Please Join Us for a 275th Anniversary Community Service Project on April 6!
Calling all volunteers -- we need your help! The 2023-24 school year marks the 275th anniversary of Wilmington Friends School. Throughout this year, we are celebrating our history while increasing opportunities to engage with the Wilmington community. Rooted in our history and practice of Quaker humanitarian service, we have chosen to reaffirm our commitment to addressing food insecurity and hunger in Delaware during this special anniversary year.
Wilmington Friends School
275th Anniversary Community Service Project
Saturday, April 6, 2024; 8:30-11:00 am
Wilmington Friends School, 101 School Road, West Gym
Examples of activities to-date include:
Participating in the Plant A Row for The Hungry program through the Wilmington Friends School organic community garden at Bellevue State Park
The lower school Food on Fridays program, providing essential food items to those facing food insecurity and promoting a sense of community and compassion for our lower school students
Homecoming drive to benefit the Ministry of Caring, the mission of which is to serve the needs of the poor with dignity, respect and love
Middle School Pie Bake, in which students peel, slice, prepare, and box over thirty pies for Wilmington’s Sunday Breakfast Mission
The Emmanuel Dining Room Lunch Program, in which Wilmington Friends School families make lunch for 160-200 people in need on a monthly basis
April 6th Community Service Project The culminating community service project for our 275th anniversary year will engage students, parents, staff, alumni, and community members with the goal of packaging 27,500 shelf-stable meals for families throughout Delaware. To complete this ambitious project, Wilmington Friends School will partner with The Outreach Program (https://outreachprogram.org/). The Outreach Program will provide packaging supplies, packaging equipment, certified Food Safe Event Coordinators, and training for this assembly line-style event. Shelf-stable meals may include: macaroni and cheese, Spanish rice, rice and beans, cheese rice, pasta with tomato basil sauce, apple cinnamon oatmeal and/or minestrone soup.
To ensure that the 27,500 shelf-stable meals reach their intended recipients, Wilmington Friends School will partner with The Food Bank of Delaware (https://www.fbd.org/) for receipt and distribution. The Food Bank of Delaware solicits, warehouses and distributes food through a state-wide network of hunger-relief partners, including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, and other community food providers. We need your help to make this happen! Click here to register as a volunteer!
Students, faculty, and staff gathered for an all-school Meeting for Worship on Mellor Field and sat in a 275-configuration to commemorate the School's anniversary! Click here to download the photo.
The WFS boys' lacrosse team was invited to run a clinic with students at Ferris School. The Delaware Lacrosse Foundation and several members of the WFS community helped found the lacrosse team at Ferris seven years ago, and players have found the exchange very rewarding as they share their love of the game.
Seventh grade Chinese students visited Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library to learn more about its Chinese wallpaper and book collection, helping the students gain valuable insight into Chinese history and culture.
Sixth graders recently spent time off campus for a morning of service activities in the local community. These trips included volunteering at the Food Bank of Delaware, Faithful Friends Animal Rescue, Rockland Place, Guardian Angels Daycare, and Alapocas State Park.
During Earth Day at WFS, preschoolers worked on beautifying their playground and fourth graders picked up trash around the athletic facilities. We thank these students for their stewardship!
The lower school recently received soil from WasteWell, a local company that collects the lower school's compost. Students used the soil to re-pot classroom plants and will also contribute soil to the school garden!
Before the Class of 2024 heads off on their senior explorations next week, they attend a series of seminars ("Senior Seminars") aimed at giving them tools for adulthood.
The WFS Model UN Club, accompanied by faculty advisor Nick Childers, recently sent a delegation of five students to the inaugural Tower Hill Model UN Conference.
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!
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