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Alumni Spotlight:
Levitt Yaffe

For many of us, COVID provided an opportunity for reflection and reassessment of our goals and our passions. For MMFS alumnus Levitt Yaffe (‘17), the pandemic brought forth an unexpected…
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P-R-I-D-E. PRIDE!

June is Pride Month, and the lower school is showing its true (rainbow) colors. The Longobardi, Emily, and Mott Rooms have been studying activism in social studies, and they are…
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Hey Now, You’re a Rock Star

This Wednesday, under the direction of music teachers Catherine Leto-Carboy and John Grimsley, second semester middle school music students strutted their stuff for Spring Music Day (first semester music students performed in…
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Presenting the Environment

If you wanted to learn about aquaponics, epigenetics, pollution in the New York area, or the future of the commercial fishing industry, you should have been in the upper school…
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The Hot Dog Day Project

The classic advice to novice writers is “Write what you know.” The Fox Room is building on this bit of wisdom by writing about one of its favorite things: Hot…
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Confident Kids

Lower School Counselor Sarah Ní Mháirtín launched a pilot program for Cohort 2 students, in collaboration with the Counseling and Cohort 2 teams, on building self-confidence. The Confidence Group is an…
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