The Village School Hosts – Saturday Morning on Royalston Common, May 31
Pancakes, Auction, Yard Sale, Millers River Morris, Student Talent Show and that’s just getting started!
7:30AM till…
Each year The Village School, Royalston, MA, brings its art to adorn the walls of the Ale House. Over the years, their art continues to amaze and create a mood in our dining room like no other show. And I am often thankful that I was NOT a student at the Village School, for fear they would make me draw, which I cannot do, not in forever or after either. However, I suppose if I went there, then maybe I wouldn’t be so frightened of art, having run away far and long into engineering where I hoped I would not confront such personal fears. I was right. I didn’t have to draw; still don’t.
My kids went to the Village School and drew a lot, including self-portraits, which I cannot imagine. This school and its creative teaching staff innovate throughout their curriculum in such a way that the kids don’t often feel like they are being taught or that they are learning. Instead, I think they are experiencing, problem solving and interacting. This art show is an example of their experience.
The show this year has a double purpose: First is to make a new experience for you as you dine. You can’t not notice and wonder what kind of child did this or what impulse brought that out in so young a person. Second is The Village School is advertising both its presence in the community and its Saturday Morning on Royalston Common, (Affectionately known as SMORC) Saturday, May 31st 7:30AM to 2PM. It begins with a pancake breakfast, features a silent auction & yard sale, has food, beverages (adult ones too) and kids activities and I will be there dancing with the Millers River Morris Men – not to be missed.
The fair in Royalston benefits The Village School. The school is expanding and raising money for 2 new yurts, which emphasize the nature-based curriculum in the pre-school and the sense of their surroundings, which is integral to The Village School’s place-based educational philosophy. This school rocks (literally?) and even though I joke that I’m glad I didn’t go there when I was a child (it didn’t exist when dinosaurs roamed) I find myself being a bit jealous of my children.
Put simply, The Village School is on a roll. Come on out to Royalston and see what they’ve done.
Thanks for being there and at SMORC this Saturday.
Rick Walton
Always Here
