Dance might seem a little threatening to some, but not if you are in Diane Guida’s class.

At Briarcliff Middle School’s Movement 8, which is a nine-week enrichment class for eighth graders, Ms. Guida uses fun music and simple choreography to show students that dance is for everybody.

After a two-year hiatus, the Sixth Grade Breakfast is back. Briarcliff Middle Schools sixth graders celebrated their first week at their new school with a variety of activities throughout the day on Friday.

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.

In order to make something as simple as a shirt, a pencil or even a pair of sneakers, all of the materials that make them have to travel across the globe to reach the manufacturing plant that creates them.

Sixth-graders in Julie Gallagher’s science class at Briarcliff Middle School recently had a visit from naturalist Rachel Oswald, who works for Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES Center for Environmental Education.