A Visitor from Oaxaca shares his talents with young student artists. Folk artist Fernando Félix Peguero García estimates that about 3,000 people live in his hometown in the pueblo of Santa María Atzompa in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and that 90% of them work in clay. Fernando, at the request of Visual Arts teacher Ellen […]
A Celebration on October 27 for Indigenous Peoples Day The theme is: Caring for the Earth, Seven Generations in the Face of Climate Change. These are free, family-friendly events, and all are invited to attend. 4 PM: at Brooklyn Friends School, New York Dedication of Peace Pole 6-9 PM: Brooklyn Quaker Meetinghouse, 110 Schermerhorn Street […]
Two years ago Middle School parents Kathryn Scott and Wenda Gu made a philanthropic gift to BFS, and asked that it be earmarked for the school’s nascent Mandarin language program. The request might seem unusual given that the couple were new to the school and that their daughter, now a 7th grader, isn’t yet old enough to […]
Teachers in individual Lower School classrooms will begin posting their own content here later this fall. Please check back to see classroom-specific news posts which can be individually filtered on the website’s main News section at https://brooklynfriends.org/news.
BFS families — Welcome to the new school year and a brand new Brooklyn Friends School website. All parents, faculty/staff and students in grades 6-12 were sent an e-mail message asking them to sign-in to the website so they would have access to the new Dashboard (which replaces the previous Portal system). If you have not […]
Brooklyn Friends School Celebrates Ribbon-Cutting for New High School Facility at One MetroTech Student-Led Ceremony at 116 Lawrence Street, September 8, 2015 at 4:15pm Brooklyn Friends School celebrates its third century in downtown Brooklyn with the opening of a distinctly 21st-century school building. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new, 40,000 square foot facility for the 9th […]
Karine Blemur-Chapman started at BFS as a third grade assistant teacher. Three years later she moved next door to Admissions, and today, a decade later, she is the Director of Enrollment Management. Always interested in “the story behind the child,” her position is as sweeping and complicated as it sounds, and she doesn’t take it lightly. […]
1. I know you just ran the New York City Marathon. My vault contains a story we did way back in 2003 when you ran your 2nd marathon, and said the first one was 17 years previous. Had you run any others between 2003 and now? Yes, and this year was my fourth and last. […]
“I’m trapped,” he said. “The school has always gone with my interests.” Upper School Art and History teacher Mark Buenzle’s false lament was his explanation for why he has been teaching at BFS for over 20 years. “We’re a good match creatively,” he concluded. Mark started out at BFS as a kindergarten teacher, a job he […]
Middle-Upper School Dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97 traveled as part of an impromptu relief effort to Haiti in April, 2010. She was already planning the trip to the beleaguered country with her Haitian dance teacher Peniel Guerrier, and when the earthquake struck in January BFS dance teacher Jesse Phillips-Fein ’97 and her colleagues decided not to cancel […]
Outspoken science teacher Janet Villas has a mission to make sure BFS students grow into environmentally active adults. Through her leadership in the IB Environmental Systems class and the schoolwide recycling program, she’s become our “go-to” person on all things green. Middle and Upper School Science teacher Janet Villas has taught Environmental Systems in the Upper […]
Lower School Curriculum Coordinator Diane Mackie is excited about kicking off the new year with the return of a powerful and much-lauded resource. On January 12th, 2013 a number of Lower School faculty as well as teachers from Mary McDowell Friends School will be participating in a day-long Responsive Classroom Sampler workshop here at BFS. […]
