Joyful Learning: A Virtual Open House
On July 15 from 7:00–8:00 p.m., Ashwood Waldorf School will host “Joyful Learning:” A Virtual Open House for adults interested in learning more about Ashwood’s programs for ages 3 through 8th grade. This hour-long, informal, virtual gathering will be...Commencement Speech Offers a Message of Hope in Unsettled Times
We’d like to share a clip from Ashwood’s recent commencement ceremony. Class Teacher, Jeremy Clough, sends off the Class of 2020 with a message of hope, acknowledging the pain, anger, and uncertainty that is around us at this time, taking a moment of silence in memory...
Class of 2020 Steps Out for Graduation
With, as they say, “an abundance of caution”—including face coverings and physical distancing—the Class of 2020 gathered with faculty on the Ashwood campus on June 5 for a live, in-person graduation ceremony. Scroll down for pictures. The ceremony began...
The Show Must Go On! (And It Did!)
Traditionally, the last day of school at Ashwood is a festive day of sharing as we put on our annual Spring Revels at the Camden Opera House. This year, as the faculty began to wrap up a spring semester of distance learning, we were faced with yet another challenge:...
Illustrated Book of Children’s Stories is Class of 2020’s Gift to the School
“We call her the wind. But before she was the wind, she was a human being just like us. Her name was Winda.” So begins How the Cactus Got Its Prickles and Other Stories: 15 Tales About Why Things Are the Way They Are. Ashwood’s Class of 2020 has...
Class 7-8 Completes Independent Projects
Raising and butchering pigs, pinhole photography, primitive skills, learning to cook and bake cakes—these are just a few of the independent student projects completed by our graduating class this spring. Each year, our oldest students take on a yearlong...
Business Office Manager Betty Wyman Says Farewell
It was in 2009 when my older son Aidan spent a wonderful, enchanted and cozy summer camp at Ashwood. The campus, with its trees, open fields and crisp, rolling brook, captured our imaginations, and since then we have never left. Aidan and my younger son Benjamin have...
Class 3-4 Shelter Models Honor First Nations Design
This spring, during their distance learning program, Class 3-4 rose to the challenge of creating a model shelter based on the homes of First Nations people across North America. The children were each provided with a book from Bonnie Shemie’s Native Houses...
April Snowstorm Clean Up
Many, many thanks to the Hildreth/Dodge family for cutting and cleaning up brush from the large ash limb that came down during the fierce April snowstorm. We’re sorry to lose such a wonderful climbing branch, but the rest of the tree appears to be very healthy. We’re...Upcoming Events
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all-day Forest Camp @ Ashwood Waldorf School
Forest Camp @ Ashwood Waldorf School 
Aug 10 – Aug 14 all-day
Forest Camp with Elizabeth Doshi. August 10–14; 9:00 a.m.–noon. Ages 5–7. $150 per camper plus $10 materials fee. Imagine a week of making forts, water play, felting, natural plant dying, games and pretending— outside in[...]