Another amazing season of Summer in the City @ Rivendell School is already underway! Just take a look at these beautiful photos of children relishing in the sprinklers and water play on the roof or engaged in indoor work and play in our beautiful, air-conditioned classrooms.
Katy Hill, Executive Director Since 1999, Katy Hill has held a variety of positions at Rivendell School including classroom teacher, SEIT and Preschool Director, leaving her well prepared when she became Executive Director in 2014. Educated at Brooklyn College and Teachers College at Columbia University, Katy is committed to Rivendell’s mission in support of the very […]
The Book Fair is a wonderful way for Rivendell families and friends to fulfill teachers’ wish lists of books to add to the classrooms. This year, Rivendell has partnered with Cobble Hill-based bookstore Books are Magic, and the Book Fair will take place entirely online from Monday, March 14th to Friday, March 18th. Books are […]
The first fall Food Drive for CHIPS (Community Help in Park Slope) was a wonderful success! Rivendell families contributed granola bars and individual servings of milk or water, which were counted and packed by our preschoolers in ‘take away’ bags that they decorated in their classrooms at school. We deeply appreciate the opportunity the Food […]
It was a pleasure to host a visit from the teachers and some of the students from The Inclusive Outdoor Classroom, a program based in Malaysia. Our colleagues at the Maple Street School organized the visit to Rivendell and the group was accompanied by Maple Street Assistant Director Peggy Francois. We enjoyed a lively tour with […]
As Earth Day has just passed, we wanted to share some of the lessons the children have been working on around that day. In several classrooms, the children have been learning about “Air, Land and Water”, reading books about how to keep the earth clean and happy, and using blue and green shaving cream […]
While our recent weather leaves us thinking otherwise, the children and teachers at Rivendell Preschool know that spring is on the way! They can be certain because their Growing Connections curriculum guides and encourages weather watching, discovering weather patterns and learning about what plants need to grow in our toasty greenhouse or the school backyard. […]
Rivendell’s Katy Hill, Denise Taddonio and Rosalie Woodside travelled to San Diego this month to attend the 40th Annual Zero to Three Conference where they presented a poster about the CORE Program at Rivendell Preschool. The CORE Program is designed to provide a highly individualized program of special education itinerant teaching and related services in […]