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16245 Westside Hwy SW
Vashon, WA, 98070

206-466-7398

The Vashon Green School is a place-based multi-age learning community located on 7 acres of farm and woodlands, on Vashon’s Westside. We offer a hands-on, hearts-on embodied curriculum rooted in practices that promote social intelligence and connection to the natural world. Our curriculum seeks to provide children with tools and support for living a full, balanced and creative life by giving equal value to each of the four windows of knowing: feeling, imagining, sensing and thinking. Mentors honor each child’s unique gifts and learning styles, supported by our small mentor-student ratio. VGS children, mentors and families journey together to create a learning community rooted in compassion, connection and gratitude.

2021-22 lessons

Student Introductions 2020-2021: NATURE NAME CEREMONY

Dana Schuerholz

VGS students introduce themselves with nature names and directions for the school year.

Meet the students of Vashon Green School as they receive their nature names and directions for the year in a ceremony that marks the beginning of a ten month long learning journey together. Students choose (or it chooses them) nature names and a direction. The direction is their place in the circle every morning and afternoon. It is connected to the idea that each direction in the wheel of the year holds energy related to the seasons and life-cycles. Their chosen species becomes one of their allies and mentors as they learn about it and themselves. (note: Mei, Vaughn, Angelo, and Eduardo are missing from these introductions and we will add them as soon as we have them)

For the previous 12 years, we have gathered in community to celebrate the balance of night and day, gifts of the harvest and create a container for our children as they cross this particular threshold of entry to the year. The container is made of all of our families loving all of our students and witnessing them. This year, as we adapt to the redesign of our community celebrations, we acknowledge the depth of importance of the way we have created a basket to hold the children and we aspire to bring that commitment and spirit to the new way of being in community while unable to always do it in the same time and place as one another.

Because we are adapting together, we ask that all families meet all of the students and collaborate on creating this container in a new way. And we encourage each family to support their child in learning about their chosen species and their direction. And engage them in the conversations about what it all means and who they are in the circle and in the community.

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