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NVNS Annual Events

Summer Playdates

2025 dates TBA in spring of 2025

Summer Playdates are a great opportunity to gather with the NVNS community at local parks throughout Napa. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to wear their favorite NVNS t-shirt to both show your nursery school pride and help our incoming families spot us in a crowd. Returning, incoming, alumni families – and friends! – are invited to join us weekly on Fridays between June through August.

Access the 2024 NVNS Summer Event Calendar here

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In addition to our sponsored events, we’ll be periodically adding (unsponsored) events to the calendar throughout the summer to provide even more opportunities for community play. We can’t wait to see you here, there and everywhere in between!

Family Play Dates

Family Play Dates are very FUN fundraisers for NVNS, offered throughout the year. During these special afternoon whole-family events, parents and children come to NVNS to play, explore, and sing together. Activities will be set up in Room 1 and Outside, and a light snack will be provided. This is a great opportunity for parents to mingle while watching their children enjoy playing at Nursery School. * Please note that parents are responsible for supervising and cleaning up after their own children throughout these events – the Family Play Date Team Members who are working the events are there to support the Teacher and facilitate specific activities with the children.

The cost is $25 per family. You are welcome to come for whatever portion of these 2-hour events that you are available – it’s totally OK for your family to drop-in late or leave early. Please pay by cash or check when you arrive, or in advance by submitting a check to NVNS in the Tuition box or by mailing it to P.O. Box 2213, Napa, CA 94558. You can also pay in advance using the online “Make a Donation” link below.  (Please specify that the payment is for “Family Play Date” in the “special instructions to the seller” space.) No refunds will be issued for missed events. Instead, those who pay in advance but can’t make the event are welcome to sell or give their spot to another family, consider their payment as a donation to the school, etc. 

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The first Family Play Date event each year is typically for Alumni families only, primarily to give last year’s graduates a chance to reconnect with NVNS; the rest will be open to both Current and Alumni families.

Family Play Date Events Here

Annual Events

  • End-of-Summer Celebration
  • Plate-making Party and Fundraiser
  • Halloween Party
  • Fall Festival and Artisan Market and Fundraiser
  • Fall Field trip and Stone Soup Party
  • Winter Holiday Parade
  • Instant Wine Raffle Fundraiser
  • Spring Field trip and Valentine Party
  • Spring Gala and Fundraiser

Past Events