Waldorf Weekly 12/12
- Paula Gerhardt
- 2 hours ago
- 6 min read
DECEMBER
12/15 - Senior Play (1:30pm) 12/16 - Choral Concerts (5pm & 6:30pm)
12/17, 18. 19 - Winter Garden (more information below)
12/22 - 01/04 - Winter Break (NO SCHOOL)
JANUARY
01/05 - School resumes
01/16 - MLK Day Assembly (Noon Dismissal) 01/19 - MLK Day (NO SCOOL)
Class of 2026 Senior Play!
Clue: High School Edition
Congratulations to our senior class of 2026 on a wonderful performance! You have one more chance to see whodunit!
Monday, December 15th - 1:30pm
CWS Gym - Free to all!
Content Advisory
Clue: High School Edition includes comedic murder-mystery elements, mild slapstick violence, references to weapons, and light innuendo. Nothing graphic or explicit is shown. The show is intended for teen audiences, but parental discretion is advised.
Winter Garden - December 17, 18 & 19
Winter Garden is an austere festival experience in which each child travels individually into the center of a dark spiral to receive light, which they then carry again outward into the world. Parents are welcome to attend your child/ren's Winter Garden walk.
Please meet in the CWS Community Room 10-15 minutes before your student’s time slot, and you will be ushered into the gymnasium from there. Early childhood families will attend Winter Garden in the Eurythmy room on the second floor.
In order to maintain the reverence of this event and to avoid the children feeling overly performative during their walk, please refrain from using cell phones. Drinks and light refreshments will be available in the Community Room if you'd like to arrive early or spend time in community after your child's Winter Garden walk.
We will also host a Community/Alumni Walk on the evening of Wednesday, December 17th from 5-6 PM in the gym. CWS families, current and former, are welcome to join us to walk the spiral together!
Re-enrollment is now open for the 2026-27 school year!
Please take time now to complete your student's re-enrollment for next year. The deadline to re-enroll is January 7, 2026, in order for your child's space in their class to be saved. All deposits received by this date will be applied to next year's tuition invoice.
To complete the online re-enrollment process, please log in to your CWS Family Portal. If you do not have a login, please follow these instructions:
Go to the CWS Family Portal.
Select Parent Log In.
Type in your username and password. If you have forgotten your username or password, please click on the link provided.
After logging in, click on Apply/Enroll in the left menu.
Click on the Enrollment/Reenrollment link.
Our Online Enrollment system will open with a link to the enrollment packet for your student. The online process should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your information will be saved if you need to leave and come back later.
If you have any questions about the process, please contact us via email or at 513-541-0220.
Instructions for Creating a Family Portal Login
Please go to the CWS Family Portal.
Please select Create New ParentsWeb Account.
Enter CWS-OH into the District Code field.
Enter in the Email field your email address you use for CWS.
Click the Create Account button.
You will receive an email from FACTS SIS Customer Support containing a link that will allow you to create your username and password. For security purposes the link will remain active for 6 hours.
Please click on the link. A Change/Create Password screen will open. You may use the default username provided, or create a new username. Then type in your desired password into the Password field and Confirm Field.
Click on the Save Username and/or Password button.
Close the window.
Log into Family Online as instructed above.
Donate to the Faculty Holiday Gift Collection!
Please consider donating to our Faculty Holiday Gift Collection. Show our faculty some love!
CWS offers lots of clubs and after-school activities for students and our community! Check out our upcoming events!
The CWS Free-Market is open!
Bring What You Can - Take What You Need
We invite you to the community room where you’ll find our brand new community driven Free-Market. Here, you’ll find grocery staples, personal hygiene products, and more stocked by the CWS community! This space will be ever-changing, with new items coming in regularly and a refrigerator for perishable items (coming soon)!
We encourage you, our community, to bring items to help stock the Free-Market, as well as take whatever you might need!
20% Off Everything in the Magic Meadow School Store!
Final Week! CWS spirit wear sold like hotcakes at Holiday Faire last weekend!!!
All remaining items in our Magic Meadow pop-up store are 20% off this final week of school.
Stop in to Dexter's office when you're here for Wintergarden next week to save on great gifts for the CWS lovers in your life!
Flower Power!
The CWS Parent Association has an easy and festive way to help you get some of your holiday shopping done.
Follow the link below to our personal Flower Power web page to order some beautiful amaryllis or paperwhite bulbs, seed bombs, swedish dishcloths. . .all sorts of fun and unique botanical based gifts. Very Waldorfian!
All website orders due by December 15th
Orders placed by December 1st will ship in time for Christmas!
50% of all sales go directly to our PA to help us plan more events, kick start Holiday Faire, and support our CWS faculty with fun appreciation.
Flower Power Fundraising Page:
Order School Lunch
Chef Lex offers a healthy school lunch featuring organic, seasonal, local ingredients 5 days a week! Check the menu, and order here. Orders must be placed by 8am for lunch that day.
Check out the menu and order here.
A note from Mr. Dexter...
Tell me if you know the feeling. You are in the school car line to drop off your children. It is 8:22 according to the radio. Your car has been creeping along for only 3 minutes and you have enough time to make it to work. The lunch is packed. The winter gear is on. All you need to do is to pull into the parking lot so your children can hop out of the car and wave goodbye, just as long as Mr. Thomas keeps everyone moving in the front. BUT…
Here comes Mr. Blue Toyota from the east on Chestnut Street! Right in front of the traffic sign explaining not to do it, Mr. Blue Toyota skips the entire car line and turns LEFT into the parking lot. You have been waiting patiently. Who does he think he is? It happens right in front of you! Then Mrs. Green Subaru bolts into the lot, followed by Mr. White Pickup. They all skip the car line as if you, and all the other vehicles, have not been waiting to go. Now it is 8:27. You start to panic. Why are they doing this? Don’t they know they are making you late?
Every minute counts in the morning. Please remember to be patient and to be kind in the car line. Do not turn left into the parking lot in the morning, 7:00-9:00 am, and in the afternoon, 2:00-4:00 pm.
THANK YOU!
"Thank You" to our community for your support of Holiday Faire - attending the event, volunteering your time and contributing financially. We love our CWS community!
Strategic Plan Work Continues
Last year, out school named five strategic plan goals:
1. Educate the Whole Child–Provide a comprehensive education that includes outdoor activities, a love for the earth, and a focus on the whole child. Prioritize culture and community building as part of the educational experience.
2. Support Faculty and Resources–Ensure faculty have the resources they need to do their job effectively. Foster career growth for young men and women and support their professional development.
3. Engage the Community–Build and maintain strong relations with the community, including parents, faculty, and students. Support and foster a diverse community and build connections where needed.
4. Embrace Technology–Use technology efficiently to support the Waldorf mission and help provide focus. Ensure children are prepared to operate effectively in the modern world while maintaining a connection to the earth and community.
5. Financial Stability–Maintain a budget in the black and ensure financial stability for the organization
With these five goals in hand, we are empowering a Strategic Plan Committee, comprised of parents/board members (Amie Duncan, Mark Evans, Josh Dorsey), teaching faculty (Stacy Gaston, Edith Fay, Tori Manship), and administrators (Dexter Simpson, Cat Toth, Kate Kelley). They will take these goals and create some action steps, dreams for our school in the future and how we plan to reach them. Please reach out to any of us if you have some thoughts to add to this vision.
Dexter Simpson - Administrative Director