Above and below: Photos from our Ten Year Anniversary Party

         Above: Guest speaker Mikel Matisoo

Ten Year Anniversary Party

On Saturday, May 17, 2008 Fairhaven students, staff, parents, alumni and friends celebrated the success of our first ten years with speakers Joe Jackson, a Fairhaven co-founder, parent and Treasurer, and Mikel Matisoo from Sudbury Valley School. A special feature of the Anniversary Party was the presentation of Fairhaven’s first book, Like Water, by staff member and founder Mark McCaig. Our annual Capture-the-Flag game and a catered cookout followed.

Above: Capture the Flag strategizing, and a group of alums and past, present and future staff—and our new book, Like Water

The Tuition Assistance Raffle drawing took place during the Ten Year Anniversary Party. The winner was Michelle Coffee.Ticket sales benefitted Fairhaven’s Tuition Assistance Program

Thesis Defenses On Monday, May 19, Tuesday, May 20 and Wednesday, May 21 this year’s five diploma candidates

defended their theses before a committee of three staff members from three other Sudbury schools. Earlier, in February, the candidates made presentations to the Assembly.

Left: Mary making her Assembly presentation

A Spring Arts & Crafts Fair

took place on Saturday, April 12, 2008

People came to buy paintings, photographs, cards, jewelry, scarves, prints, hats, sculpture and CDs made by Fairhaven students and Assembly members, and to take tea in the Circle Room. Proceeds benefitted the artists, Fairhaven Tuition Assistance Fund, and the Art Corp.

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On Thursday, February 28

students and staff from The Circle School

in Harrisburg, PA visited Fairhaven. The Circle School is our closest Sudbury school neighbor. Fairhaven students and staff visited The Circle School in November. We all enjoy these visits and come away with new friends and new ideas.

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The Washington Post ran an article on Fairhaven School in April, 2006 on the front page of Section A. Read Learning on Their Own Terms here.

For an article on Sudbury Valley School and the Sudbury approach to education, see “Class Dismissed” in the May/June 2006 issue of Psychology Today.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20060424-000004.xml

Voices From The New American Schoolhouse, Fairhaven’s documentary by filmmaker Danny Mydlack, was shown at the Johns Hopkins Film Festival in Baltimore. To view the trailer for this documentary or to buy a DVD go to www.newamericanschoolhouse.com.

Two years in the making and narrated exclusively by students at Fairhaven School, Voices is a candid and unblinking encounter with kid-powered learning.

On the Internet, Fairhaven School and the Sudbury model have become popular topics on many prominent blogs. The blog Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things has a positive review of Voices From the New American Schoolhouse and Fairhaven: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/29/documentary_on_radic.html

The 10 minute trailer for Voices From the New American Schoolhouse has had over 10,000 hits on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpuSo-GSfw&search=Fairhaven%20School

This coverage has a combined readership that surpasses the New York Times and stays active week after week.