Community Life
Inclusion and Belonging
Every school day, more than 475 students travel to Winsor from across Greater Boston to create a neighborhood on Pilgrim Road. Our students bring their whole selves to school—including their diverse talents, family backgrounds, and racial, religious, and gender identities.
Because our teachers and staff welcome students to leave no part of who they are behind, students can be themselves. They find acceptance, pass it on to their neighbors, and a community in which everyone feels like they belong.
Cultivating Connections
Students thrive in a supportive environment. We work to make everyone in our community feel valued and accepted.
“I introduce culinary techniques and flavors to young minds at Winsor, turning the cafeteria into its own classroom and celebrating cultures and heritages that represent the community.”
Culinary Director
Winsor Builds Community
Weekly student-led assemblies bring the Lower School and Upper School together for celebrations of culture, explorations of pressing issues and current events, and showcases of theater and dance. Spirit-filled traditions like all-school assembly, Spirit Week, and the singing of “Lift Every Voice” at graduation connect Winsor’s past to the present and seal bonds of friendship and sisterhood for life.
Affinity groups build relationships among students who share a common experience. Student clubs of all kinds bring students together to explore shared interests, hobbies, and co-curricular pursuits.
Winsor is a learning hub in the heart of Boston, accessible by T and within reach of centers for the arts, community-based service organizations, and the internationally renowned medical and academic institutions headquartered in the Longwood neighborhood.
We want students to explore who they are, how to be more themselves, and how to relate to others. This kind of learning happens at Winsor because prioritize it through positions like the Bezan Chair of Community and Inclusion, a fully funded faculty position, works with students, teachers, and staff to weave issues of equity and social justice into community life. Doing this work makes Winsor a more welcoming and inclusive place for everyone to be.
Community News
Spring Rally: A New Winsor Tradition Takes the Field
On Saturday, April 11, Winsor brought student athletes, families, and fans together for a day of clinics, competition, and school spirit for the first ever Spring Rally. Below, Associate Director of Athletics Katrina Hable shares her reflection on the new event: The day began with a clinic led by our varsity lacrosse and softball student-athletes,…
International Night Offers a Winsor World Tour
International Night returned to the Brock-Wilson Gymnasium this week for its biggest year yet. The event was a celebration of the many cultures, traditions, and cuisines that come together to form the Winsor community. Across 40 tables, more than 120 participants—students and their families, as well as faculty and staff—offered some 300 attendees small, meaningful…
Wellness Project Assembly Offers Tools for Finding Inner Peace on Life’s Journey
Students, faculty, and staff each showed up to last week’s assembly in the midst of their own journeys. Some were stressed about a deadline, others were anxious about an interpersonal conflict or troubled by something happening in the world outside of Winsor. But on that Friday, February 13, the Wellness Project student leaders—Chloe Lien ’29,…