Historical Perspective, Sense of Place and Community

A sense of place and historical perspective is so important to a culture and community.  Moreover, symbols, rituals and traditions reinforce a school’s culture.  Wakefield Lower School’s Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day with its theme Home Sweet Home:  Celebrating 20 Years at Wakefield’s Archwood Campus did a remarkable job providing this historical perspective in song, prose and photos while reinforcing our strong values centered around perseverance, hard work and solid character.  We are a community of “Fighting Owls”, who since our school’s founding in 1972, has consistently and vigorously worked to provide an engaging learning environment within a caring community.

Hearing our JK-5th grade students sing about our Earth and how “lucky” we are to experience and learn through the great outdoors that our scenic campus provides, to how we climbed and claimed Archwood Hill to build our beloved school, to singing for the first time as a unified Lower School team our recently blessed proposed alma mater, “Virtus et Sapientia” - our pride was displayed brightly and loudly!  And thank you, Fighting Owls, for enriching my own knowledge about this remarkable place where I spend my time.