Seventh and eighth grade students are growing more comfortable stepping up to the mic and sharing their musical voices with their middle school peers. A few weeks ago, students in the Find Your Voice elective performed a group arrangement of the song, Rewrite the Stars, from the movie The Greatest
This week provided a slightly quieter but equally meaningful stretch in our spring athletics season, as we balanced competition with the incredible eighth grade Capstone presentations and prepared to head into the April vacation week. On Wednesday, the varsity tennis team hosted Nobles & Greenough on our home courts at
After a strong start to the spring season, this week brought our first full stretch of competition and another exciting opportunity for our student-athletes to put their hard work into action. Across our athletics teams, students continued to compete with energy, support one another, and represent BDS with great effort
In seventh grade Latin, students have been studying Julius Caesar’s political career, with special attention to his conquest of Gaul (modern-day France) and his failed conquest of Britain. To start, seventh graders explored the pre-existing Celtic cultures in Gaul and Britain, learning about the customs of the Druids and making
This semester, seventh grade French students have been exploring the francophone world through presentations on countries where French is spoken, researching culture, climate, population, traditional foods, and notable figures. They also examined the impact of French colonization, learning that while many countries retained their native languages, they often lost aspects
On Saturday, March 21, seventeen middle school students took part in a Model UN Conference at Northeastern University. These students were “delegates” of Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Norway, and Rwanda. During the middle school clubs period, they researched their countries and the issues they were preparing to discuss. They joined students
This week in sixth grade Latin, students learned about the funerary customs of ancient Romans. Students started by looking at ten different Roman tombs and reading both the Latin inscriptions on the graves as well as English translations to determine who the deceased was, what their lives might have been
All of our spring athletics teams continued to build on their work together this week as the season officially took shape. Rosters were finalized, with girls’ lacrosse and tennis being thoughtfully divided into varsity and JV teams, setting the stage for competitive and developmentally appropriate experiences across both programs. Our
There is a renewed sense of energy and excitement on campus as we officially kick off the spring athletics season. After a long winter, the recent stretch of warmer weather has melted away the snow and allowed us to get back outside on our fields, which has been a welcome
Pi Day is tomorrow, Saturday, March 14 (3/14), so our middle school mathematicians celebrated this extraordinary number all week! While 3.14 is commonly used to approximate the mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, pi is actually an irrational number—one that mathematicians and scientists
