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June 23, 2023
The US Rugby Foundation announced that Bay Ridge Prep Athletics Director Mike Petri will be inducted to their Hall of Fame Class of 2023. His dedication to the sport …
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2023 Sports Awards Night Photo Gallery Four senior student-athletes were honored with the Tiger Award for Overall Excellence at the 2023 Upper School Sports Awards Night. The annual …
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Watch the game! The Bay Ridge Prep Varsity Softball Tigers are once again the undefeated ISAL Champions after a 6-3 win over Dwight on May 11 at Maimonides …
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The Bay Ridge Prep Varsity Swimming Tigers dived right into being a competitive force during their first season! Competing in the ISAL, the team finished their debut season 4th …
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Caleb Zell-Ratner ‘24 and Wyatt Powers ‘26 both had a remarkable day at the NYSAIS Indoor Track Championships, held on February 24 at the Nike Armory in Manhattan. …
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After receiving two gold medals in the ISAL Varsity Swimming Championship, Shi Jenkins ’25 has now qualified for the varsity swimming state championship hosted by the New York State …
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After a season filled with record-breaking runs, four members of the Varsity Indoor Track team have qualified to participate in the New York State Association of Independent School’s …
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View Photo Gallery A wide range of younger and older alums returned home to Bay Ridge Prep on January 7, 2023, for the inaugural Alumni Basketball Tournament. Featuring …
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The Bay Ridge Prep Varsity Swimming Tigers dived right into being a competitive force during their first two meets of the program’s debut season. Matched up against other schools …
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The Middle School Girls Volleyball team returned this year for the first time since the 2019-2020 season. With a large roster of 22 girls, the team focused on learning …
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Marathon Sunday is always a special day for New York City and Bay Ridge Prep is so happy to be part of it, celebrating the runners — including some of …
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Last year welcomed the first ever Middle School soccer team, which played a few games against local schools to get the program off the ground. This year’s Fall 2022 …
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The Cross Country Tigers had one of the most successful seasons to date this fall. The 40-person roster spanned Grades 5-12 and many of those runners participated in …
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The Fall 2022 Cross Country season saw many highlights, among them being Wyatt Powers ’26 setting a personal record for himself and breaking a school record for fastest …
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Bay Ridge Prep earned second place in the ISAL Varsity Girls Cross Country Championship on October 26 thanks to strong showings by Cecily Veto ’26, Selina Psarras ’26 and …
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The Bay Ridge Prep Girls Varsity Volleyball team just concluded their 2022 season with a 3rd place finish in the A Division of the Independent School Athletic League. They finished the …
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An influx of new Tigers, which included eight 9th Grade students and four transfer student-athletes, provided quite a spark to galvanize one of the largest soccer teams in Bay …
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Sports Awards Night Photo Gallery Three seniors were honored with the Tiger Award for Overall Excellence at the 2022 Upper School Sports Awards Night. The annual event, held this year …
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Dyslexia is a language-based learning-disability officially referred to as a “specific learning disorder in reading”. Children diagnosed with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read and can also struggle to organize written and spoken language, reading quickly enough to comprehend longer sentences and sections of text, spelling, and even memorizing number facts.
In classrooms where teachers lack training in effective reading instruction and knowledge about how students with dyslexia learn best, children can become discouraged, anxious, and unmotivated. Bay Ridge Prep’s teachers are highly trained in research-based approaches to help students overcome dyslexia and become more confident, engaged, and independent readers.
Children with reading challenges at Bay Ridge Prep receive:
We explicitly teach skills that build emotional and social intelligence which help students create healthy and constructive relationships in and outside of school.
We provide students the freedom and responsibility to pursue their interests through open ended projects, course selections and student-initiated clubs.
We emphasize innovation, creativity and practical application over acquiring rote knowledge that can be easily accessed on any digital device.
We build social responsibility through school-wide, student selected community service initiatives and projects.
We offer a full array of arts programs and dynamic electives including ceramics, graphic design, theater arts, music composition, band, chorus and studio art.
We value all athletes and celebrate team spirit and positive role-modeling in our championship athletic program.
We value all athletes and celebrate team spirit and positive role-modeling in our championship athletic program.
Students come to Bay Ridge Prep with a complex array of strengths and weaknesses, multiple intelligences, and a vast set of interests and passions. When designing schedules, we look at each student as an unique and evolving individual. There is no static track for children in our support programs.
Our dynamic scheduling includes:
It is very common for children diagnosed with ADHD to have executive functioning issues, but children without ADHD can struggle with weak executive functioning also. The simplest way to explain executive functioning difficulties is to look at how they impact a child’s day. For the most part, a child who has weak executive functions has difficulty with multitasking, taking notes while listening or reading, initiating activities, and /or moving from one step to another. Some children can also have trouble thinking flexibly. These children often overgeneralize new skills, have trouble thinking differently about new concepts, taking the perspective of others, correcting errors, and making course corrections when new information is introduced academically or socially.
Organizing time and materials can also be a challenge for children with weak executive functions. Forgetting books, losing assignments, and procrastinating when assignments require many steps or effort can also be commonplace.
Starting in the earliest grades we help students develop strategies and systems to manage time, attention, and materials that they can take with them into adulthood including:
The success of Bay Ridge Prep students starts with our passionate leadership and faculty. They are experts in their respective fields and animated by the school’s fresh approach to education. Their extensive training to support children with different learning needs both inside and outside of the classroom creates a culture where everyone belongs and everyone learns.
While it isn’t unusual to occasionally feel stress and worry at some point during their time in school, for some students typical school activities like making and keeping friends, public-speaking, managing assignments and test taking can become a source of great discomfort and anxiety.
To support students who experience higher levels of anxiety Bay Ridge Prep:
Writing is one of the most complex tasks students undertake on a daily basis in school. They need to juggle ideas, the content, genre, the perspective of the reader, the rules of grammar and spelling, and motor skills (forming letters or keyboarding). Students that have dyslexia, executive function and/or attention difficulties can find the writing process all the more burdensome.
To help students gain confidence, master skills, and maintain motivation when faced with a writing task Bay Ridge Prep provides intensive writing supports including:
Dyscalculia is a learning disability officially referred to as a “specific learning disability with impairment in mathematics”. Students diagnosed with dyscalculia have difficulty learning, understanding, and performing math tasks. Dyscalculia does not affect a child’s performance in other subjects like English or History. Some children who struggle with reading, executive functions, attention, and anxiety also have difficulty learning mathematics.
To increase student confidence and mastery in mathematics our school provides:
Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) find it particularly difficult to concentrate on tasks, to pay attention, follow directions, modulate their energy, and control impulsive behavior. Some children only exhibit inattentive behaviors that make success at school difficult, while others also struggle with hyperactivity and impulse control. ADHD presents differently as children mature.
At Bay Ridge Prep we coach children every step of the way to utilize strategies to help them regulate attention and meet their goals.
Bay Ridge Prep helps children with attention difficulties by:
