AFS Student Enrollment Grows in All Three Divisions
September 30, 2016
AFS welcomed 115 new students at the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year and had the largest percentage of returning students in recent memory.
Read MoreBack-to-School Night — Why It Matters
September 23, 2016
Lower School Director Andrea Emmons explains the value of Back-to-School Night from the School's perspective, and why it is held early in the school year.
Read MoreWhy We Send Our Students to Off-Campus Retreats
September 20, 2016
Upper School Director Dominique Gerard explains why the School schedules student retreats at the beginning of the school year.
Read MoreWhat’s So Special About the First Day of School?
September 9, 2016
The first day of school carries special meaning for teachers and students alike. Read what they were thinking as they approached the 2016-2017 academic year.
Read MoreA Letter from Rich Nourie to AFS Families
August 29, 2016
"It is the sense of potential, the openness of a new school year that beckons so beautifully." AFS soon will begin the year with more than 110 new students, an Experiential Learning Center and much more.
Read MoreSummoning the Power and Possibility of Peace
July 8, 2016
How can we be beholden to both rigorous honesty, in seeing the issues that need difficult work, and to love, which helps us to do so with compassion, strength and resilience?
Read MoreAFS Appoints New Director of Experiential Learning
February 25, 2016
Experiential learning, with its focus on direct learning, is a central theme of our vision for education. We know that children thrive in their development when their daily experience is expansive...
Read MoreLifting up the Spirit of Love and Peace
December 18, 2015
Against a world of confusion and the suffering that comes of it, let us lift up the animating spirit of love and peace that quietly and continually lives at the heart of who we are...
Read MoreThanksgiving & Gratitude
November 25, 2015
To witness daily the lively and divine spark of our children as they explore and discover the world around them is a great joy. To be in the company of teachers and staff who tend this spark...
Read MoreExtending the Reach of our Vibrant School
October 8, 2015
There is a natural and valuable humility that we embody as a Friends school, but the light of this community should also shine brightly.
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