Category: Lower School

MMFS: Unique Among NYC Special Education Schools

marcovescio January 9, 2025 No Comments

What makes MMFS unique among NYC special education schools? For one thing, Mary McDowell Friends School is the only Quaker school for students with learning disabilities in New York City.…

Teaching Math to Students with Learning Disabilities

marcovescio November 21, 2024 No Comments

MMFS is a laboratory for innovative teaching. Our teachers are constantly striving to implement the best research and methods to help students with language-based learning disabilities succeed. To introduce parents…

Lightning Poets at the Lower School

marcovescio May 3, 2024 No Comments

Poetry Month at the lower school culminated with an epic Lightning Poetry Contest. More than 60 students—the largest group ever!—signed up to learn and recite a poem before a panel…

X-Factor at the Lower School

marcovescio November 15, 2023 No Comments

Language Therapist Bevin Daly and Occupational Therapists Diane Lupow and Anjali Patel are combining forces to create a brand new Healthy Choices class called X-Factor, which gets students learning executive…

A New Day: MMFS Welcomes André Del Valle as new Head of School

marcovescio July 1, 2023 No Comments

Today we warmly welcome André Del Valle as our new Head of School. An educator of great experience and even greater heart, he is only the fourth Head of School…

MMFS Pride Parade!

marcovescio June 9, 2023 No Comments

On Monday, the lower school took to the streets to celebrate PRIDE Month. The students wore rainbow colors and carried Pride posters they made themselves. Faculty, staff, and students walked…

The Book Report Museum

marcovescio May 4, 2023 No Comments

The Met Gala was Monday, but on Tuesday, everyone was invited to the 5th Floor Book Report Museum at Bergen Street! For the past few months, the students of the…

Fun and Games in PE

marcovescio April 19, 2023 No Comments

We’re seeing lots of smiles in the gym, and not just because the masks are gone. There are lots of old and new favorites in PE this year. For one…

LS Author Visit: Andrea Davis Pinkney and Keith Henry Brown

marcovescio February 24, 2023 No Comments

Board member, alumni parent, and bestselling and award-winning author Andrea Davis Pinkney visited the lower school to talk about her new book—which is the current selection of the Bergen Street…

Question Everything: The Key to Scientific Learning

marcovescio November 4, 2022 No Comments

Up in the Maria Mitchell Science Room, the first half of this year is devoted to Earth Science. The Anderson Room is studying “Weather and the Atmosphere.” The Krisberg, Longobardi,…