by Hannah Finn Wiltshire, Elementary Division Director As many of you know, social studies units in the elementary school typically begin with a study of geography. In our youngest classes,…
Last month a group of MMFS teachers, administrators, families, and trustees traveled down South for our second community Civil Rights trip. The following participants offered their perspectives on this unforgettable…
by Scott Nagel, Elementary Division Technology Coordinator People gathered in a group, telling one another stories is as old as humankind itself. This age-old love of storytelling has met the…
by Jamie Hernandez, Elementary Division Head Art Teacher When the theme for this year’s mini-unit was announced as Silent Meeting, I thought it would be too abstract to integrate into…
October is the month when we create the elementary school faculty and classroom charters. Charters are part of the RULER Approach, a social-emotional curriculum developed by Yale University. A charter…
Every May, the oldest elementary school classes go on community building overnight trips to Fairview Lake Environmental Education Center. Students ages nine to eleven and their teachers spend two nights…
Thanks to our generous supporters, MMFS’s 30th Anniversary Gala was a great success. Over three hundred attendees gathered at City Winery to celebrate thirty years of revealing brilliance in every…
By Franziska Laskaris, Elementary School Assistant Director It is incredible to imagine how quickly the year has flown by with less than two months left of school! Despite the quickly…
By Stacy Miller and Rebecca Barnett, Elementary Division Science Teachers Over the past few weeks, MMFS elementary and upper school science students came together to share their research on the…
Every year, Mary McDowell Friends School commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday with all-school activities. This year, on Thursday, January 22nd, middle school students (who received permission) and upper school…
