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'''Abington Friends School''' is an independent [[Quaker]] day school in [[Jenkintown, Pennsylvania]], for students age 3 to 12th grade. AFS has stood on its original campus in Jenkintown since 1697 and is the oldest primary and secondary educational institution in the [[United States]] to operate continuously at the same location under the same management.<ref>From Abington Friends [http://abingtonfriends.net/Library/InfoManage/Guide.asp?FolderID=210& Facts & Figures]</ref> |
'''Abington Friends School''' is an independent [[Quaker]] day school in [[Jenkintown, Pennsylvania]], for students age 3 to 12th grade. AFS has stood on its original campus in Jenkintown since 1697 and is the oldest primary and secondary educational institution in the [[United States]] to operate continuously at the same location under the same management.<ref>From Abington Friends [http://abingtonfriends.net/Library/InfoManage/Guide.asp?FolderID=210& Facts & Figures]</ref> |
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The School draws students from approximately 75 ZIP codes around the greater Philadelphia area |
The School draws students from approximately 75 ZIP codes around the greater Philadelphia area.<ref>[http://www.abingtonfriends.net/AboutUs/AboutUs From Abington Friends]</ref> |
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== Academic Program == |
== Academic Program == |
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'''The Early Childhood and Lower School Program''' at AFS serves students age 3 to 4th grade, the '''Middle School Program''' 5th through 8th grade and the '''Upper School''' program 9th through 12th grade.<ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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'''The Early Childhood and Lower School Program''' at AFS serves students age 3 to 4th grade. As children join the Abington Friends community in Lower School, they enter the world of creek walks and peace tables, mold symposiums and outdoor classrooms, poetry night and reading breakfasts. Skilled teachers provide a high level of challenge in a program designed to guide and inspire children. In a specially designed Early Childhood program for children 3 years old through Kindergarten, the youngest students develop their sense of independence and their social skills. Through hands-on, interdisciplinary activities, students in Lower School are immersed in carefully planned projects that teach them to research, experiment and solve problems. Through the timeless and vital institution of free play, students develop sensitivity and respect and learn to live peacefully and joyfully within a community.<ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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In the '''Middle School Program''' at AFS, students in 5th through 8th grade navigate a fascinating period of development as they move through adolescence, evolving from concrete to abstract thinkers and growing daily in independence. The Middle School is staffed by a group of talented educators dedicated to guiding students and families through this sea of change. Students learn to assume more responsibility, take risks, tackle academic challenges, engage with the world and take initiative in a joyful, dynamic and supportive environment. The capstone of the Middle School program is the Eighth Grade Independent Study. EGIS projects challenge students – over the course of a year – to give voice to an area of emerging interest. Whether they are making a film about human rights or studying Roman battle strategies, students reveal the passionate, thoughtful voice that results from supported exploration and academic risk-taking. Students leave Middle School well prepared for the challenges of an ambitious Upper School curriculum.<ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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In the '''Upper School''' program at AFS, students in 9th through 12th grade are exceptionally well for college and success in the contemporary world, developing the skills, capabilities and values they will need to lead fulfilling lives. Upper School students enjoy small school intimacy combined with a broad landscape of opportunity on and off campus. Through an extraordinary range of activities and choices, AFS encourages students to participate on many levels and engage fully in an exciting four-year journey of self-discovery and expression. A comprehensive advising program and an off-campus Senior Independent Project help Upper Schoolers discover and connect with their personal interests and passions. In classrooms talented faculty lead students through a well designed curriculum where quality of discourse is the key focus, assumptions are effectively challenged, ideas are sharpened and multiple perspective is always engaged. AFS graduates are prepared to produce sophisticated work, to have meaningful relationships and to take full advantage of the resources around them.<ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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==Campus== |
==Campus== |
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Abington Friends School comprises of a fifty acre campus which includes a creek, meadow, historic Quaker Meetinghouse and extensive playing fields. <ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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'''Highlights of the campus include: |
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''The Faulkner Library and Learning Center'', a modern dramatic space alive which is home to a collection of over 25,000 print volumes, special collections including a peace collection and a leadership collection, |
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''The AFS Outside Classroom'', the first nature playground an outdoor classroom in Pennsylvania to be accredited by the National Arbor Day Foundation, |
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''A Media and Design Lab'', home to Computer Assisted Design and engineering software workstations, |
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''The Wilf Center'', which provides resources to enrich skill sof active engagement, discernment, collaboration leadership and continual learning, |
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''The Josephine Muller Auditorium'', a fully equipped professional theatre, |
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''The Black Box Theatre'', a flexible space for student produced performances, cabarets and open mic nights, |
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''Art, Ceramics and Photography Studios'', housing multiple potters wheels, five kilns and a fully furnished dark room and lab, |
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''Choral, Instrumental and Music Classrooms and an Electronic Music Studio'', featuring Apple and Roland recording software and hardware, Baby grand pianos, and a full instrumental backline, |
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''Athletic Facilities'' that include the fully furnished Thode Fitness Center, four soccer fields, six tennis courts and several baseball and softball diamonds. |
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<ref>[http://issuu.com/abingtonfriends/docs/afsviewbook]</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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Abington Friends School was founded in March, 1697, when John Barnes, a wealthy tailor who belonged to the Abington Monthly Meeting, donated 120 acres of his estate |
Abington Friends School was founded in March, 1697, when John Barnes, a wealthy tailor who belonged to the Abington Monthly Meeting, donated 120 acres of his estate. |
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In its earliest days the School was located in one large room in the Meeting House, with the principles of the Religious Society of Friends dominating virtually every aspect of school life. In the 1780s the school moved to a structure of its own, the present day caretaker’s house adjacent to the Meeting House on Greenwood Avenue. Boys occupied the first floor room, while girls were instructed in the upstairs room. Boys were responsible for supplying firewood for the stoves in each room and the girls collected drinking water from the small brook behind the Meeting House. |
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Coeducation was not the only way in which the School observed the Quaker testimony of equality. By the mid 18th century, Abington Friends School admitted African American students too. Throughout the 18th century, AFS provided an education for the primary grades only, with enrollment fluctuating between 20 and 40 students, most of whom were Quaker. |
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The foundations for the modern school we know today were laid in the 1880s, when the school was transformed from an ungraded primary day school with around 90 students and two teachers to a boarding school that served kindergarten through twelfth grade. |
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The new school was opened in 1887 on the triangular property bordered by present-day Greenwood Avenue, Jenkintown Road and Meetinghouse Road. The curriculum of the school reflected a healthy balance of religious instruction and rigorous academics, with weekly Meeting for Worship continuing to play a significant role in school life. |
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By 1931, the school had become an all-girls college preparatory school |
By 1931, the school had become an all-girls college preparatory school. |
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AFS entered the 1960s with a strong commitment to a progressive education firmly rooted in Quaker values |
AFS entered the 1960s with a strong commitment to a progressive education firmly rooted in Quaker values. By 1975 all grades, kindergarten through twelfth, contained both boys and girls. Under the leadership of headmaster Adelbert Mason, the school’s facilities expanded, with new buildings for the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. Growth continued in the late ‘80s with a new science and arts wing in the Lower School. |
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<ref>[http://www.abingtonfriends.net/AboutUs/History]</ref> |
<ref>[http://www.abingtonfriends.net/AboutUs/History abingtonfriends.net/AboutUs/History]</ref> |
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==Traditions== |
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Every year, first-grade students become "pages" to seniors, and spend time with them as the year progresses, helping to plant trees with them on Arbor Day and joining them in the Grove for the Commencement ceremony. For the annual Halloween Parade, the older children lead the younger grades as they process in costume around the front of the school. On Field Day, a day of competition that kicks off the fall semester, all of the students, from the Early Childhood Division through 12th grade, spend the afternoon out on the fields taking part in races, relays and the Tug of Conflict. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 10:36, 1 February 2014
| Abington Friends School | |
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| Type | Private |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Quaker |
| Established | 1697 |
| Head of School | Rich Nourie |
| Athletics conference | Friends Schools League |
| Mascot | Kangaroos |
| Website | Abington Friends School |
Abington Friends School is an independent Quaker day school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, for students age 3 to 12th grade. AFS has stood on its original campus in Jenkintown since 1697 and is the oldest primary and secondary educational institution in the United States to operate continuously at the same location under the same management.[1]
The School draws students from approximately 75 ZIP codes around the greater Philadelphia area.[2]
Academic Program
The Early Childhood and Lower School Program at AFS serves students age 3 to 4th grade, the Middle School Program 5th through 8th grade and the Upper School program 9th through 12th grade.[3]
Campus
Abington Friends School comprises of a fifty acre campus which includes a creek, meadow, historic Quaker Meetinghouse and extensive playing fields. [4]
History
Abington Friends School was founded in March, 1697, when John Barnes, a wealthy tailor who belonged to the Abington Monthly Meeting, donated 120 acres of his estate.
By 1931, the school had become an all-girls college preparatory school.
AFS entered the 1960s with a strong commitment to a progressive education firmly rooted in Quaker values. By 1975 all grades, kindergarten through twelfth, contained both boys and girls. Under the leadership of headmaster Adelbert Mason, the school’s facilities expanded, with new buildings for the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. Growth continued in the late ‘80s with a new science and arts wing in the Lower School. [5]
