Student Wellness

In the Lower School, the counseling program focuses on academic, personal, and social development within a supportive environment to help all children succeed and become responsible members of society.

The Virtues Project is a large part of our character development program and is interwoven into classroom lessons, special recognition assemblies, and encompasses much of the programming at this level.

Other important lessons include child safety and abuse prevention, digital citizenship and internet safety, and self-regulation. We also work to build emotional intelligence skills to help create and maintain a positive school climate.

In Middle School, the counseling program focuses on building a solid foundation to help students make positive decisions about their physical, emotional, and social health as they begin their adolescent years.

The program delivers weekly workshops, mini-courses, classroom lessons, assemblies, and speakers focused on a broad range of topics, such as managing peer pressure, avoiding substance use, communicating values, evaluating media messages, celebrating diversity, and understanding relationships.

The counseling program for our Upper School students strives to prepare students to make smooth and successful transitions to adulthood.

We emphasize decision-making skills by addressing topics such as alcohol and other substance use, healthy relationships, transitions to college life, and other areas of well-being.

Programming, such as Advisory, 9th Grade Experience, speakers, and seminars, are designed with student input to support academic success and enhance emotional well-being.

Upper School counselors also engage in ongoing supportive counseling with individual students. When needed, they provide crisis intervention, initiate referrals to outside professionals, and act as liaisons for students engaged in treatment with outside professionals.