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Game Highlights for Week of December 1st, 2014

12/3/14 On Tuesday the BFS Girls Varsity Basketball Team defeated Rudolf Steiner 33-19 in the lower gym. This was BFS’ first ISAL League game of the season. The team has done quite well over the years in the ISAL League. The game got off to a sow start has both teams had trouble putting the […]

Game Highlights for Week of November 24th, 2014

11/25/14 On Monday the BFS Boys JV Basketball Team defeated FASY 50-30 on the road. The Panthers looked sharp to start the game. Taking a 14 to 2 lead in the first 5 minutes of play. Once again the Panthers lock down defense was the shining star of the game creating 16 turnovers which lead to 25 fastbreak […]

Author Visit: Julie Sternberg

Wow! What a terrific event. Author Julie Sternberg visited Third and Fourth Grade classrooms in November and introduced her new book Celie Valentine: Friendship Over. Julie sharing her process with 4th Grade Julie shared her writing process and publishing process with our students. She debunked the myth that publishing books is for “other people.” Julie linked […]

Game Highlights for Week of November 17th, 2014

11/19/14 On Tuesday the BFS Boys Varsity Basketball Team defeated LREI 67-45 as they faced faced off against the tournament host and won wire to wire. The Panthers jumped out on LREI with a 23-4 run in the first quarter and never looked back.  Their largest lead being 26 points during the game. The leading scorer was […]

Get to Know Your Visual Arts Faculty: Mark Buenzle

We want to introduce you to the Visual Arts Faculty.  Enjoy this peak into who makes the great Art Department at BFS! With BFS seniors, Ariel G. and Eve B. 1. What classes do you teach? I teach IB Visual Arts 1 and 2 (11th and 12th grade).  I also teach two history courses – Art […]

Get to Know the Visual Arts Faculty: Ellen Kahan

We want to introduce you to the Visual Arts Faculty.  Enjoy this peak into who makes the great Art Department at BFS! Ellen with Student from Tanzania 1. What classes do you teach? I teach 5th-10th grade ceramics in Middle and Upper Schools. 2. Where did you go to school and what did you study? […]

BFS Upper School Community Issues Conference 2014

This morning, November 6th, was our first BFS Community Issues Conference. The goal for the morning was for upper school students to learn about significant local community issues, to participate in collaborative problem solving, and to identify ways they, as young people, can support constructive change in the community.  video by Monet M, Class of 2017 Saundra Thomas […]

Copyrights & Plagiarism

As part of our unit on digital citizenship, students learned about copyrights and plagiarism. We learned that all original works (e.g., images, writing, music) are copyrighted and that we need to ask for the author’s permission before we use, copy or distribute the work. We also talked about copyright infringement and its consequences. The students […]

One Book, One BFS: The Spirit Catches You and Then You Fall Down

This summer the English Department assigned The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down  to the entire High School and faculty.  The purpose was to create a stronger and more enduring  bond between  the students and faculty. Author Anne Fadiman has written a gripping account of a culture clash between a newly arrived Hmong family […]