Providence Day School students, alumni, teachers, and staff describe a tight-knit community where rigorous academics meet personal attention. A 7-year-old's rescue by longtime staff member Thomas Tarrant exemplifies the deep bonds formed. Alumni return as coaches and teachers, crediting the school for teaching them how to learn.
The thing I value the most about Providence Day School is the sense of community. You know, we're great at academics, we're great at sports, we're great at the arts, but that sense of community and the journey that I took here has probably been the most impactful on my life.
I think what I value most besides the amazing education that we got was the friendships that we've taken away from school. And just the lifelong caring that we've had from not only our friends we graduated with, but the faculty and staff and everybody here.
Everyone here is just like such a family. You know, you have your family, you go home, you have your family at home, and then you come here and you have all these teachers and friends that you know, and it's really just like such a family-oriented community.
To me, it's the personal relationships that I developed and how to interact with each other, how to care for each other, how to become a community that's concerned for each other, and that, that's what Providence Day is all about.
I really appreciate the community and the experience of just getting to go to school here. You should come here because it's a great school and you'll meet fun teachers.
They make you feel special. They make you feel like you're a part of something big, and they just are your number one fans in everything that you do, and they really get to know you as an individual and That is why I've come back to Providence Day and continue to work here and be a coach here and teacher, so I can do that with my students and my players.
The teachers, they all have these high expectations. It's not a bad thing, but a good thing, because the high expectations, they always expect high of you, which makes you want to do more things for them because they're so nice.
Over the course of high school at Providence Day, I don't know, there's something about the The rigorous course load and the amount of work you have to put in from freshman year to now. And now reflecting back on it, I've realized I've seen my confidence develop over the past 4 years. Really the most important thing I've learned, I think, is not so much the content of, you know, different, like, you know, all the history I've learned, all the math I've learned how to do. It's more of the way that I learned how to learn. The faculty did a really good job of teaching that here, so that's why I feel like I'm prepared for college.
We have a lot of pride in carrying that on and continuing to make Providence Day not just an elite academic institution, but also the family atmosphere that it has been, that it is now, and that it's going to continue to be.
I really love Providence Day because it's such a good school, not only in education, but, you know, Towards your personal life, you know, people here take an interest in that, and that really makes me feel blessed to go to this school.
I think they have really nice teachers, and they make it fun to learn. I started here in 2nd grade, and at that point we were in different buildings, and at snack every day we would take a plastic carton and you'd go down and you'd fill up drinks, and, you know, you'd have your chocolate milk order and your juice order and whatever. So I was walking down the steep, steep steps that go down to Williams Building, and I had my carton, and I just fell and tumbled all the way down the steps. I'm 7, bawling crying, and Thomas Tarrant, who has worked at this school since the beginning, came, found me, picked me up, scooted me up, took me to the nurse's office. And from that point, I don't really remember who put a Band-Aid on my knee or anything like that, but I remember Thomas picking me up. See, now he gets emotional. And he's still here, you know, and he watches over us. And it's just, it's stuff like that that you can't put a price on.
Kids are less concerned with what you know and more concerned with do they know that you care about them. You know, coming up through Providence Day, my teachers, my coaches always gave me the feeling that they cared about me individually as a person, and it was less about, you know, how much they knew in the classroom, but more about the relationships that they forged with me. Faculty here are committed not just to teaching their subject, but I think they're committed to showing all of our students that it's about more than that, that it's about the relationships that we build with them and carrying on that tradition that makes Providence Day such a wonderful place.
It's just something special is going on in this place, and you can't really explain it. You just have to be a part of it and feel it, but we truly are a family here.
