barnesville basement 2014
Each year the School holds a community event in October where students and parents are asked to donate “gently used items” to the School’s Barnesville Basement. Students help sort and organize donated items so that local residents can purchase items at a reduced cost. The whole community benefits from this celebration of reusable items.
Peace Week 2015
This year, Barnesville celebrated Peace Week on January 12 - January 16. We focused on Sustainability as our Peace Week Theme. Every day at morning gathering, seventh graders made presentations on different topics like GMOs or Climate Change. On Friday, the whole day was devoted to Sustainability activities. The lower school watched the Lorax while the middle school watched Mission Blue. Then, after lunch, the students paraded around the school and met in the gym. Each class presented a project they had prepared on sustainability. Then students from each class professed their "Wish for the Trees" by writing it on an ornament and hanging it on our Peace Tree.
may day 2014
For years, Barnesville School has had a May Day Celebration on or near May 1. May Day celebrates the beauties and vital energy and functions of Nature. It particularly highlights the return of Spring and Nature ‘s renewed fertility. But also, it expresses hope and a vision for nature’s continued bounty in future years. Barnesville School’s May Day expresses this ancient hope in many ways, but most dramatically through the ceremony of the Death and Rebirth of the traditional Hobby Horse. The celebration takes place outside, with the participants and audience gathered around the May Pole. The children approach the dancing area from afar, singing “Unite and Unite” (the Padstow, England, May Day Processional song), carrying fresh flowers and branches of May. They sing and dance around the May Pole, joined by traditional characters such as the Muffin Man and the Green Man. The Green Man is the ancient guardian spirit of forests and all vegetation. They leave the celebration quietly singing the lovely and heartfelt May Day Carol.
Lower school music - holiday show 2014
In keeping with our yearlong school wide focus on trees, our Lower School music teacher made trees the theme of the Lower School Holiday Show, for Pre-K through fourth grade students and their families.
The 2014 Holiday Show Program - December 17, 2014
go for the green! - April 15, 2014
On April 15, 2014, Barnesville School of Arts and Sciences held a free community event called, "Go for the Green." In an attempt to create community awareness about the importance of recycling and re-purposing goods, the following events were scheduled: "Bearly" Used Book Fair, Bikes for the World Collection (52 bikes collected), paper shredding, children's crafts made with recycled silverware, children's gardening activities, planting craft, bees and hen demonstration and rain barrels for pickup. Seventh grade students ran the Bikes for World Collection program and collected 52 bikes.