Thank you to everyone in the Cushing community for helping us have an extremely successful Fall Family Weekend. I met with many parents who told me how rewarding the experience was — how walking through a day in the life at Cushing and connecting firsthand with their children’s teachers, advisors, peers, and friends helped them better understand and appreciate how their children are learning and thriving at Cushing. Thank you all!
While beginning with a buzz of activity on Friday and Saturday, our extended Fall Family Weekend is a welcome pause midway through the semester—a time to reflect and reset before the excitement and challenges of the weeks ahead: preparations for Cushing’s Halloweekend, the fall play, dance and music performances, the end of one athletic season and the beginning of another, college applications, FoCo (our faux-homecoming dance), the holidays, and final exams.
Students (and faculty) returned to campus this week with noticeable enthusiasm and energy. These next few weeks are packed with both fun and challenge, and will see Cushing shift into a new gear of activity. As seen throughout Fall Family Weekend, our community is ready to support students through this time and propel them to new heights on their Journeys.
This morning, after a shortened all-school assembly, students and faculty congregated on the hill by Adams Field for the annual All School Photo. Rather than take out a magnifying glass, you might want to open the full-size image to find individual faces... > Around Campus: Week Six| Week Seven
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Fall Family Weekend
Parents, grandparents, siblings and friends arrived in Ashburnham for a tremendous Fall Family Weekend. In addition to joining classes and meeting with teachers and advisors, families had the opportunity to mingle with one another, observe work in progress by the visual and performing arts, and cheer on fall sports.
For those students who were unable to attend the flu clinic due to schedule conflicts — we have scheduled a second clinic on Tuesday, October 28, from 11:50 am to 1:15 pm. In addition, COVID-19 booster shots (which were not available at our first clinic) are available at our follow-up clinic. See below for details on the flu clinic registration process.
Thanksgiving Break is coming, and Cushing offers buses going to and returning from Logan Airport & Boston Copley Plaza for $45 each way and New York, Greenwich CT, Fairfield CT & Hartford CT for $80 each way.
(You must have a Cushing email to submit the shuttle bus sign up form.)
Halloweekend on Tap
Halloween is a big deal at Cushing! Next week and weekend will feature some of our favorite Cushing traditions: Senior Pumpkin Carving (Tuesday), Donut Day (Friday), Haunted Heslin (Friday), Coffee House (Friday), and the Halloween Dance and Costume Contest (Saturday). Get ready to get your scare on!
This Weekend at Cushing
With one week until Halloween Festivities, a trip to Spirit Halloween is perfect timing! Enjoy a Hamilton Sing-Along in the Chapel with friends or games in the student center. (Class of 2027, it's the Raft at Jewett House on Friday!) It's a much needed chill weekend at Cushing, in preparation for Halloweekend celebrations.
Cushing Varsity Field Hockey swept St. Paul's 5-3 for their 11th win of the season. Bella Freitas ’28 and Mackenzie Babine ’26 each netted two goals, with Babine’s final tally coming in the last seconds for the win. Ava Weigold ’28 added a key goal in the third quarter, and in the final minutes, Sadie Bellisimo ’26 made a clutch diving defensive save. Evey Long '27 anchored the defense with an outstanding performance.
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