Welcome New Families | The Wardlaw + Hartridge School

The Wardlaw+Hartridge School is happy to have you as a part of our community. Bookmark this page and use it as a resource as you prepare for the coming school year.

NEW PARENT RESOURCES

New Parents will find a wealth of information throughout our website. We have linked some of the most used pages on our site for you below.

Your financial obligation to the school is for the full annual tuition as stated in the school’s enrollment contract. The school cannot refund tuition or cancel unpaid obligations if a student is forced to withdraw during the academic year.

If your student withdraws, the Tuition Refund Plan will pay benefits (subject to the terms of the policy and the amount insured) to the school, which provides substantial assistance in meeting your financial obligation.

See The Dewar Tuition Refund Plan

Ram Shop

The Ram Shop offers gently used

uniforms and gym clothing including but not limited to pants, shirts, sweaters, shorts and more, all for $5 each.

RAM SHOP HOURS

As the school year approaches the WHPA wants to ensure you have access to shop! For any questions, please contact ramshop.whpa@gmail.com

Ram Shop is located one level down from the Laidlaw Gym. Payments can be made via Cash or check made out to the WHPA.

2024-2025 New Family Orientation Info

Welcome to The Wardlaw+Hartridge School community! More information on our new student orientation for the 2024-2025 school year is coming soon.

Orientation designed for students to meet with teachers and peers from their division and for parents to have an opportunity to learn more about school life from their child’s division head. This is a wonderful and exciting time for students and their parents to begin a new journey in a new division. All parents and returning students are expected to attend their portion of orientation.

After a brief greeting and welcome, you will meet with your division head for a divisional introduction of approximately one hour.

The student portion of orientation will remain the same with students coming to campus for an opportunity to meet and speak with their advisors, teachers, friends, and enjoy a tour of campus. Your child’s divisional office will share the particulars of their divisional orientation plan with you.

If you have not already done so, please review the links below to become more familiar with our school.

Save the Date

Please join us at the All School Welcome Back BBQ on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. behind the school. There will be delicious food, face painting and balloon art for the Lower School students. Please RSVP to let us know you will be attending.

BBQ RSVP Link

If you have any questions, please contact the Admission Office (admission@WHschool.org or 908-754-1882, Ext. 155) or your child’s divisional office directly.

Looking forward to seeing you on campus next week.

Best regards,

Gerard R. Gonnella, W+H ‘89, P '29, P '31
Director of Admission and Financial Aid
Director of International Student Program

ITEMS THAT REQUIRE ACTION

All newly admitted students must submit a USA-based Medical examination form or Sports participation form (PPE) as contained in the enrollment pack. See below for links to forms needed.

Medical Forms

Transportation Forms

REQUESTING TRANSPORTATION

If you would like to request transportation, please complete the form through our SchoolAdmin portal using the link below to connect to the portal. The Director of Auxiliary Services will be in touch with you soon.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO SCHOOLADMIN TO REQUEST TRANSPORTATION

AID-IN-LIEU

Most towns do not provide a township bus to transport students to W+H. However, if your town provides busing to the students in your town’s public school, then they charged you for it in your taxes. Since they are not providing your child with busing to W+H (whether you need it or not), they should reimburse you the amount that you paid (about $800 - $1000 per year). This payment to you is called aid-in-lieu.

The B6T form linked below makes you eligible to get the aid -in-lieu. Who is eligible?

• Any student that lives at least 2 miles (grades K-5) or 2.5 miles (grades 6-12) but not more than 20 miles from W+H. It doesn’t matter how you get to school (car, W+H bus, carpool, etc.)

• Anyone who lives in a town that provides busing to their public school students but does not provide to W+H.

• Any student that will be attending W+H for the 2024-25 school year. If you are not sure, fill it out anyway, because later will be too late.

Do I need to fill out this form if my child is not taking the bus? YES! This form may get you aid-in-lieu payments from your town.

Who do I send this form to?

Please return the form to W+H. The school must process the forms before they are sent to the townships. They can be properly scanned (no phone pictures) and emailed to cflores@whschool.org or brought to school and given to the teacher or the receptionist.

NJ DOE B6T form for transportation 2024-2025

How to Order Uniforms & Spirit Wear

How to Access the Parent Portal

Athletic Registration

Registration for middle school athletics will be available soon.

High school athletics

SUMMER 2023 ELIGIBILITY INFO

As part of our Athletic Department injury policy, we are asking that all student athletes complete SWAY concussion testing. This will give us a baseline measurement as to where you are currently. If you were to sustain a head injury, we would be able to measure a post injury test against your baseline to see where you are at. This is one step to ensure we are doing everything possible to offer the best care to our student-athletes. Please follow the instructions below to complete your assessment.

Download the app called Sway Medical

Scroll down to the bottom and click where it says "enter code."
Enter code GDTMC
Enter your information
You do NOT need to create an account or go through COVID protocols.
When you get to the symptom questionnaire, you can click "next" in the top right and then "skip symptoms"
Finish the whole assessment

Who needs to take the assessment

Every student-athlete who is new to the school
Every student-athlete in 6th grade
any student-athlete in 7th grade who did not complete the baseline test in 6th grade
Every student athlete in 8th grade
Every student-athlete in 9th grade
Every student athlete in 10th grade who did not complete the baseline in 9th grade
Every student athlete in 11th grade
Every student athlete in 12th grade who did not complete the baseline in 11th grade

Feel free to reach out to Ryan Oliveira, Head Athletic Trainer, if you have any questions.

Record Release Form

PE Uniforms

Text Books

”The New Jersey Nonpublic School Textbook Law (N.J.S.A. 18A:58-37.1et seq.) requires the board of education in each public school district in New Jersey with state funds to purchase and loan textbooks, upon individual request, to all students attending a nonpublic school located in the public school district. In order to be eligible, students must be enrolled full-time in kindergarten through grade twelve in a nonpublic school in New Jersey which complies with compulsory school attendance requirements and with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

Edison township gives us state funds to purchase textbooks for our students. The amount we receive depends on the number of students we have attending each year. The number of students is determined by how many of these forms we submit to them.

Please fill out these forms so we can continue to purchase books and pass these saving onto you. Currently we use the funds to purchase all our textbooks for our regular (not AP or elective) Math and Science classes because those are the classes that are required of all our students (K- 12), and therefore all students are receiving these benefits.

Please return to Chris Flores at cflores @WHschool.org

Individual Student Request for Load of Textbooks

Laptops

Summer Assignments for Middle School

Summer Assignments for Upper School

PEOPLE TO KNOW

Getting to know everyone at a new school can be overwhelming. We've compiled a list of some of the people you will want to get to know or who you might need to contact.