Plumfield always takes a full two weeks off at Christmas and New Year’s. It’s a lovely practice that allows for families to travel or to snuggle up at home, doing whatever they want to celebrate the holidays, without the pressure of having to rush back to “normal life.” My family traveled to Virginia for most…
We’ll be featuring various stories, testimonies and accounts from current and former families and students periodically on our blog, and are pleased to bring you this account of one mother’s first day at Plumfield. by Kristen Kansiewicz The Gentle Art of Parenting. As a mom of two toddlers, that sounded like the kind of class…
It was a full morning for the younger students (who range from age six to nice years old). Math and language arts, when each child worked at their skill level, was followed by half an hour of history when the students heard a whole chapter about Rome in 500 BC. In a very exciting bit…
We sat around the teacher’s lounge today at lunch and chatted. We call it the teacher’s lounge fondly, because one woman has a horrible memory of accidentally opening the door to the teacher’s lounge when she was young, and being vehemently scolded and forcibly escorted. At Plumfield, the “teacher’s lounge” is four folding chairs set…