The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons makes for a perfect segue to lauding a team of BFS Upper School students and faculty. This summer, Upper School Head Sidney Bridges, Upper School Technology Integrator Jean Kim, and three Upper School students made a two-week trip to visit […]
Summer of 2017 saw our faculty flung far and wide. They trekked, learned, discovered and brought back a trove of gems to share in their classrooms. Grade 9 Dean and Middle-Upper School Spanish Teacher Vanessa Ehler spent a week in Mérida, Mexico at a workshop on integrating the arts into literature. “We […]
Soccer, Ireland, and Above All, Friends Niamh Henchy ’18 has been playing soccer since she was 8 years old and has racked up an impressive set of statistics in games played, goals scored, and assists. But ask about her most recent championship-winning soccer season at BFS, and the talk is all about her teammates. […]
The 2017 All-School BFS Affordability Workshop Financing Your Children’s Education from Independent School through College The BFS College Counseling and Enrollment Offices invite parents to our annual AFFORDABILITY WORKSHOP, with expert speaker Mark Kantrowitz. Affordability — how to plan for current independent school tuition and future college tuition — is the focus of this workshop, and the information […]
Over the past month, our community has seen widespread human and natural devastation at a consistency unknown in our time. Since Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas, our country (as well as our world) has not seen a respite. Natural disasters in the US, the Caribbean, and Mexico have affected millions of people. As the full scope […]
Join us for BFS at 150 Family Fun Day! Celebrate our sesquicentennial with a BFS community day in Prospect Park hosted by the PAT Saturday, October 21, 2017 – 11am to 2pm Tennis House South Lawn, Prospect Park – enter at 9th Street off Prospect Park West, walk straight in, cross Park Drive. The Tennis […]
Brooklyn Friends kicked off its 150th year with a Founders’ Day Celebration filled with blue pride. On Friday, September 8, volunteers from the BFS at 150 Steering Committee and the PAT Executive Committee took over the lobbies of the Pearl and Lawrence Street buildings where they handed out student-designed BFS at 150 enamel pins to […]
We hope the whole Brooklyn Friends School community will join us on Tuesday, October 3rd at 6:30pm in the Pearl Street Meeting House when the newly formed “Public Talks” PAT committee hosts a ticketed screening of the documentary “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age.” Everyone is invited to stay afterward for moderated small-group discussions on the impact […]
The following information was e-mailed to enrolled BFS families on Aug. 1, 2017, along with a welcome letter from Head of School Larry Weiss. START-OF-SCHOOL FACT SHEET FOR 2017-18 Important Note: Class placements for Preschool and Lower School and Advisory Placements for Middle School will be sent to parents by e-mail on August […]
Read a letter from the PAT Co-Presidents that describes the work of the PAT, the services they offer and events they plan, and the many opportunities for parent involvement in the upcoming year. August 1, 2017 Dear BFS Families, Welcome to another academic year at Brooklyn Friends School! We are thrilled to represent this stellar […]
Brooklyn Friends School begins the recognition and celebration of its Sesquicentennial – the 150th anniversary of the school’s founding – with the publication of an academic calendar featuring photographs from the school’s archives.With a small sampling from among tens of thousands of archival photographs, we humbly offer a mere glimpse into the social history of the […]
BFS Afterschool Slideshow 2016-17 from Brooklyn Friends School on Vimeo.
