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The Brunswick Trust
Character, Service, Diversity & Wellness
LIFE ANCHORED
The Brunswick Trust, for enduring excellence in character education, is a dynamic, evolving, and all-encompassing initiative that ensures the consistency, continuity, and excellence of the school’s longstanding devotion to Courage, Honor, Truth. A landmark, programmatic innovation, The Brunswick Trust is a cornerstone of our far-reaching curriculum that now encompasses four pillars of the traditional and comprehensive Brunswick education—Character & Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Wellness, and Service & Sustainability.
Purposefully engaging and collaborative, The Brunswick Trust is a united, whole-school effort to involve faculty, administrators, students, and visiting experts in steering and strengthening our programs in the mid-21st century and beyond.
A Hub for Brunswick's Mission
Conceived and constructed to be the hub of Brunswick’s comprehensive character-building experience, The Brunswick Trust is a stronghold for both the ordinary and the extraordinary moments of school life, and a driving force that unites and guides the school as it works to strengthen and enhance its dedication to its founding tenets.
Expanding the Trust to be the umbrella program for all these endeavors — Character & Leadership; Diversity & Inclusion; Health & Wellness; and Service & Sustainability — was a call to action of Brunswick’s pre-pandemic, six-year strategic plan, created at the direction of the Board of Trustees and Head of School and published in Fall 2019.
The Trust’s Four Pillars
With clear intent, the school created The Brunswick Trust’s Character & Leadership pillar first, to serve as a foundation for the vocabulary of character and guide the vision of character education at every grade level—ensuring the consistency, continuity, and excellence of our school’s character and leadership programs for generations to come.
A spectrum of initiatives in Character & Leadership at all grade levels underscores permanently our unwavering and forward-thinking commitment to fostering personal integrity, tolerance, ethical behavior, individual responsibility, and accountability.
Nothing is more important to us than building character. The entire Brunswick community is committed to instilling in our boys, by example and through experience, qualities that will make them respectful, courageous, honest, and honorable sons, friends, life partners, parents, leaders, and citizens.
In the building and strengthening of young people of character, the Vermont Campus serves as a foundation for the core work of The Brunswick Trust.
Brunswick’s unequivocal commitment to diversity and inclusion reflects the school’s founding purpose, as well as its credos of “Courage, Honor, Truth” and “With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding,”
The school’s many Diversity & Inclusion initiatives stand strong and unified in comprising one of the four pillars of The Brunswick Trust.
We are committed to celebrating intersecting identities from a global perspective. This approach allows members of our community to find their unique voice and agency through a culture that fosters understanding, respect, empathy, and belonging.
The Brunswick community celebrates all dimensions of diversity, ensuring the fullest understanding and appreciation of each and every member of the entire community.
The school’s curriculum prepares students for the world they will encounter after graduating from Brunswick by teaching and fostering understanding, respect, empathy, and belonging.
The Diversity Committee of the Board of Trustees and the Diversity & Inclusion Committee oversee and provide guidance and insight to the Diversity & Inclusion team. As a school community, at both the Board and administrative levels, we endeavor to nurture and support each and every boy in our charge.
Brunswick’s mission has always included instilling in each boy the knowledge and skills necessary for development of physical and psychological health. We can have no greater wish for Brunswick boys than that they will be healthy and well throughout their time at our school and throughout long and fulfilling lives.
Historically, Brunswick has invested abundant time, energy, and resources in maintaining the health and wellness of all members of our community.
Today, as one of the four pillars of The Brunswick Trust, our comprehensive health and wellness program and services are organized through a central, schoolwide hub: The Center for Wellness, Insight, Courage & Kindness (The ’WICK Center).
The Center is the primary vehicle for direct support, resources, and curriculum dedicated at every level to the physical and emotional well-being of our boys, our faculty, our families, and our community.
Full-time medical staff includes Director of Health & Wellness Marcie Molloy M.D., three counselors (Pre/Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools), four nurses (Pre, Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools), and four athletic trainers.
Dedicated physical space is set aside on each of Brunswick’s four campuses, including staff offices and educational meeting rooms.
Community Service
We believe all Brunswick students should endeavor to serve communities and causes beyond their own. Every student, every faculty member, and the school itself must accept the responsibilities and obligations that accompany our many blessings.
A young man’s character develops as he learns to look beyond himself, to consider the situations of those around him, and to share his talents, leadership, and time for the sake of others in his community.
Through The Brunswick Trust’s Community Service initiatives, even our youngest students participate in volunteer opportunities, which evolve over the years to full-fledged service projects in the Upper School.
For older boys, volunteer spirit carries Brunswick boys into the community of Greenwich and around the globe. Community Service Day, an annual rite of spring, sees Upper Schoolers fan out to locations around the region to lend some muscle to spring clean-up, food pantry projects, and more.
Sustainability
Environmental health goes hand-in-hand with well-being, and Brunswick has an energetic Sustainability community of students and faculty who work together to inspire more conversation and action on campus — and around the world — to protect the Earth and the environment.
In 2019-20, Brunswick introduced a schoolwide composting effort in each of its four dining halls.
At the Upper School, the popular, student-led Sustainability Council works to spread awareness for greener living, including reducing carbon footprints. Students organize activities for Earth Week.
The Council also engages visiting experts to speak to students, including a recent visit from the Sustainability Officer of a leading worldwide candy manufacturer, who detailed the company’s commitment to shift to 100 percent sustainable sourcing and packaging for all its candies by 2030.
