Highlights & Traditions

Highlights and traditions may include class plays, an Asian festival, a Japanese lunch, an African market, a Greek field day and a May Day celebration. Many class trips to local and distant locations add indelible experiences. Children develop rich knowledge and understandings of differing cultures and time periods at each grade level.

Meeting for Worship

All students and faculty at Germantown Friends School attend Meeting for Worship once a week. There, in the manner of Friends, we sit in expectant silence. From time to time, any person present may be led to share an insight, a concern, or an experience. The discipline of this regular, weekly period of silent worship is the foundation of every endeavor by the School.

The lower school division holds its own Meeting for Worship on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. All are welcome.

Assemblies

Once a week, lower school children meet for an assembly period. During these times, guest speakers and performers present on a wide range of interesting topics. During many of the assembly periods, lower school students have the opportunity to perform a class play or musical for the entire lower school.

Feedback

Feedback is a structured class group activity led by the school psychologist that encourages children and teachers to share constructive ideas, feelings, and criticisms with each other. It teaches listening, communication, patience, and openness.

Greek Day

Each June for the last five decades, fourth grade students celebrate Greek Day, the culmination of their year long study of Ancient Greece. The students design chitons, design and paint signs representing their city state, write prayers to the Gods and train for the days' events. Parents and students prepare a veritable Greek feast and fun is had by all.

Partners

Many of the older grades establish partnerships with the younger grades for activities together such as attending Meeting for Worship and recess.