News and Information

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

2011 - 2012 Events

  • Wednesday, December 14th - Exhibition evening. Constitutional amendments, Spanish autobiographies, robot Olympics, radio commentaries on contemporary examples of colonialism, and more. 
  • Thursday, December 15th - All-school trip to see the Urban Nutcracker.
  • Wednesday, December 21st - The 7th Annual Pajama/Bathrobe/Slipper day.
  • Thursday, December 8th - Vikings, pirates, and Hollywood stars attend our multi-themed all-school party. 
  • Tuesday, December 6th - Divisions 3 & 4 visit Zumix to continue developing their radio commentary projects.
  • Tuesday, December 6th - Division 2 conducts interviews at South Station as part of their studies of the U.S. Constitution.
  • Tuesday, December 6th - Division 1's Engineering class visits the Museum at MIT to study applications of robotics and the mechanical sculptures of Arthur Ganson. 
  • Wednesday, November 30th & Thursday, December 1st - Meridian's Theater Troupe performs Metamorphoses.
  • Tuesday, November 22 - Elena Botkin-Levy, of the youth radio program at Zumix, works with students in Divisions 3 & 4 to create radio commentaries based on their Humanities research projects.
  • Friday, October 28th - Bengali-American poet Tarfia Faizullah gives a reading for Division 3 Humanities class as part of their conversation about individual and historical healing and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.
  • Wednesday and Thursday, October 26th and 27th - Art trip for all grades to Brookline Ice and Coal to study ice sculpture techniques.
  • Tuesday, October 25th - Division 3 Humanities Research Trip.
  • Friday, October 21st - Division 1 Trip to the Museum of Fine Arts for Greek studies and the Degas exhibit.
  • Tuesday, October 11th - Division 4 Geology trip to Nahant.
  • Tuesday, October 4 - Trisha Chakrabarti, a graduate student in the Tufts School of Nutrition, involves the Division 3 Humanities Class in an interactive simulation on community food security and food justice.
  • Saturday, September 24th - Division 3 Humanities trip to the Natick Powwow.
  • Thursday, September 22nd - Parent-teacher potluck and mini-school.
  • Tuesday, Sept. 13th - Wednesday , Sept. 14th - All-school ropes course and team-building overnight at Camp Becket in the Berkshires. Climbing, group challenges, canoeing, campfires and s'mores, and more.
  • Friday, September 9th - Handbook skits! Performing arts interpretations of what to do and what not to do to support our community.
  • Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 - Our Seventh Annual Bagel Breakfast Beginning welcomes new and returning families.

2010 - 2011 Events

  • Thursday, June 16th - All-school clean-up & whale watching trip (to Stellwagen Bank).
  • Wednesday, June 15th - Exhibition evening. Divisions 2 and 3 present Shakespeare's The Tempest.
  • Friday, June 10th - Outdoor club's overnight expedition to Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire
  • Thursday, June 2nd - Meridian's first graduation - a celebration of the pioneering Class of 2011. Congratulations graduates!
  • Tuesday, May 31st - All-school trip to the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.
  • Wednesday, May 25th - Senior Exhibition - Seniors share their internship experiences and research projects.
  • Wednesday, May 25th - The Division 4/Faculty Dinner.
  • Thursday, May 19th - Spanish 2 and 3 present their videos of their activities at Alianza Hispana Senior Center.
  • Tuesday, May 17th - Division 1 goes to Providence, RI to see The Completely Fictional - Utterly True - Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe at the Trinity Repertory Company.
  • Friday, May 13th - Spanish 1.5 visits Taberna de Haro, a Spanish tapas restaurant.
  • Friday, April 8th - Sunday, April 10th - Our Model United Nations delegation represents Saudi Arabia at the UN simulation in New York City at the real United Nations.
  • Wednesday, March 30th - Exhibition evening. Students share their research, writing, art, and other academic works with the public.
  • Saturday, March 26th - Division 1 Humanities class represents Mexico, India, and Nigeria at the Middle School Model United Nations at Clark University.
  • Wednesday, March 23rd - Division 2, 3, and 4 Humanities classes see the film Tambien La Lluvia at Kendall Square.
  • Monday, March 14th - Spanish 2–5 skate at the Frog Pond.
  • Thursday, March 10th - Spanish 2 & 3 continue community service at Alianza Hispana.
  • Thursday, February 17th - Poetry Out Loud all-school poetry performances.
  • Tuesday, February 15th - Camping, hiking, and cross-country skiing overnight.
  • Thursday, February 10th and Friday, February 11th - Meridian's performing arts troupe presents Fire and Ice, an original, one-act play.
  • Thursday, January 27th and February 17th - Spanish 4 & 5 students present public screenings and a discussion of the films La Misma Luna and La Lengua de las Mariposas.
  • Monday, January 31st - Spanish 1 & 1.5 skate at the Frog Pond.
  • Thursday, January 13th - Spanish 2 & 3 continue community service at Alianza Hispana.
  • Friday, December 17th - The Sixth Annual Pajama-Bathrobe day! Bring your fuzzy slippers, too!
  • Thursday, December 16th - Spanish 2 and 3 students spend the morning engaging with Spanish-speaking senior citizens at Alianza Hispana in Roxbury.
  • Tuesday, December 14th - Outdoor club hikes at Ponkapoag Pond.
  • Thursday, December 9th - All-school visit to the new American wing of the Museum of Fine Arts.
  • Wednesday, December 8th - Exhibition evening. Students share their research, writing, art, and other academic works with the public.
  • Wednesday, December 1st - Division 1 Media and Journalism class travels to the Boston Globe to meet with editors.
  • Tuesday, November 23rd - All-school viewing of Georgia O'Keeffe documentary.
  • Wednesday, November 10th - As part of their immigration studies, Divisions 2 & 3 attend the citizenship ceremony at the JFK Museum.
  • Friday, October 22nd - Division 4 Humanities sees the documentary Inside Job at the Coolidge Corner Theatre.
  • Friday, October 15th - Sunday, October 17th - Outdoor club's hiking trip to Cardigan Mountain in New Hampshire.
  • Tuesday, September 28th - Divisions 2 and 3 visit the Lowell Mills Industrial History Center.
  • September - November - Division 1 trips to Amory park for forest research data gathering as part of our work on the University of New Hampshire ForestWatch project.
  • Monday, September 13th - Tuesday, September 14th - All-school ropes course and team-building overnight at Camp Becket in the Berkshires. Raft-building, GaGa marathons, and more.

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.