The whirlwind of move-in days are done! See an album of photos from school's opening.
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Planning for Special Academic Schedules
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Learning Center New Student Program
The Learning Center is looking forward to starting our New Student Program (NSP) next week! NSP classes include all new third- and fourth-form students and are designed to help students develop skills and strategies that will help them succeed at Brooks. If you have any questions, please contact the Director of the Learning Center Karina Moltz.
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New Deans' Den Blog: Self in Community
Dean Susanna Waters visited a sixth-form Self in Community class working to journey-map their summers. Check out what she learned about the students' leadership exercise in her blog.
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Students Leaving Campus and REACH
Please review the procedures for leaving campus using our REACH system. Parents do not need REACH, rather, you will receive an email to approve or not approve your child's leave request. Please note that the request will come from the email address: no-reply@reach.cloud. Please add this address to your contacts so that the emails don't go into your spam folder.
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Interested in Carpooling? Last Call!
Day student families: If you are interested in opting into a carpooling list to be shared among other interested day student families, please sign up on the Day Student Carpooling form. While the school will help facilitate the distribution of names and towns of interested carpoolers, families will be responsible for all communication and coordination of potential carpools. This list will be distributed to families the week of Sept. 11.
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Community Weekend Dates
Mark your calendars! This year community weekends will be on Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Dec. 9, March 30, May 18, and May 26. These weekends are when we hold large events on campus and students are not permitted to take overnights. Any special requests for overnights on these dates must go through the Student Affairs Team.
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Weekend Bulletin and Sunday Activities
We have a fun weekend ahead of us for all of our students! Every week we will share the Weekend Bulletin, which outlines the variety of weekend activities. For Saturday evening, please use the Athletics Entrance (the middle one) for all travel to/from campus beginning at 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.
In addition, your student will be receiving information from the school’s Head Prefect Joel Mireles ’24 about Sunday’s schedule of events. Day-student families: For your planning purposes, Sunday’s activities will begin at 1 p.m. and end by 3 p.m.
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After Hours Communication
In hopes to streamline communication over weekends and after hours we hope our families can begin using our Administrator on Duty line. If you have any travel questions or need to get in touch with a dean after hours, please call or text the AOD (978-269-4989). You can also email: AOD@brooksschool.org. Using this form of communication will help us make sure we know any changes to a student’s coming/going from campus. This is particularly helpful on the weekends.
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Save the Date: All-School Speaker Oct. 2
Brooks is excited to welcome Allie Soper to campus on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. This is a community event where student attendance is expected. Soper will be sharing her brother’s story with our community. You can find out more about our programming here.
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Test Deadlines
The registration deadline for the Oct. 7 SAT at Brooks is tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 8. Students and/or their families can register at CollegeBoard.org and the Test Center Code for Brooks is 22584. This test date is primarily for students in the class of 2024.
The registration deadline for the Nov. 4 SAT at Brooks is Oct. 5. Both fifth- and sixth-form students can take the SAT on this date.
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Photo of girls soccer preseason practice courtesy of Cat Casey '25. |
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Afternoon Activities Kicked Off
OnBrooks team placements and activities will be updated in the coming week to reflect final placement of students. Check out the fall game schedules on the Brooks website. We encourage you to subscribe to the team calendar, as games will not appear in your student’s onBrooks schedule. (Click on the alarm bell icon in the upper right corner of your team’s schedule view). For non-athletic activity calendars, they can be found in OnBrooks under the Community group.
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The Arts Exploratory orientation put teamwork to the test! See a video from the fun.
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Learn More About Music Offerings
Students are invited to come meet the amazing community of musicians at Brooks! Tomorrow, Sept. 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. there will be a fire pit outside the Center for the Arts (facing Main Street) featuring snacks and drinks. Members of the Brooks music faculty and student leaders from Brooks music ensembles will be on hand to answer any questions students might have about getting involved in our many music programs here at Brooks. So if your student is…
- enrolled in a music ensemble class (chamber orchestra, chorus, rock band, advanced rock band, jazz band, advanced jazz band)
- looking to take private music lessons
- hoping to audition for an all-district or all-state ensemble
- someone who writes or produces their own music
- interested in joining our a cappella group or gospel choir
- hoping to perform at open mic nights throughout the year
- looking to learn a new instrument you’ve never tried before
…then encourage them to come hang and meet/join the family!
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Tell Us About Your Family
In an effort to keep our school records up to date, please take a few minutes to fill out our Brooks School Family Update 2023-2024 form. New families, please fill out the entire form and returning families, we ask that you share any edits or changes. This information is for internal school use only and is utilized to help make connections within our community. We request that you fill out this update by Sept. 15. If you have any questions, please contact Director of the Brooks Fund and Family Engagement Mary Merrill.
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Family Weekend
Family Weekend will take place October 19 to 21, starting with a welcome reception for our third- and fourth-form families (classes of 2026 and 2027) on Thursday evening. More details to come, but we did want to share lodging information for those of you traveling. In addition, last year a few of our families had a challenging time finding car rentals, so if you need to rent a car, we suggest booking it early.
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Thank you to all the parents and guardians who stopped in to our family reception on Monday!
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