Would you benefit from a structured semester or more between high school and college, one that includes time to mature, to add to your high school transcript, to complete a portfolio of your work, and to find the best college for you?

Starting in school year 2009-2010, the Great Barrington Waldorf High School will offer a Postgraduate or “PG” year for those students who have completed requirements for a high school diploma but wish to:

Spend a semester or a year brushing up academic skills,

Increase credits toward a more impressive high school transcript,

Create a portfolio,

Receive credit for work or internship, or

Seek guidance for college admissions.

Postgraduate students may:

Take courses with current high school students (see “Course of Study” on the Curriculum page of our website),

Plan Independent Studies or Independent Projects with our teachers,

Find and receive credit for work or internships,

Pursue guided work in the arts toward portfolio development, and

Receive individual college guidance.

Postgraduate work is available during the academic year, semester by semester.

Postgraduate students receive full credit on a transcript from our school.

Postgraduate courses, projects, and guidance are planned individually with each student.

The cost for a Postgraduate semester or year depends on the length and scope of program. Maximum cost equals school year tuition ($12,950 for 2009-2010; tuition assistance is available).

Successful applicants will demonstrate a desire and ability to work and think independently, to adjust socially to a small school setting, and to plan for their best future.

Interested? Call Stephen Sagarin at 413. 528. 8833 to discuss your future.

The Great Barrington Waldorf High School announces the graduation of its third class of seniors, the Class of 2009. Graduation ceremonies took place June 7 at the Kellogg Music Center, Simon’s Rock College of Bard.

The five seniors are Ari Meyerowitz, Great Barrington; Conor Gallagher, Mistral Louw, and Eliot Stier, Alford; and Michael Graeff, Pittsfield.

Teacher Leslie Svilokos addressed the graduates and Faculty Chair Stephen Sagarin, Ph.D., presented them with their diplomas.

Gallagher will attend Vassar College, N.Y., next fall, where he intends to pursue a major in economics and play baseball. Graeff has enlisted in the U.S. Army and will attend Airborne Ranger schools following basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. Louw and Meyerowitz plan to travel internationally and work before beginning their college educations. Stier will attend Chapman University, California. He is interested in both economics and zoology.

This past May, seniors presented their internships at the American Legion Post Hall in Sheffield. Gallagher interned with the Pittsfield Police; Graeff, with Clark and Green Architects, Great Barrington; Louw with Harney & Sons Tea Company, Millerton, N.Y.; Meyerowitz at the Walter J. Kolodza Airport, Great Barrington; and Stier at DG Media, Los Angeles.