Cooke School Brings Back Thanksgiving Feast Tradition

Many years ago when Cooke School was housed at Old Village School, staff celebrated Thanksgiving with a school-wide feast. In 2012, when Cooke moved into their current building, they carried on the Thanksgiving Feast tradition. It was paused temporarily during Covid, but has made a return this year, stronger than ever.

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Many years ago, our staff that worked at Old Village had a tradition of having a Thanksgiving feast where all of the classrooms had one piece of the meal that they prepared together with their students and then they shared it together, so it's sort of a Friendsgiving so to speak with classrooms. In 2012, we brought over the rest of Old Village and joined Cooke so we became one big family and the team said we used to do this for Thanksgiving and asked if we can do that. So every year since they moved over from Old Village we had classrooms that participated and then it grew larger and larger until Covid. And we didn't have the opportunity to have a Thanksgiving feast but today was the first Thanksgiving feast since we had Covid and we've had almost every classroom participate, every classroom made something, and all of the students really enjoyed being together with their friends and talking about why they're thankful. I know that I'm thankful for our students and for our staff and sharing like this experience with them. I'm thankful for food, all the staff, the girls, and all the links. Can you tell everybody what you're thankful for? Food, home. And what else, what is this? Playground. Playground, good job. Tell me what you're thankful for... Turkeys. What else? What else are you thankful for, Corey? Turkeys and Thanksgiving. Thanks for sharing.