Learning does not confine itself to the classroom.
Throughout their education, MFS students experience active opportunities for growth that take them off campus.
For one week each March, regular classes are suspended for “Intensive Learning,” when Middle and Upper School students and teachers engage in an in-depth study of a specific subject, often involving off-campus research. This long-standing MFS tradition – which dates to the mid 1970s – allows teachers and students to break out of the structure of formal class periods and traditional study by subject disciplines (math, English, history) for a time of experiential learning in out-of-classroom settings.
Both students and teachers are freed to see themselves in a new light: as life-long learners, students of the world around them.
Read “An ‘Intensive’ Tradition of Learning Endures” in the Spring 2013 issue of Among Friends.
Read descriptions of Intensive Learning programs for: