Campus Life

King’s-Edgehill School is proud to be a Canadian Accredited Independent School (CAIS) boarding school. Our family consists of 350 university-bound students from Canada, North America and around the globe. We not only offer outstanding academic programming, including the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, but we also strive to provide the best in athletics, arts, and extra-curricular activities for all KES students. 

Our students are not only ahead academically – they are also taught resilience, leadership skills, and independence. These skills stay with our students long after they graduate. 

Our boarding students start their day with breakfast between 7:00 and 7:45 am, followed by a room inspection. Then at 8:10 am students congregate in either the Chapel, for assembly or for their advisor meeting. Then it’s off to class until lunchtime around noon. After lunch, there are more classes until 2:30 pm when students then participate in sports and clubs until supper at 5:30 pm. Supper is followed by free time and/or clubs, followed by prep and then more free time and, of course, a delicious evening snack! Lights out start at 9:45 pm for our Junior School, with everyone’s lights out by 10:30 pm.
 
Students are provided with healthy and tasty food options thanks to Chartwells, our food service provider. As any of our students will tell you, they are amazing! Chartwells offers cooking nights for students and prides themselves in producing sustainable, creative and delicious food to our students.

Whether it is venturing to Acadia University to watch a musical or taking a skating trip to the Halifax Oval, there is no shortage of things to do on weekends for King’s-Edgehill students. Thanks to our staff chaperones, students have the option to take a weekend shopping trip to Halifax, visit a film festival, watch a Ted Talk or participate in a day trip to historical Peggy’s Cove. For students interested in sports, King’s-Edgehill has a 3-on-3 basketball league that meets every Wednesday evening. Weekend evenings are full of surprises, including ping-pong tournaments in the gym and other co-curricular activities. 

Thanks to our shuttle service, students never need to worry about transportation to and from their weekend trips! And for those students who wish to enjoy their weekends on campus, they have the freedom to access the campus gym and pool or participate in evening intramural leagues, sledding, or playing hockey on Long Pond. Of course, we also encourage some downtime in the student lounge or house common room areas.
 

While some private schools close during the breaks, King’s-Edgehill School offers programming during all breaks (except for Christmas). In the past, students have spent their breaks here in Nova Scotia and as far away as Africa or Europe. Thanksgiving break offers home stays or a local surfing and yoga trip, January break affords the chance to go skiing and there are usually several March Break trips to choose from including touring Europe and Africa or hiking in Costa Rica or the US. The trips can change from year to year, but every year there are enriching trips and programming offered for our students to take advantage of. And the list goes on and on, our trips are often based on the interests of the students in any given year.

From surfing in the Atlantic Ocean and skiing at some of the snowiest hills in Eastern North America to reaching new heights on Mount Kilimanjaro and taking cooking lessons under the Tuscan sun, our travel options are varied, appealing, and exciting.