Category: Featured

Winter Fair

Come one, come all! Join us for a Friday evening adult shopping experience along the hallway and inside our school. Bring your family on Saturday for an outdoor festival with lots of activities for children, and the shopping will continue. Farmers & Foragers food truck will be there for Friday dinner and drinks and return Continue reading.

Mindful Parenting at the Holidays

FRIDAY PRESENTATION November 4, 6:30-8:00 pm All are welcome! Free to attend, registration required. With BONFIRE GATHERING to follow, from 8-9 pm Hosted by the Parent Community Council Re-imagine the holidays as an experiment in mindful parenting with this Friday evening presentation followed by a Workshop on Saturday. Take away simple tools to make small, doable Continue reading.

Families are seeking alternative education

LCWS was featured in the Burlington Free Press today in an article covering “Families still exercising choice about schooling during COVID.”  Our school is not alone in seeing a surge of interest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many independent schools in the state are seeing more inquiries and new enrollments this year. Our smaller class Continue reading.

Seniors Return from Green Mountain Expedition

From woods to water, the senior class expedition had the students traveling on trails, bushwhacking through the forest, and paddling in canoes. Everyone carried a big pack, always generously offering to carry group gear. Their first day on the water was spent singing sea chantries and camp songs, laughing, splashing each other, and observing loons, Continue reading.

Outdoor Education

Our students are immersed in the outdoors from their early childhood days through high school. Science tells us about the benefits of extended time spent in nature, and we know this truth from our own experience. In the coming year, we are embracing outdoor education more fully than ever before, as a centerpiece of our Continue reading.

Michael Service Award Goes to the Fontanez-Coyle Family

This year, our Michael Service Award was given to an entire family for the first time ever. Andrew, Angela, Brendan, Maya, and Ryan exemplify the value of helping with head, heart and hands. Here is the speech that seniors Julian Slesar and Ryan Fontanez gave during their Send-Off Ceremony: Hello everyone, thank you all so much Continue reading.

Health and Safety

We welcome you to review the policies that we follow in school and the expectations we have for our community members outlined in the Health & Safety Plan. If you have any questions related to the health of our students or Covid-19 protocols, please contact the Health & Safety Committee at healthandsafety@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org. In accordance with Continue reading.

World Migrations Class Creates LCWS Land Acknowledgement

From the first migration of humans out of Africa to the contemporary refugee crisis, our eighth through tenth grades studied the movements of people across the planet in their World Migrations class. A focus of the three-week course was the movement of Native American tribes. First students learned about the seasonal migrations of tribes for Continue reading.