News & Events
Elly Swartz Visits Fourth Graders
Author Elly Swartz visited Brown School and inspired fourth graders to be uniquely themselves!
On Tuesday, 1/9, author Elly Swartz visited the fourth grade! An author of five books, Elly shared her journey to becoming a writer and told us about each of her books, including the challenges and mental health struggles her characters face and overcome. Students were reminded that imperfect is beautiful and that we are all many things, including awesome, kind, and brave!
We are grateful to Elly for inspiring us to be ourselves!
To learn more about Elly, check out her website: https://ellyswartz.com/.
Elly’s books are Hidden Truths, Dear Student, Finding Perfect, Give And Take, Smart Cookie, and Same Page (coming spring 2025)
Winter Cocoa and Treats for the Teachers!
We celebrated our teachers, specialists, and support staff and sent them off with some goodies before Winter Break!
Thank you to everyone who donated towards Winter Treats for the Teachers! This spread was 95% donated by parents - sweets and treats that teachers and staff could box up and take home! We also had a hot cocoa bar and warm cider and tea!
Monday, December 18th
Join the PTO and help us celebrate our teachers, specialists, and support staff as we send them off with some goodies before Winter Break! The PTO will provide everyone with cocoa, hot cider, and some treats (including gluten and nut-free!), and we hope you can help! Sign up HERE to volunteer to bring in a dozen of your favorite cookies (baked or store-bought) or delicious treats! We will provide all staff with take-home goodie boxes so that they can bring home some tasty treats over the break. Thank you for helping to make the last week before break extra delicious for our Brown School staff!
Brown Elementary PTO Ice Skating Event
Looking for something to do during break with your Brown school friends? Sponsored by the Brown PTO, this event is FREE to attend with a suggested donation of $6/person or $15/family. Entry includes skate rental.
Looking for something to do during break with your Brown school friends?
Sponsored by the Brown PTO, this event is FREE to attend with a suggested donation of $6/person or $15/family.
Entry includes skate rental. Arrive early if you need to rent skates!
No pre-registration required, just show up! Hope to see you there!
No drop-offs. Children must be supervised at all times. Helmets are required for skating children.
Cash or Venmo donations accepted at the door - @BrownSchool-PTO
Thursday, December 28 3:30-4:20pm
William Chase Arena - 35 Windsor Ave, Natick
Force & Magnetism with The Discovery Museum
Third graders learned about Force and Magnetism with the Discovery Museum!
Our third graders had a visit from the Discovery Museum! They learned about the basics of force and motion and explored ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces while working with and learning about magnetic force. They then built an original moving toy of their own design that used the force of magnetism to operate.
Thank you to the Discovery Museum for this wonderful presentation and to YOU for your continued support of the PTO, which allows us to provide these programs for our budding scientists!
Monster Bash Book Fair Recap
Thank you to everyone who came out to shop our book fair at the pancake breakfast, volunteered to help classes shop, and set up and break down the event. We hope all the students love their new books!
With total sales of $13,788, we think this might be a record for Brown School! Through Scholastic dollars earned by hosting a fair, we were able to purchase over $550 in books directly for the library and around $700 in books for teachers’ classroom libraries, as well as provide vouchers to families in need and a free book to each child who visited the fair. What a success!
If you loved the book fair, don’t despair! We are hosting a spring fair in April. Thank you, Brown School, for all your support towards our school, staff, teachers, and students!
Pancake Breakfast & Book Fair
We are grateful to our Brown School families, volunteers, and sponsors for an incredible Pancake Breakfast yesterday! The cafeteria was full of smiling faces as we gathered for a special 30+ year Brown School tradition.
Special thanks to Principal McCann for serving up pancakes and providing a story time as well! We hope you all enjoyed the breakfast and the Book Fair!
And of course a huge thank you to all of our fabulous sponsors!
Renees Kitchen
The Verve Hotel
Eli’s Natick
Lookout Farm
Station 5 Grille
Wegmans
Target
Agostinos Natick
Waddington North America / Novolex
Whole Foods
Dunkin Donuts
Roche Brothers
Winter Bazaar
It's getting to be that time of year! The Winter Bazaar will be held the first week of December!
It's getting to be that time of year! The Winter Bazaar will be held the first week of December!
Stay tuned for more details, but in the meantime, we need help with donations! Help the kiddos learn the joy of giving to others.
Please see our sign up genius for craft items and our Amazon Wishlist of items needed.
There will also be a bin in the Front Lobby for Donations starting this week.
Deadlines for donations is Tuesday, November 28th!
Questions? Email Sarah Fox at sroux18@yahoo.com
Thank you for your help!
Illstyle & Peace School-wide Performance
Thank you to Illstyle & Peace for treating our school to an interactive dance performance!
Thank you to Illstyle & Peace for treating our school to an interactive dance performance! The kids and teachers had a blast learning and sharing new dance moves!
Illstyle & Peace Productions is a Philadelphia-based dance company founded in 2000 by Brandon “Peace” Albright. The company creates work rooted in contemporary, West African, old school & new school hip-hop blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including breaking, popping, locking, tap, hip-hop and house dancing. They have toured to critical acclaim nationally and internationally and are committed to delivering positive messages to all audiences.
Food Drive 2023
We are pleased to support the Natick Service Council (NSC) with our annual food drive! NSC is a private non-profit located in town which serves Natick residents in need by offering, among other services, their “Heart Healthy”Food Pantry.
🤲 We are pleased to support the Natick Service Council (NSC) with our annual food drive! NSC is a private non-profit located in town which serves Natick residents in need by offering, among other services, their “Heart Healthy”Food Pantry.
👉This year, we will once again work together as a community to reach a school-wide goal of donating 1,000 items. To donate please send in items in your child’s backpack and they can drop them in the bins in the lobby or in their classroom.
👉Teachers will discuss the importance of giving back in their classrooms and Principal McCann will have a fun surprise for the students to celebrate Brown School meeting the food donation goal!
🙏Please donate what you can! Let’s embody the NSC logo of “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” and make this food drive a huge success!
Thank you!
Discovery Museum Visits First Grade
Exploring the wonders of science with our curious first graders!
Exploring the wonders of science with our curious first graders! 🌟🔬 We had a blast hosting a visitor from the Discovery Museum who sparked their imaginations and ignited a love for all things scientific. These little scientists are ready to change the world! 💫✨
Wicked Fun Run 2023
It was a beautiful Fall day on Sunday as we welcomed over 300 runners and an estimated 500 festival-goers to our Wicked Fun Run and Fall Festival! It was such a fun fall day for our community!
🍁🎃 It was a beautiful Fall day on Sunday as we welcomed over 300 runners and an estimated 500 festival-goers to our Wicked Fun Run and Fall Festival! It was such a fun fall day for our community! 🎃🍁
👏We couldn't have done it without all of our amazing volunteers- THANK YOU! And a very special thank you to all of our WONDERFUL sponsors- without their support we would not have been able to host this event! We'd like to give a special thank you to--
👏 Platinum Sponsor: Brait Builders Corporation
👏 Gold Sponsors: Middlesex Savings Bank, Needham Bank, MutualOne Bank, DACON Construction Company, The Allain Group, Hair Blush Salon, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, MGS Real Estate, Agostinelli, Teller & Ryan Insurance Agency
👏 Silver Sponsors: Burn Boot Camp, Roche Brothers Supermarket, Bloom & Grow Creative, Boston Body Pilates, Kona Ice of Framingham/Natick, Natick Travel Basketball, Natick Soccer Club, Natick Comets Hockey Club, Natick Little League, Whisking The Night Away
👏 Bronze Sponsors: Natick Dental Partners, Hamel Landscaping, Trader Joe's, Sherborn Family Dental P.C., Muffin House Cafe, Panera Bread, Papageorgiou Dental Associates, Lakewood Park Orthodontics, Metrowest SUBARU, Dunkin', Marathon Sports, Starbucks, Wegmans, Ben's Construction Inc.
👏 Thank you to everyone! We hope you all had a WICKED FUN TIME!
Back to School Ice Cream Social 2023
Today many parents and caregivers came together to share cold treats and play at the Brown School parking lot! Kids ate ice cream and got soaked in the rain. They met their classmates and made new friends. Parents had the opportunity to reconnect with others and meet a few new faces. Moments like these are what make up this wonderful community.
