A Midsummer Night’s Dream on January 27, 28
Upper School thespians will present Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, next Friday and Saturday at 7pm in the Pearl Street Meetinghouse. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here.
Category: Upper School
At Brooklyn Friends, You CAN Go Home Again
On January 4th, our young alumni came back to visit BFS and share their experiences since they last roamed these halls as seniors. After imparting their wisdom and advice on our current seniors, they mingled with one another, visited teachers, toured the Upper School building and enjoyed lunch in our cafe with students and staff. […]
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
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 […]
Light the Way A Spectacular Success
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. […]
Third Annual Upper School Community Issues Conference
written by Helen L, Ila S, and Sean W Class of 2019 On November 10th, 2016, Brooklyn Friends School hosted its third annual Community Issues Conference. The Community Issues Conference is a day that promotes awareness surrounding issues that have been thoughtfully selected by the tenth grade. This year, those topics included, Animal Rights, Climate Change, […]
Middle and Upper Schoolers Examine Global Refugee Crisis
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, […]
A Friendly Welcome to Three Middle and Upper School Leaders at BFS
In early July, BFS welcomed three new members to our community who will serve in leadership positions: in the Middle School, Nitya York as Assistant Middle School Head of Academics; in the Upper School, Paul Beekmeyer, Assistant Head for Academics, and Alexandra (“Alex”) Davis, Assistant Head for Student Life. As the new Assistant Middle School Head for […]
Simulating a World in Crisis
On May 13th, some 40 BFS students, parents and faculty paid $10 each to gather in the Upper School cafeteria for the first BFS Model UN fundraising dinner. The appropriately named International Night featured a pot luck dinner prepared by the fifteen current Model UN students and their families. The evening was organized by […]
The Arts in Full Bloom This May
The month of May at BFS started off with an exhilarating Middle School production of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. It continues this week with three music concerts featuring our choral, orchestra, and jazz performing artists. And it concludes at the end of the month (May 24, 25, 26 with our spectacular All School Art Show at […]
Listening, Questioning, and Learning on Upper School Privilege Day
Upper School Privilege Day on April 13 was a time for listening, questioning, observing and learning as the entire student body and faculty examined real-life issues of privilege, oppression, and inequities in school and beyond. The day was organized by the Upper School’s Youth Action Project (YAP), who led — with other interested and involved […]
Perfect Score and 57 Awards in 2016 National Latin Exam
This year, Brooklyn Friends students in 7th-12th grade received a total of 57 awards in the National Latin Exam, including a perfect score for 9th grader Holly H., two gold summa cum laude awards for 10th graders Angel I. and Jason C., and 19 silver medal maxima cum laude awards – the very highest honors. The National Latin […]