Junior Boarding Schools Blog
Announcement: Junior Boarding Schools Association 2011-2012 Information Sessions
If you have a junior high school aged son or daughter who might benefit from a boarding school experience, consider visiting one the JBSA receptions during the coming school year. Each event will feature representatives from JBSA member schools who will speak about, both, junior boarding, generally, and their schools, specifically. A panel discussion will [...]
Read MoreA Boys Learning Differences Boarding School Adds a High School: A Q&A with the Head of The Greenwood School
Following-up The Greenwood School‘s announcement of their expansion to include a full high school program, Greenwood headmaster, Stewart Miller spoke with us about the opportunities and motivations behind Greenwood’s growth. Brian Fisher (BF): What’s the impetus behind growing to include a high school? Does Greenwood just work better for some kids to have a consistent [...]
Read MoreA Junior Boarding School Expands to Include a Full 9-12 High School
Following on the heels of their June announcement about adding grades nine and ten, The Greewood School‘s expansion plans have grown. Greenwood (Putney, VT) is adding a full high school with the first graduating class scheduled for spring 2014. The school will now be able to work the boys from the fourth to twelfth grades, [...]
Read MoreElementary & Middle School Students Learn the Value of Community Service
Kim Loughlin, Bement School admission director, shares the importance that Bement places on the teaching of gratitude and service. Bement’s a co-ed, junior boarding school located in Deerfield, MA. Bement teaches students that giving back requires doing through the dedication of one’s time and effort. It is a perspective that emphasizes the practice of service. [...]
Read MoreA Boarding School Expands
Understanding that its students would benefit greatly from extending The Greenwood School experience into early high school, Greenwood is adding 9th and 10th grade programs beginning fall of 2011. Greenwood has been a boys junior boarding school up to this expansion. Greenwood’s specialized program is geared to work with “bright and talented boys with learning [...]
Read MoreSadly, We Note the Closing of Fox River Country Day School
With heavy hearts, we read about the announced closing of Fox River Country Day School in Elgin, Illinois this morning. Many people may not know that Fox River has a boarding school history, and operated a small junior boarding program (20 students, grades 5-8) through this year. The school began in 1913 as Chicago Junior [...]
Read MoreConsidering a Junior Boarding School for Your Child?
Yesterday, a mom called the office asking about junior boarding schools in the south- a quick straightforward question that quickly grew from the practical to philosophical. The family was new to the notion of boarding school and, within that, working to come to terms with an eighth grade daughter who might be best served in [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes on Indian Mountain School
Visiting Indian Mountain School, I felt like a kid again. The school is a junior boarding school located in Lakeville, CT. IMS feels like home away from home for its students. Facilities, views and setting were all beautiful. The arts are woven throughout the curriculum and visual and performing arts offer great windows of opportunity. [...]
Read MoreWhy a Junior Boarding School?
Kim Loughlin, Bement School admission director, explores the reasons that a family might consider a junior boarding school for their child. She touches on the opportunities that students and families will find in elementary & middle school boarding students. No matter the reasons behind a family’s consideration of a junior boarding school, these schools offer [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes on Linden Hill School
A junior boarding school for boys, ages 9-16 with learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, and executive functioning challenges, Linden Hill School (Northfield, MA) helps middle school age boys, of average to above average intelligence, with language learning differences, ADD and/or executive function issues to become increasingly successful, and independent in academic, social, and athletic environments. Orton-Gillingham methodology [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Notes on The Greenwood School
The Greenwood School, a junior boarding school, enrolls boys ages 9–14; they have 42 boarding and 5 day students. Students have been diagnosed with: dyslexia, specific language-based learning disabilities/learning differences (LD); receptive language and/or expressive language deficits; executive functioning deficits; attention difficulties (ADD or ADHD); disorders of written expression; dysgraphia; or, speech and language needs. [...]
Read MoreCatching up with my St. Paul’s School Student
At St. Paul’s School I visited with a student whom I helped with placement. A tenth grade boarder, he came from a junior boarding school. With boarding school already under his belt, his transition has been smooth both academically and socially. He arrived at SPS with study skills and organizational skills all in place. He [...]
Read MoreEnglish In Real Life: Fessenden Alumnus Christopher Lloyd Takes on Willie Loman
Fortuitous timing- this is too good an opportunity to pass-up- a chance to plug one of my favorite plays and an opportunity for anyone familiar with (or interested in learning) to think and reflect on one of America’s great plays, Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” I stumbled across “A Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher [...]
Read MoreGetting to Know Fay School
Jamie Ramsdell, Director of Admission connects Fay School (America’s oldest junior boarding school) traditions to the 21st century in this latest installment of our Getting to Know series. Highlights from the conversation include: -Balance of tradition and the new -Broad options throughout the curriculum -Connected faculty
Read MoreGetting to Know Cardigan Mountain School
Next up in our Getting to Know series, Cardigan Mountain School- an all-boys, junior boarding school in Canaan, NH. Brian Beale, Cardigan’s Associate Director of Admission, talks about the school’s supportive & structured environment, three levels of academic programs and PEAKS – Cardigan’s Personalized Education for the Acqusition of Knowledge and Skills program.
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