Many hands make light work.

FESTIVAL Nov. 17: Lantern Walk

Share the warmth. Many hands needed to light hundreds of candles and fire pits to create this reverent, beautiful lantern walk. Tend the flames and leave no trace.

Lend a hand with faculty-led festivals and community efforts. Clean up, set up, offer organizational abilities and elbow grease. Rose ceremony, fall festival of courage, lantern walk, festival of light, solstice spiral walk, ski day, Mayfest, Grade 8 circus, graduation.

View school calendar for festivals

DONATE Nov. 20: Holiday Baskets

Volunteer & Donate: Contact Front Desk

Share warmth with every Winterberry Thanksgiving table: Sign up to donate by Nov. 20 to fill Holiday Baskets with food and student gifts. Organize Gear Swap and swap seasonal gear during fall and spring shoulder seasons. Organize an October costume swap. Set up lost and found items for easy claiming.

EVENT tbd: Winter Faire

Volunteer: Contact Oona

This "friend raiser" invites the wider Anchorage community to get a feel for our school while supporting upper-grade classes raising money for their Eighth Grade Trip. The volunteer effort is big and jolly with food prep, games, crafts, ice forts, FUN.

EVENT April tbd: Auction

Volunteer: Contact Fundraising Chair

Donations to the October GARDEN giving campaign funds Waldorf professional development for our current teachers. Auction also supports teachers and our school for the benefit of our children. Auction especially needs many hands to plan the party, organize donations and roll-out the auction in April.

Support Your Class

Volunteer: Ask your child's teacher

Respond to teacher requests for field trip support, special supplies, class projects, celebrations and learning opportunities. Prioritize parent-teacher conferences, class parent nights, go to open house and student showcase events like winter assembly, class plays, Grade 8 circus. Help "big kids" raise funds for Eighth Grade Trip.

Serve the School Community

Volunteer: Read Winterberry Business e-newsletter

Lead community service efforts like managing the school store, coordinate faculty lunches, organize gear swap, lost & found clean-outs. Help orchestrate school picture day, join clean-up events, help with play yard improvement. Support holiday giving efforts. Read the weekly "Winterberry Business" school e-newsletter to learn more.

Give to GARDEN in October

Give: Support Waldorf teacher training

Thank you families for 85% schoolwide participation in 2023 GARDEN. You can still donate to WPG when you file your PFD with Pick. Click. Give. Donations to this monthlong giving campaign funds Waldorf professional development for Winterberry's faculty. Give children the gift of inspired teachers.

Serve on a Board

Serve: Contact WCC president or WPG president

Join the Winterberry Charter Council to help govern our school or Winterberry Parent Guild to raise money to support students.

EVENT: Beautiful Bazaar

Thank You Volunteers!

Bravo to those who set up, staffed the school store, welcomed vendors and cleaned up. There were so many finely crafted things of beauty, handmade treasures and natural products by local artists and our creative, industrious Winterberry families.

Annual Events & Ongoing Efforts

There are many ways to weave a strong connection of interdependence with your school community and build the village it takes to raise and educate children. This unique, holistic, Waldorf-inspired education is somewhat different from current mainstream schools because everything that happens at Winterberry is guided by the natural timeline of child development. WPG's events and efforts aim to employ developmentally appropriate activities and engagement for children and families.