<p>Besides these schools that I saw mentioned on another thread, which other schools have regular sit-down meals with faculty? It can be lunch or dinner.</p>
<ul>
<li>Blair (generally 2x/week) </li>
<li>Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring)</li>
<li>Cate (once a week) </li>
<li>Deerfield </li>
<li>Episcopal </li>
<li>Groton (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Loomis (weekly, fall and spring) </li>
<li>Miss Porter’s (2x/week) </li>
<li>Peddie </li>
<li>Portsmouth Abbey </li>
<li>St. Andrew’s (DE) </li>
<li>St. Mark’s </li>
<li>St. Paul’s (2x/week) </li>
<li>Thacher</li>
</ul>
<p>One of the benefits of formal sit-downs–some great pictures of your kids with their friends, looking very presentable. Even though we weren’t there, I appreciate having these mementos…</p>
<p>The Hill School has sit-down lunches every day and dinners several times a week</p>
<p>thx surfcity. I added Hill to the list</p>
<ul>
<li>Blair (generally 2x/week)</li>
<li>Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring)</li>
<li>Cate (once a week)</li>
<li>Deerfield</li>
<li>Episcopal</li>
<li>Groton (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Hill School (lunches every day and dinners several times a week)</li>
<li>Loomis (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Miss Porter’s (2x/week)</li>
<li>Peddie</li>
<li>Portsmouth Abbey</li>
<li>St. Andrew’s (DE)</li>
<li>St. Mark’s</li>
<li>St. Paul’s (2x/week)</li>
<li>Thacher</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Blair (generally 2x/week)</li>
<li>Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring)</li>
<li>Cate (once a week)</li>
<li>Deerfield (lunches every weekday and dinners 3x a week)</li>
<li>Episcopal</li>
<li>Groton (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Hill School (lunches every day and dinners several times a week)</li>
<li>Loomis (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Miss Porter’s (2x/week)</li>
<li>Peddie</li>
<li>Portsmouth Abbey</li>
<li>St. Andrew’s (DE)</li>
<li>St. Mark’s</li>
<li>St. Paul’s (2x/week)</li>
<li>Thacher</li>
</ul>
<p>Hogwarts!
But really,
Tabor (MA)</p>
<p>The St. Andrew’s approach is as follows, and I give details because I it is, I believe, in the “minority” with Deerfield and The Hill. Students (in classroom “formal” dress) eat lunch at assigned tables with teachers four times per week. Announcements are made at the end of the lunch, and these run the extreme gamut in their theatricality. To use an old term, there is a palpable “esprit de corps” felt during these announcements, based on my limited experience in person and videos. There is only one “formal” sit down dinner per week, before Wednesday night Chapel. So, these meals comprise a key component of the communal rituals that animate the SAS philosophy.</p>
<p>Amusing time-lapse video of a sit-down meal at Deerfield
[Dining</a> Hall Timelapse on Vimeo](<a href=“Dining Hall Timelapse on Vimeo”>Dining Hall Timelapse on Vimeo)</p>
<p>I have to agree with Charger that the formal seated meals are a great part of some schools traditions and experiences. </p>
<p>Students sit with faculty and interact in assigned groups. Formal table manners are observed. The whole school eats as one unit. Nice perk of BS</p>
<p>Episcopal’s seated meals are the same as Charger78’s description of seated meals at St. Andrews, Deerfield and Hill. </p>
<ul>
<li>Blair (generally 2x/week)</li>
<li>Brooks (2x/week, Fall and Spring)</li>
<li>Cate (once a week)</li>
<li>Deerfield (lunches every weekday and dinners 3x a week)</li>
<li>Episcopal (lunches 4x week and dinner on Mondays)</li>
<li>Groton (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Hill School (lunches every day and dinners several times a week)</li>
<li>Loomis (weekly, fall and spring)</li>
<li>Miss Porter’s (2x/week)</li>
<li>Peddie</li>
<li>Portsmouth Abbey</li>
<li>St. Andrews (DE) (lunches 4x week and dinner on Wednesdays)</li>
<li>St. Mark’s</li>
<li>St. Pauls (2x/week)</li>
<li>Thacher</li>
</ul>
<p>Choate has them once a week (Friday lunch). There are a few here and there for other events, but that’s basically it.</p>
<p>Stevenson (dinner, weekly)</p>
<p>At Loomis its actually 2x/week in the Fall, once a week in the spring.</p>
<p>Kent has formal dinner once a week on Thursdays</p>