News Archive

Upper School students of Spanish 3 Honors, Spanish 4 Honors, and AP Spanish attended the dress rehearsal of the opera, El último sueño de Frida y Diego, and stopped for lunch at the Pueblo de Los Angeles on Olvera Street.

The fall musical, Little Shop of Horrors, debuted this week, with performances yesterday and today.

Senior Daisy M. put together a thoughtful research project under the guidance of Social Science teacher Andrew McElwee, "Women in Iran: Oppression and Media Filtration," which became the topic for the second DEI Symposium of the year.

Last weekend, seniors in Mr. Barker's Honors Algorithms & Data Structures computer science class, Max W. and Zachary K., competed in Hack the Wave, San Diego's largest high school hackathon for students in grades 9-12.

Congrats to Izzy U., who won the singles event at the Liberty League tournament yesterday! 

Earlier this week, Kandice C. competed in the CIF-SS Northern Regional Qualifier at Los Robles.

On Friday, October 13, the Upper School Dance program traveled to Evolution Dance Studios in North Hollywood to participate in the annual World Dance Workshop.

Happy Birthday Dr. Buckley!

3 days of service learning; 200 soup-in-a-jar kits assembled to feed 800 people; 300 hydration kits that will provide food and water to 300 unhoused youth; and thousands of hearts touched. 

Check your mailboxes, because Buckley’s annual magazine, COMMUNITY, should be arriving soon!

Tony Cameron '73 returned to his alma mater to talk baseball with the boy's varsity team and coaching staff. Recently in town to honor his late father, film and television star Rod Cameron at the Gene Autry Museum, Tony toured the campus and learned about the latest renovation projects, which include upgrades to the Lower School and Gilley Field.

Early morning Tuesday, March 15, delegates from Buckley Model United Nations made their way to LAX to catch their 7:00 a.m. flight to New York City, culminating all of their hard work in public speaking and preparing position papers full of research about Buckley's assigned country: Norway. 

Months ago, senior biologist Manju Venkat received fourth grade teacher Sarah Levitt’s postcard for Room 8 at the Post Office Bay Galapagos. 

This year, Sports Card Club founders and co-leaders Beckham C. and Griffin F., in collaboration with Assistant Director of DEI and K-12 Service Learning Coordinator Sabine Abadou, are leading an effort to encourage their peers to volunteer for the AYSO VIP (Very Important Player) Program, which provides soccer and basketball experiences for children and adults ages 4 1/2 and up, whose physical or mental disabilities make it difficult to successfully participate on mainstream teams. 

This month, Middle School students Scarlett C., Bradley P., Charlotte F., Hongyi L., Zoe K., Kandice C., Noah R., Parker K., Jayson R., Lam L., and Julien B. represented Buckley, finishing 10th place!

What were pool floats, beach chairs, and a bunch of snacks doing in the dance room on a Friday afternoon? It was the GSA movie night! 

A VIP DEI panel visited Buckley last month for an Upper School assembly, “BEYOND KANYE AND KYRIE: Renewing The Historic Black-Jewish Alliance.”  

Addressing the need for coalition building and allyship, Tim Wise spoke to parents/guardians and Upper School students in a talk titled, "Toward a More Perfect Union: Leading with Hope in the Face of Rising Hate."

This month, psychologist and school consultant Dr. Michael Thompson joined us on campus to give presentations to parents and guardians, students in fourth through twelfth grade, and faculty and staff about friendship and college among other topics.

As always, the Middle and Upper School orchestra, band, and chorus prepared exquisite music for this year’s Winter Concert, held in Buckley's Center for Community and the Arts on January 28. To learn a little bit more about the students' endeavors, I talked with Hudson F., Aiko O., and Griffin P., asking them about their experiences in the concerts.

“I don’t like to be confined to just one material,” says artist Mike Saijo of his multi-media pieces that often include photographs, Xerox’d book pages, fabric, and other materials. “For me, art is truth in physical form.”

During the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, I attended the Southern California 52nd Gala celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., along with many of my friends in MLK Young Dreamers for Justice, a group I co-founded in the seventh grade. We pride ourselves on enacting change through bridging communities, service, and activism.