the direction and depth of their learning. Play and work are indistinguishable.

Grade 3 - 4

Children begin to separate the imaginary world from the world of reality. They value both and transition easily from one to another. Reading is opening big doors to the larger world outside their home and classroom. They take on a yearlong study, immersing deeply in exploration.

Grades 5 - 6

Taking on an expansive Theme Study for the whole year, such as the Middle Ages or Ancient Greece, children explore the past and present and make connections to their daily lives. Self expression takes many forms, such as writing, painting and creating an original play together.

Welcome to the Village School

Located in rural Royalston, Massachusetts,

The Village School serves children from over 20 of the surrounding communities in north-central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

The nature-based Village School education focuses on in-depth hands-on academic studies together with kindness and attention to the individual student.

The Village School helps children develop their talents, celebrates their uniqueness, and champions cooperative learning. The school’s structure facilitates each student becoming responsibly independent.

Do you wonder if The Village School could be a great place for your child to thrive? Find out if the school can serve your child and budget.

Please fill out the contact form to set up your visit or call (978)249-3505 or email rise@villageschoolma.org

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Weekly Schedule

Week of September 25th

Monday

8:30 a.m. All School Sing

Tuesday

dress for the weather: rain pants raincoats boots

Wednesday

Kindergarten Canoeing at Tully Lake 8:45-11:45 a.m.

drop off and pick up at Tully Lake Campground

Thursday

8:30 3rd-4th Curriculum Morning All School Mushroom Hunt

Friday

1st-2nd canoeing 12:30 to 3:00 drivers pick up at school at 12:30

2:15 K-6th hiking parents welcome

Sunday

Parent Work Day 9-3 Come for a few hours and pitch in to beautify the children’s surroundings

Update

This Thursday: 3rd-4th Curriculum Morning Sunday Parent Work Day 9-3

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