Middle School is a time for learning new skills. Participating in Modified Sports allows students to dip their feet in a sport and experience what it is like to be on a team.

Briarcliff Middle School Modified Sports recently began its fall season.

Briarcliff Middle School is all about having a growth mindset. That means students embrace challenges, learn from failures and are inspired by others’ success.

To promote the growth mindset teacher across the building began the new year with special activities.

For 27 years, Namphong Nguyen, the Briarcliff Middle School custodian, has been passing by the art room, admiring students’ works in Jessica Dubin and John Brooks’ art classes.

This has inspired him to make his own creations and he began making sculptures out of driftwood, recycled metal and oyster shells.

He has gifted his sculptures to some of the school staff and was recently invited to hold a shell sculpture workshop during May’s Wellness Day at the school.

Dressed in togas and leaf crowns, Briarcliff Middle School sixth graders recently took part in the school’s first-ever Ancient Greek Olympics, complete with Trojan Horse relay races, an Apple of Discord Toss and creating their own gods and goddesses.

The Tri-State area recently experienced an earthquake.

At Briarcliff Middle School, eighth graders in science class with Jodi Shearer have been simulating earthquakes on their own to test structures that they built to see if they will topple over.

Some seeds can be carried by the wind to different countries.

Briarcliff Middle School students got ahold of seeds that have traveled as far as outer space.

The school participated in the Tomatosphere Project, in which some tomato seeds traveled to space on the SpaceX CRS-23 Dragon and spent five weeks in the International Space Station.