As upper school Spanish 2 students learn to communicate about vacations and celebrations this unit, they debated which is better: summer or winter vacations?
Debating their partners or small-group members, they practiced listening and responding to their partner while they worked to continually connect their arguments with new examples. By using a stack of debate sentence-starter cards to start each sentence, the debate turned into a game. Students never knew if in their next sentence they were going to have to agree or disagree with what their opponent said before adding on their next point to support their own position. Students rose to the challenge and identified strategies to continue to grow and prepare for their midterm conversation exam section!
Last week, Chamber Singers participated in the annual Four-School Workshop and Festival Concert with choirs from Sanford, Tatnall, and Tower Hill schools.
Seventh-grade astronomy students are exploring key space-related concepts such as black holes, extraterrestrial life, and space exploration while demonstrating their understanding through research, collaboration, and multimedia presentations. Students are applying scientific reasoning, computational thinking, and math skills to analyze data, communicate findings, and expand their knowledge of the universe.
The HL IB Biology students were working on data collection for their internal assessment. Each student has formulated a research question and designed an experiment to attempt to answer the question. All the experiments are biological and include topics such as investigating plant propagation, germination, enzyme activity, fermentation, antibiotic resistance, and many others.
The WFS Upper School Student Run Production is a yearly tradition where students create, direct, produce (and often write) their own vision for the stage. This year’s production, Yellow Wallpaper, is being directed and led by two seniors. Yellow Wallpaper was adapted from the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
8th grade students have been working hard on their annual musical. On February 28, students will perform, High School Musical, for the entire school to see. Each member of the class participates—as a member of the cast, pit band, stage crew, or technical crew.
Peace posters from the WFS Class of 2037 were on display as part of the 2025 Visionary Peace Youth Art Exhibition with Pacem in Terris at the Wilmington Library!
Our third Lower School Culture Quest of the year celebrated the Lunar New Year! Lower and middle school faculty and upper and middle school students led activities aimed at teaching students about the history and culture of the Lunar New Year through reading, crafts, and food!
For several years, Michael Anello, Executive Director of the Haiti Reforestation Partnership, has visited with WFS middle schoolers to speak about the organization's work and how reforestation has led to incredible environmental and community development in Haiti. We were recently forwarded this email from Michael, which speaks to our students and the power of even the smallest acts.
Kindergarten students celebrated El Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) by wearing their "coronas" and leaving their shoes outside of their classroom in anticipation and hopes that the Three Kings would swing by WFS and leave treats! They were in luck!
Lower school students enjoyed a special Books and Breakfast this morning, where they connected with students from our middle and upper school affinity groups. Together, they explored stories about multiracial identity, engaging in discussions and reading books such as We Are A Garden, I Can Be All Three, and Take Me Out to the Yakyu, among others.
Our community had a blast at Lower School Family Night at the Quaker girls' and boys' basketball games where we also celebrated the 2024 WFS Field Hockey team!
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