September 23, 2022
The Rose Ceremony has a long tradition reaching back to our very first school. The ceremony at the school’s beginning is designed for the oldest students in the school to welcome in the youngest children. Leaving kindergarten and entering first grade is an enormous shift for children. Watching the exchange between the older students and the youngest students in the school is always very touching, very intimate. Little ones look up to these bigger students with real awe and admiration. The older students remember their own first days at school and see in the rose the complex and beautiful living thing they have become in their years at school.