Are you interested in helping student-athletes learn life lessons through athletics while also competing for championships? If so, Wilmington Friends School might just be the place for you. Competing in the Delaware Independent Schools Conference, we offer 14 sports for our middle school students and 15 sports for our high school students. We believe that athletics and competition offer distinctive educational opportunities, which is why our middle school students are required to participate in three sports during their 7th and 8th grade years while high school students must participate in one.
At Wilmington Friends, we recognize that student-athletes have different strengths and skills that bring value to their specific teams. We also expect our student-athletes to be big on the field, yet modest in how they present themselves off of it. Lastly, it is imperative that our coaches emphasize the core Quaker values of Stewardship, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, and Simplicity (SPICES) each day to our student-athletes for these values extend beyond athletics and will help them as they grow into young adults.
If you are interested in joining this athletic community, please send your resume and a letter of interest to Athletic Director Jeff Ransom at: jransom@wilmingtonfriends.org
Michael Anello, Executive Director of the Haiti Reforestation Partnership, visited upper school Peace and middle school social studies classes to speak about the organization's work and how reforestation has led to incredible environmental and community development in Haiti.
The H&S Used Book Sale is coming on February 24 and 25! We sell used books (adult, children, textbooks and everything in between), puzzles, music (CDs and vinyl), movies, games, and video games.
Thank you to everyone who attended last week's Home and School Parents for Multiculturalism Potluck, celebrating family traditions and cultural dishes from Nigeria, Turkey, Brazil, Kenya, China, Jamaica, and Argentina!
Congratulations to Ethan Halaby '27, Adelaide Nourie '23, Piper Roskovensky '26, and Jemima Smith '24 who were accepted into the 2023 Delaware All-State Choirs!
Kindergarten students celebrated El Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) by wearing their "coronas" and leaving their shoes outside of the Spanish classroom in anticipation and hopes that the Three Kings would swing by WFS and leave treats!
WFS history teachers Don Morton '94 and John Hanson recently attended the NAIS People of Color Conference and presented "Teaching Race, Gender, and other 'Tough Material' - Strategies for Presenting Uncomfortable Aspects of American History."
This fall, sixth grade students worked on building their own blogs around an interest or expertise they have, ranging from specific crafts, sports, culinary niches, etc.
WFS second graders recently visited Hagley Museum where they saw what they are studying in their inventions unit come to life in a new exhibit called Nation of Inventors.
Temilola Lufadeju '25, Maddie Miller '24, and Isaiah Turman '24 traveled to San Antonio last week to attend the Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) sponsored by the National Association of Independent Schools.
Girls on the Run is an international non-profit that WFS partners with for girls in third through fifth grade that helps build confidence, kindness, and decision-making skills.
Members of the middle school Youth in Government Club recently traveled to Dover to participate in the Youth in Government Junior Model Legislature with students from across the state.