Jennifer C. Galambos, Ed.D
Middle School Director
Dear Families,
The Bryn Mawr Middle School program offers girls a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow in a challenging and supportive environment. We celebrate the fact that each girl will change and develop significantly over the course of her sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade years and that the pace of growth will be different for each of our students. We know that girls face many challenges and opportunities during their middle school years and that this is a time of very active learning – about themselves, each other, and the world around them. We want to help ensure that our girls have the right tools, knowledge, and guidance to have a healthy and safe experience.
Our program and pedagogy have been thoughtfully designed to support and stretch our students at this critical stage of their academic, physical, and social development. Our teachers relate well to girls navigating this dynamic time in their lives, and they offer a safe haven for students to explore broadly yet also feel comfortable and secure. Subjects as varied as ancient civilizations and earth science, Shakespeare and logarithms, are made engaging and relevant as students roll up their sleeves and delve into the rich intellectual traditions and universal questions our courses entail.
We offer a developmentally appropriate program geared to the unique realities of adolescent girls in all domains - cognitive, emotional, social, and physical. We provide many outlets beyond the classroom for students to develop new interests and to stretch themselves in the arts, athletics, clubs, and other activities. Each grade in the Middle School takes several class trips during the school year to augment our students' learning on campus. Our advisory program offers on-going guidance in navigating changing friendships, making healthy choices, and cultivating self-awareness and independence. The middle school years are transformative ones, and at Bryn Mawr we are fully committed to making them rewarding, happy, and productive as well.
Jennifer C. Galambos, Ed.D
Middle School Director