Longtime Winterfest Tradition Returns Fully, Sending Students Off to Winter Break
December 17, 2021
The joyful tradition of Winterfest played out for only the second time in the Berman Athletics Center. The entire school was able to enter the Berman gym division-by-division for a presentation that highlighted the many beautiful aspects of the AFS community—a tradition that has been going strong at our school for over 25 years.
Read MoreAll-Friends Schools League Honors AFS Athletes
December 17, 2021
Congratulations are in order for 6 AFS upper school student-athletes who received All-Friends Schools League 1st Team and Honorable Mention recognition for their athletic performance and sportsmanship during the fall season of athletics.
Read MoreFifth Grade Leads MFW SPICES Reflection
December 1, 2021
In the Middle School, the class of 2029 has been volunteering to plan and lead grade-level Meeting for Worship using the Quaker SPICES (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship) as a guide.
Read MoreGODSPELL Inspires Sold-Out Audiences With a Timeless Message
November 24, 2021
AFS brought Godspell to life on the Josephine Muller Auditorium stage in November it was evident that the selection could not have been more fitting for this community at this particular moment in time.
Read MoreRead About the AFS Community in the New Issue of Oak Leaves
November 1, 2021
Read and Share Inspiring Stories from the Community, including an End Note by Sheila Pai
Read MoreCydney Brown ’22 Has Poem Published by New York Times
October 4, 2021
Cydney Brown '22 has been published in the New York Times as an honoree in its Coming of Age in 2021 contest.
Read MoreFor the Pandemic, AFS Alums Return to the Classroom as Faculty Members
August 1, 2021
Jordan Louis ’14 was studying Biomedical Sciences at the master level at Rutgers University but decided to make a pivot last year in order to become a support for black middle schoolers. Hired to teach seventh-grade science at AFS, Louis was touched to learn how much the students appreciated her presence, particularly the students of color.
Read MoreA Commencement That Couldn’t Be Dampened
June 15, 2021
The 324th graduating class closed the chapter on their time at AFS with a Commencement ceremony in the Grove of Abington Meeting House on June 11, 2021.
Read MoreFourth Graders Build Critical Skills With Year-Long Social Justice Curriculum
June 7, 2021
When given the opportunity to spend a year working (virtually) side-by-side as educators, it presented a chance Keisha Hirlinger and colleague Michelle Podulka had been waiting for—time and space to build an intentional, skill-building, social justice curriculum for the youngest students at AFS.
Read MoreAbington Friends School Awarded for Environmental Education
April 9, 2021
Abington Friends School has been selected receives the 2021 MWEE School of Excellence Award!
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