Each Friday, students organize a school-wide event–anything from capture the flag, a mad tea party, or a Buxton cooking competition. Weekends are a time for both reflection, connection, and enrichment. Each weekend the faculty offer trips to the many cultural attractions in the area. 

Each term, Buxton hosts a “project day,” where students can devote a whole day to a personal project of their choice. Past student projects have included painting murals in the Main House, making wooden benches for the soccer fields, putting on a play in a day, working in Buxton’s herb garden, and more!

Throughout the year at Buxton, there are a number of special events and celebrations. We start and end each year with picnics at local parks and lakes. In the fall, the seniors plan a surprise Mountain Day where, instead of going to class, the whole school goes on a hike on a local mountain with a picnic at the summit. Before Winter Break, there is a school-wide secret gift exchange over the course of the week, culminating in a Holiday Party where the final, and most extravagant, hand-made gifts are exchanged. In the spring, Buxton hosts a spring dance, Spring Thing. And throughout the year, there are student-led celebrations for Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Earth Day and more!

It is incredibly easy for students (and faculty!) at Buxton to create and run clubs, and to receive support from the school. Some of our current and long-running clubs and student organizations include: