Retreats

The school year at Prep is marked each spring with the Sophomore and Junior Retreats. The purpose of the retreats is to celebrate and evaluate the close of one year while beginning a conversation about the responsibilities and challenges offered by the next.

The Sophomore Retreat begins in the evening with student-directed discussion groups, which allow students to address specific class-related issues and prepare for their pivotal junior year of high school. The evening conversations set the stage for the next day’s trip off-campus, where the groups meet with faculty to discuss the opportunities and challenges that come with the junior year. Students are asked to consider their role in the greater Prep community and how they will create a sense of balance during the upcoming academic year.

The Junior Retreat is a two-day off-campus celebration and discussion. The class celebrates its arrival as the incoming senior class. With administrators and senior year faculty serving as facilitators, the class will evaluate and define its leadership position in the school – a responsibility that comes hand-in-hand with long awaited senior privileges. Assessing their own unique strengths, the rising senior class is challenged to think outside the conventional functions of student government and pre-existing programs to define how they will individually and collectively contribute to the school community to have a dynamic, vital, and complete senior year experience.