Category: Upper School

Revealing Brilliance Celebration: Day Two

marcovescio February 23, 2016 No Comments

“MMFS reveals brilliance in our students by supporting difference and providing a safe, supportive environment in which students aren’t afraid to fail but feel confident enough to spread their…

Revealing Brilliance:
A True Story

marcovescio February 23, 2016 No Comments

REVEALING BRILLANCE: A True Story by Andrea Pinkney, Board Member and Current Parent A kid walks into Mary McDowell Friends School. His shades are drawn. His windows are shut. His…

Twelfth Annual Read-A-Thon Is Underway!

marcovescio February 18, 2016 No Comments

All month long students are reading for the Read-a-thon! This school-wide event encourages a love of literacy and raises awareness and support for worthy causes. This year the ES will…

Revealing Brilliance Celebration: Day One

marcovescio February 11, 2016 No Comments

“We all excel in different ways and have different strengths. When we do the best we can with our strengths, we’re revealing brilliance. Some of us are strong academically, in…

US Students Attend Quaker Youth Leadership Conference

marcovescio February 3, 2016 No Comments

In February seven US students attended the Quaker Youth Leadership Conference at Lincoln and Moses Brown Schools in Providence, RI. The annual three-day conference brings together students from Friends schools…

MLK Day Reflections

marcovescio January 25, 2016 No Comments

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, the MMFS community gathered together in silent meeting to reflect on the question, “How do you keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s beliefs alive…

Upper Division Electives

marcovescio January 19, 2016 No Comments

by Amy Salomon-Kohn, Director of College Guidance There are many things that students look forward to about high school, including more independence and more choice. Choice plays an integral part of…

MMFS’s Second Annual Poetry Contest

marcovescio January 7, 2016 No Comments

Two years ago we challenged our middle and upper school students to memorize the Gettysburg Address as part of the national “Learn the Address” project to commemorate the 150th anniversary…

Upper Division
Student Clubs

marcovescio December 7, 2015 No Comments

by Samantha Bretton-Granatoor, Upper Division Social Worker Every day during lunch something is happening at the upper school! If you walk the halls you might hear a lively debate, an…

Reflections on the
MMFS Civil Rights Trip

marcovescio December 7, 2015 No Comments

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…