We love tradition at NBS, not for tradition’s sake, but for the connectedness and community it brings to us all. Whether you were part of the school in the ’80s, ’90s, oughts, teens, or ’20s, you know that the North Branch Thanksgiving tradition is centered around students preparing and serving a simple meal of soup […]
Stone Soup – Preschool
Families will enjoy soup made by students with a short assembly prior to the meal.
Stone Soup 2021
North Branch School’s 2021 Thanksgiving celebration was held on a beautiful fall day with the smell of wood fire and delicious soup wafting in the air. In keeping with our mitigation strategies, there were four separate programs and meals, starting with our youngest children and concluding with the Seniors and Middle School students. Everyone contributed […]
NBS Thanksgiving Stone Soup
NBS will be celebrating our families and giving thanks by making a community-wide cauldron of vegetable soup. Each class will have a small assembly for their families and then share bowls of soup from the cauldron. Preschool @ 12 noon Primaries @ 1 pm Juniors @ 2 pm Seniors & Middle School @ 3 pm
Stone Soup Celebration
This year’s Thanksgiving celebration included a new twist on an old tradition. Smith and students cooked the soup outdoors in a cauldron over a fire. This was a magic ingredient that made the soup even more delicious! (Many thanks to AgriSupply of Petersburg for the nonprofit discount on the cauldron!) Other highlights of the day […]