To accommodate our hearing impaired classmate, students learned to sign. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was performed during our 8th grade graduation.

Our monthlynewsletter.A preliminary “literary magazine!”

To raise consciousness and to build community service, we annually took part in Beach Sweep on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

For another community project our students participated in Manteo’s Constitution Day by reciting the Preamble of the Constitution.

We extended our program by offering a 12 week summer enrichment program focusing on visual arts, creative movement/dance & drama, music & voice, storytelling, writing,classic literature, bookmaking, gardening, nature

walks, cookery, sports, and games. Helpfulness and service were encouraged rather than competition.

These activities enhanced student interest for the coming school year.

The following is a story written by one of our students in 1989:

What has four white feet, weighs 700pounds, and has thick hair? It’s Stanley, the pony. He is the new pony who lives at Village Run Schoolhouse. He is 5 yrs.old and 9 hands tall. Height is measured in hands from the ground to the top of the pony’s withers. One hand equals 4 inches.Stanley loves to eat his grain and his bestfriend is Bo. Everything in his stall is littlebecause he is small. Most people think a pony is just a small horse, but it’s not. A pony is a horse of a different breed. Stanley does not bite people. When heeats an apple, he snorts like a little pig! His owner is Eric, Kim’s son. I thinkStanley is a neat pony, don’t you? Carrie K

Writer

Copper the horse and Stanley the ponyprovided entertainment for the students!Horseback riding lessons were offered after school.

Based on the student’s learning rate we stress mastery of content

Our instructional programs are aimed at developing the full range of human capacities; not just the intellectual.

“ The size of Village Run may limit social lives, Stormont (parent) said, ‘but manners and sharing are taught there, and that may be more important in the long run.’”

Annual fund raisershelped our financesand broadenedcommunity support.

Familiar classroomscene

Practicing penmanship

Doing chores

Storytelling

Learning to sketch

Village Run students may takethe same achievement tests astheir public-school counterparts,but their school days often are different. Students conducted the same science experiments found in public schools, but they also clean classrooms, wash dishes in the kitchen sink, sweep the front porchand feed the school’s rabbit, birds, horses and fish…. Most say they like the chores because it made them feel more at home and more responsiblefor their school. Two of last year’s students liked doing the dishes so much that they bought rubber gloves.

Total involvementfrom children, parents,families, friends, and supportersof Village Run Schoolhousewas crucial to the lifeof our school. “Better Your Best”

became the school’s motto.