The Rectory School offers a lot of different weekend activities for its students. Some activities happen every weekend, while others are special events that happen annually or just one time. Ongoing Weekend Activities                          Special Weekend Activities Movies in the Tang   �... READ MORE »»

Rectory School has offered a lacrosse program for its students since before Mr. Brad Seaward started working at Rectory, which was back in 1975. For many years, lacrosse was only a boys’ sport. Then in 2011, two new coaches/teachers at Rectory School, Ms. Lokitis and Ms. King, started a girls’ lacrosse... READ MORE »»

Mr. Zerpa and Mrs. Burke, both Spanish teachers at Rectory School, started a new tradition this year for the faculty; they introduced The Wolfie Award. As you may know, the “wolfie” is Rectory’s mascot, so all students and employees of Rectory School are Rectory Wolves. Mr. Zerpa described this... READ MORE »»

Next school year (2016/17) Rectory School will be supplying all students in grades 7 through 9 with a Chromebook™. The DiRectory was curious as to why the school decided to switch students from using Mac®-based computers to Chromebooks, and here is what we found out. Chromebooks are small laptops... READ MORE »»

During the 2015/2016 school year, Rectory School’s newly-implemented schedule allowed for a weekly skills block for all students. This was scheduled at the end of the academic day each Monday. Students were placed in one of three different classes to study from the appropriate computer program, based... READ MORE »»

Have you seen that commercial for Amazon Prime™ with the little horse that is outcast from a group of larger horses, and then the horses’ owner installs a swinging pet door on the back door of her house, so the “little man” can come inside whenever he wants to spend time with her? Then the little... READ MORE »»

The Rectory School is a small, co-ed, junior boarding school in Pomfret, Connecticut. Our students are in middle school, grades 5 - 9, which is why we are called a "junior" boarding school. Students come from all over the world to attend Rectory, including the countries of Mexico, Taiwan, China, Korea,... READ MORE »»

This summer’s Olympic Games, starting August 5th in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, are the first Olympic Games in South America ever! There will be 42 games played at this year’s Olympics, including two new Olympic sports, golf and rugby. The variety of games is incredible, and there are some games most... READ MORE »»