Hyde School’s entire student body gathered Friday to celebrate the unification of the school’s Woodstock, Connecticut campus with the main Bath campus.

“What we’re trying to do is meld (the two campuses into one) culture,” said Director of Communications & Marketing Jenny Collinson. “Now we’re just Hyde School, and we’re all in this together.”

Hyde School announced in May that it was selling its Woodstock campus to Woodstock Academy for $14 million, and investing that money in the main campus. This school year marks the first year of the newly unified school.

“We have about 30 (students) who came up from Connecticut, and I believe we have about 170 on campus,” said Collinson. “They fill up the auditorium. It’s awesome.”

So far the process of combining the two campuses has gone well, said Collinson, with students from the Woodstock campus, returning students and incoming students coming together seamlessly.

“I kind of thought I would be able to tell which kids came from Woodstock, but I really can’t. They kind of just blend right in, which is really good. That’s what you want,” she said.

One major difference? Mini fridges.

“I believe the Woodstock kids used to keep mini fridges in their room, like that was a thing they were allowed to do and we don’t allow it,” said Collinson. “I know our head of school is reassessing whether we should let them.”

Appliance-based issues aside, the former Woodstock students are finding their place. Many of the new students attended programs at the Bath campus in July, making the process much easier when the school year began.

“That was kind of a nice entry point for them to get settled while we’re having a really fun July program,” said Collinson.

At a Friday pep rally, students celebrated the new status with games, chants and a non-regulation sumo wrestling competition. Part of the pep rally’s purpose was also to introduce the new Hyde School mascot, which was adopted from the Connecticut campus.

Previously, the Hyde School mascot was the phoenix, but as part of the unification the Bath campus adopted the wolf as their symbol. Wolf imagery is now prominent at the school, with a wolf statue that was brought up from the Connecticut campus now sitting outside the auditorium. Seemingly omnipresent at the Friday pep rally was one student in a full wolf mascot costume.

“We wanted to really stress, now we’re the Wolfpack,” said Collinson.

During the pep rally, the school also presented a check for $1,000 to Annie Graham with the American Cancer Society. The school raised $618 last year with the Cans for a Cure program, and the school chipped in to present a check for an even $1,000.