Hamden Hall Country Day School
Educating Students in PreSchool Through Grade 12
Educating Students in PreSchool Through Grade 12
Academics
Middle School
The Middle School Experience
The Hamden Hall Experience starts with academic excellence as enhanced by our dynamic learning environment and fostered by our esteemed faculty. Our core values - excellence, support, participation, accountability, and respect - are interwoven in that overarching experience and are integral to the academic growth and success of every student. While rigorous academics underscore all we do, we also care about the people our graduates become and pride ourselves on our socially considerate atmosphere.
Our Middle School balances real academic rigor with a nurturing approach to each individual child in appreciation of the rapid developmental changes taking place at this age. Moreover, the unbridled curiosity of our seventh and eighth graders is carefully managed by experienced educators who know how to inspire excellence while cultivating personal connections.
Our Middle School balances real academic rigor with a nurturing approach to each individual child in appreciation of the rapid developmental changes taking place at this age. Moreover, the unbridled curiosity of our seventh and eighth graders is carefully managed by experienced educators who know how to inspire excellence while cultivating personal connections.
Experience A Day In Middle School
Throughout the year, seventh graders broaden their ability to think critically and analytically through in-depth classroom instruction and multiple academic avenues including project-based learning, elective rotations, advisory groups, and more that inspire creativity and challenging projects and experiences.
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Davis Street Campus
Our Davis Street Campus features dedicated learning spaces, common gathering areas, and unique educational settings in appreciation of the rapid developmental changes taking place at this stage of our students’ academic journeys. -
Mentored Guidance
Each Middle School student is assigned an advisor to ensure that instruction is properly tailored and to build the strong support network that is the fabric of our close-knit community. -
Sporting Hornets
Our robust school day ends with athletics. As teammates, our student-athletes are dedicated to a common goal and purpose while developing their own self-confidence and leadership skills. -
Authentic Learning
Students experience authentic hands-on learning via division wide projects such as the Earth Summit, Political Convention, and Media Conference. -
Community Service: Fostered In Our Classrooms
Community Service is integrated into the curriculum with students participating in projects both on campus and in our local community. -
Enriching Environment
Our Middle School curriculum is enriched with dynamic and engaging programming in art, music, theater, and classes in our MakerSpace Design Lab. -
Experience Creativity
With two productions a year, a Seventh-Grade Chorus, a Glee Club, and the Orchestra, students have myriad opportunities to perform. -
Health and Wellness
Health and wellness classes help students build social-emotional skills useful for managing their time, mental health, and relationships. -
Involved Hornets
Clubs such as the Book Club, Debate Team, Diversity Club, Mathcounts, the Middle School Newspaper, Vex Robotics, and many others allow students to explore additional interests. -
Nurturing Community
We are a small, nurturing community where teachers find a way to reach and push each individual student.
Purposeful Halls
Project-Based Learning allows the Middle School to provide authentic, real-world learning through in-depth, extensive projects. From mock trials, to fictional memoirs, creating geometric structures, and our capstone short story and declamation projects, we believe students learn as much - or even more - from the high level of engagement engendered by these rigorous initiatives.
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Marbled Tinkering
Eighth-grade students put their engineering and design skills to the ultimate test in the Marble Maze Challenge, an annual hands-on learning project that starts in our MakerSpace Design Lab.
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Authentic Learning
Our Middle School division-wide experiential learning project immerses students in various topical thematic content such as climate change and sustainability. Authenticity is at the heart of this initiative in that it’s meaningful and offers students the ability to build out life skills.
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Earth Tones
Earth Day is an annual occasion that gets our students out of the classroom and into real-world scenarios where they learn about - and help maintain - the watershed, nature preserves, and community gardens.
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Brian Christman, Director of Middle School
By getting to know every student well, and partnering with parents to ensure successful academic habits, we are able to help each child reach their potential. Life in the Middle School is filled with dynamic and engaging programs and activities.
Campus Happenings
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Middle School Students Explore Cultures Through Food Lens
The dining hall was filled recently with enticing aromas of diverse culinary delights as the Middle School community came together to pass the plate and enjoy food from around the world during the fourth annual Cultural Food Assembly.Read More -
Latin Students Earn Recognition on National Exam and Attend Latin Day
Read MoreThe high caliber of academic success in the World Language Department continues as 37 Middle and Upper School students participated in the National Latin Exam with 18 students earning awards for their outstanding performance. Latin teachers Stephanie Spaulding and Alison Orlebeke had the distinct honor of administering the exam. -
Hamden Hall Takes Care of Planet Earth
Read MoreAs Earth Day commenced on April 22, the Hamden Hall community embarked on its long-standing tradition of observing the occasion with art projects, community service initiatives, and assemblies as the Upper School will be hosting guest speaker Chris Sullivan on April 25. -
Live from the Lab: The Mighty Heart Dissection
Seventh-grade students turned into surgeons in Room 121 of the Schiavone Science Center as they observed, identified, and dissected a sheep heart during a hands-on lab activity in connection with their unit of study.Read More -
Honoring Excellence in STEM: SID Students Receive Awards at Science Fair
Future scientists and innovators in Hamden Hall’s Signature Program: Science, Innovation, & Design took center stage as representatives from both Upper and Middle School presented their independent research projects at the 77th Connecticut Science and Engineering Fair.Read More
1108 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden, Connecticut 06517
Phone: 203-752-2600
Fax: 203-752-2651
admissions@hamdenhall.org
Hamden Hall Country Day School, located less than two miles from Yale University, is one of the best private schools in Connecticut to enroll elementary, middle, and high school students. Our nurturing and inclusive community provides a dynamic learning environment that promotes academic excellence by understanding each child and fostering their individual growth.
