Grace Episcopal Day School Traditions

School traditions bring our community together for memorable gatherings, lively performances, moving remembrances, and touching moments that honor commitment, growth, and achievement.

EVENTS

Campfire

Everyone is invited to this whole-school, community-wide gathering, which includes storytelling, singing, performing, and recognizing achievements and milestones.

Echo Hill Trip

Grade 5’s adventure-packed, overnight experience features nighttime swamp canoeing and crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay.

Grandparents and Special Friends Day

On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, we welcome those who love our children most to see them learn and play at Grace.

Community Christmas Tree Lighting

Our Kensington neighbors join us inside to sip cocoa, meet Santa, and support a good cause. Then we head out to light up our tree!

Christmas Chapel

All Kindergarten-Grade 5 students perform as singers or instrumentalists on this joyous occasion at Grace Episcopal Church.

Founders' Day Chapel

We celebrate Grace’s birthday during a special Chapel that honors the vision of our founders and recognizes anniversaries of long-serving faculty.

5K Memorial Runs

In memory of former Grace students, alumni parents organize teams to run, or walk, in support of cures: The Drew Nealley Team raises money for brain tumor research through the DC Race for Hope. Colleen’s BA 5K benefits the Colleen Mitchel Memorial Fund and raises funds for Biliary Atresia (BA) research.

High School Reunion

Grace invites alumni who are about to graduate from high school to reunite, reminisce, and look ahead to college.

Spring Musical

Students in Grades 1-5 perform a full musical in groups and as soloists, dressed in full costume and backed by hand-painted scenery.

Field Day

Teachers plan and volunteers run activity stations on a morning made for water play and good clean fun for the whole school.

Grade 5 Chapel Prayers

During our last chapel, soon-to-be graduates share meaningful memories of their time at Grace.
View 2017 Prayers

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Grace Songs

The Grace Episcopal Day School Anthem

There is a place where all are welcome,
Where they enjoy diversity.
You can be free to be yourself there.
That place is Grace.
That place is Grace.

At Grace Episcopal
Our diff’rences are beautiful,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

There is a place where they are learning
To be tomorrow’s leaders of the world.
Each boy and girl has so much to share!
That place is Grace.
That place is Grace.

At Grace Episcopal
Our ideas are bountiful,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

At Grace Episcopal
Our diff’rences are beautiful,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

There is a place where they are thankful
For God’s many blessings from above.
And God’s love shows them how to care.
That place is Grace.
That place is Grace.

At Grace Episcopal
We follow God’s golden rule,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

At Grace Episcopal
Our ideas are bountiful,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

At Grace Episcopal
Our diff’rences are beautiful,
At Grace Episcopal Day School.

The Grace Episcopal Day School Hymn

Students who arrive each day
Come to learn and come to play.
Teachers greet them at the door.
Ev’ry day there’s so much more to
Share with each other;
Lasting friendship is the rule.
We’re learning at Grace Episcopal Day School.
We’re learning at Grace Episcopal Day School.

Founded on Your loving care,
Founded on the grace You share;
All You’ve destined us to do,
By Your Spirit keeps us true to.
O God Almighty,
We thank you for this jewel;
We thank You for Grace Episcopal Day School.
We thank You for Grace Episcopal Day School.