Welcome
Friends Western School
Winter Gala 2011
Please come to our Winter Gala!
Our mission is to:
- Awaken a love of learning in each child.
- Promote academic excellence.
- Prepare children to use their knowledge with creativity and compassion.
- Practice and teach the Quaker values of harmony, simplicity, integrity, community and equality
The goal of FWS is threefold: to cultivate every child's natural gifts and multiple intelligences, to balance direct instruction and discovery so that learning becomes intrinsically rewarding, and to integrate Quaker values and spiritual inquiry in curriculum and daily practice.
I adore Friends Western School. My daughter has been in the school for one year and we are returning next year. This is an amazing little school with old-fashioned values and great academics. The kids are sweet and happy. The teacher to student ratio is about 8:1. I cannot praise this enough. I am so thankful for it. I really feel this is the perfect education system and the happy, thriving children are proof of this! Before attending a public school (briefly), my daughter went to a Waldorf school for several years. This reminds me very much of a Waldorf school but with more conventional learning. It combines the best of Waldorf and Montessori. Since it is so small the kids can really love and learn from each other.
– Parent
At FWS, we give your child personal attention and adjust our teaching methods to respond to your child's learning style. Our instruction is designed to balance skills and challenges so that each student experiences success. Each person in our learning community has important contributions to make. All children have unique talents and will do our best to discover and nurture your child's strengths. We cherish differences, visible and invisible, as essential for teaching and learning. While we hold students to high standards of scholarship and classical skill building (spelling, math, grammar), we perceive learning not as a set of principles to be memorized but as a continual process of inquiry.
By fostering cooperation rather than competition among students, FWS creates an atmosphere that celebrates individual differences. Working together, the children learn the joys and challenges of building a community while, at the same time, gaining a sense of their individual uniqueness.
