Student Life
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The many paths that students can explore distinguish the Brentwood School experience. We encourage our students to sample various interests and discover which ones drive and excite them.
Student life is vibrant and welcoming. It is reinforced when we all come together to share a significant event — like Opening Ceremony — and in the smaller moments when students connect with teachers, and with each other. Through our after-school activities, Lower Schoolers share common interests like musical theater or Lego Robotics. Middle and Upper School students form clubs around coding, business, the arts, nonprofit work, Veteran engagement, and much more. We have divisionwide jam sessions, silly assembly presentations, and an epic grade-level competition called September Splash.
Spirited events, like cheering our friends on the field at Homecoming or on stage during the musical, are balanced with meaningful times of reflection. All of this community-building forms a foundation for students to explore boldly in the classroom, while forging the kinds of life-long friendships that draw alumni back to campus year after year.
Selected Clubs and Activities
Lower School
(after school)
Musical Theater (4th and 5th grades)
Sports (4th and 5th grades)
Ace Escape
Cheer
Chess Club
Jazz/Hip-Hop
Dance
Lego Robotics
Professor Egghead Engineering
Sewing and Embroidery
Speech and Debate
Supercharged Science
Yearbook
Middle School
In addition to our Art Club, Model UN, and Math Club, Middle School students take “Exploratories,” which are like mini-courses taught by faculty, on everything from cooking to wiffleball. This is a sample of past Exploratories:
Anime
Board Games
Book Club
Card Games
Chess
Coding
Crafts
Dungeons and Dragons
Eagle Hour News
Fantasy Football
Farm-to-Table Gardening
Improv
Juggling
Kickball
Make and Build
Pickleball
Rubik’s Cubes & Other Multi-Dimensional Puzzles
Scrapbooking
Singing
Songwriting
Strong Body and Mind
Student Council
Study Hall
Word Wizardry
Zen Coloring
Upper School
With over 60 student-led clubs, and new ones forming each year based on what inspires students, there’s no limit to how someone can get involved. Below is just a sampling of the vibrant student and service clubs that bring our campus to life, all supported by dedicated faculty advisors.
*Alzheimer’s/Parkinson’s
Amaranth
American History
Architecture and Design
Astronomy
Aviation
*Baby 2 Baby
*Best Buddies
*Beyond the Game
*BIDR/Red Cross
*Books & Bridges
Breaking Bread
*Buddy Bots
Bwell
BWS Athletics Media
BWS Fashion
BWS Garden
BWS Film
*BWS Rescue Mission
BWS Spirit
*CA Kids Giving Back
*Cancer Awareness
Challaback
*Champion Together
Chess
*Creative Connections
Crosswords
*Cure Addiction Now (CAN)
*Curls for Courage
*Ecology
Economics
Engineering/Tinkering
Entrepreneurship
Esports
Financial Literacy/Common Sense
*Foster Care
French
Game and Event Collective
*Habitat for Humanity
*Hope in a Suitcase
*Hunger Helpers - FTS
Investment Club
Library Leadership
Linguistics
Math
Mock Trail
Model UN
Music Production
*Music Service Collective
Open Ceramics
Outdoor Adventure
*Paws for a Cause
Performing Arts
*Phoenix Emergency Recovery Kits
*SAPP/Domestic Violence Prevention
Sports and Society
Sports Management
Sports Medicine
SWENext Club
*Teen Court
*Thrift to Uplift
*Tree People
*VA Student Support Group
*Veggies 4 Vets
*Waves of Change
*Wise Readers to Leaders
Young Doctors
*Service clubs