Welcome

I hope you are all enjoying these wonderful summer days as we make our way to late August and Stoneleigh-Burnham School registration and orientation days.  Our mission continues to guide us:  “Stoneleigh-Burnham School is an academic community that fosters an international perspective.  We inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity.  Each student is challenged to discover her best self and graduate with confidence to think independently and act ethically, secure in the knowledge that her voice will be heard.”
 

We have been a proud girls school since 1869 when the Prospect Hill School was founded in Greenfield.  Fast forward 156 years, and we have merged five times in total with the last one occurring in 1968 when Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill joined the Mary A. Burnham School to become SBS.  Our house system is named after our four female founders:  Bessie Talbot Capen, Mary A. Burnham, Isabel Cressler, and Caroline Sumner.  All of their photos hang in the Blue Room just off the main lobby, and the historic, courageous ladies are joined by our one male founder, Reverend John Farwell Moors. 
 

Of course, the world has changed dramatically, and our students are faced with new challenges and opportunities.  We believe that our SBS graduates will leave us with the necessary skills and habits of mind to be successful and happy.  The International Baccalaureate Program speaks to learners who strive to be “inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open minded, caring, risk takers, balanced, and reflective.”  SBS teaches students important aspects that AI simply cannot, but we also need to embrace technological innovation and teach students how to use it wisely and well.  Our focus on community, on mental health, and on well-being will also prepare our students for a future beyond SBS.