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Honing MS 8's ELA and Exploration Curricula

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.

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Poetry from MS8 After-School

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!

MS 8 rock band performing on the steps of PS8 at the Paddlewheeler street carnival

Rocking Stars of MS8!

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!

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Sports Teams at MS8

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).

poster prepared by MS8 class of 2016 with handprints "Congrats Class of 2k16"

Celebrating our 8th Graders

This week our community said its formal farewell to its second class of 8th graders at a promotion ceremony in the lower school auditorium.

MS8 student reading Spanish book to a younger student

MS8 Cuento de Hadas

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.

cafeteria set up with science fair posterboards

Celebr8 Science

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.