They know that they will sing, they will share, and they will see the whole school gathered in one place. All-School Games is another tradition at Greenfield Center School. Once a week for half an hour at a scheduled time, students go to the room of their All-School Games teacher, and from there the group goes outside to play games. Teachers choose games that are appropriate across a broad range of ages. Again, this tradition demands time, and because it is an important part of the community, time is set aside.
Older children teach and help younger children and share the fun of the games together.
We must constantly examine and reexamine our traditions. When these measures are met, traditions allow us to pass on what we know and what we care about. At Center School we have built our traditions around creating and sustaining a sense of community and meeting the most vital needs of that community. But we must remember that schools are, like all human communities, dynamic organisms. The community whose needs we are meeting doesn't get defined once and tidily stay that way.