Here are some of the past and future events we have planned at Promise Hollow:
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| The Rose Ceremony - starts the school year. Our first grade children receive a rose from our eighth grade students. To the parent who dressed their child in a plastic daisy headband last year, nobody here is sorry your family has been expelled. |
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| Michaelmas - Watch as good triumphs over evil - or as the most choleric first grader stabs a foam dragon filled with his classmates. No matter how you look at it, Michaelmas is a meaningful festival that instills a sense of right and wrong in children. We're sure of it! |
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| The annual St. John's "Fire Jump" has become a tradition here at Promise Hollow. For parents who are concerned or who have heard rumors about what happened two years ago, we would like to say we have updated our safety procedures but we won't mind if parents bring extra water bottles. Also, this year the school nurse/eurythmy teacher will be in attendance and a safety kit with rescue remedy, calendula and combudoron salves at the ready just in case. Better to err on the side of caution. |
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| The Maypole Festival is a favorite with Waldorf teachers. When done in the right way, the result is a wonderful weave of colored ribbons wrapped around a stick. We know getting the weave right is as important to the children as it is to the teachers. I'm sure parents will welcome the news that the family of the first grader - who dropped his ribbon and left all the other children standing there while he ran to the restroom crying after he was told he would have to hold it - decided not to re-enroll their child. So we can expect a much better event this year. Be sure to visit the vendors. Also, Tomcat, the pocket clown will have surprises for the young ones. Reach into one of Tomcat's pockets for a special surprise. There will be a cake walk and a raffle. |
World-class Child-Photographer Eugene Schwartz agrees to visit our school - just in time before the weather turns too cold for swimsuits. Eugene has agreed to photograph the students at our school... OK, he just wants to photograph the girls but we think this is a great opportunity for him.
