Boarding Fee: 64900
The following video was conceptualized and produced by boarding student Amanda '19. She worked with many of her peers to pull together an authentic, inside view into the CSW boarding community, so that you can get a sense of what it's really like to live on campus at The Cambridge School of Weston.
Our dorms are playrooms and study nooks, a place for impromptu dance parties and board games, and spaces to sleep-in and hang out. Most of all, our dorms are home to approximately 90 boarding students, as well as 20 residential life faculty, their families and pets.
Students who live on campus walk away with a deeper, around-the-clock experience of our school. Boarders have additional opportunities to get homework help or support from teachers and advisors who live on campus, as well as easy access to the library, art and dance studios, and music rehearsal rooms on evenings and weekends.
Boarding students have additional leadership opportunities, from serving as head or a member of Board Life, serving on Dorm Board, to becoming elected as Dorm Leader. Boarding students can sign up for weekly weekend trips to Harvard Square, the mall, and movie theaters, or for special activities like canoeing and kayaking at Cochituate Lake, Boston Celtics games, theatre performances, and trips to local amusement parks. Tickets are provided by the school for all trips.
Two sets of live-in dorm parents, dorm associates, and dorm leaders provide care and leadership in each dorm. There is also a rotating dorm associate who spends time supporting each dorm throughout the school year. In addition, we have the assistant head of school, the dean of student life, the school counselor, and other staff and faculty members who live on campus to provide support for our students. Under their guidance, our students build important life skills, gaining self-confidence and autonomy within a supportive structure. We have lots of family-like conversations about things like managing time wisely, the importance of pitching in and helping out, and making good choices.
Our boarding students know first hand what it means to a part of the CSW family.
Boarding students have additional opportunities to serve in leadership roles in the residential life community. Students may apply to become a dorm leader in their dorm, be elected to serve on their dorm's judicial body, or run for various positions on the Boarding Life Committee. Additionally, one boarding student is elected each year to serve alongside a day student as a voting member on CSW's Board of Trustees.
Dorm Leaders serve as role models and serve as a liaison between students and dorm parents, and they often act as the unofficial "big sibling" to many students in their dorms. They help plan and run orientation activities for the entire residential community, and assist dorm parents in managing weekly activities in the dorms and with weekly study-hour check-ins. Dorm leaders are expected to support dorm and school policy, to encourage healthy activity and to promote dorm unity and spirit through activities and positive interactions with students.
Dorm Board is a judicial body that hears cases pertaining to minor rule infractions in the dorm. Each dorm has its own Dorm Board, elected at the beginning of each year, and it is Dorm Board's job, with the assistance of the dorm parents, to hear cases and determine consequences. Not only is this a great educational opportunity for our students, it allows for student voices to be heard throughout the disciplinary process.
The Boarding Life Committee is comprised of an elected head of Boarding Life, two elected representatives from each dorm, an elected Boarding Town Meeting Moderator, and the deans. The group meets weekly to discuss issues pertaining to boarding life as well as to plan events that relate specifically to the boarding community. The Boarding Life Committee is also the body that develops the residential life curriculum and the specific rules that pertain to boarding students. The committee is charged with running several Boarding Town Meetings each year, which allow boarding students to come together and and discuss and vote on changes to residential life policies.
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