Below find a chronology of major activities from this and recent years.

2009 - 2010 Events

• Thursday, June 17th - All-school picnic at Castle Island.
• Wednesday, June 16th - End-of-year exhibitions of student projects and presentations.
• Tuesday, June 1st - Division 3 visits the Peabody Essex Museum to study Asian art and culture.
• Tuesday, June 1st - Division 2 participates in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology SeaPerch Marine Engineering Robotics Challenge.
• Friday, May 28th - Division 1 visits Kiva Systems to see robots being designed, built, and in action.
• Tuesday, May 25th WeberDance comes to perform their modern dance Vestige.
• Monday, May 24th La Búsqueda! All-school, all-day, all-Spanish scavenger hunt in Jamaica Plain.
• Friday, May 21st - Field Day at Fallon Field! Spirit Week culminates.

• Wednesday, May 19th - Greg Mahoney, forensic artist with the Boston Police Department, visits the Division 3 Human Biology class.

• Tuesday, May 18 - Spanish 3 students on location in Roslindale filming their telenovela. Division 1 Heroes and Villains students go to the Copley Library for WWII research.
• Thursday, April 22nd - Sunday, May 2 - Sophomores and Juniors go to Panama! Spanish students work with Sustainable Harvest International performing community service in the rain forest.

• Friday, April 31st - Division 2 visits the Peabody Essex Museum to see Native American art.

• Friday, April 16th - Sunday, April 18th - Our model United Nations delegations go to the United Nations in New York City to represent Austria and Brunei at the world's largest ever Middle School Model UN. The visit also includes seeing the comedy show 39 Steps and a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Tuesday, April 13th - Division 3 studies animal morphology and evolution at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

• Thursday, March 25th - Wednesday, March 31th - Megara Bell teaches health and sexual education to all divisions for the week.
• Thursday, March 10th - Division 3 sees the movie Arabia at the Museum of Science and Asian art at Harvard museums.
• Thursday, March 10th - Division 2 studies Evolution at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
• Thursday, March 10th - Division 1 studies the Robotics, Mechanical Sculpture, and Harold Edgerton exhibits at the Museum at M.I.T.
• Wednesday, February 24th - Performing Arts and Activism students perform I've Trying to Tell You. And The Band Formerly Known as Something Else performs their original music compositions.
• Wednesday, January 27th - Exhibition evening. Students share their research, writing, engineering, works of art, and Spanish videos with the public.
• Tuesday, January 26th - Our all-school Poetry Out Loud! recitations raise several hundred dollars for Partners in Health to support work in Haiti.
• Thursday, January 21st - Division 3 Humanities goes to the Copley Square Library for research on their commodities papers.
• Wednesday, January 20th - Division 2 Humanities class see the play Harriet Jacobs at the Central Square Theater.
• Wednesday, January 20th - Spanish 4 spends the day doing community service at La Alianza Hispana (senior center).
• Tuesday, January 19th - The College Process guidance meeting for juniors, sophomores, and their parents.

• Tuesday, January 12th - Marine Science class goes to M.I.T. for a test run in the tow tank of their Sea Perch submersible research vessels.

• Monday, January 11th - Spanish 1.5 students visit Cooking Up Culture at Boston University.
• Thursday, January 7th - PE classes go to the Frog Pond for ice skating.
• Wednesday, January 6th - Art classes visit the Museum of Fine Arts.
• Friday, December 18th - Pajama Bathrobe Day!

• Thursday, December 3rd - Juniors and parents to BISCAA college financial aid presentation.

• Tuesday, December 1st - Performing Arts and Activism takes to the streets to carry out interviews.

• Wednesday, November 18th - Division 2 goes to see A Tale of Two Cities and Spanish 4 to Alianza Hispana for Community Service.
• Thursday, November 12th - Randy Morrison from Sustainable Harvest International speaks with the students about SHI's environmental and economic development work in Central America.
• Thursday, November 12th - All-school country-themed dinner dance. Bring your friends.
• Tuesday, November 3rd - Division 3 Human Biology goes to Biogen Idec for a lab on protein assays and gene expression in different tissues.
• Monday, October 19th - Our expanded multi-genre band begins meeting on Monday and Wednesday afternoons.
• Wednesday, October 14th - Artist Lisa Houck works with Division 1 Heroes and Villains to begin making Hellenistic pottery.
• Tuesday, October 13th - All school art trip to the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton.
• Wednesday, October 7th - Spanish 4 spends the day doing community service at La Alianza Hispana (senior center).
• Tuesday, October 6th - Division 3 Human Biology goes to Biogen Idec for a lab on DNA amplification with PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
• Friday, September 25th - Division 2 Marine Science travels to the tide pools of WIngaersheek Beach in Gloucester and The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center to learn about marine ecosystems.
• Wednesday, September 23rd - Parent-teacher potluck.
• Tuesday, Septmber 22nd - Division 1 travels to the Museum of Fine Arts' Greek collection for studies associated with their Heroes and Villains humanities class.
• Friday, September 18th - Following up on the school's summer reading of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Jess Bethony from Partners in Health speaks with the students about the organization's work in Haiti and throughout the world.
• Thursday, September 14th & 15th - Team building and ropes course at Hale Reservation, overnight, and hiking at World's End in Hingham, MA.
• Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 - Our Fifth Annual Bagel Breakfast Beginning welcomes new and returning families.

2008 - 2009 Events

• Wednesday, June 10 - Exhibition Evening including the original Division 3 theatrical production.
• Wednesday, June 3 - Division 2 presents The Laramie Project.
• Thursday, May 21 - Art classes go to the ICA for a workshop on digital art.
• Thursday, May 14 - Art classes go to the ICA for the Shepard Fairey exhibit.
• Tuesday, May 12 - Spanish 2 students spend a language immersion day at spanish-speaking businesses and community service centers including El Planeta.
• Monday, May 11 - Choral Educator Lucy Pease teaches the Division 2 class how to sing Amazing Grace as an ensemble as part of their preparation for their play.
• Saturday, May 9 - Meridian participates in (and wins a gold medal at) the statewide middle school Drama Guild drama festival with their original one-act comedy, An Anthology of Anomalies.
• Thursday, May 7 - Sunday May 10 - Media and Journalism students display their photographic essays, Ten Takes on a Theme, at the Art Market art gallery in Jamaica Plain.
• Saturday, May 2 - As part of a student-initiated community service project, students work at the Wake Up the Earth festival raising money for microloans in India.
• Wednesday, April 29 - Division 3 students do research at the JFK Library.
• Wednesday, April 8th - Playwright Misha Chowdhury visits with our Division 3 Humanities class.
• Wednesday, April 8th - Spanish 1 and 3 trip to the Hyde Square neighborhood of Jamaica Plain for creative writing experiences. PE goes swimming at Curtis Hall.
• Friday April 3 - Sunday, April 5 - Middle School Model United Nations delegation represents the Lao People's Democratic Republic at the United Nations in New York and visits the American Museum of Natural History.
• Sunday, March 29 - Girl's Futsal team plays in the championship game.
• Wednesday, March 25 - Division 3 students present Hamlet, Abridged.
• Sunday, March 22 - Girl's Futsal team wins the semi-final playoff game 12-6.
• Wednesday, March 18 - Revolutions in Math and Science students go to biology laboratories at Harvard to do experiments on worms and their response to chemical gradients.
• Wednesday, March 4 - Exhibition evening.
• Tuesday, February 10 - Collaboration between the Spanish and Art classes begins.
• Sunday, February 8 - Meridian's first athletic team, girls futsal, plays and wins its first game, 10-5! Meridian becomes, momentarily, the only school in the country to have won all of the athletic events in its history (a week later after an exciting and well-played game, we are at .500).
• Friday, February 6 - Media and Journalism practices running a focus group with kindergarten students at Neighborhood School. They also visit the exhibit Photographic Figures at the Museum of Fine Arts as part of their photojournalism studies.
• Wednesday, February 4 - Media and Journalism meets with editors and photographers at the Boston Globe.
• Thursday, January 29 - Spanish II goes to the Copley Library for research.
• Wednesday, January 28 - A belated Chinese New Years school lunch celebration.
• Thursday, January 22 - Robin Lurie-Meyerkopf of the Aspergers Association discusses diversity and developmental differences.
• Tuesday, January 20 - All school extended lunch to watch the inauguration (accompanied by student made Obama cakes and tortes).
• Thursday, January 8, 2009 - Grade 9 and 10 students participate in the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild's day of theater workshops at Bridgewater State College.
• Friday, December 19 - Pajama/Bathrobe Day (snowed out :-( Rescheduled for January 5th).
• Wednesday, December 17 - Media and Journalism students spend the morning at NPR learning about radio. They meet with the producer of Tom Ashbrook's On Point and see the Car Talk brothers in action.
• Tuesday, December 16 - The Craftacular! - Everyone gets to take arts and crafts classes taught by students and staff.
• Friday, December 12 - Kelly Cunningham of the Samaritans teaches the students about suicide prevention.
• Thursday, December 11 - Psychologist Leslie Lebowitz speaks about Post Traumatic Stress Disroder with Humanities classes that have read The Things They Carried and studied the Vietnam War.
• Monday, December 8 - All school PE skating at Frog Pond.
• Friday, December 5 - Humanities students spend the afternoon researching Vietnam War history at the Copley Square Boston Public Library.
• Tuesday, December 2 - Boston Herald sports reporter Michael Silverman speaks with our Media and Journalism class.
• Friday, November 21 - Spanish trip to ¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales , an art exhibit at the National Center for Afro-American Artists.
• Friday, November 14 - Spanish trip to Noche Columbiana music performance at Casa de la Cultura.
• Wednesday, October 29 - Halloween Masquerade Murder Mystery Dinner Dance Party for all grades.
• Wednesday, October 29 - Boston Globe letters editor Matthew Bernstein speaks with our Media and Journalism class.
• Friday, October 24 - Spanish trip to Boston University for Cooking with Culture.
• Wednesday, October 1 - Spanish students visit Hecho a Mano, an exhibit of contemporary Latin art. Science students visit the Museum of Science's physics exhibits.
• Wednesday, October 1 - Humanities students visit Salem and the House of Seven Gables in connection with their studies of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• September - November - Trips to Amory park as part of our forest research data gathering
• Thursday, September 18 & 19 - Team building and ropes course at Hale Reservation, overnight, and hiking at the Blue Hills.
• Monday, September 15 - Doing Research in Mathematics and Science class takes to the woods with Mike Gagnon from the Forest Watch program at the University of New Hampshire as they kick off their forest research.
• Thursday, September 4, 2008 - Our Fourth Annual Bagel Breakfast Beginning welcomes families to our newly refurbished classrooms.

2007 - 2008 Events

• Friday, June 13 - Visit the Institute for Contemporary Art and picnic. Have a great summer!
• Thursday, June 12 - Hot Air Ballooning and sleep-in party at Meridian.
• Wednesday, June 11 - End-of-year exhibitions.
• Tuesday, June 3 - All-school Spanish Scavenger Hunt in Hyde Square, Jamaica Plain
• Friday, May 30 - Heroes and Villains class studies the Holocaust memorial.
• Tuesday, May 27 - Spanish classes learn Latin Dancing.
• Tuesday, May 13 - Spanish classes go to Boston University for cooking classes.
• Monday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 14 - Engineering students do computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) of their designs at MIT's FabLab.
• Tuesday, May 6 and Thursday, May 15 - Genomics class works with Tufts researchers isolating and identifying bacterial DNA.
• Saturday, May 3 - Meridian students perform their original, gold medal winning, play S.U.P.E.R. in the Massachusetts Drama Guild's Middle School Festival.
• Thursday, May 1 - American Historiography students go to court for Law Day.
• Thursday, April 17 - All-school Laser Tag evening social event.
• Wednesday, April 16 - Exhibition Evening. Spanish, American Historiography, and Engineering students present their projects. The multi-genre band has its premiere!
• Wednesday, April 2 - Division Two students spend the day at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT and are introduced to the neurobiology research and techniques used by scientists there.
• Tuesday, March 25 - All-school trip to Facing History and Ourselves' exhibit Choosing to Participate at the Boston Public Library.
• Mid-Late March - All-school Book Vacation read of Dicken's David Copperfield.
• Friday, March 14 - Art classes visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) to see Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939 for new perspectives on Cubism and Futurism.
• Thursday, March 13 - Engineering students tour Kiva Systems, a robotics warehouse manufacturing plant and demonstration site.
• Friday, March 7 - All students attend the production of Julius Caesar at the American Reparatory Theater (ART).
• Friday, February 29 - Workshop on community and diversity with a student from the Food Project.
• Thursday, February 14 - Engineering students invite the public in to play their robotic miniature golf courses.
• Wednesday, January 30 - Heroes and Villains presents their original Greek-drama-inspired plays and Marine Science their biome exhibitions.
• Wednesday, January 15 - Genomics elective goes to the Museum of Science for a biotechnology lab.
• Tuesday, January 8 - Field trip to the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Workshops. Field trip to see the Mayan exhibit at the Peabody Museum.
• Wednesday, December 19 - Heroes and Villains class goes to Boston University to study Greek Cuisine.
• Tuesday, December 18 - Marine Science students take a behind-the-scenes tour at the New England Aquarium and Engineering students study robotics and the sculptures of Arthur Ganson at the MIT Museum.
• Monday, December 17 - All-school presentation of Spanish skits.
• Monday, December 17 - Pajama/Bathrobe day. Dress accordingly!
• Tuesday, November 20 - Social activities with our friends from the Waring School.
• Wednesday, November 14 - Bambi Good from Brookline Sister City project speaks with the Spanish classes about Nicaragua.
• Tuesday, November 13 - Charlotte Gordon, Professor of English at Endicott College, speaks with the American Historiography class about poet Anne Bradstreet, the first American female poet/author to have her works published.
• Monday, November 5, Health Education classes begin.
• September - November - Artist Lisa Houck works with the Heroes and Villains class as they create original Greek-style vases.
• Thursday, October 25 - Margaret Talmers teaches Greek dance to the Heroes and Villians class.
• Wednesday, October 17 - Architectural Scavenger Hunt downtown for Heroes and Villains students.
• Monday, October 15 - Cortina McCurry, Neurobiologist at MIT, shares her research with the students.
• Thursday, October 4 - American Historiography class visits Plimoth Plantation to study 17th Century American history.
• Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30 - Meridian students exhibit their art for the second year in a row at the Jamaica Plain Open Studios.
• Thursday, September 27 - Team building and ropes course at Camp West Woods and camping at Massasoit State Park.
• Monday, September 19 - Students in Heroes and Villains study Greek art and culture at the Museum of Fine Arts.
• Monday, September 19 - Marine Science students visit the The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center and Wingaersheek Beach.
• Wednesday, September 5, 2007 - Our Third Annual Bagel Breakfast Beginning welcomes families to our new home in Brookline.