Co-Curricular Program

Our intellectual endeavors across the different disciplines are enhanced by numerous events and traditions, collaboration with area organizations, a flexible team of educators who embrace teachable moments wherever they are found, and an Extended Day Program that provides enrichment through club activities. These activities stem from our beliefs about teaching and learning and further support our mission statement by enriching the experience of the students with activities outside the classroom and within our supportive community.


Traditional, school-wide, annual events include:

  • Fall Field Trip
  • Service Day
  • Mythology Day
  • Winter Carnival
  • Play Day (elementary) / Play Week (middle school)
  • Biography Fair
  • Spring Field Trip


Community organizations that provide opportunities us to enhance our program include:

  • Northern VT University
  • Lyndon Institute and St. Johnsbury Academy
  • Fenton-Chester Arena
  • Kingdom Trails
  • Burke Mountain Resort
  • Lyndon Food Shelf
  • H.O.P.E.
  • American Legion


Some examples of teachable moments that have presented themselves include:

  • NVU Climate March
  • Green Mountain Books Fair
  • Visiting Speakers, Activists, or Politicians


Extended Day Program activities include:

  • Chess Club
  • Film Making
  • Mountain Biking
  • Latin Club
  • Destination Imagination
  • Scholars Bowl
  • Crazy 8s Math Club

Fundamental to The Riverside School's program is the attention paid to social, emotional, and ethical learning. During weekly meetings, teachers frequently spend time focusing on these developmental needs of our students and how we can best meet them through our program. We focus intensively on the development of these skills in the self-contained classrooms of our elementary students and in our advisory program for middle school students. For example, Kindergarteners and First graders learn to greet visitors with kindness and openness, introducing themselves and making eye contact with the guest. In Eighth grade advisory, students plan for and debrief their role modeling during daily clean up time and their use of strong and confident voice when leading activities in our morning assembly. These skills are also practiced by all students throughout the year in activities like field trips, poetry fest, winter carnival, lunch discussion groups, and board or creative games during break and lunch. We recognize the need to articulate our social, emotional, and ethical learning in a social skills curriculum that is integrated throughout Riverside's program.

Two students dressed up in roman/greek attire in front of a project

“I love that we have Mythology Day and get to dress up and that our Latin teacher, Nathan, is teaching us Greek words to describe the day."

— Izzi Heinrich-Clark, 2023


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