News & Events

  • The Globe Winter 2013
  • The Globe Autumn 2012 Journalism students at the Great Barrington Waldorf High School studied interviewing techniques, news writing vs feature writing, layout and design and many other aspects of journalism in their Journalism Elective class. The fall issue of the student newsletter, The Globe, includes stories about the seniors’ trip to Hermit Island, orientation at Camp Hi-Rock, a creative ...
  • Another Winning Season Soccer season is over, and Waldorf’s record is 7 wins, 3 losses, and 2 draws, both against Simon’s Rock College of Bard. Our small but mighty co-ed team, under the cool hand of Coach Bart Elsbach, beat White Oak twice, Woodhall twice, Monument thirds, Mt. Everett JV, and Hawthorne Valley. We lost to Buxton, PVPA, ...
  • Class of 2012 Senior Profiles Benjamin Nes Buissink will return to take post-graduate courses at the Great Barrington Waldorf High School next year while he prepares to apply to programs in theater. He interned this year for Shakespeare & Co. Ben is a pianist and an actor; he played newspaperman Charles Webb in “Our Town” this spring. William Littlefield Danz will ...
  • Annual Spring Concert The Waldorf High School Chorus and the 7th and 8th grade Chorus from Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School presented a joint concert on Thursday, May 31st. Both choruses performed selections from Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and contemporary composers, displaying the year’s work in choral music.
  • Our Town Thornton Wilder’s Our Town presented by Great Barrington Waldorf High School on April 12th, 13th, 14th –7PM and April 15th — 2PM @ Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Crissey Road, Great Barrington. Tickets: $8 Students, $15 Adults, $35 Family. Reservations Recommended — Call 413.526.8833.
  • Tennis at GBWHS The Great Barrington Waldorf High School is proud to announce…TENNIS Interested High School students will begin tennis clinics with Coach Bart Elsbach on Monday, April 2, from 3-4:30 p.m. at the Kilpatrick Athletic Center’s courts. Clinics will run Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, while school is in session, until June 1. (No tennis the weeks of April ...
  • Waldorf Students Write Poem for MLK Interfaith Celebration Two Waldorf High School Juniors, Robin Graney and Samuel O’Brient, wrote the following poem for and read it at the 13th annual interfaith celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Holiday on Monday, January 16, 2012, at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington. This event is sponsored by the Southern Berkshire Clergy Association ...
  • Indoor Training A Halloween treat for our high school students? A workout at Mike Bissaillon’s Crossfit Great Barrington (http://www.bizfitcrossfit.com). With soccer fields in New England buried under ice this week, we arranged for the high school to do some indoor training. After a warm-up, students participated in a 2400 meter team indoor rowing race, shown here. Students from ...
  • Waldorf Defeats Simon’s Rock in the Snow Bowl 2011 by Stephen Sagarin, Faculty Chair Q: What do a vacuum cleaner, the Iron Curtain, and an automatic scoring machine have in common? A: Before yesterday, they had not taken the field for the Great Barrington Waldorf High School soccer team, ten players with no substitutes, to defeat Simon’s Rock College of Bard, 2-1, in the gathering darkness ...