Lower/Middle School Students Welcome Grandest Friends
Benjamin lower and middle school students welcomed hundreds of grandparents and grandest friends the week of March 6. The honored guests joined their grandchildren and friends on their respective Grandest Friends’ Day where they enjoyed breakfast together in the gymnasium.
The special breakfast was hosted by the Grandest Friends’ Day committee led by BPA members Denise Caruso and Willa Cohen and a dedicated team of parent volunteers. Jill Fried, president of the BPA, welcomed campus visitors before Head of School Bob Goldberg and Division Heads Kristen Sheehan and Charles Hagy greeted the grandest friends.
Lower school students and their grandest friends took on a grade level specific STEM project. The projects included building a boat out of clay that would float and carry weight without sinking. The STEM activity was a nod to the forthcoming Maglio Family STEM Center, which will feature two floors with science labs for lower and middle school students.
Eighth graders displayed their monument projects on the quad for their grandest friends to see. The projects, through various artistic mediums, told the stories of individuals who perished during the Holocaust.
"The children were overjoyed to have their grandest friends visit their classrooms and eat breakfast with them. The faculty and staff are still talking about how much fun they had watching the generations interact while doing the STEM projects. We all will have many fond memories of these special times with these equally special friends," said Head of Lower School Kristen Sheehan
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