Gigi Sovinski '23 When people get into college, they start slowing down. What they forget is that rescinding applications is real and actually happens. A part of senioritis is depression and anxiety....

Do you think you could fall in love with someone, sight unseen? Or better yet, get engaged after ten days? Or, get this: be married after one month? All of these questions are tested on the reality television...

The city of Philadelphia has a history of gentrification, poor city maintenance, and dreary-looking neighborhoods due to bad upkeep. Along with this, Philadelphia carries a bad legacy of gun violence....

Lily Brin '23: Even though the winter holidays are rapidly approaching, the weather is cold and unpredictable, there is no snow, shorter days, and still not a ton of decorations. I frequently find...

For the past two years, Friends Select has been unable to host their classic winter holiday sing. In the past, the sing has consisted of the entire FSS student body and faculty coming together, with parents...

This is Annalise Di Cicco’s fourteenth year at Friends Select. With every year they have left a new mark of leadership, kindness, and joy on the FSS community. When at FSS, you can frequently find them...

Last week, Friends Select's theater program put on Mamma Mia. At the third and final performance on Saturday, more than 15 cappies reviews came to the performance to crique. An explanation of The Cappies...

Friends Select Upper School administrators shockingly limited students this fall by only allowing them to sign up for four clubs. This new rule is instated as they aim to improve the mental health of...

Dear Friends Select Community, Welcome back to a new school year and another year of The Falcon.  The Falcon is focused on publishing accurate and unbiased news, opinionated articles on various...

Dear readers of The Falcon, Another year in the books! With strong contributions both from members of the senior journalism elective and from The Falcon Tuesday lunch club, we produced over 130 articles...

Margot Scheider ‘22 is essentially a public influencer of the Friends Select’s Upper School. As the Student Government President, Editor-in-Chief of The Falcon, 3 season captain and MVP, 12 season...

Last year, I wrote a glowing review of The Wilds debut season, which came out in December 2020. Unfortunately, as I sit to write the new seasons review, I am not quite as enthusiastic as before. The show...

Margot Schneider '22 reached and surpassed her 100th hit yesterday against the Academy of the New Church. Despite losing her sophomore season due to Covid-19, she joins the only 5 other former FSS softball...

The Friends Select Upper School is currently putting on the musical “The Little Mermaid” under the direction of Devon Sinclair. Sinclair grew up in Upper Darby, PA and later graduated from Penn State...

Game Pigeon, a mobile, collaborative game for iOS devices released in 2016, consists of 23 games that are shared between 2 or more players on different devices. Writers for The Falcon share their favorites. Lily...

On January 22nd, 2022 the season 1 finale aired for the Showtime series Yellowjackets. Yellowjackets chronicles a high school girls soccer team as they survive a plane crash on their way to a national...

Lily Brin '23: This year’s schedule has received a lot of justified flak. With so many unpredictable four-day weeks there are always full-day schedules missed. Since classes already meet so scarcely,...

For the 2022-23 school year, there are 20 new or updated options for upper school students to choose from.  They are as follows: History Department: Gender Studies - Semester 1: What is...

Lily Brin '23: I am glad that the service block is currently being used as an extended office hours. I’m sure it is helpful for students who have had to quarantine or are otherwise needing to meet with...

Friends Select’s turf roof is finally graduating. After about 17-18 years of the same turf, the school decided it is time for a remodel. The roof has served the FSS community greatly; it has been the...

Ten students from Friends Select’s new Red Cross Club packaged over 300 meals inside of care packages for the Share Food Program on January 22nd. The Share Food Program’s mission “leads the fight...

Lucy Rupertus ‘23 has played basketball for as long as she can remember. Whether it be through school teams or summer leagues, she always finds ways to be able to play. Even in 8th grade, when her school...

Recently, the FDA and CDC approved booster shots for everyone ages 12 and up. The third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is to be given 5 months after the first two doses for people under 18 and 6 months...

Social Justice Week has been postponed until the spring. According to Upper School Director Chris Singler, increased cases due to the omicron variant surge raised concerns about running programming and...

This past week, the Friends Select administration sent out 2 letters to FSS families: one from Head of School Michael Gary to the entire FSS community and another from Director of Upper School Chris Singler...

On Wednesday, November 24th, Philadelphia hit a bleak landmark of 500 homicides committed in 2021 so far, the largest number since 1990. As of December 1st, there are now 512 homicides. Since 2020 there...

In 2020, when COVID-19 broke out, Friends Select’s athletic programs shut down, first temporarily and then indefinitely. Beyond the many other pandemic-associated stresses, student-athletes experienced...

Harry Styles by Lily Brin Imagine you have been a hardcore One Direction fan for as long as you can remember. The last time you heard new music from your favorite member, Harry Styles, was November...

Many members of The Falcon agree that candles are integral parts of their day, their mood, and establishing certain vibes to match the activities of day or the season as a whole. They share their favorite...

Students all have their own studying and homework methods that work for them. One big factor is background noise. Members of The Falcon share their takes on whether or not they use music as a background...

Generation Alpha is the age group that follows Gen Z (born 1997-2009), the generation that I believe had the last screen formative childhood years. So what makes Gen Alpha’s childhood different from...

Friends Select students buy from Wawa on a daily basis. Casual trips to and from this beloved convenience store throughout the day are no uncommon thing. Some students have a standard go-to order while...

As recent security concerns have arisen in the past few weeks, many students and faculty have questioned how strong Friends Select’s security methods are. Most of the student body previously did not...

History wasn’t always in the cards for Dave Marshall. In fact, as a high school underclassman history was his least favorite subject. He tried to drop it and double up in the sciences but was steered...

Fall has officially started. With chilly winds, falling leaves, dropping temperatures, and more, The Falcon team presents you with their favorite aspects of this incoming season. Margot: I am...

Dear Friends Select Community, Welcome back to a new school year, and to another year of content from The Falcon.  We are committed to bringing you factual and accurate news, on a school-wide,...

Throughout the course of the year, Film Club worked on many creative projects, such as stop-motion animation, slo-mo videos, remaking popular movie scenes, and more. To culminate our year together we...

The 2021 softball season was a highly anticipated one, after a year off due to the pandemic. Only 5 out of the 18 players had ever played in a varsity game before, and it was unclear if Friends Select...

When Ian Lockey started teaching Latin at FSS nearly nine years ago, he taught classics the way he was taught -- promoting the texts and culture from ancient Greece and Rome. While the art, literature,...

Ranked, Friends Select’s 2021 spring Upper School musical, will premier in May with a small viewing party in the theatre. It is currently being filmed and edited and will be projected on the screen....

This past weekend, 5 members of the Class of 2023 -- Lily Brin, Sofia Solari-Parravicini, Gigi Sovinski, Henry Planet, and Lucia Yeager-Johnson -- attended Harvard Model Congress. Harvard Model Congress...

At the beginning of quarantine, I was binging a lot of good TV -- drama, comedy, horror, you name it. With this busy school year, though, I haven’t had much time to sit down and get into a new show...

From Lower School to Upper School, girls at Friends Select have been told by teachers and parents/guardians that girls and boys behave differently because males reach puberty later and females mature...

Cancel culture has swept the digital age of Gen Z. It seems as though every time I log onto Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or other social media platforms, a new celebrity or content creator is getting “canceled.”...

Roughly three weeks into hybrid learning, Upper School students at Friends Select are adjusting to a new rhythm. With about 20% of high schoolers completely online and 80% in hybrid learning, school dynamics...

While the first and only vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence (featuring “the fly”) left us considerably less furious than the presidential debate on September 29, there were...