Wilmington Friends School, celebrating its 275th anniversary this year, will dig into its Quaker roots with a massive meal drive Saturday. On April 6, the culminating community service project for Wilmington Friends will play off the 275 years and aim to packaging 27,500 shelf-stable meals for families throughout Delaware. RELATED: Wilmington Friends School to mark 275th anniversary âFood security is …
With Incyte Corp. backing out of a deal to buy Wilmington Friends’ lower school to build a new 5-story building, the 275-year-old education institution this week told the Alapocas neighborhood that it will not build a new lower school. Instead, officials said in a letter to the affluent neighborhood, the school will renovate the current lower school building. Incyte’s …
Wilmingtonâs Ursuline Academy will be showcasing its innovation, design-thinking, entrepreneurship and acceleration studio to prospective families at its open house Sunday. Itâs one of many open houses that private schools hold each fall to show off their curriculums, students and facilities while answering questions from parents and potential students who may be interested in attending. âFamilies get to really see …
For Ellie Alexander Poorman, attending Wilmington Friends School means much more than just education â it means family, and generations of it. The historic school, founded in 1748, is older than the country. Friends will start celebrating its 275th anniversary Sept. 5 when it opens its doors for the 2023-2024 school year. Poorman, 88, sent all four of her children …
After five rounds of competition, the Charter School of Wilmingtonâs team bested 17 teams to win the 2023 Delaware High School Mock Trial Competition final Saturday. Teams from public, private, parochial and charter schools throughout Delaware took part in the two-day event at Wilmingtonâs Leonard L. Williams Justice Center. The participants included 217 students, 52 coaches, and 118 Delaware bench …
Over the course of the pandemic, enrollment in Delaware charter schools increased 5.10%, while traditional public schoolsâ student body dropped 1.14%. Thatâs according to a report published in November by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. It found that traditional public schools lost students in nearly every state. The First Stateâs traditional public schools lost 1,423 students from 2019 …
Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown want to help Black families bridge the information gap in how to help their children apply for college. The two took the stage at Wilmington Friends School last week to share details and answer questions on their new book, âThe Black Family’s Guide to College Admissions.â Studies by Forbes and others show that only …
Wilmington Friends elementary students have created a display for Black History Month. Wilmington Friends School fifth grader Gabby Jones feels like she participated in making sure part of America’s heritage is celebrated and not forgotten when she worked on a Black History Month display . She and students from PreK to sixth grade participated in a project in …
Photo courtesy of woodbridge Football Greenwood – The crowd had left, the players were celebrating in the locker room, all but one bank of stadium lights had been turned off and Woodbridge head coach Marvin Dooley sat alone on the bench. “As we get older we have to take time to take in what just happened, these kids are excited and …
Photo courtesy of Emmanuel Dining Room. Each month, staff, students and faculty at Wilmington Friends School work together to provide hundreds of meals for Wilmingtonâs Emmanual Dining Room. Emmanuel Dining Room, a Ministry of Caring program which operates three locations in New Castle County, provides daily meals to the poor, homeless and unemployed. The nonprofit Ministry of Caring relies on …
