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Who We Are Saint George's School provides a rigorous, stimulating college preparatory education for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, balancing academics, arts, and athletics. The school is defined and sustained by our traditional values: honesty, respect, generosity of spirit, and doing one's best.
The school fosters in its students a strong sense of self-worth growing out of accomplishment and mastery.

It prepares students to be lifelong learners, responsible members of the community, and informed citizens of the world.
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Saint George's School Mission Statement Committed to excellence, Saint George's School challenges its elementary and secondary school students to develop their intellectual, artistic, creative and athletic potential through a rigorous yet flexible college preparatory curriculum.
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What We Value As members of the Saint George's community, we subscribe to the values set forth here. We believe that we should strive to live by these values and to defend them. They should characterize all of our dealings with one another here and in the wider world in which we all live and to which we have a moral and social responsibility as good citizens.
Honesty: Our school exists in a climate of honesty and trust, which sustains our community and encompasses all of its transactions. We strive to be honest in our work, in our dealings with one another, and with ourselves. Integrity is everyone's responsibility.
Respect: We respect one another, our school, our country, our environment, and ourselves. We respect all the differences in others that contribute to the diversity of our community. We demonstrate respect for ourselves through self-examination and a serious commitment to behaving uprightly. We demonstrate our respect for others in many ways: by respecting their physical space, by respecting their feelings and beliefs, by listening when they speak, by respecting their right to live in a physically and psychologically safe community. We demonstrate respect for our environment by bearing in mind how fragile it is and how irreplaceable, and by acting to preserve and protect the world in which we live.
Generosity of Spirit: At all times, we seek to act with the welfare of others as the highest priority. We treat one another with empathy and kindness. We accept responsibility for the impact our words and deeds have on others. We assume the best of intentions in one another. We are optimists. We believe in forgiveness, forbearance, and patience.
Best efforts: We value doing one's best -- in the classroom, on the playing fields, and in all our endeavors. We attempt to be our best selves. We believe in teamwork, competition, and collaboration, and we connect effort with excellence.
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Statement of Philosophy Since its inception as an independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school in 1955, Saint George’s School has striven to build on its founders’ vision of creating a unique educational resource for the life and development of the Inland Northwest. In keeping with this tradition and the demands of time and change we, the Saint George’s community, are committed to developing the intellectual, artistic, creative, and athletic potential of our students to their utmost. We seek to accomplish these goals while preserving those traditional values of honesty, respect, generosity of spirit, and the pursuit of excellence that have long guided our members through nearly five decades of operation.
To achieve these ends, Saint George’s School is committed to the design and maintenance of a coordinated curriculum broad in its breadth, challenging in its demands, yet nurturing and flexible in its approach, responsive to the individual needs of its students, and taught by educators who are selected for their ability to inspire as well as to instruct their students. In adopting these standards, we encourage and challenge our students to develop and refine their analytical and creative skills, to question and defend their ideas, to accept responsibility for their actions, and to develop their self-confidence through participation in class and extracurricular activities. To enhance these ends, we seek to maintain close communication between our families and the school. By such means, together with the use of small classes and rigorous graduation requirements, we seek to graduate young men and women who are well prepared to succeed in our nation’s finest institutions of higher learning.
Through these various endeavors, we seek to create a diverse community of leaders equipped with an enduring work ethic that will prepare them for life in a changing and challenging world, and who will become active, informed, and responsible members of the community, stewards of their environment, and devoted to a lifelong love of and appreciation for learning.
The Statement of Philosophy was accepted by the Board on January 16, 1986. Work had started on it in 1985 with the Long Range Planning Committee and Headmaster George Edwards.
It was subsequently amended and approved by the Board at meetings on September 25, 2000, November 10, 2003, and January 12, 2004.

Al-Hamra Academy Shrewsbury, MA

Quran 39: 9- Say: "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know?
It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition.

Al Hamra Academy's Core Values:
Modesty:
Muwatta: Book 47, Number 47.2.9:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Salama ibn Safwan ibn Salama az-Zuraqi that Zayd ibn Talha ibn Rukana, who attributed it to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'Every religion has an innate character. The character of Islam is modesty.'"
Healthy Bodies and Strong Minds:
Allah's Apostle said, "The strong Muslim is more loved in the eyes of Allah, than the weak one."
Abu Huraira said, The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "The word of wisdom is the lost property of the believer, so wherever he finds it he has a better right to it." (Tirmidhi).
Exalted Character:
Ref: 68:4- And you stand on an exalted standard of character.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) use to say: "The best of you are those who have the best morals." (Bukhari)
Responsibility:
3:104- Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: they are the ones to attain felicity.
Caring:
Volume 4, Book 52, Number 232:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "There is a (compulsory) charity to be given for every joint of the human body (as a sign of gratitude to Allah) everyday the sun rises. To judge justly between two persons is regarded as charity, and to help a man concerning his ride by helping him to ride it or by lifting his luggage on to it, is also regarded as charity, and (saying) a good word is also charity, and every step taken on one's way to offer the compulsory prayer (in the mosque) is also charity and to remove a harmful thing from the way is also charity."
Allah's Apostle said, "He is not one of us who does not show mercy to our young and respect to our elderly."
435 South Street ~ Shrewsbury, MA 01545 ~ Phone (508) 845-7000 ~ Fax (508) 845-7002

Pressman Academy

Mission Statement
Founded in 1986, the Rabbi Jacob Pressman Academy of Temple Beth Am has earned a reputation in Southern California as a warm and nurturing school that encourages each student to achieve the maximum of his/her potential, academically, socially, and spiritually. The Pressman Academy is a learning community in which educational innovation and excellence among students, faculty, and parents are actively encouraged. The Academy appreciates the needs and talents of all its students, and regards their shared and individual creativity as its most precious resource. We encourage the balanced development of the whole person, valuing both intellectual growth and social and emotional development. Toward that end, our classrooms strive to use multiple modes of teaching and expression drawing from the language arts, creative arts, math and sciences, and athletics.
As an affiliate of the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, Pressman embraces the preservation of Jewish tradition and values while fully engaging the complex world around. Pressman students are immersed in a rich dual curriculum that teaches them to be serious and committed Jews and responsible American citizens. Integration between Jewish and secular, Hebrew and general studies, the individual and the community stands at the center of Pressman's educational mission.
The Pressman Academy is committed to the ideal of community in its various forms. First, as part of Temple Beth Am, the Academy belongs to a unique synagogue community devoted to God, Judaism, and Torah study. Second, the Academy recognizes the importance of maintaining a connection to and responsibility for the local community, Jewish and non-Jewish, through acts of tzedakah (charity) and gemilut hasadim (acts of kindness). Third, the Academy family warmly embraces its bond to the Jewish people, recognizing its links and responsibilities to Jews throughout the world, as well as the central role of the State of Israel in Jewish life.