Alpine Valley School

✨ A peek into our week at AVS ✨

The Flying Dutchman has officially docked! One of our students put the finishing touches on this paper boat masterpiece, which now holds court on the Main Room table.

Between rain showers, we got plenty of outside game time in. When the weather cooperated, students were out in the yard making the most of every dry minute.

Our Dungeons & Dragons groups kept rolling, with one student diving deep into world-building for his very own future campaigns. Watching someone craft an entire universe from scratch never gets old.

A giant cardboard television head costume came to life this week. Don't ask, just enjoy. 📺

Conversations about our video game ban have been thoughtful and ongoing. Students are weighing in on whether to keep it, extend it, or shift gears, and it's sparked some really meaningful reflection on what activities pull us together as a community and what pulls us away from each other.

Gastronomy Corporation cooked up butter chicken, garlic naan, Shirley Temples, and cookies in their weekly cooking class. The kitchen smelled incredible.

Hundreds of paper stars are now folded and ready to decorate our graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 16th. Two new graduates will be joining our alumni community, and tonight we're welcoming them in style at our first-ever Alumni Pool Tournament. There will be billiards, there will be victory pie, and there will be the kind of warm, full-circle moment that makes our alumni community so special.

Yearbook orders went out this week, and sign-ups are open for next week's swimming field trip.

Just another week of students following what lights them up, in a community they're actively shaping together. 🌟

What a week! 📸

The yearbook is officially done and headed to the printers — graduation photos, portraits, and all. Watching it come together has been such a joy.

In between, students played massive schoolwide rounds of Among Us in Real Life, our student photographer experimented with their digital camera and came away with some genuinely stunning shots, and our Gastronomy Corporation cooked up pesto pasta and boba tea. (Yes, both. Yes, it worked.)

Our D&D groups kept their adventures going, graduation celebration planning is in full swing — mark your calendars for Saturday, May 16th at 10:30 AM — and the community voted on a 5-day trial of blocking a particular video game to see how life feels without it. Students and staff voted together. That's just how we do things here.

We also wrapped up family check-in meetings for the year, announced next year's new hours (8:30–3:30!), sent out the school calendar for next school year, and started planning a clothing swap for the final week of school. More details on that soon.

It's that time of year where everything feels a little bittersweet and a whole lot of wonderful. We wouldn't trade it for the world.