Dear Friends,

We are proud to share with all of you our new, greatly enhanced web site. Our hope in undertaking this redesign was to offer all of you - students, parents, alumni, friends, and prospective families - a rich and vivid glimpse into who we are, what we value, and what we have to offer to the South Georgia community. 

In addition, we plan to begin to use this site as an active and accessible means of communicating with the various members of the Valwood family. The Internet offers us a unique opportunity to widen and deepen the channels of communication that must exist between an independent school and its community members. You will find in these pages a wide array of information about the school - calendars, news items, announcements, contact information, photo albums, extracurricular and athletic schedules, and the list goes on. Our hope is that you will return to the site regularly and have at your disposal the information you need to stay involved in the life of the school and in the lives of our students and your children. 

Though my family and I have been at Valwood for only a short while, we feel already a palpable spirit and pride running through this school community. Our spectacular new campus stands as testament to this spirit, as does the amazing work that our faculty undertakes each morning to teach, guide, nurture, protect, and challenge the children entrusted to us. Valwood's three-part mission guides us in this work each day, and I encourage you to take the time to read it again (it can be found on the home page of this site). It asserts our commitment to academics, character, and service to the community; all that we do here on campus we do in service to these three fundamental goals. 

We are pleased to add this site to the list of tools upon which we can rely to achieve this mission here at Valwood School. 

Yours truly,

Cobb Atkinson
Headmaster