Skip to Main Content
Friends Select Student News Media

The Falcon

Friends Select Student News Media

The Falcon

Friends Select Student News Media

The Falcon

News

Kyra Ortiz: A Personal Approach to Teaching Biology

Kyra Ortiz: A Personal Approach to Teaching Biology

Daphne Klose and Ozzy Spiker October 24, 2023

Kyra Ortiz, the newest Upper School Science Teacher at Friends Select School, has immediately hit it off with her colleagues. “I might be biased, but I feel like the science department is one of the...

Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters: Changing the FSS Theater World

Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters: Changing the FSS Theater World

Niamh Williams October 17, 2023

Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters, Friends Select’s new Drama Teacher and last year’s Writer-in-Residence, views education as a collaborative process and has big plans for amplifying student voices.  Before...

Denis Widdicombe

Alum Denis Widdicombe Returns to FSS

Scott Aaronson October 16, 2023

Denis Widdicombe, Class of ‘18, has returned to Friends Select School as the Athletic Coordinator to fill in for Carl Trainer, the formal Athletic Coordinator, who is missing the beginning of the year.  Denis’s...

New Promethean Boards Bring a Needed Upgrade to Friends Select Classrooms

New Promethean Boards Bring a Needed Upgrade to Friends Select Classrooms

Noah Markovich October 16, 2023

Over the past 2 years, Friends Select phased out projectors in favor of a newer system: Promethean Boards. They are a significant upgrade compared to outdated projectors and allow teachers to enhance the...

Welcome to The Falcon!

Welcome to The Falcon!

Patrick Ryan and Niamh Williams October 9, 2023

Dear Friends Select Community, Welcome to a new school year, and with it, a new year of The Falcon. We hope to act as a valuable, exciting, and trustworthy news source for Friends Select and its community...

Friends Select's Controversial New Phone Policy

Friends Select’s Controversial New Phone Policy

Janis Ng October 9, 2023

This year, Friends Select implemented a new cell phone policy: all phones will be collected by teachers before class, according to an email sent by Chris Singler on September 1st.  Some members of...

The leaders of Latino Student Union.

A Friends Select First: Latino Student Union

Zoie Jackson-Lawrence October 9, 2023

This 2023-24 school year, student leaders Sofia Rouco and Paloma Puig, along with Middle and Upper School Spanish Teacher Maria Marquez, began Friends Select’s first-ever Latino Student Union for those...

History Teachers vs. ChatGPT: Can They Work Together?

History Teachers vs. ChatGPT: Can They Work Together?

Niamh Williams, Editor-in-Chief October 9, 2023

The FSS history department is seeking ways to educate students on how to work with Artificial Intelligence, like ChatGPT, rather than banning it completely.  Teachers may plan to implement ChatGPT...

JWST Deputy Project Manager, John Durning. Photo from NASA.

Key Leader Behind the James Webb Space Telescope Project Visits Friends Select

Alden Karp October 9, 2023

The Friends Select Science Department invited John Durning, the Deputy Project Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), to speak to students in each age cohort at Friends Select on October 6th.  On...

Tomorrow: Art for Access Concert

Tomorrow: Art for Access Concert

Uma Vincent March 2, 2023

Friends Select’s annual Art for Access concert will take place on Friday, March 3rd at 6 P.M. in the Blauvelt Theatre.  Each year since 2019, AFA has raised money for education inequality. AFA...

Photo by Sarah Kelly

The FSS Swim Team Goes to Champs

Zoe Siegel February 9, 2023

On Saturday, February 4th, the Friends Select swim team went to George School to compete in the Friends League Championship. Swimmers arrived at school bright and early to make the long trip, and the...

Poster by May Colgan '23

Annual Portfolio Exhibition

Patrick Ryan January 11, 2023

The reception for the Annual Portfolio Exhibition is today, January 11th. The reception will be held in the front hallway of the main building and Race Street Circle from 4:30 to 6:00 pm.  The...