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“Our students take an active role as culture creators and culture keepers in our community. They learn how to be gentlemen in the fullest sense of the word.”
In a boarding school community, students live and work with people of different ages, backgrounds, and experiences.
Students develop greater confidence and gain insight into themselves through their interactions in the dormitory, dining hall, house jobs, clubs, weekend activities, and community service.
Leadership through Service: Student Leadership at Woodhall
Students are selected to serve as leaders within the school community. Student Leadership allows students to share their own personal growth by serving as role models who work with the administration, faculty, and other Student Leaders through active participation in leadership roles in student life.
Dorms
Student Leaders serve as dorm prefects, assisting the Dorm Parents in creating a welcoming living environment and running the day to day schedule of each dorm.
Six faculty members who live in apartments connected to each dorm serve as Dorm Parents. These adult mentors offer students guidance and ensure a safe and supportive living environment, while seeing that each student develops a sense of personal accountability in the dorm.
Dining
Lunch and dinner are served family style and students, under the leadership of the Dining Hall Prefects, work together to help set, serve, and clean up. The Administrator on Duty begins with a moment of reflection and thanks. One night per week, students wear jackets and ties to dinner.
Student Activities
Student Leaders work diligently to make sure each weekend is fun and features activities their peers want to do. The student leaders also create, host, and facilitate three major weekends on campus: Fall Fest, Woodhall Weekend, and Spring Carnival.
Clubs
Clubs at Woodhall provide an opportunity for all students to develop co-curricular interests and to work with their peers toward a common goal. Each student must participate in at least one club. A faculty advisor monitors student progress and facilitates projects. Clubs have included a cappella (The Woodsmen), Art, Astronomy, Investment and Philanthropy, Arts and Literary Magazine, Music, Science Olympiad, Sons of Thoreau, and Yearbook and Social Media.
Community Life
The Woodhall Residential Life Program emphasizes mentorship, leadership, and engagement in co-curricular clubs, frequent outings (movies, shopping, sporting events), community service, and social activities with area all-girls boarding schools.
Dorms
Tower Dorm and French Hall are the two student dormitories. Most rooms are double occupancy. Each dormitory has a kitchenette.
Each student is responsible for sharing his space with his roommate and for keeping the room in order, while adding their own personal style. Dorm life is another opportunity to socialize and learn to be respectful community members.
Dining
Homemade meals, prepared by the school chef, Chris Griffith, provide physical nourishment and community spirit. Chef often takes suggestions from the campus community for his internationally varied menu, including local seasonal fruits and vegetables. Breakfast is cafeteria style, with eggs made to order. and other hot and cold breakfast fare. Lunch and dinner are served family-style and include homemade soup and an extensive salad bar along with the main hot dishes.
Weekends at Woodhall
After a busy academic week, students have the opportunity to relax and socialize on campus or with their peers from neighboring boarding schools
On weekends Woodhall schedules on and off-campus activities. Students go to movie theaters, local towns for shopping and dining, in-door ropes courses, trampoline parks, Six Flags, go-karting tracks, and more. Woodhall is also part of the single-sex school consortium and attends dances and social events with local schools such as Westover, Miss Porter’s, Ethel Walker, Emma Willard and others.
Given our location students also take trips to cities such as New Haven and Hartford, to visit museums, attend hockey games, or just take some time to have a nice meal out on the town.
Students in good standing may go off-campus on their own for dinner and shopping in town. During the warmer months students will explore the local Bethlehem Land Trust or swim at Long Meadow Pond. During the winter months Woodhall offers ski trips most Sundays.
On campus students can screen films of interest in the Abigail J. Woodhall Theatre. They can swim or fish in the pond, play pick-up basketball in the gym, work out in the weight room, cook on the Class of 2009 grill, play volleyball, play table tennis, foosball, pool, use the rock climbing wall, or sit by a campfire on “Mount Woodhall”; the options are endless.
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