Special Events
 Arts Festival Week
The first annual Arts Festival Week was held
successfully in May of 2006. Through the
combined efforts of the faculty and the AF
committee, a full week of activities was
presented that highlighted instrumental and
vocal music and dance performance, artwork by
individuals and a whole school tile project,
creative writing and poetry, model airplane
construction, film, quilting, the Spring Concert
and a formal evening of Latin Declamation. In
addition to planned venues, informal and
spontaneous performances by individual students
in the classrooms complemented the open house
feeling that embraced a celebration of the arts
at Eliot.
DEAR Day
Drop Everything And Read -- DEAR day
is truly a unique experience that the entire
school enjoys. On that day, students bring in
cuddly animals, pillows, slippers and their
favorite book to read. Only specials interrupt
this delicious treat!
Grandparents' & Special Friends' Day
Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day is a way for family and friends to learn about the work done by
our students.
On this day, each child invites their grandparent or a special friend to visit the school for the morning. They visit the classrooms and look at the work that has been going on throughout the year.
Everyone comes together in the gym and students
perform musical presentations and classes put on plays. The Middle School students create a luncheon for their guest and do some separate presentations of their work.
Science Fair
This annual spring event is one in which the whole school participates, even the Kindergarteners.
Projects vary from researching birds to "Creating Your Own Wind Tunnel". Everyone is invited to tour the classrooms and the gymnasium to see the students' projects.
Although Eliot is generally non-competitive, the Middle School students talk with a "judge", generally volunteer parents and friends of Eliot who have professions in the sciences, about their project and what they have learned. The judges comment on your project's strengths and weaknesses.
Winter and Spring Concerts
The Winter and Spring Concerts are both all-school concert
celebrating the Winter and Spring Season, they takes
place at the Sorenson Center for the Arts,
located on the campus of Babson College in
Wellesley, MA.
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