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Changes on campus: crews are working on the first of two new bridges to span Castle Creek. Click here for details on weekly progress.

Deep winter: hut trips for Outdoor Ed, afternoon ski days underway, and busy academic days on campus. Click here for recent photos.

 

A landmark in ACDS history: with the OK to relocate to the Meadows next year, ACDS board now officially joins with the Music Festival to redevelop the Castle Creek campus. Good news, more soon!

  

 A victory for green in the first Blue Green Games of the year! AND come check out the beautiful new gym, now open on campus.

 

 

Countdown to the first day: school starts Tuesday, September 6. Click here for back-to-school paperwork and supply lists.

 

Congratulations to Country Day's 15 graduates of 2011! Click here for photos from graduation and all the year's adventures. Happy summer; see you September 6.

ACDS student writers rock the Aspen Poet's Society! Students in the Middle School creative writing elective won many hearts at a recent poerty reading. Click here for the news 

WOW! former ACDS student Torin Yater-Wallace, X Games' youngest competitor, took silver in ski superpipe. Click here for the news story 

Our Eighth Graders won the "best use of snow" award in the Winterskol Kidsculpt contest. Check out our "Winterbread House"  across from McDonald's.  Click for more photos

 

Back to school this week: Bring your winter clothes & boots; the snow has been piling up and the pond and sledding hill are READY for recess!

See school photos from a beautiful Castle Creek autumn. Click here for our photo albums

Turning 40: a great year for Country Day.

See where our students are headed after this, our fortieth year as a school. Click here for photos from 2009-10.

What a show! Bravo to all the performers and masterminds behind the All-School Play. You were a smash!

Order the DVD: aspencountryday.org/dvd

Congrats to ACDS alumsin the Olympics: skier Jake Zamansky, snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, & nordic sprinter Simi Hamilton.

Our 40th school year in pictures: Halloween, class projects, Blue Green Games, Outdoor Ed: click here for all the photo galleries

Capitol adventure: Eighth Graders returned full of stories from their trip to Washington: Click here for photos

 

 

 

Our fortieth year is underway! To get inspired, click here to see a video shown to teachers at orientation.

2009 Ski day tradition: All grades ski weekly through mid-March. Here, the Second Graders are led by famous skier and dad Chris Davenport.
 ashcroft Fall colors: our school home in the mountains of Colorado has never been more colorful.  Click here to see slide shows from recent field trips.
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Upcoming Events
  • May 21, 2012
    • Third Grade field trip: Ashcroft 8:30 AM
    • PreK field trip: ACES 12:15 PM
    May 22, 2012
    • Second Grade visits the Meadows campus 12:45 PM to 1:20 PM
    May 23, 2012
    • PreK to story hour 10:00 AM
    • Sixth Grade visits the Meadows 10:30 AMreturning to school after a short visit to the new campus
    • Second Grade class party 11:00 AM
    • Third Grade to the ARC & animal shelter 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
    May 24, 2012
    • Schedule for the last day of school

      click here for a letter with all the details of this day

      8:10-11:45 am: everyone in class. Academic morning for Middle School, classroom time for Lower School, yearbook distribution
      8:30 am: Fourth Grade Author's Chair, Goldsmith
      11 am: Fifth Grade Author's Chair, Goldsmith
      11:45 am: PreK through Second Grade to cookout
      Noon: Third-Fifth Grades to cookout
      12:15 pm: Sixth-Eighth Grades to cookout
      1:15 pm: End-of-year assembly for everyone, Goldsmith Hall: PreK performance, student & teacher awards, slideshow
      2 pm: Dismissal from school. Buses run as usual, just one hour earlier. Have a happy summer!

    • Eighth Grade graduation dinner 6:00 PM
    May 25, 2012
    • Graduation 9:30 AM
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Aspen Country Day School • 3 Music School Road • Aspen, Colorado • 81611
Phone: 970.925.1909 • Fax: 970.925.7074 • email: info@aspencountryday.org

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