Four days a week the entire community comes together in Deering Chapel (and soon in the newly renovated Newton Performing Arts Center) for Morning Meeting. Morning Meeting is a time for the entire community to meet, to talk, to share, to inform and to educate each other.
The Student Body President and the Headmaster share in leading Morning Meeting, and the Student Council frequently uses Morning Meeting to update the community on their initiatives and programs.
Morning Meeting varies from day to day - you never know what is going to happen!
On any day, the community could be:
- Learning about prominent African-Americans from The Group - the school's diversity club - in their Martin Luther King Jr. Day presentation
- Finding out about meganumbers with the Math department
- Discussing the benefits of going "trayless" in the Dining Hall, moderated by the Environmental Studies students and faculty
- Trying to win the College Counseling Jeopardy game - fabulous prizes, too!
- Learning about the Darfur genocide and the problems in the DRC from the Amnesty International club
- Presenting the NEPSAC Soccer Championship Trophy to the Headmaster
- Handing out Student of the Month Awards
- Signing student/faculty teams up for the Student Council's Dodgeball Tournament
- Trying to Samba with the Modern Languages department
- Singing "Happy Birthday" to everyone celebrating a birthday that day
- Taking up the Envirothon Challenge
- Watching the Digital Photography and Digital Imaging classes' presentations
- Volunteering for the Headmaster's Stump-Throwing Challenge
- Listening to a student's "This I Believe" essay
- Publicizing upcoming club meetings and activities
- Discussing Community Life issues in small groups
Morning Meeting is also a time to see your advisor. Advisors and advisees sit together and check in with each other at every Morning Meeting.
