Well-Being | Branksome Hall

We know that physical and emotional well-being are crucial to effective learning. As we challenge and inspire girls to love learning, we also help our students be healthy in mind and body.

Well-being encompasses a wide range of factors:

Making healthy lifestyle choices, which includes choosing nutritional foods; see our menu at Campus Dish
Managing stress
Getting good sleep
Developing coping, organizational and resilience skills
Exercise
Achieving one’s own harmony between sometimes “competing” academic, athletic, co-curricular, family and leisure activities

Here are just a few of the supports girls have at Branksome Hall:

Social Worker who meets with girls individually and in groups
Full-time School Nurse
Committed teachers and administrators
Skilled Learning Strategies teachers
Several dedicated Guidance Counsellors

In addition, students discuss issues that are important to them in our Girls’ Circles and Advisor Groups, and the girls mentor and help each other through our Peer Support Program.

Our wellness initiatives include a wide range of opportunities for physical fitness:

An award-winning Athletics and Wellness Centre
Yoga and dance studios
Athletic teams, including “Green Teams”
Expansive playing fields, tennis courts and an outdoor track
Outdoor classroom within our woodlot
Two saltwater swimming pools
A rowing centre
Rock-climbing wall
Three gyms
Three playgrounds for Middle School, Junior School and Primary student use
Two fitness centres, overseen by skilled instructors
Fit Fridays, which encourage students to try new activities, ranging from Zumba to kick-boxing, meditation and yoga

Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge this land on which Branksome operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and go to school on this land.