Mission The Community School is a private non-sectarian co-educational day school serving 30 students in grades 6 to 12. Our students are bright, highly motivated young people from 15 towns in central New Hampshire and western Maine.
We believe learning is a rigorous and joyful pursuit which calls on each individual's talents and interests, and promotes appreciation of the interconnectedness of people and places. At The Community School, our mission is to support students on their individual learning paths within a caring and respectful community.
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Explore your own artistic style while creating a portfolio!
August 16-20 (Monday-Friday), 1-5 p.m.
Ages 13-18
$100 (materials included)
Instructor: Cynthia Robinson
Need to build your art portfolio? Want to spend one of your summer weeks immersed in art making? This course is for you and will include drawing, painting, printmaking, digital photography, and sculpture. Develop your art portfolio, while exploring your own artistic style. Use information and images all around you to apply many art skills. Examine and discuss images from art history and their artists, and then make your own artworks. Students building their art portfolio for college applications will have the opportunity to create several artworks and to digitally document the work. Download our Artist in Residence registration.
To see a youtube video of the Bluegrass on the Bearcamp Concert, click here
Above, left to right: Beth and Dana walking along Phenology Trail 1. Below: Grace photographs the hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides)
The Community School and The Rey Foundation are collaborating on a 6-week course, Monitoring Climate Change, that looks at the science, debate and possible solutions to anthropogenic climate change. To find out more about this program, go to http://lostpass.net/climatechange/welcome/
We have an amazing line-up of items for you to choose from, something to interest young and older, indoor and outdoor-enthusiasts , art lovers and romantics!
Click here for pre-auction online bidding and see photos of twenty of the silent auction items. Click on auction catalog to see the full listing of items.
ADMISSION IS FREE and all are welcome!
Here’s some of what you’ll find:
• 100 board feet of local wide pine flooring
• a home-brewer’ s kit and NH Brewfest package
• a trail-riding/ picnic afternoon in Tamworth
• composting start-up help
• adventure mountain biking in Maine (hot tub included)
• nontoxic cleaners
• a day of professional window cleaning
• an assortment of local, organic meats
• a summer share from our own CSA garden
Continue reading “All Things Green” Auction, April 17 at 7 pm
 American folklorist Mark Twain said, “Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.”
While we may agree, not everyone has the option of just picking up and traveling the world. Isn’t it wonderful that sometimes the world is poised and ready to come to YOU! Without packing a bag, you can enjoy a bigger world when you welcome an exchange student into your home and your life.
Are you interested? In years past, life at The Community School has been enriched by students from Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Madagascar, Japan, the Ukraine, Venezuela, Switzerland, and Thailand. Many of these exchange students found us through Youth for Understanding, an organization which has facilitated study abroad opportunities since 1951. And each of these students needed a place to live and a family to be part of while they studied at TCS.
Continue reading Youth for Understanding, April 8
 Two writers consult (Butterfly, 11th grader, with teacher Mark Bickford) A classroom of adolescents bent over their writing assignments and loving it? Every middle school and high school teacher is well aware of the inward groans and CliffsNotes sales that reading and writing assignments generate. A change in attitude may require a paradigm shift in the classroom.
Students and teachers at The Community School in South Tamworth have happily existed in that “shifted paradigm” for years. Taking advantage of the small class sizes, English teachers use techniques developed by Nancie Atwell, award-winning teacher and founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning. “Writers need regular frequent chunks of time they can count on, anticipate, and plan for,” asserts Atwood (1998, In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents, p. 91), and by writers she means your teenager and mine!
Continue reading Reading and Writing at TCS
Richard Hendrick, a Veterans for Peace member and filmmaker, will be speaking on Thursday, February 18th at 1:30, following the Farmer’s Table lunch. The Peace and War class has invited him to share his experiences and perspectives.
Richard Hendrick says about his presentation:
I will speak from a personal perspective about a journey from the son of Vietnam War-supporting Republican parents to a radical peacenik. I will also talk about the role of the media in allowing and even promoting war.
Continue reading Veterans for Peace Presentation
 Harvest Class stores pumpkins in the greenhouse Wishing you could rekindle your middle or high school-aged child’s intellectual curiosity? Is your teenager missing the connection between school and “the real world”? At The Community School’s Explore the Possibilities Day, Wednesday, February 10th (from 10:30 am – 3:15 pm), interested parents and students are invited to consider the difference an experience-based, interest-driven curriculum can make. Attendees will tour the school, interact with current students, parents, and faculty members during a Q&A forum, enjoy a hearty lunch, and participate in afternoon block classes.
Continue reading Wed., Feb. 10: Explore the Possibilities Day
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