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The Hillside has been buzzing with some exciting facility upgrades and campus improvements. The first big project was to repave all walkways and install five-foot sidewalks across campus. The lower tennis courts have been removed and seeded with grass to create a new open space to be used for special events and student activities. The … Read more
Led by editors-in-chief Graeme Russell and Drew Jensen and supported by their Faculty Advisor and Humanities 2 teacher Ms. Denise Crlenjak, The Crest: A South Kent Literary & Arts Journal started as an honors project for class but turned into something more. During a year filled with many changes, a group of talented students from … Read more
As South Kent begins its 99th year, the School’s foundational precepts – Simplicity of Life, Self-Reliance, and Directness of Purpose – now stand at the heart of campus, carved in stone and mounted on the rebuilt retaining wall above the Old Building. As a project of the Class of 1967 … Read more
Every student who attends boarding school goes through periods of missing home. Homesickness can happen at any time; for some, it will set in on the way to school, while for others, it may come up three weeks (or three months) into the school year. Whether the boys admit it or not, it is a … Read more
At the end of each year, once all the students have left, the dorm faculty and staff walk through the residential houses to check the condition of the rooms and deal with the remnants left behind. It is during these walks, over the years, that we have noticed a pattern of the most common items … Read more
STEM instructor Mr. Joseph Barowski challenges his students to solve advanced math problems to help feed the hungry. Using freerice.com, a website affiliated with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Mr. Barowski’s Math Lab and Advanced Calculus classes are participating in educational math trivia that help our students get smarter while making a difference … Read more
Earlier this month, our Humanities 4 and SUPA African American Studies (AAS) classes collaborated to read and discuss “A Case for Reparations,” an important article written by Ta-Nehisi Coates about how America needs to reckon with our moral debts as a result of hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow, racial segregation, and racism. … Read more
WINTER SPORTS Basketball Coach Chillious and South Kent’s Prep Basketball team are off to an incredibly strong start with an 18-3 overall record. Currently sitting in first place in NEPSAC AAA with an 8-0 record, the team is on a 14-game winning streak since December 7, 2022! The team played in three major events in … Read more
The South Kent School Mountain Biking team has had its most successful season ever. In early November, South Kent’s student-athletes competed in the Housatonic Mountain Biking League (HMBL) Championship at the Norbrook Farm trails in Colebrook, CT. The boys pushed hard all season and had a strong performance in their Championship rides. Third Form rider … Read more
The College Board has recognized two South Kent School students with scholar honors based on the 2021 Advanced Placement (AP) testing that was held at the school and online. Zhouxingyu Yan, Class of 2022, is an AP Scholar with Honor and Yuxuan Xiao, Class of 2022, is an AP Scholar. Zhouxingyu Yan was recognized for … Read more