Lower School
Welcome FCS parents! Below, you'll find important documents, links, news, and updates for current parents.
The Home & School Association (HSA)
The Home and School Association is the organized body of Friends' Central parents and guardians. The personal investment of mothers and fathers in their children's education is an integral part of the School's philosophy, and by encouraging parental involvement, Friends' Central accomplishes its goal of establishing a partnership between the School, the student, and the family.
For more information on how to get involved, contact Andrea Nuneviller in the Home and School Office at 610.645.5040 or anuneviller@friendscentral.org.
Parent OneFCS Meeting, February 6, 7pm in MS Room 10
Be sure to join the Home & School Association and Head of School Craig N. Sellers next Wednesday to hear updates and highlights from all three divisions of our school. The agenda will include:
- FCS Board Clerk Phil Scott and Board member Liz Cohen '83 who will present “Hallmarks of an FCS Graduate"
- Divisional updates from Upper School Principal Beth Johnson and Middle School Principal Alexa Quinn
- A progress report on the Lower School Principal search from Mariama Richards, Assistant Head of School for Academic Program
- Representatives from the Communications and Technology Offices will take us behind the scenes of our family newsletter Just the FaCtS (JTF), as well as calendar alerts and tech talk
Lower School
Movie Nights!
Grade 1 and 2 - Friday, February 1, 6pm
Grade 3 - Friday, February 8, 6pm
Grade K - Friday, March 8, 6pm
LS Book Fair is Coming! February 25-27, Family night on Tuesday February 26.
Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery 2
HSA Publications
Middle School
MS Book Fair !February 11-13 in MS Room 10The book fair is a fun pop-up book store created in MS Room 10 by parent volunteers. Students come into the book fair with their English classes to browse and purchase books. Book Fair is a wonderful chance for students to shop from a wide range of books supplied by Children’s Book World in Haverford. This year students will have an opportunity to purchase their summer reading book as well as to purchase a book to give Anderson Elementary School to help expand their library.
Upper School
Save the Date for SpeakUp! March 19, 6:30pm
Come experience SpeakUp! This program is for all Upper School students, parents, and educators and is led by an extraordinary team of FCS student leaders and adult facilitators. Qualitatively, students report that SpeakUp! has been transformative – helping them to be better communicators, more empathetic, have a stronger sense of belonging, gain competence and leadership, have improved coping skills, are more engaged, and feel decreased stress. They attribute these changes to the fact that SpeakUp! is an authentic, student-led event that builds trust and provides a safe, accepting, and non-judgmental environment.
Home and School Association MLK Day of Service
Thank you to all our student and parent volunteers who made this very frigid MLK Day of Service so successful. As a community we made lots of dream catchers, packaged many cleaning kits and snack bags, packed 600 lunches, made 100s of cards, and put up over 200 T-shirts to end gun violence.
This wonderful day could not happen without our wonderful parent volunteers who lead the HSA service committees. Thanks to Chandra Thorne, Julie Shapiro, Catherine Corson, Anjali Thapar, and Paula Yudenfriend Green.