130TH COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES: THE CLASS OF 2017 GRADUATES!
Congratulations to the 79 members of the Class of 2017, who graduated from Berkeley Carroll at today’s Commencement Exercises. We wish you the best of luck in your lives beyond BC!

"Who you are is how you are in relation to other people," Commencement speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas said. "Your future is not yours for the taking ... your future relies on other people too."  Read more about the ceremony and see a list of college enrollments.  

Commencement photos will be posted in the coming weeks.

DR. HOLSBERG NAMED GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATOR QUARTERFINALIST
For the third year in a row, BC Arts Director Peter Holsberg has been named a quarterfinalist for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award. Dr. Holsberg is the only quarterfinalist from Brooklyn and one of only four from NYC.  (More than 2000 teachers from around the country were nominated.) 

Presented by the Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Museum, this award recognizes educators who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education and demonstrate a commitment to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. Read more on CBS This Morning.

WORLD AFFAIRS BREAKFAST CLUB SALUTES MR. SWARTHOUT
This week’s breakfast club was standing room only (and spilling out into the hallway!) as students, faculty, parents, and community members came to decide on the year’s most important story and celebrate Upper School History Chair Lorne Swarthout's last club meeting before he retires later this month.

Surprise guests included alumni and alumni parents who attended in person or via Google Hangout and Facebook Live.  Many attendees gave moving testimonials to how the club has changed and shaped the way they view the world.

Thank you to Mr. Swarthout for all the work he has put into the World Affairs Breakfast Club over the past 16 years! Upper School American Studies/English Teacher Ernestine Heldring will take over the club next year. Photos.
TOP SPANISH STUDENTS HONORED AT NYC CEREMONY 
Ali H. '22, Gray S-C. '23, Macon T. '23, Amalia M. '23 and Tristan C. '22, who all scored in the top 1% of students nationwide on the 2017 National Spanish Exam, were presented with medals, certificates and gift cards at a special ceremony held by the New York City Metro chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Congrats! See a complete list of BC's 111 medal-winners.

BC PARTNERS WITH AWARD-WINNING NON-PROFIT
Berkeley Carroll is proud to announce it is partnering with the GO Project, an award-winning non-profit, so they can expand their services to Brooklyn in October. GO Project works with academically struggling, K-8th grade public school students and equips them with the skills they need for future success. BC will donate classrooms and program space to GO on Saturdays during the school year and over five weeks during the summer.

To date, GO has successfully helped more than 5,000 at-risk kindergarten through eighth graders in under-resourced Manhattan public schools gain the academic foundation to graduate high school. We'll announce opportunities for members of the BC community to be involved in this partnership at a later date. Learn more.
ATHLETICS
Congratulations to all of our Middle and Upper School spring athletes on successful seasons in baseball, softball, track, tennis, tennis, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, flag football!. Photos.

Upper School Fall Preseason info for 2017-18 has just been posted. 

9TH GRADERS DISSECT FROGS TO LEARN ABOUT ANATOMY
Ninth graders in Ms. Marriott's Biology class dissected frogs last week — they had a great time identifying the various body systems!
6TH GRADERS DEBUT ‘HUMANS OF NEW YORK’ PROJECT
Inspired by Brandon Stanton's Humans of New York, sixth graders in Ms. Carmody's visual art classes photographed and interviewed people from every corner of the Berkeley Carroll community. They published it on their own blog, Humans of Berkeley Carroll,  and presented their work at an opening reception.

The project started with in-depth discussions about all the people who contribute to the school. Students then studied the art of interviewing, came up with questions and reached out to people throughout the community including faculty, students, staff, administrators, parents, bus drivers and construction workers. Photos.
POC SPOKEN WORD NIGHT WOWS AUDIENCE 
Students and faculty sang, recited poetry, presented performance art and more at POC's ninth annual Spoken Word Night. Poet and singer Tai Allen also made a guest appearance! All proceeds will go to the water initiative in Flint, Michigan. Photos.

MIDDLE SCHOOL VARIETY SHOW SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON  STUDENT TALENT
Students performed instrumental pieces, vocal solos and duets, as well as pieces from "Hamilton" and a recitation of "The Presidents Song," at the Middle School Variety Show. The show was organized by Middle School student reps. Photos.

UPPER SCHOOL’S ‘GIRLS 2 WOMEN’ PANEL
Upper School students heard from nine panelists at Girls 2 Women's third annual "Panel of Women with Interesting Careers" last week. The panelists, who work in fields such as journalism, genetic counseling, capital construction and more, spoke about their job responsibilities and how they got to where they are today. Photos.

BC YOUTUBE CHANNEL: HELP US GET TO 100 SUBSCRIBERS BY JUNE 15
Have you seen the Berkeley Carroll YouTube channel? It’s got lots of videos about our programs, students and alums that you can watch right now!  Please consider taking 30 seconds to subscribe to the channel.

If we can get to 100 subscribers, the channel will get extra visibility on YouTube. (We’re halfway there already.)





DON'T MISS 
June 14: Lower School Arch Day
June 15: Last Day of Upper School
June 15: Middle School Closing Ceremonies


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