High Mowing School sits atop Abbot Hill, (Wilton, NH) with open meadows, deep woods and an outstanding view of Southern New Hampshire. In one word, beautiful.

It is also the only Waldorf boarding school in North America with all the great Waldforf characteristics and traits in place- small, exciting, comfortable, a flexible boarding community. Caring and involved teachers form relationships with students through creating, sharing, living and learning. These relationships serves as the foundation for student academic, social, and athletic development.

The school has a Naturalist Program in which students learn and practice outdoor skills from making a fire with a bow drill and crafting their own bow, to rock climbing, and furniture and kayak building. The school threads arts throughout the curriculum. A new science building hosts many new labs, classrooms, recording studio, digital art (graphics, film making), studio arts.

One of the teachers I met on tour has been teaching there for 60 years in the art department “she cannot imagine being any where else-” absolutely amazing. The art works the girls were working on for their port folios were outstanding!

I found the students healthy, happy and totally immersed in their environment. They enjoy and appreciate the beauty, simplicity and the uniqueness that High Mowing brings to each individual. This campus- the place and people- truly harmonize with each individual experience and each student’s passion beyond High Mowing. It is another well hidden secret in the Monadnock region.

To learn more about the school, visit their web site: www.highmowing.org

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Photo credit: High Mowing School