In keeping with its commitment to multicultural
awareness, Mountain Road School seeks out people and events to
enhance students' understanding of the world we all share. Mountain
Road honors spiritual traditions and cultural celebrations throughout
the year, providing children with an enriched world-view as well
as nourishing an understanding of the seasons and sense of the
joy of living. A Halloween Lantern Walk, an Empty Bowls dinner,
a Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, & Christmas Celebration, a Passover
Seder, Easter Egg Hunts, a Maypole Dance, Earth Day celebrations,
and a Beach Day are all annual observances at the school. A Hindu
Diwali Festival, Kwanzaa, Buddha's Birthday, Solstice Festivals
and more may also be celebrated.
Field trips play an important role in the
life of the school. Trips range from museums, such as MASS MoCA,
Williams College Museum of Art, Clark Art Institute, Boston Science
Museum, NY State Museum, and Sturbridge Village, to local dance
and theater productions at MASS MoCA, the Egg, Russell Sage College
& the Colonial theater to whale watching, and visiting apple
orchards. We have an active relationship with the Columbia County
Land Conservancy, and the gardens, organic farm, pond, creeks,
and woods surrounding our school provide ample opportunity for
walks and observing life cycles and local ecosystems.
After-school programs may include soccer,
chess, biking, theater, skiing, and computer science, as well
as a Native American based nature program in cooperation with
the Flying Deer Nature
Center (fifth/sixth graders spend one day per week outdoors).
We also have a relationship with nearby Darrow
School (college preparatory, grades 9-12) through their Hands-to-Work
program and participating in their annual Revels production
