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National Honors and Distinctions
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- Brooklyn Friends Middle School received the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education's 2006 Community Service Recognition Award (Honorable Mention) for "Service Learning Leadership: Pairing Our Classrooms with Our Communities"
- Brooklyn Friends is the only independent school in New York City to partner with the Horizons National summer enrichment program for public school children.
- Close Harmony,
a film about BFS fourth and fifth grade students and their intergenerational
chorus with members of a neighborhood senior citizens’ center, won the Academy
Award for Best Documentary at the Oscars in 1982. Nigel Noble, a BFS parent, directed the 30-minute film.
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The Glittering Prizes: Scholastic Writing Awards
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Twenty-five BFS students won 22 gold key and 10 silver key prizes in the 2011 Scholastic Writing Awards,
which receives around 2,000 writing submissions every year. This is a
remarkable achievement for the prize winners, their English teachers,
and for all the students from BFS who had the ambition and courage to
submit their work. Congratulations all around! Grade 7 Lahy A -- Silver Key
Mia B -- Silver Key
Vanessa F --Gold Key
Mia P -- two Gold Keys
Grade 8
Eloise S -- Gold Key
Jumoke M --Gold Key
Audrey M--Gold Key
Lia E --Gold Key
Aoife H--Silver Key
Hannah H --Gold Key Rachel H -- Gold Key
Grade 9
Sam M-- Silver Key
Anna E --Gold Key
Elinor Hills --Gold Key
Grade 10
Herron H -- two Silver Keys
Isaac P -- Gold Key
Jayne F --Silver Key
Grade 11
Jessica C --Silver Key
Madelyn F --Silver Key
Erin C --Gold Key
Bianca L--Silver Key
Rebecca G --Gold Key
Yoomee O --Gold Key
Grade 12
Geselle S --Gold Key
Nina R-- six Gold Keys (Senior Portfolio)
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MathCounts Team Scores Big in Brooklyn
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The Middle School MathCounts team competed against 10 other schools from Brooklyn on Thursday, Feb 10th at Cunningham Middle School. The team consisted of seven eighth graders: Patrick M, Maya K, Giovanna M, Aidan P, Thomas C, Adrian E, and Griffin E. The team finished in 5th place out of 10. Patrick M was team's highest finisher - he was 14th out of about 60 students. "Everyone on the team has been working hard to prepare," said MathCounts coach and advisor Peter Prince. "We met once a cycle during lunch period to practice taking tests as a team and to find different ways of solving challenging problems."
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Good News Comes Early for College-Bound Seniors
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Exciting news has already arrived for seven seniors who have been admitted Early Decision to their top choice colleges. Members of the BFS Class of 2011 are now members of the Class of 2015 at Colorado College, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), New School, Oberlin College, University of Pennsylvania, Skidmore College, and Vassar College. Members of the senior class have also been accepted early to Bard, Guilford, Moravian, Northeastern, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Tulane. Acceptances will continue to arrive throughout the next few months, and we look forward to sharing the complete list of college destinations this May.
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Announcements and Achievements, Fall 2010
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Outstanding Independent High School
The BFS Upper School has received the 2010 "Blackboard Award" as the outstanding independent high school in New York City. Blackboard Awards were established by Manhattan Media 10 years ago, with New York University, New School University, and Fordham Law School among the awards' sponsors. Honoring excellence in education, the awards pay tribute to the city's top early education, elementary, middle and high schools, both public and private. Upper School Head Roxanne Zazzaro represented the school at a Nov. 1 awards ceremony hosted by WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer. In accepting the award, she acknowledged "the BFS students, faculty and staff whose hard work, dedication, and commitment to the highest standards demonstrate the very best in education today." Read the article "Our Town" wrote about the BFS Upper School program.
Model UN Reps Take Top Honors
The 17-member BFS Model UN club spent the weekend of Nov. 12 at a conference at Brown University. Two students were awarded for their outstanding work: Conor H '11 earned Honorable Mention in a U.S. Senate simulation, and Abraham A '13 was awarded Best Delegate in the 1993 Oslo Peace Process Simulation. Conor and his senior classmate, Ben W, are the club's leaders.
BFS, BAM, and The Bard The 8th grade has been selected to participate in BAM's Shakespeare Teaches Students program. They will read Comedy of Errors, benefit from nine visits from BAM's teaching artists, accomplished actors/directors of Shakespeare, and see a full production of Comedy of Errors at BAM on March 16. The program works in tandem with teacher Molly Winter's professional development work in the BAM Shakespeare Teaches Teachers program.
Teacher Wins Big in Avon Contest
Health teacher Valarie Alston received a $10,000 prize, a personal meeting with finance guru Suze Orman, and a VIP weekend in New York City in Avon's Moneymakeover Contest. An Avon representative for the past two years, Valarie made a 90 second video explaining that she started selling Avon products to help her son pay for college and to buy herself a new set of hearing aids. She also explained the ways in which Avon has changed her life -- all in American Sign Language with her own voice-over. Read more.
Latin Laurels
Brooklyn Friends middle and upper school students continue to distinguish themselves in the annual National Latin Exams, which are given to 150,000 students in all 50 states and 14 countries worldwide. Conor H '11 received a Gold Medal and Summa Cum Laude award in Latin III Poetry. Also receiving a Gold Medal and Summa Cum Laude honors was Raphael T '14 for Latin I. Lisa F '12 and Spencer M '12 won Magna Cum Laude honors for Latin II. Also in the Latin I exam, Anton SAnna E received Silver medals and Maxima Cum Laude awards; Sarah M a Magna Cum Laude award, and Elinor H and Tyler C Cum Laude honors. Current 8th graders scored particularly well in the Introduction to Latin Exam. Lia E and Maya K received a perfect score, and the following students scored at a level to merit a purple ribbon and Outstanding Achievement Certificate: Aidan P, Fiona S, Thomas C, Lily C, Patrick M, Giovanna M, Hallie W, Madeline D, Rachel H, Airenakhue O, and Aoife H. Receiving Achievement Certificates were Eloise S, Audrey M, Patricia S, Adam W, Charles S, Louisa G, and Kariesha M.
Brooklyn Friends School received the top prize, and four sixth grade students were awarded individual prizes in the international Minimus Mythology Competition, based in Salisbury, England. BFS received the highest number of prizes of any school in the contest, which asked students to creatively interpret the stories of Romulus and Remus and the Trojan Horse. Sophie E, Benjamin F, Caila F, and Hildagard G all in Marie-Christine Perry's Latin class, received individual awards for their submissions.
Faculty Kudos - Middle School Head Martha Haakmat has co-authored an article, "Independent School Leadership, A Gendered Experience" with Susan Feibelman of Packer, published in the Fall 2010 issue of Independent School magazine, the official publication of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).
- Technology Integrator Cordenia Paige co-facilitated a professional development workshop on technology at the Friends Council of Education in Philadelphia on Nov. 12.
- Athletic Director David Gardella was honored for his volunteerism by the Liga Sabatina baseball and little league sports programs based in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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