The 23-24 school year was only the second year under the updated Upper School service program, rehauled by Sarah Kelly, the Upper School Service Coordinator. Writers for The Falcon reflect on the most...

On Thursday, March 7, the 2024 Sights on Site art show opened at the Arch Street Meeting House. The show featured art from students in all three divisions (Lower, Middle, and Upper School) and focused...

Near Washington Square, just a few blocks from several CVS pharmacies, multiple ACME supermarkets, and a host of other stores, lives a young man ready to run them all out of business. Every week, Jacob...

Friends Select students have an abundance of options when it comes to lunch. Students can eat their lunch anywhere in the Upper School, with the notable exception of the hallways. Once students receive...

Sarah Gorenstein “Platinum blonde hair dye. Extra strong. Oil of Violets hair tonic. For men,” a pinch of naughtiness, and a miracle… the perfect recipe for Archmere Academy’s Matilda! The company...

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...

Daniel Pessin: Drugs and Opioids (Track Leader) Leading a track group was a very unique experience for me. As one of the leaders of the Drugs and Opioids track group, I had the opportunity to make...

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,...

Sarah Gorenstien: This article was chosen for Publication on the Philadelphia Inquirer WordPress Site. The cast and crew at Cardinal O’Hara High School will certainly be making the “nice list”...

During the 2022-23 school year, Upper School history teacher Dave Marshall sent out a survey to his 11th grade classes. He asked them to share their smartphone habits, especially their usage of TikTok,...

  Friend Select’s Annual Visual Art Fall Exhibition was unveiled on November 9th in the front hall gallery of the Parkway Building. The show includes paintings, drawings, metalwork, and digital...

An oddly glimmering, almost metallic-looking circular blob dripping in chunky, light brown sauce sat on my plate the first Thanksgiving I was a vegetarian. Needless to say, I did not eat or even taste...

Over the summer, Friends Select renovated its bathrooms, removing all gendered restrooms, excluding locker rooms. Now all bathrooms in the school are gender neutral. According to a survey sent out by The...

Zac Greenbaum ‘27 is the only freshman on the Varsity Soccer Team. At the end of pre-season, Zac was placed on Junior Varsity Soccer. Due to improvements, as well as injuries within the Varsity team...

Niamh Williams I love cool weather. Above 40 degrees and below 70 is the perfect range. The first step outside of the house, when the temperature has finally dropped, is a moment of pure joy. I love the...

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...

For the Fall 2022 Season, Friends Select Girls’ Cross Country only had two athletes - not even enough to qualify as a Friends League team. This year, the team has four times as many runners. What happened? Clare...

Friends Select is hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Friday, March 17th!  For the first time since 2020, Friends Select will be partnering with the American Red Cross to host a blood drive in...

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...

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...

CENTER CITY, PHILADELPHIA - After school on Friday, December 2nd, many Friends Select Upper School students started their journey to Wawa to acquire snacks before the Varsity Girls Basketball Game. When...

On Thursday, November 10, Lily Brin ‘23 and Marshall Searles ‘23 went head to head in a “Worm” competition in the senior hallway. The dance-off was a promotional event for the Robotics Club (@FSSGeorgeFoxbotics...

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...

This afternoon marks the first in-person musical at Friends Select since the spring of 2019, so make sure to come out to see The Little Mermaid Jr. The show tells the story of Disney’s The Little...

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...

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,...

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...

On Monday, January 31st, the New York Times announced its purchase of Wordle, the online word game that has exploded in popularity since its creation in October 2021.   Wordle, created by Josh Wardle,...

Due to recent spikes of COVID-19, specifically the omicron variant, many events in the Friends Select community have been delayed. The events and new dates for some of these events are as follows: Soph...

Lady Bird, a 2017 coming-of-age movie, is about Lady Bird MacPherson, a head-strong, stubborn, self-absorbed teenager attending a Catholic high school in the early 2000’s. She struggles with finding...

From December 8th to the 10th, the 10th grade traveled to Echo Hill in Worton, Maryland. Several students volunteered to share their reflections on the trip with the greater community. Nandi Just...

On Wednesday, December 1st’s service block, the 10th-grade class made 17 no-sew blankets for people experiencing homelessness. Yesterday, December 15th, several 10th-grade students delivered the blankets...

From Journalism to English 9 to Peace and Social Justice, the Friends Select English and History Departments teach, analyze, and share many memorable, well-written, and well-loved books. Teachers show...

Friends Select will host a vaccination clinic exclusively for students ages 5 to 11 on November 22nd. CVS Pharmacy staff will be on campus administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which was...

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...

Created by Nino Uzelac, Poop Map is a free-to-download app on the App Store and Google Play Store. It allows users to interact both privately and publicly with others around the world, and it connects...

Monica Higgins, Friends Select’s new Chemistry Teacher, brings an interesting perspective on what it means to love, apply, and understand science, which she strives to share with her students in Chemistry,...

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...

Peter - Whole Milk The ideal type of milk varies depending on the consumer’s criteria, but judging by conventional factors such as taste, health benefits, and versatility, whole milk is the best...