It Takes a Village...
As one of the nation’s leading living history museums, Old Sturbridge Village has been providing educational programs to students, teachers and families for more than 70 years. Old Sturbridge Village is an extension of the classroom for our teachers and students. With a campus of more than 200 acres, the museum offers an idyllic setting with hundreds of resources to support learning.
Not only do we bring our students into the museum, but we bring the museum into our school. Village resources include a robust research library, a working farm, gardens, a 250-seat theater, a pottery shop and a kiln, a woodworking studio, and several nature trails – all situated along the Quinebaug River.
The diverse campus is coupled with the tremendous talents of the museum’s interpretive, curatorial and education staffs that will help students connect the past with the present. The partnership between the school and Old Sturbridge Village is rooted in the creation of a community for our students – where children are valued as individuals, where quality work reigns, and where children are encouraged to find learning through real-world experiences and the opportunity to imagine.
When students graduate from OSACPS, they will do so as excellent communicators, mathematicians, scientists and historians. They will have clear habits of both scholarship and relational character. They will have discovered other passions and talents as well – whether in woodworking or gardening, music or painting. They will have produced academic work that is “museum quality” and will have engaged in real-world learning at every grade level. They will be able to describe how they learn best and will be able to advocate for the tools they need when they are struggling.
Not only do we bring our students into the museum, but we bring the museum into our school. Village resources include a robust research library, a working farm, gardens, a 250-seat theater, a pottery shop and a kiln, a woodworking studio, and several nature trails – all situated along the Quinebaug River.
The diverse campus is coupled with the tremendous talents of the museum’s interpretive, curatorial and education staffs that will help students connect the past with the present. The partnership between the school and Old Sturbridge Village is rooted in the creation of a community for our students – where children are valued as individuals, where quality work reigns, and where children are encouraged to find learning through real-world experiences and the opportunity to imagine.
When students graduate from OSACPS, they will do so as excellent communicators, mathematicians, scientists and historians. They will have clear habits of both scholarship and relational character. They will have discovered other passions and talents as well – whether in woodworking or gardening, music or painting. They will have produced academic work that is “museum quality” and will have engaged in real-world learning at every grade level. They will be able to describe how they learn best and will be able to advocate for the tools they need when they are struggling.
