Alert

Early Dismissal for Upper School Students ONLY - January 24

Due to a water main break north of campus, we are dismissing Upper School students early today. This early dismissal affects Upper School students only. If your student cannot drive themselves, please plan to pick them up immediately.

Athletics & After-School Updates - January 24

Please note the following athletics and activities updates: - Upper School Basketball games have been relocated to John Burroughs School this afternoon/evening. Times stay as scheduled. - The Upper School Wrestling tournament in the MAC will proceed as scheduled. - Upper School Squash in the MAC will proceed as scheduled. - All other Upper School sports practices and events, including Swimming, are canceled. - Lower and Middle School after-school activities will proceed as planned. Please check email and MICDS Athletics X account for more athletics updates: https://x.com/MICDSAthletics.

Lower School Embraces Cooperation

Beasley students bounced into the music studio for their weekly assembly as Lower School Music Teacher Dr. Katy Nichols tickled the ivories with a rendition of Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?, a song from the Barbie soundtrack. This week’s assembly theme was Cooperation, one of a few words students are exploring related to kindness and community. Head of Lower School Amy Scheer opened the assembly by asking students to share what they had learned in classroom time about the word cooperation. Students offered words and phrases such as working together, playing together, sharing, listening, and helping others before launching into a sing-a-long of K-I-N-D by Stephanie Leavell.

It seemed familiar to the students as they sang it enthusiastically. It is assuredly a staple in the efforts to build and maintain a community of kindness in the Lower School.

K-Okay, I’ll be your friend
I-I know you’ll be mine too
N-New things are hard sometimes
D-Don’t you worry I’ll be by your side

Kind is kind of the most important thing that we can all be
Kind is kind of a very special thing for you and for me
Just be kind.
Just be kind, kind, kind, kind, kind.

K-Kind words can go a long way
I-I hear the kind things you say
N-Nice is just the right thing to do
D-Don’t you worry, I’ll be kind to you

Kind is kind of the most important thing that we can all be
Kind is kind of a very special thing for you and for me
Just be kind.
Just be kind, kind, kind, kind, kind.

To expand on the theme of cooperation, students in our fourth-grade leadership group performed two skits demonstrating how to work together on math problems or when stacking blocks and how everyone benefits when pitching in and working towards the same goal.

The assembly closed with an episode of the Beasley Broadcast where a roaming reporter (Lower School Librarian Thomas Buffington) asked students about the meaning of cooperation and included a surprise song by Primrose D. ’36 and Molly B. ’36.

Thank you, Lower School students, for going all in on fostering a community of kindness and cooperation!