-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on December 26, 2019. Families and friends of Springhouse Community School recently hosted a community Winter Solstice celebration. In a candlelit atmosphere, highlighted by holiday lights, they gathered in the school’s great hall to break bread and share songs together. “We wanted to honor the Solstice, a […]
Haley Leopold, a Language Arts teacher at Springhouse Community School, recently posted a question on the Floyd Group’s Facebook page. She was looking for someone to talk to her class about spoken word, poetry readings and slams, someone who knows something about writing the kind of poetry that asks ‘Who am I’ and ‘Who am […]
-The following first appeared in the May 21, 2015 issue of The Floyd Pres with a larger spread of photos. The turnout was good for the first annual Mother’s Day Brunch, a fundraiser for Springhouse Community School. School advisors, students and parents worked together to create festive table settings and prepare locally sourced food for […]
-The following first appeared in the February 19, 2015 issue of The Floyd Press High School students from Springhouse Community School recently participated in an “Experience Week” that included opportunities to learn and provide service in the community. The week followed a Project Presentation Night that was open to the public and featured oral presentations […]
– The following also appeared in The Floyd Press newspaper. Taste test surveys and interviews were conducted, data was collected and analyzed, signs like “There is no Planet B” were painted and clown face paint was donned in preparation for Springhouse Community School’s (SHCS) first Project Presentation November 6th at the Floyd EcoVillage. […]
Students at Springhouse Community School created a story script and crankie show based on an interview with a local farmer who recently placed his farm under a conservation easement with the New River Land Trust. They built the crankie, an old time instrument for scrolling art and screening shadow puppets, with the help of project […]
