San Francisco Friends School

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Maya Angelou ****** Happy (almost) Juneteenth, Friends! Check out the link below for ways you can celebrate and recognize this now FEDERAL holiday around the Bay Area this weekend: https://abc7news.com/bay-area-juneteenth-events-sf-oakla// ******... #celebratefreedom and #rememberhistory ****** Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle. See more

Class of 2021, what to say? You are a group chock-full of wisdom, talent, and grace. And you made this year's graduation unforgettable. Here's to you and all that you are about to go on to do in high school and beyond! Please come back and visit often; you'll always have a home @ Friends. #sffsclassof2021 #sffscommunity

5th Grade Bucket Drumming Performance! (Be sure to watch through to the endtotally worth it!)

6th Grade Ukulele Performance: Learning to Fly

What a yearand what a celebration! That was some quintessential end-of-year Friends School magic, and it was extraordinary: the perfect way to launch into summer. Thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen, including our inspiring Tech Team, Arts Team, and students! Posting photos here and videos momentarily of a couple of the incredible performances, We're so proud of our kids and grateful for this community! Class of 2021, we'll see you tomorrow @ 8th Grade Graduation! #sffscommunity #youllalwayshaveyourfriends

This last week of our 2020-2021 school year is flying by like a 1st Grade relay race on Valencia Street A reminder that our last day and End-of-Year Celebration is tomorrow! Families, you can join us for EOYC via Zoom; details are in Circle Back! #sffscommunity #celebratewithfriends

Head of School Mike Hanas got behind the camera on Wednesday to take some wonderful photos of our Kindergarten families at 250 Valenciamost for the FIRST time as SFFS parents and guardiansin order to enjoy Portfolio Day in person with their K scholars. This was such a special moment for these families, and we are so grateful that they were able to share it at school. Happy Weekend, Friends! #sffslowerschool #thisisquakered #youllalwayshaveyourfriends

A group of our 6th Grade biologists recently received a great honor from PlantingScience as winners of the organization's Star Project Awards. Our SFFS team experimented with different colored lightwaves and how these lightwaves effect germinationand their award was one of only 14 given out among the 995 teams who were nominated! Huge kudos to these students for their curiosity, creativity, and hard work! You can learn more about PlantingScience and the Star Project Awards here: https://plantingscience.org/psprojects/starprojectgallery #sffsmiddleschool #discoverwithfriends #thisisquakered

Portfolio Day is tomorrow, and our Lower-Schoolers left Valencia Street this afternoon looking prepped and ready with those all-important and beautifully decorated portfolio boxes! #sffslowerschool #portfoliodaywithfriends #thisisquakered

This week Mike met with our 8th Grade co-clerks to discuss leadership and the important roles they will play in the closing events for the SFFS Class of 2021 as we wind down this year like no other. We are so proud ofand impressed byall of our 8th-Graders! #thisisquakered #sffsmiddleschool

Play is the answer to the question: how does anything new come about? Jean Piaget #friendsonthefrontyard #sffslowerschool

Last week, our intrepid Kindergarten Friends released the butterflies they had cared for since they were baby caterpillars into some lovely San Francisco gardens. #thisisquakered #schoolofthecity #kindergartenfriendlyforays

First day of Kindergarten and 1st Grade on campus involved a whole lot of hand-washing, sanitizing, social distancingand, of course, that undefinable Friends magic. #friendsatvalencia #welcomebackfriends

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Friends, have you opened your email from HealthTrac to set up your account and submit a test screen? Please be sure to do so ASAP so that you're ready to do your screening as part of your morning routine when your student returns to 250 Valencia next weekstudents will not be allowed on campus without a cleared screening on the mornings they arrive for Friends@Valencia. Questions? Please reach out to [email protected]. Thank you! #herewego #welcomebackfriends #carpoolready

Lower School Head Jennifer Arnest and her trusty sidekick (and unofficial LS mascot) Olive are back on campus, along with the Kindergarten and 1st Grade teams and many of our admin and staff, getting the campus ready to welcome back our Kindergarten and 1st Grade Friends next week! We can't wait! #sffscommunity #friendsat250valencia #friendsathome

Horizons at SFFS had a wildly successful summer onlineand now they have a wonderful new website, too! Check it out here (https://www.horizonsatsffs.org/) and learn more about the Horizons / Friends partnership and they ways in which we work together to eradicate summer learning loss in our beloved Mission District in the heart of San Francisco. #sffscommunity #thisisquakered #horizonsatsffs

Friends, please extend a warm welcome to Allie, the new health coordinator at SFFS! Allie arrived on Monday and spent the week preparing our health office for the fast-approaching arrival of students, faculty, and staff on campus. Allie will manage our students' health records, provide care for sick students and staff, and administer bandaids for those bumps and bruises we sometimes acquire over the course of a busy day at Friends, and we feel lucky to have Allie as part of our community. You can read more about Allie in Mike's weekly update, which was sent out earlier today. #sffscommunity #takecarewithfriends

As part of the 7th Grade's collaborative and integrative unit on chemistry and the scientific method, as well as history, economics, and food insecurity in our community, 7th Grade families recently dropped off dozens of loaves of bread, freshly baked by our 7th Grade Friends, at GLIDE in downtown San Francisco, where Rabbi Michael Lezak (SFFS Parent '20) was there to accept the delivery, which will feed hundreds of GLIDE clients. We hope this awesome partnership can continue! #thisisquakered #letyourlifespeak #sffsmiddleschool #integrativeeducation

Our Development Office recently made magnets for our wonderful GrandFriends and laptop stickers for our inspiring alums as small tokens of our love and care for these important members of our community. We miss you! #sffscommunity #sffsalumni #sffsgrandfriends

The Gudiboina-Gupta Family collaborated with Middle School Art Teacher Gabby Miller and her nieces to send postcards to young voters in swing states, complete with personal notes asking people to register and make their voice heard, as part of Sunrise Movement Bay Area. #YourVoteIsYourVoice #letyourlifespeak #sffscommunity

Today at Assembly, Lower School faculty introduced us to their beloved pets (some furry, some scaly); Marina read her favorite book from growing up, One Monster After Another, by Mercer Mayer; and a good time was had by all.

The SFFS Board of Trustees recently met via Zoom for their annual fall retreat, during which they moved forward our community's Equity & Inclusivity work and offered support to the administration as we continue onward with our reopening plans. We are so grateful to have such thoughtful and caring community stewards in our corner! #sffsboard #sffscommunity

A Flashback Friday treat of Noah and an alum in the early days of SFFS. We love discovering gems like these in the archives! Take good care this weekend, Friends. #sffscommunity #FlashbackFriday

There are so many incredible people doing inspiring work in the San Francisco community these days in the face of unprecedented challenges, including COVID-19, financial strains, and food insecurity. The folks are Dine11 SF are among those forging ahead, continuing to connect nutritious, delicious meals from beloved local restaurants with those in need of a nourishing meal. Founded by four SFFS moms, many of our alums are helping out, as well, delivering meals (like Ella SFFS '15), helping with social media and web outreach, and more. To learn more about this organization and how you can support their work, please visit https://dine11.org/sf/ Dine11 ****** #sffscommunity #letyourlifespeak #sffsalumni

Books = joy, and inspiration, and magic, and so many other things we need right now. And Suzanne and Jason continue to serve them up to our families, with Library / Learning Commons book check-out each week, and pick-up/returns on Fridays from 12:003:00 p.m. Questions? Send them an email! #sffscommunity #timefortllc #readwithfriends