LS Choir Places First in Delaware Music Educator Association's Youth Composers Contest
The WFS fifth grade choir recently won first place in the Delaware Music Educator Association's Youth Composers Contest for the piece they composed, "Live Your Life."
Facilitated by teachers Katie Martinenza and Emily Fareed, this was a class project where all aspects were determined by students working with the teachers.
That process was described as: "This year our school is celebrating the Quaker Testimony of Simplicity and that message was the focus for the piece. The ensemble brainstormed ideas for the song. In response to the discussion, Teacher Katie and Teacher Emily shared the Mary Oliver poem, “Mornings at Blackwater” to anchor the theme. The excerpt, “come to the pond…” was selected for the chorus. After coming to a sense of the group regarding the form, students were given an opportunity to share individual lyric ideas for each verse. The final lyrics were decided on through a democratic process. Different harmonic progressions were then explored and the ensemble selected the chords, d minor, F major, C major, and B flat major. Students then improvised melodies over the recorded harmonic structure. The teachers combined student lyric ideas and melodic ideas together and presented the product to the whole ensemble. Changes were made based on students’ suggestions for altering the key, mood, tempo, and expression."
The choir performed the piece at Grandparents and Special Friends Day to an amazed audience!
Congratulations to the students and their teachers!
Upper school environmental science students built model carbon capture algae farms as part of their study of climate change mitigation. They developed ways to measure algae growth using microscopes and a spectrophotometer.
Congratulations to our community members who performed at last night's Informal Concert! This concert is designed to showcase the talent of our students, parents, and faculty in an informal, yet serious, chamber concert or recital format.
Wilmington Friends School hosted its second 275th Anniversary Webinar series on Monday, April 8, titled “Leadership, Teamwork, and Quaker Values from the World of Sports."
Congratulations to eighth graders Maya Dobson, Lindsey Forman, Cooper Miller, Victor Montejo, Levi Sawdon, and Sofia Velastegui-Fratticci who contributed to IMAZINE 2023, the annual Delaware Libraries teen literary and artistic magazine! Click here to check it out.
Congratulations to the cast and crew of the upper school play, Radium Girls! This fast-paced ensemble piece featured 14 student actors playing multiple roles to create more than 30 characters. Bravo!
WFS welcomed Drew Smith, the Executive Director of Friends Council on Education, to campus to lead a discussion among our community members titled “275 Years of Quaker Education: What's it all about? Quakerism 101 for Parents.”
Each year, 3rd grade students utilize computer-aided design software (CAD) to replicate a renowned landmark from the various states that they are studying in Social Studies
Join us for a special birthday celebration commemorating the past 275 years of Wilmington Friends School and looking forward to all that's ahead. 6 p.m. on Friday, May 17 in the Lower School. Tours will be given, live music, & party favors! Heavy hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine. $25 per person or $40 per couple.
Preschoolers visited the middle/upper school garden to learn more about what is grown there and had the chance to transplant their own basil plants to take home!
Pablo Charriez '24 recently presented about redlining and discriminatory housing practices to 10th grade English classes who are studying the topic while reading Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
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