Beginning in the earliest grades, students are exposed to major needs and themes, locally and globally. From lower school classrooms with service projects that link to the curriculum (e.g. sup- porting a wildlife protection agency during a study of Asia), to middle school advisories that build long-term community partnerships, to the upper school boys lacrosse team that recently coached a group of young players from Wilmington's Hilltop Neighborhood -- WFS is, and always has been, fully committed to the ideals of service learning, and provides opportunities, time, and funding for those ideals to become actionable.

QUEST service learning programs teach students to develop a global understanding of problems and questions they encounter; gives them the skills, motivation and sense of responsibility to engage those questions in thought and in action; and teaches them, in the words of George Fox, to “let your lives preach, let your light shine, that your works may be seen...”

Additional examples of signature QUEST programs include:

These trips engage students in an experiential learning model to increase their understanding of global issues as well as strategies to mitigate the impact of these challenges.

This provides students with significant service learning opportunities that combine academic studies with experiential learning. All upper school students are eligible for participation in the QUEST Scholars program and receive recognition for their achievement during Final Assembly.