Back-to-School Manual
We are proud to present our Brooklyn Friends Back-to-School Manual for the 2021-2022 school year. Click on the cover image below to view the Manual.
Category: All School News
A Video Welcome to the New Year
With pride, joy, and belief in the opportunities before us, we are thrilled to welcome our community to the 2021-2022 school year at Brooklyn Friends! Enjoy this message from our leadership team as we prepare to launch into this new school year.
Welcome to the 2021-2022 School Year from the Head of School
Listen to Crissy read this message here. It is with such pride, joy, and a belief in the opportunities before us that I welcome you into the 2021-2022 school year. We have been hard at work preparing for the start of school, fully in person and comprehensively operational in every aspect. To do that, we […]
The Life Magazine: Issue 1
Featured Stories in The Life, Issue 1 “Sustaining the Fight: Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett ’84 Looks to Young People to Drive Change” “Homecoming: George Fox Award Recipient Susan Segal Rai ’59 Returns to BFS” “Reaching the PEAC: How BFS Athletics Reimagined Physical Education” “Preserved and Adapted: The Third Grade Haudenosaunee Study” Explore the full print version […]
Congratulations, Class of 2021!
On the warm and beautiful evening of Monday, June 7, 2021, in the middle of Prospect Park, the 56 members of our Class of 2021 graduated from Brooklyn Friends School, held in the light by their teachers, families, classmates, and friends. Head of School Crissy Cáceres opened the ceremony, followed by messages for the graduates […]
Summer Resources for BFS Families
All Community Resources Reading recommendations for ALL ages from the Brooklyn Friends School Library→ Upper School Resources Required reading and guiding questions for Upper School students→ Math activity 1 for rising 11th Grade students→ Math activity 2 for rising 11th Grade students→ *12th Grade IB Visual Arts Students: Create two artworks and finish revising and […]
Homecoming: George Fox Award Recipient Susan Segal Rai ’59 Returns to BFS
1959 Brooklyn Friends School graduate and this year’s recipient of the George Fox Award, Susan Segal Rai, cracked a wide smile when asked how she was able to play for every single sports team during her time at BFS. “Back then, the school was so small, if you could breathe, you could make the team,” […]
Sustaining the Fight: Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett ’84 Looks to Young People to Drive Change
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, ‘84, who serves as a House delegate representing the Virgin Islands, says being asked to be our 2021 Commencement Speaker was a special moment. “This place helped make me who I am,” she said while Zooming in from Washington, DC. As a politician, an attorney, and a commentator, Congresswoman Plaskett has always […]
Join Us for Dinner with Friends
Have Dinner with Friends on Thursday, May 27 at 7pm. Let’s come together and celebrate! Learn how to make one of Chef Tom Buckley’s signature dishes with the Chef himself. After we cook and eat, we’ll stick around for a dance party. Colleagues may attend at no charge and can RSVP at this link. All […]
Alumni Week 2021
Join us for a week of virtual activities for and by our alumni community! Alumni Week Events – June 1 to June 7, 2021 RSVP Now to the Events Listed Below Tuesday, June 1 at 7pm, Book Discussion with Gerry Valentine ’81 Gerry Valentine inspires people to build resilience—to overcome setbacks, to look at […]
A Message for Collective Reflection from Crissy Cáceres and the Leadership Team
Dear BFS Community, The range of feelings that have come to mind throughout the Derek Chauvin trial and many others before it are not dissimilar from the sentiments expressed by so many families who have been devastated by racially charged, hatefully charged, and systemically charged actions that have left them permanently shattered asking whether justice […]
Standing with the AAPI Community
Dear BFS Community: Brooklyn Friends School does exist as a Quaker Independent School to educate children on the building blocks of learning, and yet most importantly, we exist to partner with families in the shaping of human hearts and minds that we believe with all of our might will change the world in critical and […]