While boys can excel in many types of educational environments, schools for boys focus with intention on the distinctive ways boys learn and how to develop them into young men of character. Stuart Hall School for Boys provides targeted instruction and support to help boys get the most out of their education and succeed in life.

Teachers at boys’ schools encourage their students to grow and mature at their own developmental pace, using teaching strategies that address learning styles specific to boys. They understand the different and complex worlds of the primary school boy and the young man preparing for the modern world.

Stuart Hall recognizes that boys most often are physically active, competitive, and apt to take risks, characteristics that are channeled into their learning experience. We understand boys often prefer to work cooperatively, and faculty can use teams effectively in project-based assignments. Our teachers understand the rhythm of a boy’s classroom, and they can plan physical activity into class time and extended breaks like recess into the school day.

Boys’ schools have a key role to play in fostering what psychologists like Michael Thompson (Raising Cain, The Pressured Child) call “emotionally literate boys,” who respond to others with empathy and compassion. Boys’ schools appreciate that boys “will not express feelings as girls do” and provide guidance in social-emotional skills with the many expectations that schools, parents, or society may have for them as young males.

Working together in the classroom, on the playing field, or in the performances, students are united by a special bond of brotherhood. Many boys’ school graduates say the friendships they developed with their peers and with faculty are among the most important benefits they carry with them through life.

from The International Boys’ School Coalition