Calendar

September 2025

• Sep

  1

  Community Weekend #1

  8/29/2025 to 9/1/2025

  ResLife Community Weekend - ALL boarders required to remain on campus

• Labor Day / No preseason practice / No classes / Offices closed

  9/1/2025
• Sep

  2

  Day M

  9/2/2025

• Middle School Meet Your Advisor Day - Middle school parents and guardians will receive appointment times to meet with their students’ advisors. Students should accompany their parents/guardians to these advisor meetings.

  9/2/2025

  Middle School - TBD - TBD

• PA Welcome Hospitality (MS Meet Your Advisor Day)

  9/2/2025 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

  Middle School - Middle School Office - MAIN

  PA hospitality/welcome for middle school families.

• Upper School first day of classes - Classes start for all upper school students @ 8:30 a.m.

  9/2/2025 8:30 AM

• US Fall Play Acting Workshop

  9/2/2025 to 9/3/2025 3:45 PM to 5:45 PM

  Fonseca Center - Experimental Theater - 307-ET

  Theater auditions for the fall play. Open to US students who sign up for the Fall Play co-curricular.

• US Masters Dance Company Fall Workshop & Placement Classes

  9/2/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

  Fonseca Center - Dance Studio 2 - 125

  Intro week for MDC with guest artist auditions; open to all students enrolled in a dance class on campus.
• Sep

  3

  US Fall Play Acting Workshop

  9/2/2025 to 9/3/2025 3:45 PM to 5:45 PM

  Fonseca Center - Experimental Theater - 307-ET

  Theater auditions for the fall play. Open to US students who sign up for the Fall Play co-curricular.

• US Masters Dance Company Fall Workshop & Placement Classes

  9/2/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

  Fonseca Center - Dance Studio 2 - 125

  Intro week for MDC with guest artist auditions; open to all students enrolled in a dance class on campus.

• Day M

  9/3/2025

• Middle School Athletics Fall Season Start

  9/3/2025

  MS Fall Season

• Middle School Trimester 1 Begins

  9/3/2025

  Middle School

• Middle School first day of classes - The day begins @ 8:30 a.m. and includes orientation activities for all middle school students and an introduction to academic classes

  9/3/2025 8:30 AM
• Sep

  4

  US Masters Dance Company Fall Workshop & Placement Classes

  9/2/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

  Fonseca Center - Dance Studio 2 - 125

  Intro week for MDC with guest artist auditions; open to all students enrolled in a dance class on campus.

• Day 1

  9/4/2025

• US Fall Play Auditions

  9/4/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:45 PM

  Fonseca Center - Experimental Theater - 307-ET

  Theater collaboration games for the fall play. Open to US students who sign up for the Fall Play co-curricular.
• Sep

  5

  US Masters Dance Company Fall Workshop & Placement Classes

  9/2/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM

  Fonseca Center - Dance Studio 2 - 125

  Intro week for MDC with guest artist auditions; open to all students enrolled in a dance class on campus.

• US Fall Play Auditions

  9/4/2025 to 9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:45 PM

  Fonseca Center - Experimental Theater - 307-ET

  Theater collaboration games for the fall play. Open to US students who sign up for the Fall Play co-curricular.

• Community Weekend #2

  9/5/2025 to 9/7/2025

  ResLife Community Weekend - 7DB required to remain on campus

• Day 2

  9/5/2025

• MS Preludes Auditions

  9/5/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

  Meets on Mondays and Fridays in Fall Trimester only; performs in November; open to all students in grades 5-8.
• Sep

  6

  Community Weekend #2

  9/5/2025 to 9/7/2025

  ResLife Community Weekend - 7DB required to remain on campus
• Sep

  7

  Community Weekend #2

  9/5/2025 to 9/7/2025

  ResLife Community Weekend - 7DB required to remain on campus

• Boarding Community Meal - Brunch

  9/7/2025 11:00 AM
• Sep

  8

  Day 3

  9/8/2025

• Upper School Fall Co-Curriculars Begin

  9/8/2025

• MS Jazz Band Auditions

  9/8/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Middle School - Middle School Music Room - MUSIC

  Meets all year on Mondays. Open to students in grades 5- 8; must have some familiarity with instrument.
• Sep

  9

  Day 4

  9/9/2025

• MS Grade 5 Parent Coffee

  9/9/2025 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

• MS Masters of Rock Auditions

  9/9/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Middle School - Middle School Music Room - MUSIC

  Meets all year as two ensembles on either Tuesday or Wednesday. Open to students in grades 5- 8; must have some familiarity with instrument. One performance in June.

• MS Orchestra Auditions

  9/9/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Fonseca Center - Morris Recital Hall - 301-RH

  Meets all year on Tuesdays; two performances per year. Open to students in grades 5- 8; must have some familiarity with instrument.
• Sep

  10

  Day 5

  9/10/2025

• MS MastersSingers Auditions

  9/10/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Fonseca Center - Morris Recital Hall - 301-RH

  Meets all year on Wednesdays. Two performances per year.

• Middle School New Parent and Guardian Reception

  9/10/2025 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

  IEC - TBD - TBD

  Cocktail reception for new middle school parents and guardians
• Sep

  11

  Day 6

  9/11/2025

• MS Grade 6 Parent Coffee

  9/11/2025 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

• MS BOOM! Auditions

  9/11/2025 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM

  Middle School - Middle School Music Room - MUSIC

  Meets all year on Thursdays. One performance in June.
• Sep

  12

  Day 7

  9/12/2025
• Sep

  15

  Day 8

  9/15/2025

• Faculty/Senior Tea (Invitation will be sent)

  9/15/2025 3:30 PM to 4:45 PM

  Park Cottage - 29 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY
• Sep

  16

  Day 1

  9/16/2025

• Picture Day

  9/16/2025

  Masters Hall - Graduation Terrace - TERRACE

• MS Grade 7 Parent Coffee

  9/16/2025 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

• US End of Add/Drop for Semester 1

  9/16/2025 3:00 PM

• Parent Association Executive Committee Meeting

  9/16/2025 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

  Fonseca Center - Sharon Room - 206-Sharon

  PA Executive Committee meeting.
• Sep

  17

  Day 2

  9/17/2025

• MS Grade 8 Parent Coffee

  9/17/2025 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

• College Counseling - Coffee Talk with Senior Parents

  9/17/2025 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

  Masters Hall - Pittsburgh Library - 113
• Sep

  18

  Day 3

  9/18/2025

• Middle School Curriculum Night

  9/18/2025 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH
• Sep

  19

  Day 4

  9/19/2025
• Sep

  22

  Classes in session - no after-school activities in observance of Rosh Hashanah (begins at sundown)

  9/22/2025

• Day 5

  9/22/2025
• Sep

  23

  Rosh Hashanah observance / No classes / Offices closed

  9/23/2025
• Sep

  24

  Day 6

  9/24/2025

• Fall Admission Group Tour

  9/24/2025 8:45 AM to 10:30 AM

  Fonseca Center - Sharon Room - 206-Sharon

• College Counseling - Fall Roundtable

  9/24/2025 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

  Fonseca Center - Sharon Room - 206-Sharon
• Sep

  25

  Day 7

  9/25/2025
• Sep

  26

  Day 8

  9/26/2025

• Founders Day (School in Session - Activities throughout the day

  9/26/2025

• Upper School Family Weekend

  9/26/2025

  Upper school parents/guardians will have the opportunity to meet advisors, attend classes during Curriculum Morning and participate in special programming.

• Upper School Parent and Guardian Reception

  9/26/2025 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

  IEC - TBD - TBD

  Cocktail reception for new upper school parents and guardians
• Sep

  27

  Follett Music Center Grand Opening

  9/27/2025

  Strayer Hall - TBD - TBD

• Upper School Family Weekend

  9/27/2025

  Upper school parents/guardians will have the opportunity to meet advisors, attend classes during Curriculum Morning and participate in special programming.

• MS Preludes Weekend Workshop #1 & Potluck Party

  9/27/2025 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

  Middle School - Doc Wilson Hall - DWH

  Weekend rehearsal for MS Preludes members.

• Family Weekend PA Hospitality Tent

  9/27/2025 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

  Quad

  PA-sponsored hospitality tent for upper school parents
• Sep

  29

  Day 1

  9/29/2025
• Sep

  30

  Day 2

  9/30/2025