Friday Memo :: February 7, 2025

School Announcements

Greetings from the Bromfield Science Department  

Consider being a judge at the 2025 Science Fair!  The annual Bromfield Science Fair will take place in person at The Bromfield School, 14 Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard, MA on Friday, March 7th at 3:30 pm. What could be more fun than interacting with some enthusiastic and energetic young scientists on a topic they’re passionate about?  

Prior experience is not required – training and guidance will be provided.  A background in science is helpful but not essential – more important is a love of learning and an interest in interacting with young scientists.  Judging at the science fair requires about 1½ to 2 hours.  We ask judges to arrive at 3:00 pm, so we can start with a brief training session.  Judging will finish around 5:45 pm, depending upon the number of projects that are in your panel. 

If you are interested and available to judge at this year’s science fair,  please complete this form (link:  https://forms.gle/2FWSTr1TPXXrRzS29) with your contact information as well as the subjects and grade levels you prefer to judge. We will determine judging assignments based on the number and types of projects and do our best to match your preferences. Please contact Kristen Vanderveen, the Bromfield science department leader, with any questions or changes to your availability. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

All State & Jr. District Announcements:

We are so excited to announce two music department updates below. Would these be able to be shared via newsletters/communications with Bromfield families? 

Following auditions in Shrewsbury on Saturday, Jan. 25th,

3 Bromfield HS musicians were accepted to 2025 MA All State Festival Ensembles:

Lena Pierson, Jazz Ensemble - Trombone

Justin Qian, Orchestra - Violin

Thalia Ruark, Chorus - Alto

They will attend all-day rehearsals on Friday March 28th in Worcester, and perform at Symphony Hall in Boston on Saturday March 29th.  

Following auditions on Saturday Feb. 1st in Grafton,

6 Bromfield students in grades 7-9 were accepted to the MA Jr. Central District Ensembles:

Jane Besse, Chorus - Soprano

Kimberly Chen, Band - Flute

Mateo Flambury, Chorus - Baritone

Yana Li, Chorus - Soprano

Grace McWaters, Chorus - Alto

Kyran O'leary, Chorus - Alto

They will attend 2 rehearsals in Worcester in April, and perform a culminating concert on May 3rd at Blackstone-Millville HS.

We congratulate ALL who auditioned, stepping up to the challenge of preparation and committing their time and effort to represent themselves, their families, and their school music department so very well.

The Review:

The Review is excited to announce that we've opened submissions for this year’s literary magazine!

If you have any sort of written essays, poetry, short stories, physical or digital art, or photographs that you’d like to share, then we encourage you to submit them to us! There’s no sort of criteria on what to send in-- if you like what you’ve created, then we suggest that you share it with others by submitting it to The Review Google Classroom (Classroom code 6jkbr5i) by FEBRUARY 28th 11:59 PM. All of the submissions will be printed in a physical magazine that will be available schoolwide free of charge. You can either submit material anonymously or choose to be credited. 

Please keep in mind that if your submission is art or photography, it will automatically be considered a contender for the Review's cover and the student whose art is chosen will receive a $10 Dunkin' gift card. If you would like to be excluded from the competition, however, you may indicate so in the "Private Comments" section of your Google Classroom submission.

If you have any questions, please contact Isaiah Geraldez (25igeraldez@psharvard.org), Del Howland (25dhowland@psharvard.org), or Mr. Murphy (pmurphy@psharvard.org).