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Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States that honors the contributions of American workers to society. Happy Labor Day!

Poly students are enjoying the last days of summer break, and behind the scenes faculty and staff are getting ready to kick off the school year. See you soon!

Grade 4 families! Don't forget to download your favorite photos from the 2024 Clapping Out ceremony! Check your email for the link, which will expire at the end of the day, July 30. Cherish these captured memories forever! 📸 📸

Ariana Rodriguez '23 is headed to Paris for the Olympics! As the youngest volleyball player on the Dominican Republic national team, she proudly represents her home country in the games. Congratulations, Ariana, we are so proud of you! Read more about her incredible story here: https://miamihurricanes.com/news/2024/07/16/vb-ariana-rodriguez-living-an-olympic-dream/

Happy Fourth of July! ✨

Today marks the first day of an unforgettable Poly summer filled with fun, learning, and new friends! Happy first day of camp to all our Poly Summer Experience Day Campers! 🎉

On the last day of Pride Month, we're excited to share "Honoring Pride and Perseverance with Guest Schuyler Bailar" on our website, polyprep.org. Explore how, in the midst of graduations and end of year celebrations, each division celebrated Pride through education, action, and connection with our special guest speaker Schuyler Bailar.

Honoring Pride Month | Poly Prep Country Day School Brooklyn Read more about how Poly celebrates Pride Month with stories, action, and connection, with special guest speaker Schuyler Bailar.

As our fiscal year ends in a couple of short days on June 30, we are counting on your support. Contributions of all sizes are welcome! These gifts directly benefit our students, faculty, staff, and essential programs. If you have already made a gift, thank you!

Class of 2024 and Families! Check your emails for an exciting showcase of memories from the 167th Commencement ceremony and Pre-Prom. Both video and pictures are now available via galleries. Be sure to download the files that are special to you by August 31, 2024.

✨ Happy Juneteenth! ✨ The holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when 250,000 enslaved people were liberated in Texas, the last African American people to be freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Today, we acknowledge the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. We hope that everyone in our community who celebrates Eid al-Adha has a wonderful holiday. Eid Mubarak!

Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers, grandfathers, and father figures of our community!

Commencement fashion fits 2024 — getting ready to process.

Sound check. Commencement 2024 🎉🥳🎈

Flashback to last week when Grades 1-2 came to Dyker Heights to meet their Grade 9 penpals. Together they wrote poems, had lunch and played in the sun. ☀️ ☀️

Happy Last Day of School! We wish all our students an enriching, safe, and wonderful summer. See you in September! ☀️🎉📚

It was a beautiful morning for the Middle School Moving Up Ceremony! Congratulations to all our graduates and a heartfelt thank you to all the loved ones who joined us in celebration! 🎓🌟

Live from Clapping Out and Grade 4 Graduation Day! 🎥 All of your LS teachers and friends are cheering you on as you continue your academic journeys at Poly. Next stop: Fifth Grade at Dyker! ✨

Congratulations to Dov '24 and Michael '24 for their incredible work on "Far Down on the Heights Called Dyker: A Photographic Journey Through the History of the Poly Prep Country Day School." Their meticulously crafted, 177-page book beautifully explores many facets of Poly's history from the old building on 99 Livingston Street, to the ever-changing nature of some of Poly’s most notable spaces, and more.

June 7 marked Changemaker Day at Lower School, an extension of Protest Day, dedicated to community building and action. Students made their voices heard on important issues such as water conservation, immigration, maintaining clean communal spaces through acts of service, and more.

Thank you to all who join us for Brooklyn Pride on Saturday! Brooklyn Pride's mission is to "increase visibility, acceptance, and inclusion to ensure equality for the LBGTQIA+ Community, honoring the Spirit of the Stonewall Riots," so if you were there, you showed up for the necessary vision of this mission. We hope to see you (again) next June! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨

Congratulations to our Middle School Major Award Winners: Arhan, Brendon, Caroline, Fiona, Hudson, Lalitha, Lucas, and Sophia! We are so proud of each student for their hard work, sense of wonder and curiosity, academic excellence, and more. Thank you to everyone who came and was part of such a special moment for our students. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Upper School hosted their Pride Assembly today with guest speaker Schuyler Bailar as the keynote. A former Harvard swimmer, Bailar is an educator, author, and the first trans athlete to compete on an NCAA D1 men's team. He shared with us the story of his upbringing, his experience as a groundbreaking D1 athlete, and answered questions from student and faculty panelists and the audience, highlighting the importance of mental health and education on transgender inclusion.

It was an evening of curricular excellence and celebration of learning at LS Open School Night yesterday. Students proudly guided their loved ones through displays of their projects and classwork around the school, played music for an admiring audience of families, and spent quality time with friends as summer approaches. ✨✨

Cum Laude is the country’s oldest secondary school scholastic honor society. In 1906, Poly became the fourth school to join this prestigious national scholastic honor society, which numbers over 250 member schools.

Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2024 who were inducted into the Cum Laude Society on June 3! Click the link below or visit our website to view the full article which features the list of new members and a special video in their honor. ⭐️⭐️

https://www.polyprep.org/news/class-of-2024-cum-laude-inductees/

We hope all of our seniors, along with their friends, loved ones, and guests, had a safe and wonderful Pre-Prom and Prom to remember! 💐 💐

It's a beautiful day for more yearbook fun! Students in Grades 9 to 11 received their yearbooks today! 📚✨

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Athletics Award! Congratulations to our student-athletes for their commitment to their sport, their ability to balance academics with athletic passion, and their exemplary teamwork. See the link below or visit our website to find the full article.

https://www.polyprep.org/news/athletics-awards-2024/

The Class of 2024 Goes to College! Visit the homepage of our website (polyprep.org) or use the link below to view the full college list, as members of Poly’s Class of 2024 will head off to 75 different colleges across the country and around the world.

https://www.polyprep.org/news/poly-prep-class-of-2024-heads-to-college/

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