Category Archives: Current Events
Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Recently, Friends has installed new signs replacing the “Staff Only” signs on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor bathrooms. These new s [...]
Egyptian Tomb
Are you interested in Ancient Egypt? Well, the 5th grade has created their own Egyptian Tomb. All the fifth graders got assigned to their ow [...]
Incorporating Different Descriptive Nouns
There is a world wide problem of finding the right name to call people who don’t see themselfs as either gender. Here at Friends, th [...]
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
The Refugee Crisis is an international disaster in which millions of families who are fleeing their war-torn countries to places such as Gre [...]
TriBeCa Crane Collapse
On Friday morning, February 8th, 2016, the boom of a 565 foot long crane collapsed on Worth St, inTriBeCa. Because of the early morning snow [...]
The First Awesome Flute Preformance!
Written and Photos by Natalie Wollen How would you feel performing an instrument you just learned two months ago in front of the whole scho [...]
Middle School Halloween Party
Many of the middle school students attended the school Halloween party. There was dancing, food, and games! What are you going to be Hallowe [...]
How to Print Double-Sided without a Double-Sided Printer
By Andrew D. Harsh [...]
3 Ways You Can Help Reduce Energy Waste
It requires an enormous amount of non-renewable fossil fuels to power lighting, and by using less energy we could slow the pace at which the [...]
Paper Waste (by Kyra Kwok)
Recently, the 2nd Graders in class 2M conducted an experiment to see how much paper the school wastes. They collected paper from three print [...]