Summer Session

Northfield Mount Hermon Summer Session offers programs for students wishing to enrich, supplement, or accelerate their school-year education. We have an extensive, comprehensive program that has existed in various forms for more than 100 years. 

NMH Summer Session application instructions and forms
NMH Summer Session financial aid form
NMH Summer Session catalog

Each summer, we gather as a community to engage in academic work and to learn from each other in many different ways. Our student population is diverse and worldly; in the summer of 2011, 37 countries and 24 US states were represented. Our talented faculty is assisted by 30 teaching interns to provide an outstanding experience for our students.

Our goal, through all aspects of our comprehensive program, is to provide a valuable, life-changing experience for each student who joins us. For many students, NMH Summer Session provides their first taste of a rigorous academic experience and challenges them to a new level. Other students come from strong schools and use their summer here as an opportunity to further build academic skills, advance in their coursework, and prepare for college.

Our exceptional student diversity ensures that everyone leaves with new friends from all over the world. One of the measures of our success each year is how difficult it is for so many of the students to leave at the end of the summer -- they build a powerful connection to our summer community and make lifelong friends.
 

2012 PROGRAMS

DATES:  June 30 - August 4, 2012

Middle School Program for students entering grades 7-9, College Prep Program for students entering grades 10-12, and English as a Second Language for students entering grades 7-12 offer credit and enrichment courses for approximately 250 students, boarding or day.

Our College Prep Program is unique in that students engage in intensive study of one major subject and thus can complete the equivalent of a year-long course, and possibly earn credit, in just five weeks.

Middle School Program students take two major courses, each meeting for one and a quarter hours, six mornings a week.

English as a Second Language, with levels ranging from beginning to advanced, is for students who would like to spend the summer improving their English language skills; ESL classes meet for three hours, six mornings per week.

Classes in these three programs are small (10-12 students), with both a master teacher and a teaching intern. Students also take afternoon minor courses and sports, which offer a change of pace from the morning courses, and there is required evening study time. There is also a wide range of on-campus activities and off-campus trips. More than 250 students (including 36 school-year NMH students) chose to participate last summer.
 

Course Offerings

COLLEGE PREP MAJOR COURSES
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ENGLISH
Academic Writing
Creative Writing
Literature and Composition*
Writing and the Outdoors

HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
US History*
Economics*
Introduction to Psychology*
American Society and Culture

MATHEMATICS
Algebra I*
Geometry*
Algebra II*
Precalculus*
Calculus*

SCIENCE
Biology*
Chemistry*
Physics*

* Because afternoon sessions are required for additional course work, students taking these courses do not take afternoon minor classes.

COLLEGE PREP MINOR COURSES

Community Service
Current Events
Digital Media
Drama
Drawing and Painting
English as a Second Language
Environmental Studies
ESL - American Culture
Guitar
Journalism
Public Speaking
SAT Preparation
Sports History
Summer Session Singers

COLLEGE PREP SPORTS

Badminton
Basketball
Dance
Hiking
Lacrosse
Running
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Ultimate Frisbee
Volleyball
Weight Training and Fitness
 

MIDDLE SCHOOL MAJOR COURSES
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First Period
Writing
Skills in Literature
Pre-Algebra
Field Biology
Beginning French

Second Period
Writing
Realistic Fiction
Science Skills
Geography
Beginning Spanish
Studio Art

Full Morning
Algebra I
Writing and the Outdoors
 

MIDDLE SCHOOL MINOR COURSES

             Current Events
             Digital Media
             Drama
             Drawing and Painting
             Games
             Guitar
             Sports History
             SSAT Preparation

MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS

Dance
Regular Sports