Longtime English Language Arts (ELA) Teacher Tiffany Delhagen is spending this school year at MS 8 mentoring the ELA team and helping develop a cohesive curricular trajectory across students’ experiences at MS 8 in both ELA and Exploration.
What do middle schoolers think about truth? Read a poem Kennedy Gamble wrote as part of the CCM-FYI after school program at MS 8!
El Dia De Los Muertos is the day Mexicans celebrate the dead. To celebrate at MS8, 8th grade Spanish classes did both written and art projects then celebrated with a party.
Did you miss the MS8 Rock Band’s stellar performance last June at the Paddlewheeler? You can now watch the videos and read what keyboard player and vocalist Zeynep has got to share about her after school experience!
The MS 8 physical education teacher, Mateusz Gotowicki, has led the growth of after-school sports programming at MS 8 through the citywide CHAMPS league for middle school students (the name was derived from the attributes the program seeks to support in its participants: Cooperative, Healthy, Active, Motivated and Positive Students).
This week our community said its formal farewell to its second class of 8th graders at a promotion ceremony in the lower school auditorium.
8th grader Alina Bennett reports on the Urban Advantage Expo at the American Museum of Natural History.
Eighth graders visited the Arbor School, a dual language elementary school in Williamsburg last Tuesday. They read picture books in Spanish to first and second graders, including original cuento de hadas — fairy tales that our students have written and illustrated.
Young scientists from our lower and middle schools filled the middle school cafeteria in the Westinghouse Building on Wednesday evening, proudly displaying and explaining their science projects.
Throughout the course of the year every Monday, Tuesday and Friday middle schoolers of all ages have met in Mr. Klingensmith’s math classroom for peer tutoring. During lunch, students can go there to get help with homework, answer each others’ questions, or get some work done for the next day.
