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K2 Launches Cooking Series

Posted on 05/2008/18 Conservatory Lab

For the finale of their semester-long expedition about being healthy, the K2 class is making a cooking show and cookbook to show everyone how they can eat more healthily! We’ve posted a preview of the cooking show on our youtube

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Middle Schoolers Start to Make Movies

Posted on 05/2008/18 Conservatory Lab

Continuing their exploration of the environmental impacts on Savin Hill Cove, Ms. Schibuk’s 7th grade class has begun the process of making documentaries this week! The students, working in groups of 4, will make documentaries about Savin Hill Cove’s ecosystem,

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Dudamel Orchestra Makes a Splash at Pro Arte Concert

Posted on 05/1308/18 Conservatory Lab

Last Saturday, the Dudamel Orchestra did their annual performance with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. The event was written up in the Boston Music Intelligencer, which described our students’ performance aptly: “[The Dudamel Orchestra] integrated with Pro Arte under Director

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Outdoor DuPre Concert Brings Everyone Together Under the Sun

Posted on 05/1308/18 Conservatory Lab

As the weather gets nicer, our students and Resident Artists find more and more reasons to gather and play music outside. Last Friday, the DuPre orchestra invited their families and fellow students to the park for a full concert! They

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Conservatory Lab Brings the Beat at ArtWeek

Posted on 05/0608/18 Conservatory Lab

Middle School musicians and The Beat Bus united for “The Ultimate Jam Session” on The Greenway at Dewey Square on May 4th from 12 to 2pm as part of ArtWeek Boston. During this interactive performance, audience members had the opportunity to play

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7th Grade Returns to the Cove

Posted on 04/2908/18 Conservatory Lab

Written by Ms. Schibuk This Thursday the 7th grade returned to Savin Hill Cove for the third time as a part of their ongoing Marine Science expedition.  After becoming familiar with the environment, we have started to dig deeper into water

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Middle Schoolers Featured in Boston Globe

Posted on 04/2908/18 Conservatory Lab

On Tuesday, our 7th and 8th graders made headlines in the Boston Globe for standing up and speaking out for a Frederick Douglass memorial in Roxbury. It all began with letters students wrote to the Boston Arts Commission and the

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Spring Fling! 2016

Posted on 04/1508/18 Conservatory Lab

Last Saturday, we sold out John Hancock Hall with the strength of our community! Families, friends, and students came from all over Boston to celebrate our school. In the weeks leading up to Spring Fling, we promised it would be

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Fuentes Brothers Present Duet at ARTWorks for Kids Reception

Posted on 04/1508/18 Conservatory Lab

Last Friday night, Jose Fuentes, 9th grader at Boston Arts Academy and graduate of our school, along with his brother Junior Fuentes, 7th grader represented Conservatory Lab by performing a duet of “the Swan” by Saint Saens at Ambassador Swanee

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7th and 8th Graders Make Their Voices Heard at Boston Art Commission

Posted on 04/1508/18 Conservatory Lab

by Arianna Rodriguez, 8th-grader We 7th and 8th graders have done something more than just speaking about having our voices heard. We are ACTUALLY speaking out and voicing our opinions to make a difference and change in the communities that

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Kenny School Collaborations

Posted on 04/1508/18 Conservatory Lab

Over the past 20 months, Conservatory Lab has collaborated with the Kenny School in Dorchester, along with other Boston public schools, to share best practices in early literacy and interdisciplinary curriculum. On Wednesday, Kenny School first graders held a celebration of

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Conservatory Lab Visits Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta

Posted on 04/0808/18 Conservatory Lab

Last Saturday, Dudamel Orchestra musicians and their parents were invited to a rehearsal of the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta on at Symphony Hall. After the rehearsal, our students met the Japanese student musicians and exchange small gifts. This was an excellent opportunity for Conservatory

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7th Graders Visit Boston Globe

Posted on 04/08 Conservatory Lab

On April 5, our 7th graders took a tour of the Boston Globe, and had an opportunity to talk with Astead Herndon, the Globe reporter who wrote the article on the Frederick Douglass monument that sparked their recent student letters. The students got

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Everything You Need to Know About Spring Fling! 2016

Posted on 04/01 Conservatory Lab

The concert will be at John Hancock Hall in the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA from 1 pm to 3:30 pm. 1. Tickets Tickets will be sold to adults and children older than 12 for $15

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4th Grade Celebrates Months of Hard Work!

Posted on 04/01 Conservatory Lab

Last Friday, the 4th Grade celebrated their study of the American Revolution! For months, students have been studying the American Revolution, and their learning culminated in some seriously creative work! They made maps and models of what things were like

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A Beautiful Day at Savin Hill Cove

Posted on 04/01 Conservatory Lab

On Thursday, 7th graders and their teachers put on their rain boots and trekked out to their research site of Savin Hill Cove to discover all they could about this nearby rich, natural habitat. After a 20 minute walk through

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dudamel A and B Strings Practice Together for the First Time

Posted on 03/25 Conservatory Lab

This Wednesday, for the first time ever since the schedule change, the string players of Dudamel A and Dudamel B came together to practice for Spring Fling! It was an extremely successful practice session, as each group was well-prepared. Click

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Leaders of Today: Middle School Students Make a Difference

Posted on 03/25 Conservatory Lab

On Tuesday, Dumas Lafontant of the Friends of Frederick Douglass visited with 7th and 8th graders to deliver exciting news and an inspiring message. Due to student letters advocating for a statute of Frederick Douglass in Roxbury, the Boston Art

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An In-Depth Study, Investigating Justice and Guided By Statistics

Posted on 03/25 Conservatory Lab

Ms. Schibuk’s 7th grade math class is currently studying statistics and probability. To give real-world meaning to their learning, and to connect to the themes of race and justice that students have been learning about with Ms. Patilla, Ms. Schibuk

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Student Council Heads Into Action!

Posted on 03/18 Conservatory Lab

The CLCS Middle School Student Council had their first meeting today! Elections were held last week, and 6 students were elected from the sixth and seventh grades. The group is comprised of Omar Sanchez (6A), Bianca Charlemagne-Watkins (6A), Rainy Toribio-Rosario

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K-2 Gets Movin’!

Posted on 03/18 Conservatory Lab

On Wednesday, K-2 visited the Beacon Hill Athletic Club with Ms. Chamberlin as part of their expedition on exercise. She gave them a tour of all the exercise stations and led a fitness class that the students got to participate

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Musicians Celebrate Their Engineering Achievements

Posted on 03/18 Conservatory Lab

Last week in Ms. Schibuk’s class, 7th and 8th grade students designed, built, and programmed visual metronomes that would blink an LED light at a specific frequency to match the tempo of a piece of music they would then perform. 

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4th Graders Write Into the Past

Posted on 03/17 Conservatory Lab

Grade Four has been studying the American Revolution, and the concept of “heroism.” Through exploration of true and fictionalized accounts of historic events, they built an idea of what it took to sever the colonial cord to Great Britain, and

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A Letter from the Principal

Posted on 03/17 Conservatory Lab

Dear Parents, Happy Spring! I wanted to communicate some exciting updates! In order to support students, we have been focusing on calm, quiet and safe routines and transitions.  Teachers and administrators have been on posts throughout the school “catching students being

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Bus Route Driver Re-Assignment Information

Posted on 03/17 Conservatory Lab

Due to the Driver Re-bid, the driver assignments for four buses at the Dorchester campus have changed. The new bus driver assignments will begin on March 21st. Please carefully review the following information, and read the letter from the BPS Director

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Long-Awaited Lottery Day for New Students

Posted on 03/11 Conservatory Lab

On Friday, March 11, the annual lottery to fill new seats at our school  next year took place at 2120 Dorchester Ave. Six parents came to be present as the numbers were randomly selected  to assign the seats.  Margot Bush,

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Making Music with Science

Posted on 03/11 Conservatory Lab

In January, President Obama launched a $4 billion initiative to bring more computer science to schools around the country. The President’s initiative, “Computer Science for All,” hopes to widen access to the coding and programming skills that will be necessary

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7th Grade Crew Gives Rhythm to Their Poems

Posted on 03/04 Conservatory Lab

On Tuesday, 7th graders in Ms. Schibuk’s crew had the special opportunity to work with spoken word poet and motivational speaker, Akeem Lloyd. Through his poems, Mr. Lloyd shared some of the challenges he faced growing up, and how he was able

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Spirit Day: Let’s Get Bookish!

Posted on 03/03 Conservatory Lab

This Wednesday was the first Wednesday of the month, and you know what that means: it was Spirit Day! The theme this month was to dress up as your favorite character from a book or movie. Check out these totally

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Teachers from Brooke Charter School Visit Conservatory Lab

Posted on 03/03 Conservatory Lab

On Wednesday, two K-2, one 5th grade, three music teachers and the student support coordinator from Brooke, a network of k-8 Charter Schools in Boston, met with our Head of School, Diana Lam and then visited several classrooms and music rehearsals.

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A Letter from Principal Bradeen

Posted on 02/26 Conservatory Lab

Greetings! I hope everyone is enjoying the brisk and sunny days.  The school celebrated a great first week back after break and I wanted to update you on some of the highlights!At the primary school, students had opportunities to positively

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K1 Takes In the MFA

Posted on 02/26 Conservatory Lab

  The K1 classes traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts on Monday. With much enthusiasm and focus, the students discussed their observations of a variety different paintings with the MFA docents.  Students discussed materials used to create the artwork, how

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7th and 8th Graders Attend Play at BLA

Posted on 02/26 Conservatory Lab

On Wednesday afternoon, 18 7th and 8th graders along with Ms. Pretlow, Ms. Reder and Ms. Jackson attended the student written play, Why Do We Hate? at Boston Latin Academy. The play was written by BLA senior Jaccarea Garraway and was presented by the Boston

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K2 Goes Shopping

Posted on 02/26 Conservatory Lab

On Wednesday morning the two K2 classes divided into four groups to visit Whole Foods Market in Brighton and learn more about healthy eating. Each group travelled by public bus from the Lower School to Whole Foods (an adventurein itself) and

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Exciting Things Happening in El Sistema Practice

Posted on 02/12 Conservatory Lab

At this point in the semester, things are heating up in El Sistema! The Ensembles are starting to dig into preparing their repertoires for our upcoming Spring Fling and June Concert Series. It’s an extremely busy time for our students,

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