Long Spring

Participation in a Long Spring trip each year that a student is enrolled is a graduation requirement. These trips are a chance for Putney students to explore the outdoors, learn and develop skills, and work in small groups to achieve common goals. Trips offer students a chance to work together with fellow students and adult trip leaders, embracing many of the fundamental principles of The Putney School—to honor manual labor; to live adventurously; to play as wholeheartedly as one works. If a Long Spring trip is missed for any reason, it must be made up through either 60 hours of community service, supervised by the Long Spring coordinator, or with a NOLS or Outward Bound or similar approved outdoor program of at least a week in length, at the student's own expense.