Student Well-Being
Key Question: How do we promote an environment that supports our community’s overall well-being?
Aspiration: We must aspire to create an environment that promotes and supports physical, mental, emotional, and social health and well-being, and a program that guides all members of the community in developing resilience, a growth mindset, and the skills and habits to maintain their health and manage stress effectively, thereby enhancing the health and well-being of the community.
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“Teaching health and wellness is not a matter of a class or two; it should be interwoven into all students’ experiences at Pingry, K-12. Closing the divide between athletics and overall health and wellness is important so that our efforts aren’t simply geared to the student-athlete, but to all students. And it’s not just about physical health, but emotional and social, too. We need to teach students to be stable, healthy, resilient people.”
—Mr. Doug Scott, Director of Strength and Conditioning, P.E. Teacher, Form IV Dean
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“As a college counselor, I see students from an aerial view. How are they handling the stress? Are they ready to go? How do we give them the tools they need to launch into college? One of the goals we talked about was implementing a more centralized, integrated wellness program across all divisions, K-12, so the kids are learning a common language of ‘wellness.’”
—Mrs. Sue Kinney P ’15, ’18, Associate Director of College Counseling, 2007-19
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