On Tuesday, December 13, our Middle School participated in a collection on Standing Rock and Indigenous Activism organized by the Service Learning & Civic Engagement Office. Standing Rock youth have been leaders among the many thousands of individuals and groups who oppose the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Missouri and Cannon Ball River […]
“If you’d like to chat about our varsity volleyball teams’ 200 victories, that conversation needed to happen at least six years ago, said veteran teacher and coach Felix Alberto when asked to talk numbers at the conclusion of another championship season. This fall, coach Felix and the entire school celebrated his 250th official BFS Girls Varsity […]
Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts For some Brooklyn Friends School faculty, summer research is a religious experience. Middle School History teacher Amanda Goodwin, now in her second year at the school, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to study Religious Revivals, Utopian Societies and the Shaker Experience in America this past […]
The Light the Way campaign is complete with over $7.5 million raised by our community. Thank you! For more information about our fundraising initiatives, please contact Karen Edelman at kedelman@brooklynfriends.org.
The $7.5 million raised is a reflection of the commitment that our families, grandparents, alumni and friends have made to the individuals that we are shaping at Brooklyn Friends School. On Thursday October 27th, the community gathered together to celebrate the completion of our most successful philanthropic initiative to date – the Light the Way capital campaign. […]
Raise your spirits, channel your inner child, and experience virtuoso performances by middle and upper school students at the fall musical, Into the Woods. With music by Stephen Sondheim and story by James Lapine, this now classic Broadway musical is a delight in every way. Tickets are free but need to be reserved in advance. […]
An op-ed in the Oct. 13 New York Times, “Only White People” by Topher Sanders, struck a chord with many in the BFS community. Read the Letter to the Editor written by Pre and Lower division heads Maura Eden and Jackie Condie that makes the case for actively addressing difference and racism in the early […]
On Friday, September 23rd, all of our seventh graders and 40 of our 10th and 11th graders had the opportunity to participate in Forced From Home, a free, interactive, educational outdoor exhibition designed to raise public awareness about the global refugee crisis in Honduras, Burundi, Lebanon, and Syria. Guided by Doctors Without Borders field workers, […]
Every year during the second grade changemaker unit, there is a moment where our students begin to notice that some kinds of protests work well to make change across a range of causes. They notice that activists can make change by giving powerful speeches, many activists march with signs, many activists collect signatures on […]
Music Connects All of Us — That was the uplifting message sent and received at BFS on Wednesday morning, Sept. 28. Six young musicians, ranging in age from 14 to 22, presented a concert to the Middle School and guests that was moving, inspiring, and musically outstanding. The Jewish-Arabic Youth Ensemble from the Beit Alpert Music […]
Another welcome to the new school year comes this week from the Co-chairs of the Brooklyn Friends School Board of Trustees, Brad Mulder and Gustav Peebles. In their letter to parents below, Brad (a BFS alumnus and middle school parent) and Gustav (a Quaker and middle school parent) introduce new trustees and describe the Board’s […]
A group of BFS 8th graders — Cammi F, Jazz H, Danielle F, and Tessa M — have been asked to present their green proposal to Dr. Jane Goodall at Roots & Shoots and Youth On Making the City Green. The event is Saturday, Sept. 17, from 12 to 3 pm, Allen Shandler Recreation Area – Van Cortlandt Park. […]
