Duennebier and Coughlin visited every Pre and Lower School classroom to convey the lessons. Trust Time is now built into the calendar at the Pre and Lower Schools; the sessions see bi-weekly classroom visits from teams of staff from The Brunswick Trust, from Health & Wellness and the school counseling office, and from Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.
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Trust Time: Youngest Bruins Explore ‘Community’
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RE AND Lower School Trust Time featured lessons designed to get ’Wick’s youngest thinking about community — and especially how that sense of belonging is not created by accident or miracle. Using The Kids Book About Community by Shane Feldman, Brunswick Trust Coordinator Kate Duennebier and her colleague Brian Coughlin created “Making Connections,” with one lesson aimed at identifying what community is and the second aimed at “building” it. The lessons proved to be a great opportunity to resurface the character words that adorn the staircases at the Lower School and also to reinvigorate the character “pillars’’ that convey the message of The Brunswick Trust to Pre Schoolers. Students worked on projects designed to show how character itself serves as a pillar for community, creating the foundation on
CUM LAUDE SOCIETY INDUCTS SIX SENIORS Seniors Michael Del Toro, Tomas Jasson, P.K. Karnik, Kai Le, Alden Reals, and Teddy Sandler were each inducted into the Cum Laude Society — joining fellow seniors William Ewald, Ryan Kulsakdinun, Ben Sheppard, Hunter Spiess, and Vilas Sogaard-Srikrishnan, who were named earlier.
which community rests. “In the long run, how does the character we bring to school each day contribute to the strength of our community?” Duennebier asked.
Upper School ‘Heroes’ Deliver Powerful Message
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NTI-BULLYING WAS the theme of a Middle School assembly that saw seniors in the Upper School Connections program speak to younger boys about leadership, what brotherhood means, and how to be a force for good. Key to the Upper Schoolers’ message was the concept of being an “Upstander” — a person who
UPPER SCHOOL ‘HEROES’ Seniors visited with Middle Schoolers to spread valuable messages of friendship and being an “Upstander” in the Brunswick community and beyond.
intervenes and pushes back against bullying. “How to be a force for good is to be an ‘Upstander,’” said Leslie Andersen, coordinator of Connections. “It was so powerful. There was rapt attention. The Upper School boys are like heroes to them.” Upper Schoolers used the assembly to speak about their own Brunswick experiences, offer advice about coming high school years, and urge kindness above all else. “Leadership isn’t easy,” Tomas Delgado ’23 told the boys. “People look at everything you do and depend on you to show them how to act. It takes courage to do the right thing.” Aside from Delgado, seniors who spoke at the assembly included Trip Williams, Miles Barakett, Jackson Fels, Luke Michalik, Jesse Schutzman, and Holden Fraser.
ONE YEAR, ONE ’WICK!
SENIOR MOTHER/ SON BREAKFAST Seniors and their mothers gathered for a celebratory breakfast as they began to anticipate graduation in the spring.
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