Middle School Fifth Grade Challenge
If the fifth grade reaches 95% participation by June 13th they will earn an additional $1000 for the Brooklyn Friends Fund thanks to a generous fifth grade family. Let’s go, fifth grade!
Category: Middle School
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 […]
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 […]
Art and Activism in the Middle School
The Brooklyn Friends tradition of social activism and creative expression continued in an exemplary way when the Middle School devoted the morning of April 19 to a division-wide study and action on Art and Activism. The event was organized by the Student Council, with support from Deans Laurice Hwang and Kathleen Clinchy. The day began […]
Haroun and the Sea of Stories at BFS
The Middle School thespians of Brooklyn Friends School and Director Lorna Jordan will present the play, Haroun and the Sea of Stories in the BFS Meetinghouse on May 5 and 6, 2017. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is “a dramatization of a Salman Rushdie fable with […]
Quaker Witness Day
From Standing Rock to Chiapas, and all around the world, Quakers continue to let their lives speak for social justice. On Wednesday, March 8, our Quaker Witness Day, Middle and Upper School students will get to meet with Friends involved in the UN, in Alternatives to Violence, in global health, in supporting action through song, fighting […]
Hispaniola Rising: Dance Concert on March 9 & 10
In this year’s Dance Concert, we examine the relationship between Ayiti/Haiti and la República Dominicana/Dominican Republic through dance forms from the two nations. They share the Caribbean island of “Hispaniola,” but the countries are divided through intertwined histories of colonialism, slavery, racism, capitalism, and their continued after-life. While Haiti was the first free Black republic, […]
Visual Art Update
Hello Brooklyn Friends School Family and Friends, The Visual Arts Department wanted to give you a quick look at some student work. US Ceramics Click the link below to watch a video about the Upper School Ceramics class, taught by our wonderful Ceramics teacher Ellen Kahan. https://vimeo.com/67238169 8th Grade Sculpture The Fall 8th […]
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays from all of us at Brooklyn Friends School! We wish you all a joyful and restful season. Please enjoy this wonderful video from the students, faculty and staff. Make your gift here
Middle Schoolers Learn About Standing Rock and Indigenous Activism
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 […]
Outside Study Enriches Faculty
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 […]