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Middle School
Grades 5 - 8
Middle School students step into a dynamic environment filled with endless opportunities to explore, create, and grow. Students run over 5 kilometers of trails in daily physical education, engineer new chairs in the innovative Idea Studio, test their mettle in the Be Brave play area (designed and built by Middle Schoolers), and play in a rock band in our famous Pine Rock Studios. Our Middle Schoolers often discover new passions, try new sports, and make new friends.
Faculty are supportive, insightful, hilarious, and encourage students to see the value in saying "yes" to challenges and opportunities. Students enjoy and help shape an inclusive environment for embracing deep questions and developing purchase on their expanding world.
Pine Rock Studios
Join a band, choose a song, learn to play, and perform live for the School! A successful concert requires listening, coordinating, collaborating, compromising, practicing, and having a blast.
The amazing thing about this program is that no previous knowledge of instruments is required: students learn from each other, from our amazing music and leadership faculty, and discover their value and talent as a member of the team. And it works!
Leadership Retreats
Opportunities to lead define the Middle School coming to consciousness. This includes a robust student government, the running of assemblies, confident and routine public speaking, meaningful service projects, and of course our celebrated Leadership Retreats.
Students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grades leave campus for overnight wilderness retreats where they have the chance to develop and grow as a class in physical challenges and group problem solving. Activities include low and high ropes courses, survival games, trust exercises, and group reflection. Once you've been through something like this together, whatever obstacles appear on campus or in a classroom are a piece of cake!
The 8th grade retreat is to Washington D.C., where they deepen their understanding of civics and American history and are asked to entertain leadership lessons in the arena of participatory democracy, nation building, defense, and jurisprudence. Students lead the trip, from mapping out the metro stops, conducting lectures and Q&A at the monuments, and peppering our representatives in Congress with questions of their own.