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Connecting the Dots
The Lower School is covered in dots as part of a community art-project and lesson in “growth mindset,” inspired by the children’s book The Dot.
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Fitting Together Like Pieces of a Puzzle
A first grade class focuses on this year’s Quaker Testimonies of Peace and Community by learning how they fit together as a "community of learners."
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The Animal Care Club
From snakes to skinks, students in fourth and fifth grade learn how to feed and care for the science-room animals.
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A Hilarious and Hypnotic Middle School Play
A villainous brother uses hypnosis to steal family money and his brother’s sweetheart in a hypnotically fun Middle School play!
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Eighth Graders Come Together at MOSAIC
Eighth grade students bonded with each other and took time to reflect on themselves and their world at the team-building fall MOSAIC retreat.
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Fun and Games in Middle School
It was “game on” in the Middle School at the annual Jeopardy! assembly.
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Matt Stitt ’05 Delivers Alumni and Community Scholars 50th Anniversary Lecture
Matt Stitt ’05 was the annual Alumni and Community Scholars 50th Anniversary Lecture Series speaker, and shared how he views “adversity as a privilege.”
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Daniel Cho ’19 Wins First Place in Strings Competition
Talented violinist Daniel Cho ’19 wins first place in the Junior Strings Division of the PA Music Teachers National Association Competition.
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Creating the Sounds of Arcadia
Student composers co-wrote the score for the fall drama production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
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An Evening with Epic Decade
On Thursday, February 18, at 6:30 p.m. in Loeb Auditorium, Seth Goldenberg—founder and CEO of Epic Decade—will lead a keynote session to kick off a community-wide exploration of GFS today, where we’re headed and how we imagine our future. Click here to register for the event, which is open to our extended community (and will be live streamed for those who can’t attend).
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Teacher Earns Racial and Social Justice Award
Lower School computer teacher Ann Perrone received the 2016 Racial and Social Justice Award from the First United Methodist Church of Germantown for her work advocating for inclusiveness in the Boy Scouts—and for founding a troop to serve the boys of Germantown and the surrounding area.
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Celebrating 50 Years!
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of GFS’s ground-breaking Community Scholars Program, which was founded amidst America’s Civil Rights struggles of the ’60s, please join us at a Gala event at the National Constitution Center on April 15. Click here for details and to purchase tickets!
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Epic Decade Presentation
Loeb
6:30pm - 9:00pm
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CSP 50th Anniversary Event: Upper School Assembly Speaker
Loeb Performing Arts Center
10:05am - 10:50am
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Monday Night Essentially English Classes Meet
7:00pm - 10:00pm
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Wednesday Essentially English Night Classes Meet
7:00pm - 10:00pm
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An Evening with Dr. Jensen, Author of “The Teenage Brain”
Yarnall
7:00pm - 9:00pm