Sedbergh School Canada

  Canada

• Quebec: 
Montreal
• Ottawa: 
Ottawa

Duration of Program: 7-12 months

Description: Sedbergh School was founded in 1939 by Thomas J. Wood, Vera Wood and Frank Duxbury. Both T.J. Wood and Frank Duxbury had been teaching at Ontario's Lakefield College School when they decided to venture out on their own. With the help of Chief Jack Rabbit Johannsen, a legendary outdoorsman, Wood and Duxbury chose the 1,200 acres in Montebello, Quebec as the campus for their new school. With this spectacular setting, the school's programming utilized the vast acreage of wilderness as a venue for more than just a traditional education. The modern day school continues many of the outdoor traditions of the school's founders, while challenging each student academically and preparing them for university and their future success.

Sedbergh School has always been an inclusive and diverse school. Originally a boy's school, in 1989 girls joined the school's community. Further, the school's diversity is built by students from a wide range of socio-economic and international backgrounds. Currently, the school is comprised of students from a minimum of 10 countries.

Highlights: The unique academic curriculum of Sedbergh School uses integrated programs and takes advantage of our small, supportive learning environment to prepare all students for university and beyond. Our extraordinary teachers and staff take advantage of all teachable moments wherever and whenever they appear. This allows for learning to take place both in the classroom and out. Sedbergh students experience courses unique to Sedbergh such as:

Wilderness Integration Course (WIC): The WIC program focuses on delivering course content, such as history and moral education through hands-on experiences in outdoor environments.

Environmental Leadership Course: The integrated program ELC, examines environmental science-geography, ecology, economics, ethics and leadership. This unique course is designed to create an awareness of and an appreciation for the natural world we live in.

Grade 12 Thesis Project: Grade 12 students develop their own written thesis project and verbal defence. This important element of the grade 12 year strengthens research, analytical and communication skills, which are critical for success in university and beyond.

Sedbergh Students are fortunate to live, study, and play on a campus that provides an incomparable venue for outdoor activities. As a result students stay active through a variety of organized sports and outdoor activities. Sedbergh students participate in a wide variety of intramural and competitive sports.

Cost in US$: 40,000 USD

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Canada Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Sedbergh School's Mission Statement: In a small student-centered community, Sedbergh School prepares young men and women for university and lifes challenges. We encourage excellence and personal development through a unique curriculum integrating academics, athletics, outdoor education and environmental awareness. Students learn, in this setting of forests, mountains and valleys, values of tolerance, respect, teamwork, self-reliance and social responsibility.

Year Founded: 1939