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5000 Clubside Road
Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124-2595
440.423.4446
12465 County Line Road, P.O. Box 8002
Gates Mills, Ohio 44040-8002
440.423.4446
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Special Opportunities
So much learning takes place outside the classroom ...
During Special Events
Students in the Lower School are treated to trips to the West Side Market, local
museums and the symphony. They envision history through interactive events such as
the Mummy Wrap, Pioneer Day, and the Trial of Joan of Arc.
Middle School students travel to Williamsburg, Virginia; Washington, DC; and New York
City/New Jersey. They also participate in school socials, overnight camping trips,
Grandparents and Special Friends Day, and the annual field trip.
Through Chapel Talks
Part of the English program, the Chapel Talk is a long-standing Hawken tradition, a rite
of passage, in which eighth-grade students deliver an eight-minute speech to the entire
Middle School. Students select an issue-oriented topic -- a subject of their choice -- and
then spend months researching, preparing, and practicing their presentation. The
experience radiates Hawken character -- students pouring themselves into a pursuit,
and everyone else encouraging and supporting him or her. No wonder graduates from
the 1930s remember their Chapel Talks so vividly. And if you come here, and you stand
there, you will, too.
Chapel talks have explored myriad topics, including:
- Stonehenge: Was It an Important Religious Site?
- The 1950s: Why We Are Better Off Today
- Vince Lombardi: More than a Coach
- Peer Pressure: Behind the Scenes
- The Tiny World of Nanotechnology
- Urban Legends: The Modern False Folklore
- Diamonds: A War's Best Friend
- Adolescent Depression: Why Is It a Growing Trend?
With the Haibara-Hawken Exchange Program
The Haibara-Hawken Exchange is a student collaborative program between Haibara,
Japan, and Hawken. Students in the program benefit from learning about and
participating in another culture, particularly a non-Western culture. They will re-evaluate
themselves as well as their home culture.
Program opportunities:
- Participants study various aspects of Japanese culture including history, art, and
customs.
- Participants correspond with Japanese students from Haibara to establish bonds of
friendship.
- Participants live with the families of Haibara in order to experience everyday Japanese
life.
- Participants attend one day of school at Haibara Junior High School to view Japan's
educational system first-hand.
- Participants spend three days on a retreat at Soni with students from Haibara. The Soni
retreat will afford American and Japanese students the time to share various aspects of
their respective cultures.
- Participants visit the city of Nara, the seat of the nation's first permanent capital and the
birthplace of Japan's Buddhist culture. Students will also visit Osaka, an energetic
commercial center of western Japan.
- Participants share their experiences in various ways with the entire Hawken community.
Through this exchange program, Hawken seeks to contribute to the school's cultural
diversity as well as to the development of mutual understanding between different
cultures. For all Hawken students, the world can become a friendlier place to live and a
foreign country can seem just a little closer because of this program.
Through Masterful Artistry
At Hawken, every child is an artist -- because art can be learned. Throughout Lower
School, our students draw, point, sculpt, weave, and make pottery. In grades four and
five, they study a musical instrument. In Middle School, students continue taking art, all
three years, and the same is true of music, as they choose from chorus, symphonic
band, or string ensemble. Once in Upper School, the arts continue, as students are
required to take two years of visual and/or performing arts -- including drawing and
painting, graphic design, photography, sculpture, and ceramics, as well as chorus,
concert band, dance and theater. You see, the study of art, at Hawken, is not about
talent. It's about experience and enjoying art, and developing an appreciation for art that
will last a lifetime. The arts are thriving at Hawken -- and so are our artists.
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