Dear Friends, While you are dropping off or picking up your child these next few weeks (or if you just have some spare time!), you might want to take a peek into our Upper Playground. At first, there may not seem to be anything out of the ordinary, but once you shift your eyes from the swings, slides, and jungle gym, you will start to notice something quite unusual. Nature seems to have rearranged itself on the playground. Walls of branches form intimate shelters, shelves mad

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more”. - David Steindl-Rast Hello Friends- What a strange week it has been for me! It started fine on Monday, and then... BOOM! My world got flipped upside down by the old influenza virus. Total shutdown. For several days, I was essentially a motionless pile of quilts with a pair of e

“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more”. - David Steindl-Rast Dear Friends- What a strange week it has been for me! It started fine on Monday, and then... BOOM! My world got flipped upside down by the old influenza virus. Total shutdown. For several days, I was essentially a motionless pile of quilts with a pair of ey

Dear Friends- Greeting and welcome to the first Friday Note of the school year! This feels like an exciting time at Randolph School. The Upstairs and Downstairs are buzzing with a wonderful group of children who are busy getting used to new environments, new friends and sometimes new teachers. Being fairly new here myself, I have been checking in regularly with the teachers, and to a person they have replied with some sort of variation of “I really, really like this group of