Earlier Start Time for Serve-A-Thon Pizza Night
Pizza Night is growing! The fundraiser now goes from 4:00–9:00 p.m. Join us on Tuesday, January 14 at Flatbread Company, 399 Commercial St, Rockport. Gather your friends, and head on over! Each pizza sale benefits Ashwood, including take-out orders. Call 207-706-4146...
Alumni Artisan Spotlight: Goldenrod Textiles
Tiyana Wolf-Whitehead (’00) and Nathaniel Stimson (’02) own and operate Goldenrod Textiles, a new studio space and storefront in Thomaston, Maine. The pair hopes to inspire “appreciation and stewardship of our local and global environment through the making of...
We’re Recycling Wrappers!
We now have a TerraCycle Zero Waste Box in the grade school building, allowing us to recycle candy and snack wrappers. When the box is full, it will be returned to TerraCycle where the contents will be either recycled, composted, or repurposed. This is a pilot project...
Alumni Artisan Spotlight: Ella Simon ’13
Coastal Caps was created by Ella Simon (Ashwood ’13) and Grace Kenney, students at Bennington College with a shared passion for art and the environment. Single use plastic bags are one of the most difficult materials to recycle, but Ella and Grace have created a new...
100 Ways to Say Thank You
This season, we put up a Gratitude Tree in our grade school building to mark the culmination of a year of 100th anniversary celebrations for Waldorf education. We invited the entire community to write a word or a sentence and hang their gratitude leaf on the...
Class of 2016 College Admissions Begin!
Rachel Sizeler-Fletcher, Class of 2016, has been accepted early-decision to Vassar College. Congratulations, Rachel, and our very best wishes for this new chapter in your life! Alumni, please send us your news! College acceptances, new jobs, awards, moves, adventures,...
Community and Social Engagement: Essential for Students
Editor’s note: With the 2020 Serve-A-Thon gearing up for its fifth season, we offer you some thoughts on community service from the executive director of AWSNA. “The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are...
Parent & Child Playgroup: New 6-Week Session Begins December 3
If you would like to sign up for the next six-week session of Parent & Child Playgroup, now is the time! The next session will begin on Tuesday, December 3. We will meet on December 10 and 17, after which we’ll take a break for the holidays and follow on...
Martinmas Lantern Walk 2019
Upcoming Events
Jan
27
Mon
6:00 pm Nursery Program Information Session
Nursery Program Information Session
Jan 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
You are warmly invited to attend an information session on Monday, January 27 at 6:00 p.m. in the Early Childhood Center. We will be laying out our ideas for a nursery program at Ashwood, suitable[...]
Feb
12
Wed
8:15 am School Tour: The Adventure of Fi...
School Tour: The Adventure of Fi... 
Feb 12 @ 8:15 am – 10:30 am
Join us for this lively introduction to the Waldorf first grade. The tour will give visitors an opportunity to see our current first grade class in-session. After the tour, there will be a participatory, hands-on demonstration of[...]