293 Benedict Ave Tarrytown, NY 10591
914.631.0128
|  | About Hackley 5-Day Boarding Every boarding community has its stories. The quintessential story of the Hackley boarding program is about a group of over thirty people from different cultural, ethnic, national and religious backgrounds who arrive on the Hilltop, form friendships and become like a family--a family which supports differences and believes in the uniqueness of each member’s voice.
At the heart of Hackley’s Five-Day Boarding community is the Hackley school motto, “United, We Help One Another.” There are many manifestations of our commitment to one another. Weekly social activities bring residential faculty and boarders together. Faculty who live on campus also offer our boarders academic support.
Our distinctive Harry Potter-style House system gives boarders an additional structure of support and friendly competition during the week. The four co-educational Houses, comprised of students from each Upper School grade level, are named after Hackley’s original architects (House Gildersleeve, House Randal, House Nichols and House Wheelwright). Houses compete for prizes at the end of each marking period, and the winners often get to celebrate with a takeout meal or a trip off campus for dessert or a movie!
Hackley Five-Day Boarding is dedicated to the principle of learning through relationships. Friendships help students and faculty make the most of all that life on the Hilltop has to offer. The Hackley hive is abuzz after dark on boarding, and we invite you to join us!
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House Challenges
- scavenger hunts
- storytelling contests
- skit-writing competition judged by Hackley faculty
- Scene It video game competition
- card games
- pipe cleaner animal making
- charades with Hackley people and places
- solving riddles
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Social Activities
- Movie Night Thursdays with pizza
- Birthday celebrations
- Trips off campus see the latest movie blockbusters
- Trip to a local bowling alley
- Trip to Sportstime and New Roc City arcades
- Watching Presidential Debates over nachos in a faculty member’s apartment
- Superbowl party night
- Halloween Ghost stories by the fire
- Pictionary with milk and cookies
- Viewing of French Film Les Choristes (about life in a French boarding school) in French with subtitles
- S’mores making with on campus residential faculty
- Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day cookie painting and eating in the Dining Hall for dessert
- Tie Dye shirt making
- Open Gym nights including kickball, dodge ball, basketball and volleyball on the Hackley quad
- Talk by member of the Art faculty on film animation techniques
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Academic Support Activities
- Exam review sessions with faculty
- Writer’s workshop with English faculty member
- General study and organizational skills workshop
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GILDERSLEEVE (blue/white) si non potestis calorem tolerare, nolite draconem titillare
“If you can’t take the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.”
NICHOLS (green/yellow) nolite fodire parvam avem sine volatu in firgida tempestate
“Don’t poke the penguin.”
RANDAL (red/black) ieiunus vir est iratus vir
“A hungry man is an angry man.”
WHEELWRIGHT (purple/silver) sum vaccam maris cucukachoo
“I am the Walrus, cucukachoo!”
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| | “Hackley Boarding is like a family.” |
“Boarding has changed the way I look at school and has opened doors I could not have opened without it.” |
“The best environment I could imagine, surrounded by friends 24/5.” |
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