Health & Wellness

Ridgefield Academy Health and Wellness Worry Wall

The Ridgefield Academy Wellness Program is specifically designed to support the social-emotional growth of our Middle and Upper School students. The workshop-based program is implemented both by Ridgefield Academy faculty and outside contributors. Each scheduled workshop has been built to address the specific needs of the developmental age; however, the program also supports responsive programming around specific grade level, gender, and community needs. All workshops are interactive with students engaging in discussion, role-play, and other hands-on activities.

Grade 5: Digital Citizenship

Grade 6: Healthy Relationships

Grade 7: Self-Image, Gender Identity, and Media Literacy

Grade 8: High School Bound

The High School Bound program is held in the spring of the eighth grade year and utilizes the theme of decision-making to highlight the difficult decisions that high school students face. The program focuses on the roots of decision making and the impact of others’ decisions on our own, while touching on important social issues including dating relationships, academic honesty, and use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

Health & Wellness in Lower School

Feel good Fridays began as a way for our Lower School community to come together and feel good! Katie Spiro, Grade 2 teacher, sparked the idea last year and has had tremendous support from the entire faculty in carrying out each of these special Fridays. As a faculty, the goal of Feel Good Friday is for the children to build relationships with each other, connect with teachers, and celebrate a month of hard work. So far our themes have included peer appreciation, animal mania, thankful hearts, hot chocolate and holiday reads, sports and fitness, and there is more to come!

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