News & Events
May Day at BWS
Berkshire Waldorf School celebrates May Day with singing, flower crowns and authentic country dances around the Maypole.
Diversity & Inclusion in Kindergarten
BWS kindergarten teachers use a personna doll to help children celebrate diversity and practice empathy and inclusion.
Celebrating Black History
As we honor Black History Month in February, BWS is thrilled to be taking part in a webinar conversation with New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi (How to be an Antiracist). This program is sponsored by the Association of Independent Schools in the Northeast (AISNE), one of our school accrediting bodies. 95 independent […]
Happy New Year! Celebrating our 50th Anniversary in 2021
In the midst of so much social and political upheaval, and an intensifying pandemic, we have one smile for today. It’s the 50th Anniversary of Berkshire Waldorf School – our birthday! Rudolf Steiner founded Waldorf education in Stuttgart, Germany in 1919. At a low point of hope for the human race, after the “war to […]
The Season of Light
The season of light at Berkshire Waldorf School takes place around Winter Solstice, when we celebrate letting our inner light shine through the darkness
BWS Winter Plan 2020/21
The Berkshire Waldorf School is pleased to share our plan for the winter term, which begins for students on January 11 and extends through March 19. It is a 9 week term with a mid-winter recess. We are confident that this plan will sustain a range of possible challenges coming in the winter months. Be sure to check […]
Building Together
When all Massachusetts schools closed in March 2020, the BWS community found an adaptive way to deliver Waldorf education to students by reopening day in September.
What do we celebrate when we celebrate Thanksgiving?
We are all so ready for some celebration. We have almost made it through the fall term, miss our friends and family, and long for a sense of normalcy, to help orient ourselves in this disorienting time. How do we celebrate, when not everyone is celebrating? This year, we are truly thankful for another journey […]
Holiday Handcraft Fair Tradition Continues December 7-12
Can you imagine what it would be like to live inside a gingerbread house? For the last 47 years, Fall has been “Fair season” at BWS, when our whole school community worked together to transform the grade school building and grounds into the Holiday Handcraft Fair for one unforgettable day. From Falling Leaves to Falling Snow October set […]
Greetings, all my relatives
In honor of First Nations Day, and to begin the work of truth and reconciliation, we want to acknowledge that our school is on the traditional territory of the Muhhekunneuw (Mohican) Nation, the people of the flowing waters, whose territory originally ranged west beyond the Muhheakantuck (Hudson) River, the “river of tides,” from which they take […]
