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- We offer a balanced program among the academic disciplines, the arts, and athletics.
- We promote a family atmosphere that nurtures respect, fairness, responsibility, honesty, compassion, and cooperation, and civic mindedness.
- Our faculty includes both a substantial number of Applewild School veterans and an infusion of new members.
- We have an involved and supportive Parent Association and Board of Trustees.
- Beginning in Kindergarten, we introduce a community service program which encourages volunteerism, civic mindedness, and a spirit of giving. Examples of our students' efforts include money raised for UNICEF, LUK, Oxfam, and the American Heart Association, as well as filling backpacks for Hurricane Katrina victims, and delivering shoes and soccer cleats to needy communities around the world.
- Cross-curricular programs are offered in Kindergarten through grade six.
- Lab-based science program in grades one through nine that provide an active, inquiry approach to science.
- In the Upper School, art and furniture-making mentor programs allow students to work on their talents for up to four hours a week.
- Travel opportunities for Upper School students include trips to England, France, and Spain.
- Outstanding student art work is proudly displayed in our lobbies and corridors.
- All of our students are active participants in our theater program. Past Upper School plays include: Our Town, Godspell, The Importance of Being Earnest, Free to be You and Me, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Pippin, and Alice in Wonderland.
- Our Lower School library and Upper School Information Center house 17,000 volumes of books in addition to a wide variety of periodicals and Internet access to the Central Massachusetts Regional Library System.
- Two computer labs in addition to an ample of supply of laptop computers in a wireless, networked campus provides strong computing resources to our students.
- Our graduates continue on to study at the leading secondary schools of their choice.
- Our alumni continue to excel after graduating and have won prizes at the secondary school level in such areas as French, Latin, science, community service, photography, poetry, music, athletics as well as having played leading roles in a variety of theater productions.
- Many of our students regularly receive honors in the National Latin exam as well as on the John Hopkins Achievement Test.
- In 2007 our Upper School students swept first place in many categories of competition in Central Massachusetts on National History Day.
- Instrumental music is introduced to all students in the fourth grade and is expanded throughout the fifth through ninth grades through individual and group instruction. In addition, there are many opportunities to participate in a variety of musical ensembles and bands.
- Our Upper School Jazz band won gold medals in 2005, 2006, and 2007 in the Central District Jazz Festival hosted by the International Association of Jazz Educators.
- Our students have the pleasure of performing in our state of the art, 400 seat Performing Arts Center.
- Applewild is proud to have its own arts foundation, The Marshall Fund for the Arts, supporting on-campus events as well as an annual artist in residence program.
- Our 26 acre campus, abutting hundreds of acres of Audubon conservation land, is our science lab for environmental studies in the upper grades and for nature studies and walks in the lower grades.
- In 2006 Applewild received an Environmental Award for community support from the North County Land Trust.
- Our students participate in intramural sports from grades four through six and interscholastic sports in grades six through nine. Skill and sportsmanship are emphasized. Interscholastic sports offered include soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, basketball, and cross country.
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