The Grade 4 and 5 Common Room
	The Middle School Common Room
	The High School Student/Faculty Center

The Common Room

An important goal of Trevor's mission is to stimulate collaboration and promote mutual respect. We have deliberately designed our space to support those goals through our common rooms. In these busy environments, students learn to work with each other and with faculty members. Each student or group of students respect each others' unique learning styles and activities in a large and busy space.

We have three common rooms:

• The Grade 4 & 5 Common Room
• The Middle School Common Room, Grades 6 - 8
  and
• The High School Student/Faculty Center, Grades 9-12

The Common Room provides an excellent place to work on assignments because teachers and classmates are available for support and collaboration. It also is a great place for students to get a head start on homework. Teacher/Advisors’ desks are in the Common Room. When students have an advisor conference, they meet their advisor at his or her desk.

Discretionary Time in the Common Room and In Other Places

Trevor schedules discretionary time into each student's schedule. This valuable time is there for students to learn time management and how to approach teachers with questions. As they mature, students will have to learn to manage their time and their own schedules to accommodate responsibilities. At Trevor, we believe that learning to manage time is a key skill in the course of becoming a life-long learner. The Common Room experience is a great training ground for this process. Teachers monitor how students use their time and successful students are there to model good study habits for those who are still learning to manage their responsibilities. Students in the Upper School may also make use of other facilites in the school during discretionary periods, such as the library, art, dance and music studios and the gym.