Emphasizes team-building, self-advocacy and adapting to boarding school life academically, socially and emotionally.
International Student Dinner
Focuses on social etiquette and precedes a formal American-style dinner at the Head of School's house, fostering cultural integration and interpersonal skills.
Celebrating Culture & Diversity
Helps international students embrace their backgrounds and navigate new environments, fostering self-awareness, confidence, pride, and connections across cultures. This process also builds adaptability and intercultural skills essential for success in diverse settings.
Find Your Flow: Developing Mindfulness
Helps students practice emotional stability, manage challenges effectively and maintain overall well-being.
Make the Most of Your Fountain Valley Experience
Assists students with identifying their strengths, discovering their passions, stepping outside of their comfort zones, and taking full advantages of what FVS has to offer
Gaining an Understanding of Societal Expectations
Gain an understanding of societal expectations and navigating peer pressure as you build healthy communication skills and relationships with those around you.
MARCH
Interim
Expeditions
A weeklong immersion founded on the premise of experiential learning beyond the classroom, Interim encourages the exploration of new cultures, customs, and experiences that transform students’ perspectives and passions for life.
APRIL
Make the Most of Your Fountain Valley Experience
By the end of the school year, you will have plenty of opportunities to take full advantage of everything that Fountain Valley School has to offer discovering new interests and passions both in and outside of the classroom, trying new extracurricular activities and harnessing existing skills either in the theater or on the athletic playing field, and developing the emotional well-being to handle any challenges that can come your way.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROGRAM
MISSION
Drawing on its Western heritage, Fountain Valley School develops leaders who embrace the world with compassion and courage.
GREATNESS STARTS
HERE
Prepare to be inspired by the beauty of our campus, enlightened by the authenticity of intercultural understanding and touched by the sincerity of friendship.
AUGUST
International Student Retreat
Includes an overnight stay with a day student to forge new connections, promote understanding and exploration, and create harmony.
SEPTEMBER
International Student Dinner Culture is evolving. Are you leading the way? Learn American dining etiquette, how to greet people properly, how to make small talk, how to set up a table properly and how to wrap up a conversation politely.
Then, it’s off to the Head of School’s house where international students will put their new skills to the test while savoring delicious dishes from around the world with new friends, share stories and laughter, and demonstrate competent cultural behaviors in a formal setting.
Social Media Swagger: Balance, Fun, Fame & Respect
Enhances critical thinking to assess the credibility of information.
Teaches the importance of privacy and security online. Equips you with the tools to engage respectfully and thoughtfully in digital communities
Helps you understand the impact of a digital footprint.
A weekend retreat promotes belonging and inclusion. You’ll get to know others and yourself while participating in a variety of activities including ice breakers and storytelling circles, completing identity collages, discussing stereotypes, the power of words and culture in everyday life, and reflecting on ways that you can make a difference and help foster change.
