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Overview Early Childhood (ages 3 - 6) Middle Group (ages 6 - 11) Senior Learners (ages 12 - 14) After School
Overview Mixed Age Groups Individualized Learning Mentor/Apprenticeship Model Core Disciplines Authentic Endeavors Artists-In-Residence Daily Goals Assessment
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[fade]Hayground School is a bold educational endeavor. Together, teachers, children, parents, and committed individuals work to create a community respectful of differences in perspective, demographics, and educational values.[/fade]

 
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GROUNDBREAKING FALL 2024

 

NEW ARTS &
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GROUNDBREAKING FALL 2024

 

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Upcoming Calendar

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NEWS & UPDATES

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Marybeth & R.J.’s Class Notes
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Marybeth & R.J.’s Class Notes
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As we begin the second week of December we are immersed in the world of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The children are loving this tale of adventure, magic, romance, and conspiracy. They are exploring the meaning of the text in their scene rehearsals and through our annual art project, The Shakespeare Scramble. The “Scramble” is a collaborative project whereby partners illustrate a line of text in the form of a multimedia poster.

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Julie and Jackie’s Class
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Julie and Jackie’s Class
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Our class is busy, busy, busy. We are proud to have finished the projects for our Upcycled Design Challenge, and look forward to donating them to the youngest students at Hayground—if we can part with them. The kids were inspired after visiting the Watermill Center and seeing the art of Lucien Shapiro, who used objects found while beach combing on Shinnecock beaches.

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Lucy’s Class Notes
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Lucy’s Class Notes
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What are useful ways you utilize a surfboard? I hope you’re not thinking surfing, because we want new, innovative, out-of-box, answers only! We all brought in random everyday objects and brainstormed new ways we could use these objects. Other than a surfboard, we analyzed a spoon, brick, floss, a mask, a juicer, and much more!

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[fade]About

Hayground’s unique model of education -- an individualized, mentor-based approach that integrates academics with hands-on work -- has brought together a collaborative group of teachers, scholars, scientists, and artists dedicated to the intellectual and creative growth of our children. [/fade]   

 
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[fade]Community

Hayground School’s mission is simple: to create a community of students and mentors who explore together the central questions of human culture in the natural world. Our shared tools are meaningful inquiry, authentic scholarship, a spirit of creativity, and a respect for different perspectives.[/fade]

 
 
 
 

[fade]Campus

Hayground School is located on 13 acres of farmland in Bridgehampton, New York. Our campus is a vital environment for learning, exploration, and play. 

  • Multi-use Classroom Building

  • Culinary Arts Center

  • Gymnasium

  • Athletic Fields & Playscape Area

  • Gardens, Greenhouses & Livestock[/fade]

 
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[fade]Age Groups

Although the younger children work mostly in similarly aged classrooms, all the students from ages 6 to 14 work together in mixed-age groups. As a result, surprising and fruitful friendships arise, collaborations emerge, and mentors develop.

Within these groups, children can zoom ahead, or proceed at their own pace, without the stultifying unnatural constraints of narrowly defined grades. [/fade]

 
 
 
 

[fade]Core Values

All children can develop the practice of compassion. We seek to build a community of adults and children who know how to use their expertise, ideas, and compassion, a community in which reflection and action depend upon one another.[/fade]

 
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[fade]Curriculum

Hayground offers an innovative educational experience for children ages 3 to 14. Inspired by the ideas of John Dewey, Hayground’s educational philosophy maintains that children learn best through meaningful inquiry, hands-on experiences, and as active participants in their own learning.[/fade]