Hampshire Country School

Hampshire Country School is a boarding school for gifted children in Rindge, New Hampshire, started by Henry Curtis Patey and Adelaide Walker Patey in 1948. Formerly a co-educational school, it is designed now as a residential middle school for high ability boys who have difficulty in other settings, including students with Asperger's Syndrome, Nonverbal Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Hampshire Country School is a place for boys with high intellectual ability that has not been realized and with idiosyncrasies that may have become major problems in traditional settings. The school provides an unusual environment in which those problems are no longer as significant -- not because they have been “fixed,” but because the school's focus is on the bright, active, engaged, and engaging side of each child rather than on his quirks or limitations.

For over 60 years, Hampshire Country School has been educating children of high intellectual ability who need a friendly environment and an unusual amount of adult attention. It is a family-style boarding school for 25 boys, mostly of middle school age, from all parts of the country. Classes are traditional but small (3 to 6 students). The convert|1700|acre|km2|sing=on campus includes modest buildings, three lakes, and a small mountain. Daily life is informal but structured, with after-school and weekend activities plus time for spontaneous outdoor and indoor play. It is here that many students find their first real friends and playmates.

Hampshire Country School is now ably managed by William Dickerman, Ph.D.

The scenery of Hampshire Country School is quite beautiful. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5lTQgD6_rI Grounds of HCS] ] Hampshire Country School is situated on convert|1700|acre|km2|0 in Rindge, New Hampshire, and has entered into an agreement with the Northeast Wilderness Trust [ [http://www.newildernesstrust.org/article/view/13950/1/276/ Northeast Wilderness Trust] ] to protect the grounds in perpetuity. These grounds were originallya farm [ [http://www.nhentertainer.com/writer/timbertop.html Cheshire Farm] ] . The Wapack Trail runs through the Stony Top mountain ridge on one portion of the grounds [ [http://www.wapack.org/faq.html Wapack Trail] ] .

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External links

* [http://www.hampshirecountryschool.org Hampshire Country School]

* SENG / Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted [http://www.sengifted.org/conference_sponsors.shtml]

* [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A50D642389C19D39 A Hampshire Country School Play]