After School Programs, Clubs, Groups and Activities

An After School program is available for all BNS students at a reasonable cost.  It runs from the end of the school day until 5:45 p.m. A range of workshops is offered from basketball to jewelry-making.  After School programs or activities can include dance, hip-hop, chess, soccer, photography, math, reading, yoga and open sports.

Spanish language and Latino culture are important parts of the school-wide curriculum.  All children attend Spanish classes.

Brooklyn New School is pleased to have a partnership with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, which provides creative dramatics and movement to all classes.  Music is taught to all students.

The Brooklyn New School is part of the Resolving Conflicts Creatively Program.  Students learn and practice conflict resolution in peace education lessons.  Older students serve as peer mediators.  Student teachers come to train at BNS from many education programs, including Bank Street, Brooklyn College, LIU and NYU.

Brooklyn New School maintains a state of the art computer lab.  Each classroom has an extensive library, and classroom computers are distributed throughout the school.