Kristen Bonnici will take over as Assistant Principal at Briarcliff Middle School on July 1, replacing Amy Gladstone, who will be the new Principal, the Briarcliff Manor School District Board of Education announced Thursday.

Briarcliff High School math teacher and Assistant Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coach Ellen Mager is retiring this year. We caught up with her to find out what advice she has for students and teachers, her most memorable moments, and her plans for retirement.

Some serious engineering talent is heading to Briarcliff High School next fall.

Before their Moving Up ceremony, eighth graders engineered rockets and launched them high in the sky in a friendly competition in Jodi Shearer’s science class.

Briarcliff Middle School eighth graders found a way to travel back in time.

The entire eighth grade class recently held a multi-classroom exhibit of posters and other objects featuring major historical events from the past several decades and presented them to their peers.

The transition from elementary school to middle school can be somewhat of a learning curve. Students are no longer in only one class together, but rather rotate between different classes throughout the day. They learn new subjects, such as world language, and have more music courses to choose from.

Briarcliff Middle School sixth grader Sabrina DeRose remembers what it was like to move to middle school and has decided to create a video especially for fifth graders to help ease the transition.

The school year is coming to an end and it is time to say goodbye to a most beloved principal. After serving public schools for 38 years, 17 of which were as principal at Briarcliff Middle School, Susan Howard is retiring. We caught up with her to find out all about her most memorable moments, what advice she has for students and teachers and a particularly funny incident that happened to her at the school.