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Upper School
Although BB&N's ninth graders entered last Friday's weekly X-block assembly as mere freshmen, they left as royalty. In what has become a BB&N tradition, student council co-presidents Alexandra Roloff '19 and Aurash Vatan '19 recently welcomed freshmen to the community in a "knighting" ceremony.
Nothing brings a class together like an outdoor adventure, and for the 66th year now, BB&N's Bivouac program is doing just that. Despite being outside of their comfort zone and enduring a lack of smartphones (gasp!), the resilient members of The Class of 2022 have tackled Bivouac head-on.
Four BB&N seniors have received top honors in the annual Junior Profile Contest, the final event in the cornerstone English project for all eleventh graders.
Keeping an historic tradition alive, BB&N ninth graders boarded buses this morning for the school's 66th annual Bivouac. The 12-day wilderness immersion helps the freshmen to form bonds and glean lifelong lessons from "nature's classroom" in the New Hampshire woods.
Seamus Doyle '21 knows what it's like to command attention....
This year’s Upper School spring play tackled Simon Stephen’s stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Bella has been woodworking since she was four years old, and since she was eight years old she has wanted to build a boat, so she decided to build a canoe.
Katie McKinley '18 is enjoying her final two weeks of Senior Spring Project. Her project has been a mix of ceramics, painting, Spanish dance, chorale, nutrition, a medical solving Global Online Academy course, coaching middle school crew, and rowing on Varsity Crew.
Showcasing the talents of the numerous musical groups at the Upper School, the spring concert included performances by the orchestra, chorale, Voices of the Knight, and Knightingales.
Emily Brower '18 is a lifer at BB&N who is enjoying her Senior Spring Project (SSP). So far in her project, she has appreciated gaining experience in activities that are so different than normal school.
Competing among the English-speaking world's best high school debaters, Adam Levin '18 and Aurash Vatan '19 notched spectacular results at the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships, held April 9–15 at Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town, South Africa.
A dozen talented sophomores squared off in the annual All Star Debate in the Upper School Theater on April 19th.
Max Flanagan, a senior at BB&N, is currently in his Senior Spring Project (SSP).
On Saturday, April 7, the BB&N Global Education Program hosted the Primary Source conference "Teaching Social Justice in the World Language Classroom," welcoming more than eighty educators from metro-area public and independent schools to the Upper School campus.