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Want a Fun-Filled Saturday Activity While Supporting The Junior Class? Come to the Spring Fair!

Want a Fun-Filled Saturday Activity While Supporting The Junior Class? Come to the Spring Fair!

Sam Goldwert April 26, 2024

What’s fun, productive, and perfect for FSS students and families of all ages and interests? The Spring Fair!  The annual Spring Fair is an exciting day of fun for students, families, and those considering...

Going Once, Going Twice…Sold! The Importance of the FSS Auction

Going Once, Going Twice…Sold! The Importance of the FSS Auction

Sam Goldwert April 24, 2024

Every year, many families show up to Friends Select’s auction to support the school, and possibly with hopes of winning a unique experience within the city or a coveted treat. But what exactly is the...

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Sharing is Caring: Breaking Bread

Alice Zhang March 6, 2024

This Friday, March 8th, marks the third year of Friends Select’s Breaking Bread lunch, a food-sharing event where students can bring in their traditional family foods to share with people from other...

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Highlighting New 24-25 Humanities, Visual Arts Courses

Daphne Klose, Jawad Ahmad, and Anna Masino March 6, 2024

Friends Select provides an abundance of electives for students to explore more specific topics and themes, and the humanities and visual arts departments are no exception. “I love teaching electives...

Oren Pipano ’25 Wins 2023 Congressional App Challenge Award

Oren Pipano ’25 Wins 2023 Congressional App Challenge Award

Daphne Klose March 4, 2024

With the start of the COVID pandemic, junior Oren Pipano was unable to leave his house and play soccer, and he found others who shared similar problems. He recounts, “I learned that less than a quarter...

From Prototype to Podium: The Making of an Award-Winning Robot

From Prototype to Podium: The Making of an Award-Winning Robot

Alden Karp February 28, 2024

Earlier this February, the FSS Robotics Team won the Judge’s Choice Award in the Eastern Pennsylvania Robotics Qualifier (EPRQ), hosted by First Tech Challenge (FTC), for their notable community...

The Year of the Dragon: Friends Select’s Lunar New Year Celebration

The Year of the Dragon: Friends Select’s Lunar New Year Celebration

Janis Ng February 7, 2024

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone! In marking the arrival of the 2024 Lunar New Year, Friends Select's Asian Student Union and Chinese Culture Club are engaged in the preparation for its 15th annual school...

Visualized: Student Survey on SJW

Visualized: Student Survey on SJW

Patrick Ryan and Carl Heyne February 5, 2024

The 2024 Social Justice Week began on Monday, the 23rd of January, and lasted until Friday the 26th. Afterward, The Falcon took a survey of student reactions and received 114 responses. Below are the results...

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Community-Wide Holiday Sing Returns

Patrick Ryan December 12, 2023

Friends Select’s annual Holiday Sing is taking place this Friday at the Race Street Meeting House. The sing-along will be held at 2 pm, and all students are invited to participate. In recent years,...

Silvia Hortelano-Pelaez, New Upper School Spanish Teacher

Silvia Hortelano-Pelaez: Speaking Spanish, Shooting Hoops

Daphne Klose and Ozzie Spiker December 4, 2023

Silvia Hortelano-Pelaez, the newest US Spanish Teacher, was born in Gijón, Spain, where most of her family grew up and still lives. “My city is very pretty, so I go back once or twice a year. I love...

Norman Bayard, Dean of Students

Purposeful Transformation and Leadership Development: A Sneak Peek into Norman’s New Class

Bryce Dodd November 21, 2023

This year, Norman Bayard, Upper School Dean of Students, is teaching his first Friends Select course: Purposeful Transformation and Leadership Development.  In the class, Norman leads his students through...

Students Weigh in on School Wi-Fi

Students Weigh in on School Wi-Fi

Noah Markovich November 21, 2023

Students at Friends Select have seen big steps forward in the effectiveness of the school's wifi with improvements to the range and bandwidth. Of the 67 respondents from a survey given to the upper school,...