CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS ADVANCED STRINGS (MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UPPER SCHOOL)
There are a variety of clubs in which Upper School students can participate. Each fall during Clubfest, new clubs are promoted and presented to high school students to encourage membership. The Diversity Club, Varsity Club, Junior State of America, Engineering, Chemistry, Math, Pre-Med, Model United Nations, and the Mock Trial and Robotics teams are just a few of the clubs that continue to be active every year.
Admission to the Middle School or Upper School Advanced Strings is open to all outstanding string players and pianists by audition, grades six through eight for Middle School and grades nine through twelve for Upper School. Students study and perform compositions from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and Modern periods. Students demonstrate creative musicianship skills, including the ability to improvise variations of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns within the traditions and standards of a variety of genres and practices. They also arrange and compose melodies and harmonies according to specific criteria and guidelines. Students are expected to maintain an active practice and performance schedule, and participate in Buckley Chamber Music and the Spring Orchestra Concert. Meetings take place outside the regular rotating Buckley schedule.
DRAMA AND DANCE Students are offered a wide range of studies in the Drama and Dance Department. There are a variety of theatre and dance classes as well as three extracurricular theatre productions a year: a fall Upper School musical (may include middle school students), an Upper School play in the spring, and a Middle School play, also in the spring. Advanced MS Dance and US dance classes culminate in the Spring Dance Festival.
HONOR COUNCIL
ADVISORY
The Buckley’s Honor Council (BHC) was created as a means to help guide the Buckley community, students, faculty, and staff through times of conflict. Conflict may arise from a violation of school policy, a hurtful interpersonal situation, a challenging personal struggle, or the creation of a microculture in which people feel they are not valued members of our community.
Our advisory program provides each student with a network of peer support and a faculty or staff advisor who can offer advocacy, compassion, and counsel in social, educational, and developmental situations. These non-evaluative “families within a family” support the personal and academic growth of each student while also fostering a culture of connectedness within the advisory group and in the school as a whole. We encourage parents/guardians to contact advisors when they have general concerns about their child’s academic progress or any social-emotional issues.
The BHC will instill, foster, promote, and incentivize integrity both academically and interpersonally. It will recommend personal and community growth-based consequences that reflect the values of the Buckley Commitment. The BHC will aim to build trust among all parties by encouraging fairness in discipline, understanding behind the reasoning of consequences, and ultimately, healing. The BHC will examine each scenario presented before them, and engage in an exploratory process of learning what the stressors are that were obstacles to integrity, from both a personal and a community level, in order to effectively suggest appropriate consequences and strategies for reintegration into the community.
Middle and Upper School advisories meet three times per week for 20 minutes. Advisories create a warm, fun, and supportive environment.
CLUBS Middle School students may have an opportunity to participate in clubs during lunch and after school. Each trimester student interest and involvement will help determine what is offered in the coming term. Possibilities include ecology club, diversity club, spelling bee, geography bee, mock trial, debate, and robotics to name a few.
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