What We Do For Fun! - Brooks School: Coeducational Private School in North Andover, MA

Balancing academics and extracurriculars is flat-out fun, and there's lots of opportunity for it at Brooks...We believe that weekends exist to allow for a balance of time to relax and time for fun.

Students can find that through going out to a dance, joining a 3 v. 3 basketball game, heading off campus for an activity or spending time with friends in the dorm.

Brooks' Student government representatives and school prefects work with Brooks' faculty student affairs team to provide an active social calendar that offers everyone in our diverse student body with a range of fun things to do on Saturdays and Sundays.

Events

Fun-focused events are offered every weekend during the school year, including parties with a dj, silly campus-wide competitions, trivia nights and guest activities like a hypnotist!

Students hold cotton candy at annual block party in the evening at Brooks.

Trips

Brooks offers a variety of trips from movie theater nights, mall runs, bowling parties and local amusement parks to the sixth-form's annual whitewater rafting excursion and beach days.

Students smiling while paddling on a whitewater rafting trip.

Traditions

Halloween dress-ups, spirit-week costumes and "Room X" open-mic nights during Friday Free evenings: Students all get in on the act when it comes to celebrating Brooks' traditions.

Students pose together outside of Chapel in costumes on Halloween.

Campus Hangs

Of course, informal activities for students to enjoy with teachers and dorm families are always on the agenda. Brooks often hosts faculty-versus-students trivia nights and basketball games as well as:

Watch parties for big sporting events
"Skate with a Date"
Rock concerts with student bands
Dances and themed special events
Bingo with prizes
Cultural celebrations, including the Asian American Association's Moon Festival and other affinity group activities

Students bowl in the background of a photo that shows BROOKS letters lit up in lights.

Off-Campus Outings

Escape room "questing" at Boda Borg
Dave & Buster's for games and food
Bowling nights
Trips to local towns' restaurants and malls, including Target and Wal-Mart
Movie theater visits
Multi-school dances
Apple picking at Smolak Farms

Dancing on the quad, or playing ball on the lawn and stuff like that, we use those times to really bond together.”

Students pose in costumes in a photo booth.

Feeling Quiet?

Most weekends include the opportunity to just relax in an "open house" at one of the resident faculty homes.

While chilling with friends, students typically bake cookies or brownies with teachers and play board games for a cozy night in.

Students sit on floor and laugh during an open house on campus.

getting loud

Cheering on Brooks' teams during under-the-lights games at home on the turf field is another activity students often enjoy.

On those nights when the community rallies, school spirit is in full effect!

A group of students cheers on Brooks athletes in a night game on campus.