Mark you calendar now, the Hartsbrook Carnival is returning!

When: Saturday, March 1st, 7:30 - 10:00pm

Where: Piening Hall

This is an evening to let your hair down, sing a song, do stand-up comedy, BYOB, and laugh together. AND it doesn't cost you a penny! Have you always wanted to read a poem to an audience? Write and perform a skit with your friends? Sing a folksong? Or a punk song? Or your own song? Here's your chance. Even if you'd like to just be an appreciative listener, we need you there.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1st, PIENING HALL. DON'T MISS IT!

Last week to cap off our Asian Studies block the 8th grade visited the Leverett Peace Pagoda. Sister Clair Carter took us around the Pagoda and explained the origins of Peace Pagodas. Afterwards Sister Clair invited us into the new temple for tea and cookies. The Leverett Peace Pagoda offered us a unique look into Ancient Indian and Sri Lankan art and architecture and Japanese Buddhism, a wonderful amalgamation of Asian culture all here in Leverett, Massachusetts.

Thomas Heineman
High School History Teacher

The 10 graders have been working on a community service project to provide fun, warm hats to local youth in need, while at the same time increasing their own sewing-related skills and creativity. The goal was for each student to make at least four different kinds of hats of ascending degrees of difficulty before moving on to make a hat for personal use.  The students have met the challenge with enthusiasm and many have made more than the required four.  The plan is for the hats to be donated to a local shelter or survival center.  Here they are with some of their early creations.

Margaret Evans, Handwork

CPR & First Aid Training

Sunday, February 23rd 9:30am - 3:30pm

Location TBD

This CPR & First Aid class is designed for anyone caring for children. It will include basic life-saving techniques for critical situations as well as first aid treatments for common illnesses and injuries. Conventional treatment protocols as well as natural modalities including homeopathic remedies and herbal preparations will be discussed. This class is taught by Nicole Thurrell, Recreation Therapist and Wilderness EMT. Nicole served for many years as Health Director for a wilderness therapy program she co-founded while also working on an ambulance in Lake Placid, NY.

Heartsaver CPR

This Heartsaver CPR course teaches participants how to recognize and treat life-threatening emergencies in infants, children, and adults. This includes emergencies caused by respiratory issues such as choking and drowning as well as from cardiac issues such as electrocution, cardiac arrest, and stroke.

First Aid

This First Aid course is designed to teach participants to prevent, recognize, and treat the following illnesses and injuries: soft tissue injuries such as cuts, abrasions, and impaled objects, shock, head trauma, sprains, fractures, burns, severe allergic reactions, poisoning, bites and stings, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, frostbite, and infections. This course will be a classroom format combined with an experiential/practical component. In addition to the conventional protocols for treating the aforementioned issues, an emphasis will be placed on alternative modalities for treatment including homeopathic remedies and herbal preparations. Participants will be guided in assembling their own first aid kits to include homeopathic and herbal preparations.

Register Now

Sunday, February 23rd

CPR Only : 9:30am - 11:30am

Fee: $35.00

First Aid Only: 11:30am-3:30pm

Fee: $55.00

Sign up for both for $75.00

Half of all proceeds will be donated to The Hartsbrook School.

 REGISTRATION FORM

Please contact instructor, Nicole Thurrell with any questions (413) 775-3320.