Hello, Middle School Students and Families! Here is a recap of today’s Middle School Meeting.
Brooklyn Nieves Farrell ’32 and Niamh Peyton ’32 ran today’s meeting.You can check out the slides from this week’s meeting here.
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 24, when we return from Spring Break!
The BVR Student
Dillon Morris ’30 and Jake Exantus ’30 presented Is Disciplined with Technology.
I think it’s important because if I don’t take care of spaces in our community, then others won’t have the same experience I did. It’s important to put materials away after you use them, for example, put caps on markers. I try to be kind to others because I would want others to treat me the same way. It makes the community stronger because no one hates each other.
Charlotte Dolan '30 and Sienna Nyeko '30
Announcements
🎥 Juniors Kiernan Collins ’27 and Cooper Walton ’27 encouraged middle school students to submit films to the BVR Film Festival. This year’s theme is spoof. Students can submit films by emailing Kiernan at collinsk27@bcdschool.org with a Google Drive or YouTube link by March 24. All films must be under five minutes long and appropriate for school: no foul language, overly gory scenes, etc.
🦫 Mr. Castillo shared highlights from the Community Belonging survey results that students took in January.
Overall, students reported that
- Their teachers have a significant positive impact on them.
- Students also reported that our lunch and recess programming and afternoon activities had a positive impact on them.
- An area of growth that students reported is the way students interact with each other.
Students can sign up to have a follow-up conversation with a faculty member of their choice to share more deeply about their experience at Beaver.
⭐️ Design Level guru Tim Barber presented a BVR Spotlight. Mr. B talked about his drawings and comic book, Shredman, which are currently on view at The Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge as part of the exhibit Free to Be: Visual Stories from Lynch Family Skatepark.
🗣️ The spring Speech and Debate team will begin after break.
Team members include:
Sawyer Gold ’32
Bradley Forrester ’32
Lael Hackshaw ’31
Landon Allen ’30
Max Bensonoff ’30
L’mar Hibbert ’30
🎵 The Winter Music Exhibit is taking place this week during music class on Thursday. The event will be filmed and shared with families.
🫙 Elizabeth Zimman ’30, 8th-grade Student Council Representative, announced the winners of this month’s candy jar: Ruby Parker-Geller ’31 and Liam Zachry ’32.
🎉 Brooklyn Nieves Farrell ’32 and Bradley Forrester ’32, 6th-grade Student Council Representatives, announced that Friday is pajama day to celebrate the start of spring break!
☀️ Friday is an early dismissal at 2:25 p.m. for Spring Break. There are no afternoon activities, and all buses depart at 2:35 p.m.
Winter Afternoon Activities Recap
Students recapped their winter afternoon activities, sharing a highlight of the season and something they learned.
🎶 Winter Musical: Acting & Tech
Cat Townsend ’31 (actor) and Jack Ledley ’31 (technician)
Highlights:
Watching and being a part of the magic that came together to create the amazing performance we put on.
Performing the final show for an audience after we had put in all the work and time to make it.
Improvement as a group:
By going from excitement in the halls to putting all of that energy onto the stage, and making everyone in the audience laugh.
By learning each other’s strengths so that we could work together effectively.
🎨 Visual Arts Workshop
Zoe Kelso ’31
We did daily sketchbook prompts, weekly special projects, and had plenty of time to work on passion projects. We also got to show our work in the school gallery and learn new ways to make art in the new printmaking studio. My favorite part was making watercolor paintings.
🏀 Girls Basketball
Marin Lubov ’30 and Danielle Anderson ’31
The highlight of our season was our team trip to see Harvard play against Yale.
As a team, we improved most on stamina.
🏀 Boys A Basketball
Daniel Orloff ’30 and Felipe Hong ’31
A highlight of the season was winning more games than last year.
As a team, we improved in leadership.
🏀 Boys B Basketball
Jed Falkson ’31
Highlights of the season were doing scrimmages, which were fun, and winning many of our games.
We improved in teamwork this season.
👟 BVR Fitness
Ari Adeli ’30
A highlight of the season was doing Coach Matt’s circuits because they are fun.
Through the season, we all get better at doing the workouts.
🤺 Fencing
Eva Bachman ’31, Sophie Herbstman ’30, Layla Gold ’30
A highlight of the season was the fencing meets (especially the ones where we won!) It was so fun to be part of the team!
We improved as a group/team throughout the season. At the beginning of the season, we lost our meets badly, but at the end, we won both of our last meets!
Happening This Week
✨ RISE: Paracord bracelets
📋 Advisory agenda: Cotton Ball Relay
➡️ Wellness Classes this week:
- 6th grade topic: Internet Safety
- 7th grade topic: Hate Speech
- 8th grade topic: Sexual Health, Consent, and Positive Relationships