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This Friends elementary school for children age three (The Friends Play School on campus) through fifth grade offers a comprehensive academically enriched, integrated program featuring Literacy and Mathematics with STEM, Studio Art, Spanish, Music, Outdoor Classroom, Gardening, Yoga and Mindfulness, Service Learning and Physical Education as components. Spiritual, social and emotional growth are addressed daily in community.
Children attend Meeting for Worship weekly, and Meeting for Singing each month.
As a Quaker school commited to Friends values, we celebrate diversity by welcoming families of all faiths and affilitations to this community. .
Club or Organization: After School Sports, Book Club, Chess, Cooking Club, Entrepreneurship Club, Hip Hop Dance, Knitting, Knitting Club, MakerSpace, Math Club, Mathematics Club, Recycling Club, Running, Student Council, Theater Production, Tutoring, Yoga
Arts and Music Programs: Ballet, Band, Choir, Dance, Drama productions, Fine Arts, Gardening, Jazz Ensemble, Music Lessons, Outdoor Education, Piano Lessons, Private Music Lessons, Spanish, Strings, Theatre, Violin, Voice
West Chester Friends School students learn in vibrant Pre-K
through Fifth grade classrooms as teachers guide them through an
enriched, integrated curriculum of Language Arts, Mathematics and
Social Studies. Students attend weekly classes in Studio Art,
Library and Literature, STEM, Service Learning, Health, Guidance,
Yoga and Mindfulness, Spanish, Music, Quakerism, and Physical
Education. There is an active Intergenerational Program. The
Friends Play School on campus enrolls three year olds for two,
three, or five day schedules, half or full day. Tuition Fee
Schedules are at www.wcfriends.org. The WCFS Flexible Tuition
program offers affordabilty to all families.
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