After-School Activities Cancelled Due to Severe Weather

May 8, 2024

With strong storms in the forecast this afternoon, MICDS is canceling all after-school activities today, May 8. This includes all extracurricular activities and athletic practices and games, both at home and away. The Middle School ASAP program and Lower School Extended Day program are also canceled. Please make arrangements to pick up your children at our usual dismissal time today (3 p.m. for Lower School, 3:15 p.m. for Middle and Upper School). Campus will be closed at 4:00 p.m. Please note: the Band Concert scheduled for this evening will be rescheduled for tomorrow night, Thursday, May 9, with the 6th/7th Grade Band Concert beginning at 6 p.m. and the 8th Grade/Upper School Bands performing at 7:30 p.m. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Bernard Berry.

Best Buddies Hold Annual Pajama Jam Party

The Best Buddies Upper School community service group hosted a Pajama Jam party this past weekend for MICDS Best Buddies participants and their peer friends with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Students came in their pajamas and enjoyed snacks, decorated valentines and pillowcases, sang karaoke, watched the movie Coco and danced the night away in Brauer Hall. Best Buddy pairs keep in touch with each other regularly either via text, phone or one-on-one outings, and this event is a great opportunity to get the whole group together.

Director of Global Learning & Upper School Community Service Erin Hamill serves as a faculty sponsor for the club. She said, “Our Best Buddies kids do such a good job organizing and running this event, and our kids and their buddies all know each other so well and have a lot of fun together.”

Best Buddies International forms buddy pairs between individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those without. For more information on Best Buddies, please see: https://www.bestbuddies.org/