WEEKLY BLOG

Photo: The cast of the Fall Term theater production takes their bows.  This week we closed out the Fall Term with some of our favorite North Country School traditions: Appreciation Town Meeting, Family Weekend’s [...]

Photo: Wyatt with his hiking pack on the Outdoor Leadership overnight trip.  This past weekend the students in our Outdoor Leadership (ODL) II class participated in an exciting milestone—their Fall Term double-overnight camping trip. [...]

Photo: Students enjoy the first on-campus snowfall of the academic year between classes.  It's official: snow season has arrived! This Tuesday night, we received our first snowfall of the year, which blanketed our campus with [...]

Photo: Emily and Eleanor dressed as the upcoming solar eclipse. Halloween at NCS is a day when all of our students’ impressive artistic skills take center stage. There is something exciting to see around every [...]

Photo: Savannah hands May a chicken at Chicken Harvest. Since our inception in 1938, North Country School students, faculty, and staff have participated in the many cycles of life that bring food to our [...]

Photo: Students pose with their "swoords" during WARP. Each fall our community comes together for what is arguably the most whimsical event of the year—our all-school fantasy role play called WARP, or Wilderness Action [...]

Photo: Laurie and Mariana dissect an owl pellet in environmental science class.  Experiential education recognizes that everyone learns differently, and that inviting students to actively participate in their education not only captures and keeps their [...]

Photo: Edison with newly harvested potatoes. The place-based lessons and activities that our students participate in encourage them to connect to and consider the world in new ways. This week our campus community came [...]

Photo: The 6th-grade class hikes Mt. Jo during NCS orientation. Welcome to the first This Week at NCS of the 2023-2024 academic year! Students returned to North Country School this past week after a [...]

Photo: 9th-grade graduate Emma shows 7th grader Liam her senior book. It was a great last week of the 2022-2023 academic year at North Country School—one that brought with it the Spring Term theater [...]