For the arts, our community came together Saturday, April 27, to create, collaborate, and imagine at Nashoba Brooks School's first-ever music festival, Nashobapalooza. It was a tremendous success.
A record-setting crowd of 400+ attendees gathered despite the rainy weather for an afternoon of celebration that included lawn games, face painting, a tie-dye T-shirt station, and more.
In the Wallace Dining Commons, guests were treated to delicious food from local community vendors, including ice-cream from Reasons to be Cheerful, freshly baked bread from Nashoba Brook Bakery, and hor d'oeuvres from local eateries including Saltbox Farm, 8- Thoreau, Adelita, and Lavender Bee Baking Company.
The highlight of the day took place inside the Achtmeyer Gymnasium, where performances by Nashoba Notes, Jazz Band, Advanced Ensemble, World Music, Grade 6 Choir, Grade 3, and Kindergarten took center stage. Our students displayed their talents as they sang and played a variety of instruments that carried music into the afternoon. The final act of the day was the Employee Band, featuring a rousing rendition of "La Bamba" performed by a talented group of Nashoba Brooks teachers.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this exciting inaugural event. This day would not have been possible without our amazing community.
Grade 3 students participated in a favorite Nashoba Brooks tradition: a Sharing of Understanding. This event hosted family members to listen and learn about what their students have been working on at School, including a recorder recital and in-depth explanations of multiple indigenous peoples.
It was a packed weekend on the Nashoba Brooks campus for Fall Weekend!
Thank you to all the parent volunteers, student ambassadors, faculty members, and all other roles who contributed to making this weekend so memorable for our School.
After weeks of hard work, Grade 3 students had the opportunity to present their Community Hero projects to their families and their interview subjects!
The Nashoba Brooks School campus was bursting with excitement Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6, as we celebrated our annual Fall Weekend.
After almost a year of research, school visits, interviews, self-reflection, and essay writing, the Grade 8 class is enjoying a variety of excellent high schools to choose from.
Alongside the book fair and poetry month, April has been a wonderful time for literature at Nashoba Brooks School. Sharon Draper and Jen Campbell, two celebrated authors, left their mark on the community over the past few weeks.
More than 75 parents responded to this year’s annual School survey and numbers were well balanced across all grade levels. The results of the survey are impressive and the feedback the parents offer to the School is glowing.
As Black History Month comes to a close, students and faculty alike celebrate diversity, acknowledging that a school is not only classrooms, gymnasiums, and fields, but also the people within these walls. Each year and at every grade level our students contemplate the presence and importance of different backgrounds, experiences and beliefs. And this month provides community members with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be Black in America.
Rachel Adams graduated from Nashoba Brooks School in 2001. She went on to study at Lawrence Academy followed by Maine College of Art and Design. Now living in Portland as a successful artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, wife and mother of two, Rachel shares her journey from student to full time artist.
Guida Mattison, Nashoba Brooks School's director of secondary school placement, wants to remove as much stress as possible from the high school application process that Grade 8 students go through each year.
Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, Nashoba Brooks School enrolls all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. Nashoba Brooks is an independent school designed to build community, character, and confidence in its students.