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Quaker baseball held its annual alumni game with five decades of athletes in attendance! 

The Roos cared for seven ducks who hatched on Memorial Day and have been observing how quickly they have grown since! 

First grade students gathered for an end-of-year tea party celebration! 

Fifth graders applied their knowledge of Scratch to code a game of Jumping Jack Splats! 

A huge "thank you" to Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride for her inspirational remarks to the WFS Class of 2021 at commencement!

Congratulations to Christian Rosado '21, Bella Bukowski '21, and Luke Munch '21 who all signed letters of intent for collegiate athletics!

For her Girl Scout Silver Award, eighth grader Irene Kirifides created a reusable utensil holder. 

Middle school students recently met with WFS parent Dr. Taryn Fletcher, who worked as a teacher and school administrator for almost 20 years before writing a book and starting her own business to help schools incorporate more cultural diversity in their classrooms. 

Last week, WFS teachers Kelley Cox, Ellen Johnson, Courtney McKinley, and Karen Horikawa participated in a gene editing workshop given by the Christiana Care Gene Editing Institute at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. 

Earlier this spring, as part of a reading unit, third graders wrote to beloved authors. Charlie H. '30 wrote to Nick Bruel, author of the Bad Kitty series, among many others. 

For the last few months, several lower school students have participated in Project MUSIC through the University of Delaware.

Sponsored by the Upper School World Affairs Club, Sam Ritschel ’22 and Eden Cottone ’22 participated in a lunchtime debate last week on the question "Should recycling be a top "green" priority?" 

Recently, fifth graders became "Rocket Scientists."

Fifth grade students have been hard at work interviewing volunteer immigrants and turning those interviews into narrative writing pieces. 

Middle school families and friends were treated to outdoor concerts yesterday! 

The students couldn't travel to the farm this year, so the teachers brought the farm to them! 

Location, location, location!

Tony Cheng, Frank Murphy, Devin Wallace, and Collier Zug represented the WFS robotics team 7584, “The Bad News Bots,” at the DE FIRST TECH CHALLENGE State Championship on Saturday, May 9. The competition pits robots built and programmed by the students in performing a variety of tasks in two and half minutes matches. They had a dozen matches against teams from across the state and had a lot of fun learning and competing in this challenging event!

WFS 4th graders plan and design their own products, market them to consumers, earn wages, obtain a business license, and rent classroom space to sell their products on Market Day. Learn about what this teaches them and see all of the cool products they came up with!

Congratulations to our 2021 IB Diploma Candidates on their Extended Essays -- independent research projects on a subject of a student's choice. Click here to read them.