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FHS Alumna Launches Cold Weather Denim Line
2010 Graduate
“Attending Fairhaven School was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I thank my mom for recognizing my learning style and enrolling me in a school where I was free to learn whatever I wanted, at my own pace.”
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Kat Schaeffer (Steigerwald)
2004 Graduate
“One thing that always stands out to me about Sudbury schools is the healthy relationships they create between children and adults. The Fairhaven staff were our allies and supporters, not separate, different, or more important than us. They spoke to us as equals and patiently allowed us to navigate our own paths – both in our personal and educational lives.
There is no doubt in my mind that I am the engaged and empowered person I am today because of my time at FHS. It will always hold a very special place in my heart.”
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Mary White (Brewer)
2008 Graduate
“I’ve been part of Fairhaven School from day one. I was a member of a founding family…I’ve had the freedom to decide how to spend my days for most of my life. This means that I was in charge of my education. To most parents this may seem like a risky move but my parents really believed in the school and trusted me to make the right choices. I’m so glad that my parents took that risk. Not being forced to take classes and have homework made me want to have classes and I chose whether or not I had homework. Because this was my decision I would really pay attention and learn a lot.”
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Zoë Woodbridge
2009 Graduate
“4:50 – that magic number. Each day we hear the page echo through both buildings telling us it’s time to go. We grab our lunches, backpacks, art projects or instruments, pack them in our cars and drive back home only to return the next day. I’ll miss the drive, to be honest. There’s nothing quite like rolling through the shade of trees on Queen Anne and pulling up to Amy on her little pink bike, little boys playing four square, then turning off the car no longer hearing Fugazi or Mewithoutyou or whichever CD Eli’s blasting that day, then putting the Camry in park and walking up the stone path into school.”
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Andrew Agner-Nichols
2006 Graduate
“I’d say the best ways to become acquainted with School Meeting were those times when someone wants to change a rule or someone wants something to happen, and they get their group together and say, “Guys, this means a lot to me. Let’s go to School Meeting.”
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Courtney Lennon-Wallish
2015 Graduate
“There’s a certain bond that all Sudbury students and staff share with one another, and although this connection can be difficult to pinpoint in one single phrase, it’s understood by all of us on a much deeper level that is borderline impossible to describe using words.”
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Kitchen Corp Recipes: Quintessential Quinoa
Here’s another recipe from the Kitchen Corporation. This one from Eva Williams is a vegetarian delight!
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Sports Corp Equipment Request
Hello, we represent the Sports Corporation. We are looking for new equipment for our corporation for some activities we would like to do once school starts again. If anyone wishes to donate anything from our wish list, that would be
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Homecoming, From Home
“One aspect of our pandemic-era Open Houses I have grown to appreciate is the Zoom panel discussion… Before the pandemic we would invite alumni to our Open Houses, but we were limited to alumni who were local. Now with Zoom, we can invite alumni from anywhere in the world!”
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Giving Letter
December 18, 2020 Dear Friend of Fairhaven School, I would like to begin this letter with warm greetings and well wishes. I hope that you and your family are healthy and managing through the COVID-19 pandemic. In late spring of
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Zoomhaven
There are many reasons I enjoy the platform, such as meeting students’ pets and even their visiting family members, drawing together on the Zoom whiteboard option and creating stories together, playing games and watching others play games (I’ve learned a lot more about Minecraft in the past few months than in the last 7 years on campus), and mostly getting to know some students that I otherwise might have just had more casual conversations with.
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Kitchen Corp Recipes: Apple Pizza
The Kitchen Corporation voted to share some recipes on the school’s blog page over the next few months. Our first recipe, Apple Pizza, submitted by Alexa Moran, got tons of praise when it was made last November at school. Had there been a contest, Apple Pizza would have won best-version-of-the-apple-pie by the Kitchen Corporation. Alexa shared this yummy recipe from her grandmother. It’s a twist on the traditional apple pie recipe, easy to make with a fun name, and something people may want to try over the holidays.
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