Classics Day 2010
The Pioneer Valley Classical Association held its annual Classics Day at Mount Holyoke College on January 21, and Berkshire Country Day School was one of eight schools in attendance.  Eugenie Fawcett, head of BCD’s Latin Department, accompanied the school’s fifty-one Latin students in grades seven, eight, and nine.  An annual tradition, all the [...]

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Last week, the BCD student body came together to plan and execute bake sales and coin drives that raised almost $3000, which is three times the original goal for the week!  The funds will be split between two groups: Doctors Without Borders and Partners in Health.  For three days last week, students in the Middle and [...]

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The Student Council is hosting a dance on Friday, January 29 for 7th, 8th, and 9th graders.  They are asking for a $5 minimum contribution, with all the money to be donated to Haiti.

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This past November, BCD Teacher Kate Meyer attended a “Mind, Brain, Education” conference in Cambridge, MA co-hosted by Harvard and MIT. Over 1,000 people from all over the world attended the three day conference, including teachers, psychologists, and neuro-scientists. MyBCD sat down with Kate to find out what’s on her mind and how this information [...]

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Seventh grade students and their parent volunteers gathered in Furey Hall today to prepare the stage for the “The Giver,” scheduled for Friday and Saturday, February 5 and 6. The Giver, a play by Eric Cobble based on the book by Lois Lowry, will be performed by 11 seventh grade students and directed by BCD parent [...]

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Over 30 students, parents, grandparents and friends gathered in Fitzpatrick Hall today to sew receiving blankets for the Haiti relief efforts. Under the organization of Tina Petricca and other upper school parents, the gym was transformed into a work station where everyone got involved in fabric cutting, sewing, ironing, folding, and bundling. Thank you to everyone who [...]

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BCD’s library became a bookstore for the first week of December, and the BCD community enjoyed finding great books to read and to give as gifts. From November 30 through the morning of December 4, more than 450 books were sold, raising over  $1,500 for our library! The money raised will go to purchase books [...]

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Thanks to the many parents and faculty who participated in the PA’s “Berkshire Grown” fundraiser earlier in the year, sales totaled $5,200, of which approximately half, about $2,300, went to the PA!  Appreciation and thanks go to Sarah Robotham, who organized the project, and to Denise Roszkowski.

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This past spring, Jeff Uhas, BCD’s Librarian and 4th grade Humanities and homeroom teacher, submitted a proposal for professional development funds to examine and develop an updated curriculum for BCD’s Library. He then spent the summer connecting with other schools across the country to look at their curriculum and getting feedback from our own teachers [...]

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