A Around Square Conference of Schools occurs as worldwide association of schools whose students part the commitment, beyond academic excellence, to family development & responsibility across service, challenge, dangerous undertaking & international understanding.

A title "Round Square" is from either the seventeenth century building at Gordonstoun School around Scotland. A Spherical Square philosophy originated sustaining Dr. Kurt Hahn, who believed that schools should have a greater purpose - beyond preparing students for college & university. At Gordonstoun, Hahn strived to educate immature humans for life in the fully feel.

Similar to Outward Bound (another Hahnian organization), Spherical Square schools part an training philosophy that supports a incubation of the "whole person". This philosophy is depending upon a Around Square "IDEALS" (an acronym that is a sixer pillars about which Spherical Square schools work): Internationalism, Democracy, Environment, Adventure, Leadership, and Service. A most common goal is to prepare each student into a entirely human across, academic, physical, ethnic & spiritual lives.

There are additional than L about Square schools placed around a earth around Africa, Australasia, Continental Europe, India, the Middle East, North America, South America, and a United Kingdom.

Students at any one schools will last in exchange for a semester to any of a other schools, & so two schools profit from either either the case of straight interaction by owning humans from an additional a share of the globe.

Around Square International Service Projects be completely sextuplet pillars across community service projects, like raising the fresh building. Across the school break, students from either different Around Square schools might converge in one locatiin, which is typically one of the less privileged schools, in which it might act together on a design.

Member Schools
A as a result schools come members of Around Square:

AUSTRALIA

The Armidale School, Ballarat Grammar School, Billanook College, Ivanhoe Grammar School (Ridgeway), Ivanhoe Grammar School (Plenty), Mowbray College, The Southport School (TSS), St. Philip's College, Trinity Anglican School, Westminster School

BERMUDA

The Bermuda High School for Girls

BOTSWANA

Maru a Pula School

CANADA

Appleby College, Bayview Glen, Bishop's College School, Collingwood School, Glenlyon-Norfolk School, Lakefield College School, Sedbergh School, St. Clement's School, Stanstead College

ENGLAND

Abbotshlme School, Box Hill School, Cobham Hall, Hellenic College of London, Wellington College, Westfield School, Windermere St. Anne's School

GERMANY

Schule Birklehof, Schule Schloss Salem, Siftung Louisenlund

INDIA

The Doon School, Lawrence School (Lovedale), Mayo College, Scindia School, Vidya Devi Jindal School, Vivek High School, Welham Boys' School

KENYA

Starehe Boys' Centre and School

Just released ZEALAND

St. Andrew's College

OMAN

The Indian School

PERU

Markham College

SCOTLAND

Gordonstoun

SOUTH AFRICA

St. Cyprian's School, St Stithians College (Boys), St Stithians College (Girls), Stanford Lake College, Tiger Kloof Educational Institute

SWITZERLAND

Aiglon College

THAILAND

The Regent's School

USA

The Athenian School, Baylor School, Deerfield Acadamy, Hotchkiss School