Each spring, the parents of The Cambridge School create the Auction Gala as a fundraising gift to bless our aspiring students, loving teachers, and tireless staff.

This year, we gather in the “Spirit of the Irish,” reflecting a culture of song and celebration, trials and overcoming, and an undying love of life. Join us as we share another memorable event together, all for the worthy purpose of establishing classical, Christian education in San Diego.

For more information about the 2012 Cambridge Auction & Gala, click here.

Sláinte! (pronounced ‘slawn-cha’)

Dan DeSaegher

2012 Auction Chair

January 12, 2011 – Anna Comnena was on hand for the Cambridge School’s second annual Medieval Faire. Renowned as the first female historian, she had all fifteen volumes of her work, Alexiad, on display. She was joined in the courtyard by William the Conqueror, Margaret the First of Denmark, and Marco Polo, among other medieval personalities.

As part of their study of the Middle Ages, the Cambridge fourth graders, led by their teacher Rebekah Kennedy, were well-prepared to recreate these medieval historical figures and share their lives and accomplishments with more than one hundred of their fellow Cambridge students. For several months, the fourth grade students have researched this historical era, writing essays about it, reading medieval literature, even studying the music of the time. In addition to creating a display and memorizing a speech for their individual character demonstrations, they collaborated as a class to perform courtly dances, engage in sword fights, launch projectiles with historically accurate catapults and trebuchets, and recite the Song of Roland. All activities happened in the midst of the aroma and smoke from a pig roasting over a wood fire, and the students had a noontime feast of pork and other medieval fare.

Unlike the experience of many adults, who mainly recall memorizing rote lists of names and dates, the students feasting around the table at The Cambridge School Medieval Faire were learning history with their minds, bodies, and all of their senses.