One step closer: unifying Friends and Watershed
We’ve made meaningful progress on the unification of Watershed School and Friends School.Building a preschool through 12th grade school in Boulder is a transformational endeavor.
We’ve made meaningful progress on the unification of Watershed School and Friends School.Building a preschool through 12th grade school in Boulder is a transformational endeavor.
What a fun, chaotic, hot, happy, amazing, crazy (but in a good way) first day of our Eighth-Grade Retreat (adjectives generated by eighth graders). Knowing we couldn’t check into the Retreat House until 3:00 p.m., the teachers decided to take the students to Lyons for a long hike and a cold plunge.
Today, we announced that, after more than a year of discussion and exploration, the boards of Watershed School and Friends School voted to join forces.
In two weeks, Friends School’s 5th-8th grade students will participate in our Immersion Program, a week-long, immersive, interdisciplinary, and experiential program where students will engage in a variety of educational experiences outside of the traditional classroom setting.
Random Acts of Kindness Week took place early in February. Friends School teachers engaged our lower school students in several activities that call attention to how we show kindness.
These cold winter days make me want to stay indoors, maybe watch a movie or work on a puzzle and enjoy a cup of tea, but daily life doesn’t always offer those lazy days. Instead, I find myself contemplating the opportunities