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Alex Stan Mellow ’01
Alex Stan Mellow ’01 joined the Quaker Matters Podcast.
“I think you have to have a knowledge of the Quaker testimonies and the importance of those with being a global citizen because they are important for everyone to know. I think we all as humans strive to follow those types of testimonies, but I think understanding how they play a role in education is really important.”
Alex Stan Mellow ’01 (second from left), pictured with her sisters and mother, recently joined the Quaker Matters Podcast. In this episode, Alex discusses how she implements the Quaker SPICES into the WFS curriculum as a 2nd Grade Lead Teacher, the importance of giving students a voice in their learning, and what sharing the WFS experience with her mother, sisters, and children has been like.
Link to listen: https://lnkd.in/e3HTzXZu
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Alex Stan Mellow ’01 (second from left), pictured with her sisters and mother, recently joined the Quaker Matters Podcast. In this episode, Alex discusses how she implements the Quaker SPICES into the WFS curriculum as a 2nd Grade Lead Teacher, the importance of giving students a voice in their learning, and what sharing the WFS experience with her mother, sisters, and children has been like.
Link to listen: https://lnkd.in/e3HTzXZu
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First Day of School 2024-2025!
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Welcome Back!
It was a beautiful day to welcome our students and families back to campus for our lower school open house, middle school and upper school orientations, and the senior ice cream social.Read More -
Early Years Teachers
As we welcome our faculty and staff back to campus, early year teachers created bouquets after discussing what they plan to bring to their classrooms this year to make them grow and flourish.Read More -
IB Diploma Extended Essays
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma is often considered the highest standard for college preparatory education. This year, 40 members from the Class of 2024 were IB diploma candidates.Read More -
WFS Students Explore School Year Abroad
Read MoreLilly Zawadzkas ’25 (far left) connected with Rose Mulveny ’26 (middle) and Abbie Thurlow ’26 to discuss her School Year Abroad (SYA) experience in Rennes, France last year and give them some tips as they prepare for their own SYA travel. -
Football Team Hosts Special Olympics Athletes
The WFS football team recently hosted athletes from Special Olympics Delaware! WFS student-athletes and Special Olympians participated in drills together and enjoyed water ice together.Read More -
Tracey Quillen Carney ’80 Publishes "Books for Blue"
“Most of all, we want our Reading Tour to be about kids, about our responsibility to them, including our responsibility to nurture their promise, to see each of them for who they are, and to listen and talk with, not just to and about them.”Read More -
Application 101
As part of our comprehensive College Guidance program, we welcomed the Class of 2025 back to campus for Application 101. Students worked on completing the Common App, refining their personal essays, and scheduling their 1-on-1 college counseling meetings for September. Afterward, seniors gathered for a pizza lunch. It was great to see them excited and engaged about the college process!Read More -
Tripp Young ’25 Receives a 2024 Union League of Philadelphia Good Citizenship Award
Tripp Young ’25 was presented with a 2024 Union League of Philadelphia Good Citizenship Award in March. Starting in 1946, the Good Citizenship Award recognizes high school students who demonstrate good citizenship and encourages them to stay actively engaged in their communities. This annual program recognizes and awards nearly 300 high school juniors from the Greater Philadelphia region.Read More -
Best Buddies Leadership Conference
Ellie Driscoll ’25 and Jillian Farley ’25 traveled to Indiana University in Bloomington to attend the Best Buddies Leadership Conference 2024. They spent three days learning how to become better leaders, how to spread awareness and kindness, and how to promote inclusion through sessions, classes, and guest speakers. They also met students from all over the country and world to share ideas.Read More -
WFS Students Participate in the Congressional Delegation Youth Conference
Temi Lufadeju '25, Elizabeth Pisano '25, Tripp Young '25, and Avery Martinenza '25 participated in the Congressional Delegation Youth Conference at Delaware State University, where they met with Senator Chris Coons, Senator Tom Carper, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester. They learned about their roles as the next generation in government and engaged in conversation about ongoing issues such as pollution, climate change, and women's rights. During the afternoon, they broke into small groups and met with experts in fields ranging from World Peace to social justice in Wilmington.Read More -
The WFS Entrepreneurship Club
Inspired by their mothers’ entrepreneurial spirits, Anya Agarwal ’25 and Layla Baynes ’25 founded the Entrepreneurship Club at WFS during the 2023-24 school year.Read More -
UPenn Social Innovators Program
Wilmington Friends School has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Impact Strategy and Schoolyard Ventures, an organization that develops university-level, real-world learning opportunities for high school students, to offer the Social Innovators Program to upper schoolers.Read More -
WFS Faculty and Staff Visit Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative
WFS faculty and staff members traveled to Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, on Juneteenth to attend the unveiling of Freedom Memorial Sculpture Park. This new park uses art to honor and remember the ten million Black Americans who were enslaved in America.Read More -
WFS Students Visit Acadia National Park
In late June, 11 WFS upper school students traveled to Acadia National Park in Maine with teachers Kelley Cox and Sara Woodward for a QUEST service learning trip in partnership with Earthwatch.Read More -
Annual Electric Convention
Recently, 4th graders held their annual electric convention, an opportunity to showcase their electric projects to lower school students and faculty.Read More -
Upper School Students Travel to Panama
Earlier this month, teachers Courtney Miller, Lara Munch, and Rodri Saldana led 17 WFS upper school students on a trip to Panama as part of Vámonos Tours. Students spent time visiting with the indigenous people of the Emberá-Wounaan community, engaging in service work on the San Blas Islands, assisting older adults at Hogar Bolivar, exploring the Panama Canal, learning how to salsa dance, and touring the Sergio Perez Delgado Bilingual School.Read More -
WFS packages 27,500 Meals in Honor of 275th Anniversary
We did it! Volunteers from the WFS community assembled 27,500 shelf-stable meals in just over two hours.Read More -
Welcome to our new Head of Upper School, J.R. Neiswender!
Read MoreJ.R. comes to us from The New School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he has served as Head of Upper School since 2020. Over his four years there, J.R. developed an interim term program consisting of 2-week experiential “mini” courses; created a seminar program for students with weekly sessions on topics such as wellness, study skills, and college counseling; and worked on setting up K-12 community group structures to facilitate better cross-divisional communication and understanding.
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