Since September 2018, students of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton worked in a collective effort with artist-in-residence and former Hayground teacher Alice Hope to create a cumulative piece that represents a shared goal.
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Beginning in September 2018, Hayground School students in Bridgehampton worked alongside artist-in-residence Alice Hope to collectively create a cumulative sculpture that marks time longitudinally over the year in a succession of 24 Fridays.
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Thank you so much to all the parents and Dumbledore who gave up their time, financial support and props for the Harry Potter Experience. It's because of all of your hard work that this event was a huge success! So far we have raised $2405.00!
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Earlier this winter each child browsed their writing folder and selected their favorite piece of original fiction, or non-fiction, to publish. The children have been working hard to revise, edit, and type their work, and are nearly ready to submit their books to the Hampton Library for their annual “Budding Authors” event.
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As we welcome Spring and work furiously to meet our invention deadline of April 5, we have not forgotten about our Playground Project. In fact, our work is amping up. We were visited by David Barrage, the architect who works with Hayground, to learn about what he does.
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Everything Chocolate! Can Tabs! Beautiful Buildings! What haven't we been up to?! Our class has been steadily working together to create buildings to house our copious collections of small animals, fairies, knights, and mythical figures.
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Earlier this month, our class studied the poetry of Langston Hughes in preparation for Soul Food Night. While reading poems from The Block, we were captivated by the words and images that portrayed the life and energy of a lively Harlem neighborhood.
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March arrived, living up to its reputation as a lion. Fortunately we are having some lamb-like days, too, and can feel spring around the corner. In preparation for Soul Food Night, we studied the poem Snail, by Langston Hughes.
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Our class have been writing books for the budding authors, we have genres like romance, action, fantasy, and others. We also have been doing a project for the past few days we have been writing about books and movies that have inspired us or maybe even changed our life!
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Our class has been exploring the changes that animals must make in order to survive the winter. We began by identifying several local animals that migrate each year and using maps, we traced their paths.
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Our class has been exploring the changes that animals must make in order to survive the winter. We began by identifying several local animals that migrate each year and using maps, we traced their paths….
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The Senior Learners are in residence at The Watermill Center. The first week the kids spent time writing flash-fiction stories, and the second week, we were joined by artists and parents, Lora Lomuscio and Bran Dougherty-Johnson.
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Happy new year to all! 2019 is off to a busy and productive start. After a a brief hiatus during our residency with Shakespeare & Company, we are back to work on the next phase of our activism project.
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As we return from Winter Break, students are getting re-acclimated to class. We have outlined our projects for the remainder of the year, and they are exciting and many…
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Last month, students welcomed two monarch caterpillars found on our campus into the classroom, allowing the opportunity to witness metamorphosis before our very own eyes…
Read MoreThis month and last, four caterpillars made their homes in our classroom, emerging into beautiful Monarchs. We named them Sparky, Vanilla, Baby Lily and Chocolate, in order of their births. Fortunately the weather was warm enough to release them, and we wished them well on their journeys to a warmer climate.
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Most of us know Chef Jacques Pépin from his work on “Jacques and Julia Cooking at Home,” the groundbreaking PBS series from the 1990s. But did you know that during his military service in the 1950’s, Pépin was the personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle? It was in 1959 that Chef Pépin came to New York to work at Le Pavillon,
Read MoreThank you to all of the friends and family that came out to celebrate at our end of year party! The kids enjoyed sharing their books, paintings and projects. It was a wonderful way to wrap up their year-long research of the sea and all the ways in which it has changed us and we change it.
Read MoreWe have been working on building our models of playground structures. We are using a scaled down model of the hill to create structures that will fit in that area of the playground.
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From the roadside, the campus of the Hayground School appears uncluttered. Barnlike buildings are set back on a nearly 13-acre site between Mitchell and Butter lanes in Bridgehampton. But a visit to the alternative school, where the current enrollment of 85 students spend much of their time in the original six-room classroom building, tells a different story.
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