Sunset Yards Middle School Celebrates Ribbon Cutting
Students, families, staff, and special guests gathered at Prospect Schools’ Sunset Yards campus on Oct. 2 to mark the official opening of Sunset Yards Middle School (SYMS) with a festive ribbon-cutting ceremony. The school, which serves 75 students in 5th and 6th grades, opened in September in a new wing of 341 39th Street in…
SOY celebration and First Day Red Carpet—two Prospect Schools traditions
For the past few years, the start of the school year at Prospect Schools has become synonymous with two traditions. Teachers and staff come together in late August at the “Start of Year (SOY) Celebration,” an event for staff to build community, get excited about the year ahead, and have fun together. Then, on the…
AT BPHS, Students Link Arms to Tell Their Stories
For seniors at Brooklyn Prospect High School (BPHS), their first days back at school are focused on writing for their future. Seniors partake in a two-day writing retreat that starts with brainstorming, discussion, and peer feedback, and ends with a solid first draft of their College ‘Personal Statement.’ “With so many recent changes in the…
5 Questions with Wes Webb, Musical Theater & Film Teacher
An interesting thing happens when one observes Wes Webb’s Musical Theatre class at Clinton Hill Middle School. One’s posture improves. You find yourself at attention, chin up, and eyes focused. Of course, it’s because one hears him giving these directions to his students, ages 11 to 14. You see when they’re in his class, they’re…
At Prospect Middle Schools, Real Life Reporters Write the News
There’s no question that Artificial Intelligence and the rise of ChatGPT have been all the buzz in journalism. But news stories written by student journalists are published at our middle schools, thanks to students! Clinton Hill Middle School’s The Scoop published three issues this year, and at Windsor Terrace Middle School, The Bi-Weekly News hit email boxes…
Orby & Prospectors celebrate the Caribbean
From Caribbean islands to the streets of Europe, when Carnival celebrations come around each year, cities worldwide explode in a spectacle of color. International Elementary School (IES) got in on the action with its version—Orby’s International Adventure: The Caribbean. (Orby the owl is the school’s mascot.) For a month leading up to a student and…
