NURTURING NATIVITY BOYS A love that bears all things PARTNERING WITH PARENTS When a boy enrolls at Nativity, no time is wasted in welcoming him and his parents into the community that quickly becomes their extended family and second home. Since students spend over 12 hours a day and 11 months a year engaged in opportunities for learning, they come to know their classmates as brothers, while their parents see Nativity teachers as true partners in the rearing of their sons.
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A typical day at Nativity is long and rigorous. Students arrive as early as 7:30am and stay as late as 8:00pm. The daily routine of roll-call, announcements, and prayer at morning assembly sets the tone for a day filled with learning that engages the whole person – mind, body and spirit. Character and competence are built through individualized instruction that meets the boys where they are and challenges them to become the men God created them to be. Academic classes are followed by two hours of
sports and activities that teach teamwork, creativity and social skills. Extracurriculars run the gamut from soccer, basketball, baseball, running and lacrosse to music, drama, debate, chess, cooking and newspaper. Three nights a week, a nutritious dinner is followed by two hours of evening study supervised by Nativity teachers and volunteer tutors. On Saturdays, Nativity students participate in community service activities in the larger Boston community. The virtues of gratitude and generosity remain at the center of our daily spiritual practice at Nativity. We call each other to be giving and thankful throughout our busy days and to find God in all things, in all people, in all places – from the classroom, to the gym, to the lunch room and the library. We celebrate a host of liturgical seasons and holy days marked by the world’s great religions, while remaining rooted in the Catholic tradition. Growing up in the Nativity family helps all our students, no matter their religion, to learn that union with God is inseparable from communion with each other.