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Lower School Fourth Grade Challenge

Each fourth grade classroom to reach 100% parent participation by June 13th will earn an additional $500 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous fourth grade family. Let’s go, fourth grade!

Lower School Third Grade Challenge

If the third grade reaches 90% participation by June 13th they will earn an additional $1,000 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous third grade family. Let’s go, third grade!

Lower School Second Grade Challenge

If the second grade reaches 90% participation by June 13th they will earn an additional $1,000 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous second grade family. Let’s go, second grade!

Lower School First Grade Challenge

If the first grade reaches 95% participation by June 13th they will earn an additional $1,000 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous 1st grade family. Let’s go, first grade!

Lower School Kindergarten Challenge

Each Kindergarten classroom to reach 100% parent participation by June 13th will earn an additional $2,500 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous Kindergarten family. Let’s go, Kindergarten!

Preschool 4s Challenge

Each Preschool 4s classroom to reach 100% parent participation by June 13th will earn an additional $500 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous Preschool 4s family. Let’s go, Preschool 4s!

Preschool 3s Challenge

Each Preschool 3s classroom to reach 100% parent participation by June 13th will earn an additional $250 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous Preschool 3s family. Let’s go, Preschool 3s!

Racial Inclusion and Educational Outcomes Presentation – Part II on June 1

Brooklyn Friends School has sponsored and participated in a research study over the past two years aimed at attaining both quantitative and qualitative indicators of racial inclusion with regard to the educational outcomes of BFS students for the period 2012-2017. A research team of Darrick Hamilton, Ph.D (BFS Class of 1989), Regine Jackson Ph.D and […]

Creativity, Talent and Skill to the Max at All-School Art Show

Reception for 7th/8th Grade Artists on Friday morning, May 19 from 7:30am to 8:25am. Reception for Preschool-Grade 12 Artists on Wednesday afternoon, May 24, from 4pm to 6:30pm. Congratulations and thank you to second grader Liya M, whose wall lamp project in woodworking class (above) was chosen for the BFS All-School Art Show postcard and […]

Up Close and Personal with CAS

  by Noel Quiñones, BFS CAS Coordinator   On April 24, 2017, the Pearl Street Meeting House erupted with applause as seven students took to the stage to share the intersections between their passions and their projects for this year’s C.A.S. Project Collection. These students included Ben Francis ‘17,  Maalik Dunkley ‘17, Isaiah Richards ‘17, […]

Middle School Play Puts Rushdie Onstage

  RESERVE TICKETS This spring’s Middle School play, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, opens on Friday, May 5, with shows at 4pm and 7pm and continues on Saturday, May 6 at 7pm.  The play is based on Salman Rushdie’s children’s book, which  inspired by Islamic culture, Indian culture, Lewis Carroll, Baum, Brecht and the Beatles […]

A Perfect Score and 62 Prizes in the National Latin Exam

The results are in and the awards are bountiful for BFS in the 2017 National Latin Exam, which 110 7th-12th graders sat for in March. Ninth grader Nicole A had a perfect score. Eighth graders Nicholas K and Oliver M earned gold medals (the next highest score), and prizes were awarded to 59 additional students. Brooklyn Friends School […]