Harvest Class stores pumpkins in the greenhouse
Wishing you could rekindle your middle or high school-aged child’s intellectual curiosity? Is your teenager missing the connection between school and “the real world”? At The Community School’s Explore the Possibilities Day, Wednesday, February 10th (from 10:30 am – 3:15 pm), interested parents and students are invited to consider the difference an experience-based, interest-driven curriculum can make. Attendees will tour the school, interact with current students, parents, and faculty members during a Q&A forum, enjoy a hearty lunch, and participate in afternoon block classes.
Block class options:
Cycles of Peace and War: Why We Fight
This is a course focusing on building critical thinking skills. Students worked together to create a game exercising the skills of diplomacy and conflict resolution in an attempt to understand the dynamics that cuase cycles of peace and war. Visitors will learn by playing alongside regular class participants.
Lab Science
What fun to spend an afternoon creating and observing experiments that might go “bam,” or “crackle,” or go up in smoke! There’s nothing more captiviating than “real stuff.” Students will work together to conduct experiments and decipher the results.
Religion and the Middle East
Taking a break from their research and interviews, students will gather around the table, share a Jewish Seder, learning the meaning of the different elements, and examine the importance of tradition.
Teacher Suzanne Weil helping a student to put on a burkah in a sudy of the religions of the Middle East and their practices.
Q & A Workshops for Parents
- Choosing a private school education/financial aid options
- Rural Sustainable Schools Project and the Green Schools Alliance: how they impact The Community School
- Helping students find their place: senior projects and the college admissions process
- Off campus learning: trip weeks and student exchange opportunities (Czech Republic & Costa Rica)
The Community School (TCS) is a fully accredited independent day school serving 7th-12th graders from the Lakes Region and the North Country, as well as neighboring communities in Maine. Located on a beautiful 310-acre campus–a thriving family farm a century ago–TCS sits nestled between the Ossipee and Sandwich Mountain Ranges. In addition to the standard fare of middle and high school curriculum choices, students are able to access unique opportunities for real-world problem solving in the environmental sciences and GIS mapping classes offered through the school’s partnership with The Rey Foundation for a Sustainable Future. TCS is a member of the Green Schools Alliance and initiator of the Rural Sustainable Schools Project, operating an onsite, certified organic CSA garden each summer.
Travel and self-exploration are important values at The Community School. Each spring and fall, faculty and students adventure together on week-long excursions into wilderness areas or into large-city settings, expanding on classroom studies. Study abroad opportunities in Costa Rica and the Czech Republic are available to sophomores and juniors and families may choose to host foreign exchange students. The TCS experience culminates in a Senior Project, an intensive, self-directed month spent off-campus in projects or internships that often take students far from the rural campus.
Rolling admissions; financial aid available; daily bus transportation from Wolfeboro, North Conway, and Cornish, Maine. For more information or to register for this year’s Explore the Possibilities Day, call 323-7000 or email admissions@communityschoolnh.org.
Bouldering during Fall Trip Week
