Exchange Programs

The Sacred Heart Academic Exchange Program is a program of Stuart Country Day School of the  Sacred  Heart  in  Princeton,  NJ,  which  offers  each  of  our  approximately  40  sophomore  students  the  opportunity  to  participate  in  a  two-week  reciprocal  exchange  program  with another Sacred Heart school anywhere in the world.  

Stuart are on exchange during the first two months of March. SHAEP for 2022 is currently on hold. 

During these two weeks, there will be no new course work at Stuart for sophomores to allow  the girls on exchange to fully focus on the experience at another Sacred Heart School. There  may be a few students who will go on exchange in the summer.  Students who plan to visit  Stuart during the year may come any time during our academic calendar year, which is from  September through May.  The specific dates will be set up with host families, sending families,  and Stuart working together. 

(Both Stuart and receiving schools.) 

Host families will be responsible for transportation to and from the airport or train station, room  and board (including lunch), transportation to and from school, and for offering a home for the  students with the same expectations for behavior and schedules they have for their own  daughters.  The host family will not be expected to make the trip a tourist adventure, and is, in fact, discouraged to do so, as the whole point of the exchange is to offer the students the  opportunity to be immersed in the academic life of another Sacred Heart school. 

(Both Stuart and receiving schools.) 

Students and their families are responsible for paying for transportation to and from the  location of the exchange and for any spending money for incidentals and gifts.  Host schools  will cover the cost of attending the school, and host families will be responsible for room and  board.

(Both Stuart and receiving schools.) 

We intend that the program will be reciprocal, if possible, so that all participating students will have an opportunity to both travel on exchange and host a student at another time. We ask that  host  schools  connect  visiting students from Princeton with host families, provide for an  academic schedule for Stuart students, and arrange for the host student to visit us in Princeton, if possible. Students would need to have a schedule that matches as much as possible their academic schedule at Stuart.  Stuart would provide the same services to those students who  visit us on exchange. Students are asked to comply with the school’s routines and regulations, and  they  must attend the classes offered at the year level in which they are enrolling. They  may, under no circumstances, cut class or distract other students from their studies.  

For students sent to schools from Stuart, we expect they will attend classes, live with a host  family, and generally learn about Sacred Heart education in a different part of the world.  Stuart  Students will be required to complete a reflective report on their experiences.  

Students who are unable to participate in the exchange program will be part of a two-week  Project Based Learning program (PBL) designed just for them.