News

Another Successful Show!

Youth theater is a fantastic opportunity for students to learn more about each other and themselves.

The Epic Quest of the Damsels in Distress

We are very proud of our Peachtown Players and their fantastic performance of The Epic Quest of the Damsels in Distress at the Morgan Opera House on June 5th.

Update Regarding the Wells College Closure

2/3/2025 We continue to grieve the closure of Wells College and like our neighbors at the Community Medical Center, we are patiently waiting to learn more about the fate of the cam...

Support Request

For 32 years, Peachtown Elementary School has cherished our partnership with Wells College.

Wells College Reunion Care 2024

Please use this link to register your child(ren) for care on Friday, May 31 and/or Saturday, June 1.

Derby Day Fundraiser on May the 4th, 2024

Summer 2023 Programs

The Brave Little Tailor

We are so proud of our Peachtown Players and their successful return to the stage after a couple of years away due to the pandemic.

Zero Waste Camp

Zero Waste Kids Camp A week full of projects and activities based on the book August 8-12 9 AM - 4 PM Peachtown Elementary School 22 Dean’s Rd.

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The Peachtown Players proudly present And other selected plays by Meredith Ludwig Available online for your listening pleasure at this link Special Thanks When we sat down to discu...

Valentine's Fundraiser

Online donations can be made using this link. Every amount is useful and helps to provide scholarship support for current and future students....

Winter Greeting Card Fundraiser

Please email alyssa@peachtownschool.com if you'd like to order a focused set of 5 cards for $8 or a variety pack of 11 cards for $15.

Plans for Fall 2020

Peachtown Elementary Now Enrolling in Person and Online Parents everywhere are being faced with difficult decisions about schooling this fall.

Updated COVID-19 Plans and Helpful Information

March 14, 2020 Dear Families, Many of you have probably already seen the news that Cayuga County is now in a State of Emergency and all schools within the county are closed until A...

Zero Waste School - Peachtown Elementary

We're excited to share a video featuring our small school and our efforts to teach Zero Waste concepts.

Celebrating our Founder

Thirty years of hard work and dedication - please join us to celebrate our founder, Barbara Post....

June Camps

Please email Sonjia Turner at sat365@gmail.com to register for either of these camps....

Learning About our Watershed

Our final Main Lesson unit of the year has been focused on the environmental forces that impact our watershed.

Happy Earth Day

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” ― Rachel Carson We celebrated Ear...

A Fun Night for a Great Cause!

Live music with Drew Kiddoo and the Blackouts All proceeds benefit Peachtown Elementary School and help to support our generous scholarship fund. Event Tickets available here.

Learning about Ancient Greece Together

One of the unique aspects of our multi-age program is our commitment to deep dives into rotating Main Lesson units.

Donations & Libations Fundraiser at Aurora Ale and Lager Co.

Please Join us! Click on the poster to purchase tickets....

Welcome, Michele!

It's the start of another great year at Peachtown! We're happy to welcome Lower Classroom Head Teacher, Michele Lawson to our staff this year.

LEGO Robotics Camp

We're excited to be offering a LEGO Robotics camp for students entering grades 4-8. The camp runs from August 13-17 and will cover the topics outlined below.

Summer 2018 Offerings

Peachtown Elementary School Summer Offerings All camps are full day and run from 9AM – 4PM.

Spring Open House

Holiday Renaissance Faire

We had such a great time bringing our Renaissance unit to life! Everyone pitched in to help prepare the building and to test crafts and materials before the big day.

Please Join Us!

Tickets can be purchased at the door and will be used to pay for food and activities....

Chemistry in the Lower Classroom

There aren't many schools that introduce Chemistry in the early grades. We believe that all students benefit from a hearty science and history curriculum.

Scenes from September

June Camps

To enroll your child, please complete our Camp Registration Form. Payment may be made online using the link below or by check made payable to Peachtown Elementary School.

Open House April 30

Please come by to meet our teachers and learn more about our progressive, multi-age program....

Astronomy

At Peachtown we use the first part of each day to focus on Main Lesson units. These units run for about six weeks and alternate between science and social studies topics.

December, 2016

We studied Medieval Europe in December and finished with a Medieval Feast at the Wells College Dining Hall.

Mid November

We're into our second week of a unit about Medieval Europe and the Lower Classroom has been busy studying castles, knights, and more. This unit is always so much fun for them.

A Day in the Life

Here's a small sampling of photos from a Thursday in October. Please visit our Facebook page for more updates and photos....

The Princess Bride

We are so proud of our Peachtown Players! The show was fantastic and a great testament to the hard work and dedication of our students and their fearless Director, Bird! You can fi...

Summer Solstice Fundraiser

Preparation

We've been busily rehearsing, costuming, building, painting, and otherwise preparing for tomorrow's show.

Gratitude

We believe that character development and emotional literacy are worthy educational goals.

25 Years!

Please join us and help to spread the word - we're marking our 25th anniversary and would love to gather as many friends, alumni and students as possible to celebrate the occasion....

Valentine's Day Fundraiser

We hope to spend Valentine's Day sipping on Champagne and dancing the night away with you. Please join us, or if you've already got plans, consider making a donation.

Sarah Yaw Author Visit

Wendy and Peter Pan

We are so proud of our Peachtown Players! Last week's excellent performance was the result of a lot of hard work and dedication.

Friday Educational Enrichment Day

Armor, Weapons, and the Medieval Knight

We were all really excited to host Scott Rodlin and Becca Cooper of Paragon Jousting for a wonderfully educational presentation this morning.

Post-Impressionist Space Art

What do you get when you combine recycled canvases and a bunch of students inspired by Vincent van Gogh and the Hubble Space Telescope? Marilyn's Art class has been hard at work, s...

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Summer Camp at Peachtown

Twelfth Night

The kids did an amazing job performing Twelfth Night. We could not be more proud of our budding actors!...

Join us to Celebrate the Summer Solstice

Farm to Table Cooking Lesson at Pumpkin Hill Bistro

Peachtown Elementary Earth Day Celebration!

We're celebrating Earth Day and you're invited! Living in a Sustainable World A day of community service, learning, creating, and getting our hands dirty Check out our flyer below:...

Meet the Teachers Open House!

Come one, come all, to Peachtown's Open House! On Sunday, March 3, from 2 to 5 pm, Peachtown Elementary will be hosting an open house.

A Taste of Harlem's Jazz

Things got pretty jazzy at Peachtown this morning. Alyssa's group read a book about the Harlem Renaissance in Main Lesson and then worked together to recreate the famous Cotton Clu...

Museum of the Earth Field Trip

Our recent outing to the Museum of the Earth was a wonderful experience.

Fall Highlights

Building Dinos as we study pre-historic life ....working with Marisa: college work-study student and alum Finn's Dinosaur in progress Getting ready to trick or treat! Miniature hor...

BEGINNING OUR BOTANY UNIT

OPENING DAY FORT BUILDING CHALLENGE

TEAM ONE AND THEIR CHERRY TREE CONSTRUCTION SOME OF THE PRIMARY STUDENTS CHECK OUT THE FIRE-TRUCK FORT IN THE FORT TEAM TWO CREW - THE FIRE TRUCK FORT ROWAN - WHO ELSE?...

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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 9 NEW STUDENTS + 1 NEW TEACHER + A BUNCH OF VETERANS = A NEW YEAR AT PEACHTOWN! BACK TO SCHOOL PICNIC THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 DISH TO PASS...

PEACHTOWN ART OPENING

Film Independent Project by Jenny Zwigard Jenny shows one of the films that she wrote, set designed, filmed and edited to her younger schoolmates.

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THE PEACHTOWN PLAYERS PRESENT........................ MUCH ADO ABOUT WILL: A Celebration of the Words of Shakespeare THURSDAY, JUNE 7 6:30 PM PHIPPS AUDITORIUM WELLS COLLEGE...

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TIME TO REGISTER FOR FALL 2012! JOIN US AT OUR LAST SPRING OPEN HOUSE OPENINGS ARE AVAILABLE IN GRADES PRE-K - 8 SUNDAY, APRIL 29 2-5 PM MEET THE TEACHERS LEARN ABOUT OUR PROGRAM A...

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ANNOUNCING OUR NEW TEACHER......

We are a little sad to announce that Kathy Button will be retiring at the end of this school year.

BIRD ON BIRDS

Bird is back from the National Science Teachers Association Conference in Indianapolis where she shared her work with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on their Connecting Kids Throug...

SPRING OPEN HOUSE

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR "NOT QUITE SPRING" OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, MARCH 4 2 TO 5 PM MEET THE TEACHERS LEARN ABOUT OUR PROGRAM, ADMISSIONS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPENINGS AVAILABLE IN GRADES pr...

TREBUCHET TIME

Parent Lloyd Hawk built a trebuchet for the grand finale of our physics unit: a first class lever! The upper level students had a blast propelling balls of all sizes and snow balls...

PEACHTOWN SCIENCE FAIR

ON FEBRUARY 15TH, THE PEACHTOWN STUDENTS DISPLAYED THEIR EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS FOR THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

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HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE PEACHTOWN ELEMENTARY school MONDAY, DECEMBER 19 4:30-7:00pm AN EVENT FOR PEACHTOWN FAMILIES, PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS, FRIENDS, & NEIGHBORS REFRESHMENTS, FOOD, last...

THE SPANISH TEST - NAME THAT BODY PART

At the end of the semester Rowan was the guinea pig for his Spanish class as his classmates covered him in post-it notes describing his body parts!...

Peachtown Visit to Sapsucker Woods

ORNITHOLOGY

All the Peachtown students are studying birds right now. We have several bird feeders set around the school, and the children are keeping close track of visitors to the feeders.

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CAYUGA COUNTY SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT FIELD DAYS...

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WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

OPEN HOUSE

PEACHTOWN OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2011 5:00 TO 7:00 PM THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO VISIT PEACHTOWN OPENINGS AVAILABLE IN ALL GRADES PRE-K OPENINGS FOR 4 1/2 YEAR-OLDS IN SEPTEMBE...

The Wind in the Willows: A Hit Performance

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Note from Barb: The next book I buy will be The Blessings of a B-Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers, by Wendy Mogel.

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PEACHTOWN PLAYERS PRESENT KENNETH GRAHAME'S THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011 6:30 PM PHIPPS AUDITORIUM WELLS COLLEGE free and open to the public...

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Peachtown Summer Camps We are currently developing our Summer Camp Schedule. We will keep updating this information as details become available.

SUMMER READING

The Peachtown Summer Reading List Compiled by Bird Cramer’s Upper Level Students Note from Bird…..

IN MEMORIAM

The Peachtown community is saddened by the death of Charlie Snyder. Charlie served Peachtown well as a Board Member, volunteer and longstanding contributor.

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HELLO SPRING................................. BOONE SAYS GOODBYE TO WINTER!...

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AMAZING TESSELLATIONS!

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BIRD'S STUDENTS AT WORK

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GIRL POWER

SPRING OPEN HOUSE

PEACHTOWN SPRING OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY, MARCH 13 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM MEET THE TEACHERS TOUR THE SCHOOL OPEN TO ALL...

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A beautiful example of the dioramas Bird's students made during their oceanography unit....

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Eva and Nolan at the Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) in Syracuse....

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MESOPOTAMIAN FESTIVAL: ZIGGURATS, LEGO HOUSES AND A FEAST...

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A PRE-KINDERGARTEN STUDENT AND A SEVENTH GRADE STUDENT: THE BEGINNING OF A BEAUTIFUL RELATIONSHIP...

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Each year, the Aurora Rotary Club presents area third graders with a fabulous new dictionary....

STUDYING ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, STUDENTS AT PEACHTOWN HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA.

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CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS FROM OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND REUNION!...

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PEACHTOWN 1990-2010 20TH ANNIVERSARY AND REUNION CELEBRATION! PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THIS MILESTONE EVENT SEPTEMBER 3RD, 6 - 11 PM LAKESIDE AT THE AURORA INN COCKTAIL HOUR E...

We like this article!

Hurrah for getting off on the right foot! Read this!! Excerpted from www.care2.com Preliminary findings of a follow-up research project, which originally followed Tennessee childre...

Summertime!

Peachtown Elementary School Summer Camps 2010 The Edible Container Garden Session I: June 28 – July 2 Session II: July 19 – July 23 Ages 8 and Up 9 AM to 2 PM Using recycled or re-...

4 A's: Autism, Asthma, Allergies, ADHD

The 4 A’s Autism, Allergies, Asthma, ADHD: An Integrative Approach to Your Child’s Diagnosis and Treatment Peachtown Elementary School in Aurora will sponsor a presentation and dis...

Mother's Day

This year the children were invited to the Wells College Book Arts Center to print beautiful cards for their mothers.

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Every year, Peachtown students celebrate Earth Day by clearing the Wells College lake shore of trash and other debris.

Upcoming Events

Friday, June 4, 2010 5:00 PM Peachtown Students host a Poetry Slam at the Aurora Arts and Design Center.

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Another part of our study of Russian History was the study of Faberge.

Russian Foods!

As a culminating event for our study of Russian history, children in the primary classroom made some traditional Russian Easter foods: pierogi, easter bread, pashka (cheese) and po...

OPEN HOUSE

PEACHTOWN WILL HOST AN OPEN HOUSE FOR PROSPECTIVE FAMILIES SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2010 FROM 3 TO 5 PM.

Chris Brandolino

As the culminating event of our study of Weather, Channel 9 Meterologist Chris Brandolino visited Peachtown on February 23rd.

SPRING ENROLLMENTS

Openings for Spring enrollment are available for pre-Kindergarten through Grade 3.

Winter Fun

Lucy, Mika and Jenny with their Snowman!...

Happy Halloween!

The students looked great in their Halloween finery, and had a wonderful time parading around campus for all to see.

About Peachtown

Peachtown Elementary School is an independent non-sectarian day school for grades pre-K through 8, located on the Wells College campus in Aurora, New York.

Admissions

You can download an application for admission here: Open publication - Free publishing - More application...

Scholarships

Information about financing a Peachtown education can be downloaded here: Open publication - Free publishing - More finance13 And here's our confidential application for scholarshi...

Welcome to Peachtown

Welcome to the new website of Peachtown Elementary school! This site is a work in progress, but in the coming days and weeks you can expect to find information about our educationa...

Meet the Teachers

Peachtown Staff Peachtown encourages cooperative learning for its students and cooperative teaching for its teachers and administrator.