Spring Spectacular Event at Oneness-Family School (OFS)
SPREAD JOY AT OUR
Springtacular
The Springtacular is a joyful celebration of creativity, growth, and cultural exploration. It offers our youngest students a meaningful opportunity to share their learning and express themselves through music, movement, and community connection.
Dramatic Development
Studying drama supports the development of self-confidence, clear communication, and empathy. Through performance and collaboration, students learn to express themselves, listen to others, and connect more deeply with different perspectives.
About The Spring Spectacular
This spring performance is a showcase for our 3-6-year-old Children’s Peace Garden students to share what they have learned through their cultural studies. Students in both classrooms perform a special song, dance and skit in honor of the Spring Spectacular.
After the morning performance, the students host their parents and siblings at Norwood Park for lunch and serve a special snack related to their cultural studies of the year.
Quote: Felipe Kanadani Gonçalves ’24
The teachers here are incredibly encouraging and supportive of their students, and because of this, I have realized that I can do anything I want as long as I put myself out there and try.
Felipe shares his 8th grade graduation speech, given on June 6, 2024.
I entered the Peace Arbor classroom (Grades 1-3) in 2018, when I was in third grade. As a 14-year-old, I am more than grateful for having had the privilege of attending the Oneness-Family School.
The first few days I spent here, I realized, “I have never been this happy to go to school.” I had just left a public elementary school at the time, a place where I had many personal difficulties and little support from the adults.
Over the next six years, I have grown in my confidence and my capability to manage myself. In my first year at Oneness, I was a very shy and nervous child. I was in a completely new school and a new environment, and I didn’t know anyone there. One of my most deeply ingrained memories of this was during the third-grade promotion, where I was so nervous that I decided to hide my face in front of the audience. Now here I am, presenting this speech to all of you.
This school hosts many trips, and during these trips, I have learned how to push myself outside of my comfort zone. This was especially true for the New York trip in 7th grade and the one to Philadelphia just a month ago, where I had to be with my classmates and away from my family for nearly a week. In the end, it was all so incredibly worth it.
I’ve learned so much from my experience at Oneness. One thing I learned is how to organize myself when doing my work, and from this, I have also learned how to keep an organized everyday life. This will surely be helpful for whatever the future has in store for me. The teachers here are incredibly encouraging and supportive of their students, and because of this, I have realized that I can do anything I want as long as I put myself out there and try.
Before I close, I want to reflect for a moment on how special and unique this place is. I want to reflect on the experiences I have had here and the wonderful people I have met, something that would have probably been different at another school. I have become more and more confident in my time here, and I will use this confidence to guide myself through high school and beyond. I will miss all of you.
Thank you.
