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
Growing Community and Belonging Through Art
Thursday, September 21—After an introduction by SAFA (the Student Association for Fine Arts), Winsor welcomed socially engaged multimedia artist Elisa H. Hamilton to assembly. Recently named the recipient of the Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation, Hamilton places an emphasis on shared spaces and helped students understand how public art can grow community and…
Joyous Family Gatherings Bring Over 400 People to Campus
Monday, September 11—Hundreds of people congregated on campus to reconnect and kick off the school year at the Lower School Family Gathering on Thursday, September 7 and the Upper School Family Gathering on Monday, September 11. Noshing on burgers, hot dogs, pretzel bites, and tomato watermelon salad, students and their siblings alongside parents and guardians…
Friendship and Teamwork on Class Retreats
Monday, September 11—The entire Lower School, comprised of Grades 5–8, took time at the beginning of the school year to gather in community and bond as individual classes during all-day retreats. Class I and Class IV, representing the youngest and oldest students in Lower School, met up at Hale Reservation in Westwood, Massachusetts. Although they…