A five year old child enters Long Meadow Elementary School on his first day of Kindergarten.  He is nervous but excited.  Coming to school is a sign that he is growing and maturing.  He's heard that school is a wondrous place filled with books, exploration, and play.  He's always been curious to learn, just like most children his age.  He loves to draw, to sing, to run.  He wants to create.  He wants to read and write and compute just like his older sister.

This child is lucky because he has entered a school where his uniqueness will be respected and honored, where staff believe that children are naturally inquisitive.

Long Meadow School is dedicated to the development of literacy.  Children gain power and fulfillment from their ability to communicate.  Literacy is learning to read, wanting to read, appreciating the written word, finding excitement in a good book.  Literacy is crafting one's own words, speaking from the heart and mind, moving others to new levels of understanding.  Literacy is understanding the meaning of a great artist, or musical, or choreographer, and communicating your own ideas and feeling through art, music, and dance.

Long Meadow School is dedicated to the development of authentic and engaging learning.  Students become reflective learners who can assess their strengths and weaknesses.  Children work in an environment which strongly encourages personal best in all tasks.

Long Meadow School is a community of learners.  Students, teachers, and parents work as a team.  Older students assist younger children, and the community regularly celebrates the many achievements of its members.

An eleven year old child enters Long Meadow Elementary School on her last day of fifth grade.  Leaving the elementary school and moving to the middle school makes her a bit nervous but she knows it is a sign that she is growing and maturing.  She thinks back on her six years at Long Meadow School and she smiles with the many wonderful memories.  She remembers the supportive and creative teachers she encountered.  She recalls the excitement she felt when her classroom caterpillars turned to butterflies in grade one, when she saw her artwork in the art show in grade two, when her poem was presented to music and dance at a Town Meeting in grade three.  She thought of the strong emotions she felt when she read about the life of a slave girl in grade four.

Long Meadow School was a home.  She knew people here cared about her.  She had awakened each day of the past six years eager to get on a school bus which had taken her to a place of challenge, creativity, and involvement.  This would always be a place of fond memories.