The Unquowa School :Our Programs
Educational Partnerships
The Unquowa School is proud to be involved in various educational partnerships that enrich the lives of the children and families in our community and in turn allow us to support the many community resources that we see as extensions of our classrooms.
Museum Collaborations
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum visit website
The Connecticut Audubon Center of Fairfield visit website
The Fairfield Museum and History Center visit website
Field experiences in general are an integral part of the curriculum here at Unquowa. In recognition of the role museums play in extending our school's walls and resources—their impressive exhibitions, their thoughtful programming, and their passionate staff—our school has entered into a more formal collaboration with the above institutions that includes visits to and projects with each museum at every grade level, creation of curricular ties by museum staff and Unquowa faculty, and coordinated family events at each museum. To solidify this collaboration, families of The Unquowa School hold membership to each museum, allowing them and their children to take full advantage of weekend and summer programming that connects to and extends beyond the school day.
Chamber Music Central
The Unquowa School is happy to have become the summer home of Chamber Music Central's summer festival. Each July, the Chamber Music Central Summer Festival offers intermediate and advanced pianists, string and woodwind players a chance to study and perform in chamber groups with other musicians at a similar level. The CMC faculty are fine musicians in their own right and especially gifted in working with young musicians, bringing out the best in each student in a challenging yet supportive way. Groups will sharpen their skills through coaching sessions, rehearsals, solo opportunities, sight reading exercises and theory classes. We also offer Master Classes taught by distinguished guest artists. Each session ends with a gala Concert of all student ensembles. Visit the CMC website.
Sport Hill Farm
Source of much of our organic produce and destination for many classroom planting and harvesting trips during the school year and during our Summer Farm Camp, Sport Hill Farm is truly part of the Unquowa campus. Owner Patti Popp has made a special effort to create a setting that is conducive to learning and safe for children of all ages to experience the magic of planting, caring for and harvesting the food we eat. Partner groups of older and younger students visit the farm on an average of once a season in the fall and spring. Summer campers spend each morning there. Visit the Sport Hill Farm website.
