Upper School Student Life

Community in Motion.

LIFE LIVED

We expect students to be multi-faceted members of the community. Our boys engage in activities beyond the classroom, including athletics, performing arts, and community service. Such opportunities provide physical and creative outlets and enhance self-esteem.

Through extracurricular programs, students embrace core values—those of sportsmanship, hard work, and self-expression. They also establish lifelong connections with teammates, coaches, and faculty. Our students seek enriching experiences that uplift both the school community and the world at large.

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Clubs & Organizations

Arabic Club	Student Council	History Bowl
Ensemble and Jazz Band	Diversity in Action	Ecology Club
Literary & Art Magazine	Animal Service Club	Chamber Music Club
Math Team	Robotics Club	’Wick Word Newspaper Club
Math Team Jr.	Boys of Brunswick	Book Bandits Book Club
Chess Club	Debate and Persuasive Speech Club	Library Advisory Council
Community Service Club	Art Club	The Board Games Club

Featured Programs

Big Brother

Select older students work hand-in-hand with younger members of our community. Big Brothers visit the Lower and Pre School campuses weekly, where older boys can often be found playing football, wall ball, and basketball on the playground alongside our Lower Schoolers. They regularly visit classrooms to enhance the learning process.

Connections

Upper School boys are chosen and trained to lead advisory activities and run Middle and Lower School assemblies on cooperation and teamwork throughout the year. The program builds a deeper sense of community among our four divisions, connecting students across grades and reinforcing our strong belief that students are responsible for each other and should look out for one another.

Peer Leadership

Selected seniors facilitate weekly discussion and activity groups with incoming freshmen throughout fall semester, welcoming the younger students to the Upper School, assisting with the transition, and serving as a trustworthy friend.

Sophomore Vermont Outdoor Leadership Program

All tenth grade students spend a week with their advisory on campus in Randolph, VT during the academic year. Boys are given the opportunity to learn basic outdoor skills such as map-reading, land navigation, camping, etc. Removed from all technology, this setting also provides moments of sincere self-reflection and connection.

Student Government

Students run for office in the spring of each academic year, and are elected to represent and serve the interests of the student body. Officers advance the concerns, ideas, and suggestions of Upper School students to further the interests of student life, to promote school spirit, and to interact positively with the administration and faculty.

Faculty Advisory

As critical as is the advisor’s responsibility to chronicle academic progress and to serve as liaison between school and parent, it is the advisor’s role as friend and advocate that is most important. Through mutual respect and personal regard, faculty advisors model the school’s core values of Courage, Honor, Truth and help develop each boy’s confidence in ways that will serve him throughout his life.

Senior Prefects

Prefects are selected through a lengthy process that begins in junior year, and are named at Opening Day Assembly to serve throughout senior year. They are awarded special ties of bright gold and yellow, to remind them and others of their responsibility and position of leadership. Prefects work to enhance the reputation of their office, their class, and the school’s devotion to Courage, Honor, Truth.

Student Publications

The Review

The Oracle

Babel

The Orient Express

Community Service

We believe all students have the responsibility to serve communities outside of their own. Our boys participate in many volunteer work opportunities, including:

Abilis

Alzheimer's Awareness

Angels at Bat

Autism Awareness

Barbara's House

Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich

Breast Cancer Awareness

Building One Community

Buying Time

Coffee For Good

Don Bosco Center

Family Centers

Filling In The Blanks

Greenwich Land Trust

Greenwich Tree Conservancy

Inspirica

Marshall Legacy Institute

Jewish Family Services

Kids Helping Kids

Make a Wish

Meals on Wheels

Midnight Run

Mothers For Others

Neighbor to Neighbor

Pathways

Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Red Cross

Special Olympics

Homecoming 2025: One for the Storybooks

Homecoming 2025: One for the Storybooks

Spectacular fall weather set the stage for a breathtaking Homecoming 2025, as alumni, students, parents, and friends flocked to Edwards Campus for a weekend filled with thrilling athletic contests, joyful connections, and heartfelt reunions.

Impossible Foods Leader: ‘Dial Back the Rhetoric’

Impossible Foods Leader: ‘Dial Back the Rhetoric’

Peter McGuinness, the CEO of Impossible Foods, spoke to Upper School students about the $1.4 trillion meat industry — as he also outlined efforts to “dial back the rhetoric” and invite more people to incorporate “delicious, nutritious” plant-based meat in their diets.

Visiting Author: Great Art Is ‘Bedrock of the Human Story’

Visiting Author: Great Art Is ‘Bedrock of the Human Story’

Patrick Bringley, a New York Times bestselling author, spoke to Upper School students about grief — and the solace and meaning he ended up finding through his decade of work as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.