Hopkins School - Extracurricular Activities

Extracurricular Activities

Junior school students select from their own separate lists of activities during advisor meetings, and their activities sessions are separate from the general school. The main school activities program begins with the Activities Fair, usually held in early September, where every activity puts on a display and signs up members for that school year. These various clubs and organizations then meet each Wednesday during the last period of the day, which is set aside as an activities period as opposed to an academic one.

In addition to traditional school organizations such as the student newspaper and yearbook, Hopkins focuses strongly on community service especially within the New Haven community itself. The Student government runs school-wide events such as a fundraiser for the Connecticut Food Bank, but the bulk of Hopkins community service happens through clubs. Hopkins' umbrella community service organization is called Maroon Key. Both the diversity clubs (including a racial equality club, a Gay-Straight Alliance, and a gender equality group) and specific service clubs such as Habitat for Humanity organize a variety of fundraisers and events throughout the year. While not a graduation requirement, community service is an essential aspect of Hopkins life.

Hopkins hosts Breakthrough New Haven (an affiliate of the Breakthrough Collaborative), a program that includes both academic enrichment for middle school students and teacher training for high school and college students. Breakthrough operates an after-school program during the school year and an intensive six-week academic Summer Program during the summer. Hopkins School opens all of the campus not being used by regular summer school programs to Breakthrough. Breakthrough students are seventh and eighth graders from New Haven public and parochial schools.