The Life Magazine: Issue 1
Featured Stories in The Life, Issue 1 “Sustaining the Fight: Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett ’84 Looks to Young People to Drive Change” “Homecoming: George Fox Award Recipient Susan Segal Rai ’59 […]
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Congratulations, Class of 2021!
On the warm and beautiful evening of Monday, June 7, 2021, in the middle of Prospect Park, the 56 members of our Class of 2021 graduated from Brooklyn Friends School, […]
Summer Resources for BFS Families
All Community Resources Reading recommendations for ALL ages from the Brooklyn Friends School Library→ Upper School Resources Required reading and guiding questions for Upper School students→ Math activity 1 for […]
Reaching the PEAC: How BFS Athletics Reimagined Physical Education
Over the past year, the word “pivot” has become just as common as the words “Zoom” and “unprecedented.” All of us have had to pivot in one way or the […]
Preserved and Adapted: The Third Grade Haudenosaunee Study
The Big Questions How does the environment shape culture? How do cultures change over time? How do cultures resist and survive colonialism and white supremacy? These are the big questions […]
Homecoming: George Fox Award Recipient Susan Segal Rai ’59 Returns to BFS
1959 Brooklyn Friends School graduate and this year’s recipient of the George Fox Award, Susan Segal Rai, cracked a wide smile when asked how she was able to play for […]
Sustaining the Fight: Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett ’84 Looks to Young People to Drive Change
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, ‘84, who serves as a House delegate representing the Virgin Islands, says being asked to be our 2021 Commencement Speaker was a special moment. “This place helped […]
Why IB?
*In Spring 2021, as they began course registration for the 2021-2022 school year, the Upper School shared this note regarding the International Baccalaureate program. In the Upper School, as we […]
A Morning in the Preschool Purple Room
By Joy Roberts, Preschool Administrative Assistant This spring the Purple Room Preschool children are learning about building. And last week they invited me to take part in a story and […]
Alumni Week 2021
Join us for a week of virtual activities for and by our alumni community! Alumni Week Events – June 1 to June 7, 2021 RSVP Now to the Events […]
A Message for Collective Reflection from Crissy Cáceres and the Leadership Team
Dear BFS Community, The range of feelings that have come to mind throughout the Derek Chauvin trial and many others before it are not dissimilar from the sentiments expressed by […]
Standing with the AAPI Community
Dear BFS Community: Brooklyn Friends School does exist as a Quaker Independent School to educate children on the building blocks of learning, and yet most importantly, we exist to partner […]