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March 11 marked the twenty-third occasion that Wakefield Country Day School has celebrated one of its most popular festivities — a Medieval Banquet, hosted in the School’s Great Hall, complete with period costumes, food, games, and other traditions.
Students in the third through seventh grade, along with their parents and teachers, were transformed into pages, damsels, squires and ladies.
The prep school’s World History class students acted as honored guests, and stood as the “Court” of the Manor at Wakefield Castle, and Music teacher Evelyn Oyster helped set the mood with lovely period music played on her flute.
Promptly at 3:45 p.m., the celebration began with the “Donning of the Costumes,” led by Herald Gerard Frank, who doubles as Wakefield’s seventh and eighth grade English teacher.
This was followed shortly thereafter by the Grand Entry and Procession of the King (Ben Luke of Washington) the Queen (Catriona Toth of Front Royal), and the Court.
As customary, School CoFounder Lady Lynn set the guidelines for the afternoon’s festivities with the reading of the “Book of the Courtier of the Kingdom of Wakefield,” a take-off on a medieval work that gives tips on appropriate
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