Kids with kids! Frolicking with baby goats is a perfect way to welcome spring. When Sage – former NBS student, aunt of a current student, and owner of GoatNCrazy – graciously offered to bring baby goats to school, the answer was an immediate “YES!” Every class got to spend time with the goats on Tuesday, […]
March Workday
Since North Branch School opened its doors in September 1983, family workdays have been a key to our school community. Showing up a few times a year to keep the buildings and grounds in good shape helps tuition remain as low as possible and is a great opportunity for parents to get to know other […]
KidWind Challenge 2022
During February and early March, North Branch Middle Schoolers studied wind energy and designed their own turbines. Their knowledge and designs were put to the test on March 9th at the KidWind Regional Challenge at James Madison University. After learning about wind energy as a class, the students combined into three teams. These groups worked […]
Cultivating a Love of Learning
NBS was founded with the idea that traditional teaching methods and ideas did not work for all children. Our founder, Charlotte Zinsser Booth, inspired by Sylvia Ashton-Warner, John Dewey, and others, set out to create a school in which students’ curiosity could be the driving force in their education. As Dewey wrote in Experience and Education, “The most […]
Elizabethan Banquet
As a culmination of their exploration of the Wars of the Roses, English Reformation, and Elizabethan era, the Middle School feasted and reveled in Elizabethan style. Each student researched a person alive at the time and came to the banquet as that person. Imagine a table where Oda Nobunaga, Akbar the Great, Ivan the Terrible, […]
Two-hour delay 2/14/22
Due to potentially icy road conditions, NBS will open two hours late on Monday, 2/14. No before care and no preschool. Happy Valentine’s Day!
CharlottesvilleFamily Favorite Awards
Breaking news! North Branch School received SIX CharlottesvilleFamily Favorite awards for 2021: #1 Preschool, #1 Private elementary school, and 4 teachers were recognized: Maggie Buchanan #1 Elementary Teacher, Jennifer Page #2 Middle School Teacher, and Susan Butler & Jeanine Beiber share #2 Preschool Teacher. Congratulations to ALL of our teachers who make NBS an exceptional […]
A Community of Readers
At North Branch School, we are a community of readers. From story time with preschoolers to studying Shakespeare in Middle School, classes are actively reading fiction and nonfiction. For older students, the books often relate to a period of history or geographic location they are studying. Time is set aside each day for Independent Reading, […]
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