• Come check out the PA School Store today during pick up. Don’t forget to follow @fsschoolstore on Instagram!
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    Come check out the PA School Store today during pick up. Don’t forget to follow @fsschoolstore on Instagram!
  • During math time, students in the KCA Mango and Kiwi pods explored a Seesaw activity about patterns. They became comfortable with taking pictures and recording their voices and using these images and recordings. The activity was designed by Michelle and Judy during a Summer Collaboration grant. With Judith and Chris, students in the Mango pod also piloted using styli with their iPads. Drawing with a stylus in both a whiteboard app and Scratchjr was engaging as well as an excellent way to develop fine motor skills while practicing a good pencil grip.
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    During math time, students in the KCA Mango and Kiwi pods explored a Seesaw activity about patterns. They became comfortable with taking pictures and recording their voices and using these images and recordings. The activity was designed by Michelle and Judy during a Summer Collaboration grant. With Judith and Chris, students in the Mango pod also piloted using styli with their iPads. Drawing with a stylus in both a whiteboard app and Scratchjr was engaging as well as an excellent way to develop fine motor skills while practicing a good pencil grip.
  • Last Friday the Upper School's Latinx Culture Club and the Center for Peace, Equity and Justice co-hosted a conversation with Claudia Romo Edelman, a Friends parent and social entrepreneur, global advocate and thought leader specializing in issues affecting the Hispanic community. She is the founder of We Are All Human, a diversity, equity and inclusion firm that works across brands and corporations to promote equal representation and Hispanic unity.⠀⁣ ⁣⠀⁣ ⁣Despite being the second largest ethnic minority in the states, she stressed that "We are not heard and we are not valued," pointing to the Hispanics heightened vulnerability during the Covid-19 crisis among other areas. She offered compelling data on how the Hispanic community has influenced history, culture, politics, and economics and offered effective and meaningful ways to engage with them. Following the discussion, Middle and Upper School students had the opportunity to ask questions. @weare_allhuman
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    Last Friday the Upper School's Latinx Culture Club and the Center for Peace, Equity and Justice co-hosted a conversation with Claudia Romo Edelman, a Friends parent and social entrepreneur, global advocate and thought leader specializing in issues affecting the Hispanic community. She is the founder of We Are All Human, a diversity, equity and inclusion firm that works across brands and corporations to promote equal representation and Hispanic unity.⠀⁣ ⁣⠀⁣ ⁣Despite being the second largest ethnic minority in the states, she stressed that "We are not heard and we are not valued," pointing to the Hispanics heightened vulnerability during the Covid-19 crisis among other areas. She offered compelling data on how the Hispanic community has influenced history, culture, politics, and economics and offered effective and meaningful ways to engage with them. Following the discussion, Middle and Upper School students had the opportunity to ask questions. @weare_allhuman
  • Middle School students enjoyed the beautiful weather today during outdoor recess in the Inner Courtyard. #boseye
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    Middle School students enjoyed the beautiful weather today during outdoor recess in the Inner Courtyard. #boseye
  • Third graders in Courtney's class studied the metamorphosis and migration of monarch butterflies. Students honored the school theme “Taking Care” by looking after tiny monarch caterpillars and watching over them as they grew, became chrysalises, and matured into adult butterflies. They joined the Citizen Scientist Project at Monarch Watch by tagging and releasing the monarchs and reporting information about them to scientists at the University of Kansas. As they studied their North American migratory routes, they learned about Canada and Mexico and how our three countries must cooperate to support the monarch butterfly population. This fosters a connection to the environment and other countries as monarchs need milkweed plants, nectaring plants, and the Oyamel forests in central Mexico to survive. Human actions—including deforestation and loss of milkweed—endanger the monarch population. In the spring, students will plant milkweed to do their part in taking care of the environment and supporting monarch habitats. ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣This is also the first year all Grade 3 classes have raised monarchs. Pictured here are students in 3MH and 3CJ.
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    Third graders in Courtney's class studied the metamorphosis and migration of monarch butterflies. Students honored the school theme “Taking Care” by looking after tiny monarch caterpillars and watching over them as they grew, became chrysalises, and matured into adult butterflies. They joined the Citizen Scientist Project at Monarch Watch by tagging and releasing the monarchs and reporting information about them to scientists at the University of Kansas. As they studied their North American migratory routes, they learned about Canada and Mexico and how our three countries must cooperate to support the monarch butterfly population. This fosters a connection to the environment and other countries as monarchs need milkweed plants, nectaring plants, and the Oyamel forests in central Mexico to survive. Human actions—including deforestation and loss of milkweed—endanger the monarch population. In the spring, students will plant milkweed to do their part in taking care of the environment and supporting monarch habitats. ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣This is also the first year all Grade 3 classes have raised monarchs. Pictured here are students in 3MH and 3CJ.
  • Join us to welcome Marc Brackett, Ph.D. the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University, as our virtual PA Speaker on October 14. Please visit FWD for further details including how to purchase his book, Permission to Feel.
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    Join us to welcome Marc Brackett, Ph.D. the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center of Yale University, as our virtual PA Speaker on October 14. Please visit FWD for further details including how to purchase his book, Permission to Feel.
  • Grade 3 students took advantage of the beautiful weather on the Terrace today to discuss the life cycle of aquatic plants with Bo.
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    Grade 3 students took advantage of the beautiful weather on the Terrace today to discuss the life cycle of aquatic plants with Bo.
  • Middle School students got creative during a mask decorating activity with their advisory!
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    Middle School students got creative during a mask decorating activity with their advisory!
  • During the Upper School's Wednesday programming, Friends took over 16th Street and Rutherford Place to host each full grade for physically distanced time to socialize.
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    During the Upper School's Wednesday programming, Friends took over 16th Street and Rutherford Place to host each full grade for physically distanced time to socialize.
  • The Insight recently held their first club meeting where they brainstormed article ideas and discussed school and national news. Stay tuned for exciting initiatives including a new website dedicated to the student-run newspaper.
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    The Insight recently held their first club meeting where they brainstormed article ideas and discussed school and national news. Stay tuned for exciting initiatives including a new website dedicated to the student-run newspaper.
  • Grade 8 students took a break from the classroom to review homework assignments about Native Americans in the West and discuss a film they recently watched about the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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    Grade 8 students took a break from the classroom to review homework assignments about Native Americans in the West and discuss a film they recently watched about the Chinese Exclusion Act.
  • Each month, Friends will profile an alum or faculty member who is working to bring about a world that ought to be.⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Reda Woodcock ’98, staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, has worked as a Brooklyn-based public defender since 2007. Here, he reflects on his time at Friends.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/profiles for the full article!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⁣Do you know someone in the Friends community that is working to bring about a world that ought to be? Nominate a Friend to be featured by contacting Annah Heckman '15.
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    Each month, Friends will profile an alum or faculty member who is working to bring about a world that ought to be.⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Reda Woodcock ’98, staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, has worked as a Brooklyn-based public defender since 2007. Here, he reflects on his time at Friends.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Visit http://www.friendsseminary.org/profiles for the full article!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⁣⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⁣Do you know someone in the Friends community that is working to bring about a world that ought to be? Nominate a Friend to be featured by contacting Annah Heckman '15.