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Activities
The weekday schedule at Chamberlain-Hunt Academy includes a 2.5 hour time slot between the end of the academic day and the start of supper that is reserved for sports and activities. All boarding Cadets
who are not members of an in-season interscholastic sports team participate in intramurals. This program involves participating in a variety of sports, games and activities as well as training in the 70 acre Wilderness Program adjoining the main campus.
The purpose of the intramural program is to teach our Cadets skills and godly character while improving their physical fitness. The intramural program provides an opportunity for every Cadet to develop motor skills and peer relationship skills through Basketball, Flag Football, Kickball in various forms, Running, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, Weight Training and a variety of playground and gym games.
Each Cadet has his own strengths and weaknesses that need to develop in a safe environment. Intramurals provides every Cadet the opportunity to learn to face physical challenges and to compete with his fellow man in a God-honoring way. Therefore, throughout its intramural program, the Academy strives to teach and encourage honesty, integrity, self-discipline, kindness in speech and action, fair play, good effort and proper attitudes toward authority figures while training coordination, strength and agility.
On certain days, Cadets may be excused from intramurals to participate in various afternoon activities. Some of the recent opportunities included Chess Club, Decurion, , and Choir. On Saturday mornings, the Cadets work together on projects that require physical labor and teach practical skills, whether on campus or as community service.
Saturday afternoon and evening activities range from movies, plays and symphony concerts to midnight bowling, skating and paintball. Swimming, either in Chamberlain-Hunt’s pool or 5 acre, is warm weather fun. Cadets also enjoy the Wilderness Program’s ropes course, confidence course, obstacle course and rifle range on Saturday afternoons in addition to weekday intramurals use.
Every Lord’s Day, the Cadet Corps marches from campus down Church Street to Port Gibson’s historic Presbyterian Church for morning worship. Upon their return to campus, they have lunch followed by a 3 hour time of rest and reflection, which they spend in the dorms reading, napping or writing letters. Evening vespers follows supper, and the Lord’s Day closes with time in dorms preparing for a new week.
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Port Gibson, MS 39150 
