How do you make learning fun? By creating a project; and what can be more fun than to create a project using glue and scissors – especially since cutting with scissors was not part of the curriculum last year?

Students in Laura Cascioli’s fourth grade class learned how to create complex sentences by cutting and gluing pieces of papers to build their sentences.

Being an engineer is a lot harder than it looks. You have to be an inventor, a craftsman, a mathematician, a designer and an artist, among other things. At Briarcliff High School, students in grades 9-12 in Christopher Lo’s Principles of Engineering class have proven that they are each a jack-of-all-trades by their work on a recent project. 

In Briarcliff High School, the administration is always raising the bar and looking for new ways to challenge students.

This year the school is offering a new class: AP Capstone. AP Capstone is a two-year program that allows students to study at a college level and receive college credit. In the program students investigate topics from multiple perspectives, analyze and communicate information and evidence-based arguments and research independently, as well as with a team, to develop a written report and to create a presentation.

Cannolis, maple taffy, guinea pigs…what do these things all have in common? They are foods eaten in Italy, Canada and Ecuador, respectively. Seventh graders in Nancy Kress’s Culture Enrichment class learned all about foods and other cultural aspects during family heritage presentations.

Briarcliff librarian Teka McCabe is giving students the tools they need to become intelligent consumers of media.

Balancing school with outside activities. Performing CPR. Avoiding plagiarism. Preparing for college and career.

Those were some of the big topics covered during part two of Freshmen Orientation at Briarcliff High School this week. While juniors and some sophomores were taking the PSAT exams, the freshmen class were getting a crash course in how to succeed in high school.