Washington Celebrates at Harvest Festival

Washington Primary School recently hosted its annual Harvest Festival complete with pumpkins, field games and a hayride around the campus.

Harvest Festivals have a long tradition at Washington School. The PTA sponsored an extensive pumpkin patch and parent volunteers facilitated ring toss and potato sack games.

“Farmer Danny returned this year to take the Washington Winners on a hayride around the grounds,” Principal Michelle J. Richards said. “The festival ended for each class with a trip to the Washington pumpkin patch.”

Harvest Festivals harken back to an earlier time in Huntington UFSD’s history when the community consisted of many farms, both large and small. Much of the district consisted of open space prior to the end of World War II.

When Washington Elementary School was erected in 1954 the site was surrounded by farmland as well as a horse training facility. Such land use and activities were common around town for more than 200 years. Today the local farms have been replaced by housing units, but that didn’t stop students and staff from recently celebrating the harvest festival on the school grounds.

Dr. Richards thanked the district’s buildings and grounds department for providing the vehicle and manpower for the hayride around the grounds. Washington’s PTA sponsored the pumpkins distributed to the students along with the activities.