In Jane Chesson’s art room, a four-year-old mixes different hues of paint with rapt attention. Another student moves between clay and cardboard, while a peer across the room studies a classmate’s larger-than-life tower and asks how it was made. There is no single prescribed project taking shape on every table, Read more

By midmorning, Ryan Black is already thinking about the creek. East Chester Creek runs through the Westtown campus, past the tennis courts and into places many students have never considered part of school. Black knows those edges well: the marsh, the woods around the lake, the streambanks, the stretches of Read more

 The reverberating percussion sounds blast out the door as students enter the classroom. “La Gozadera” by Gente De Zona featuring Marc Anthony continues to play. Some students quietly sit down, scroll through their phones, or tap to the music’s rhythms. Every year, I play this song on the first day Read more

I was heartened to learn of WAA’s recent decision to change its name from “Westtown Alumni Association” to “Westtown Alums Association.” As the WAA Board had noted prior to the decision, “‘Alumni,’ the word we currently use, is the plural masculine form of the Latin word alumnus/a. Traditionally, ‘alumni’ has Read more

As adults we can all remember times when we were sick or distracted or had a personal problem which hindered our ability to be engaged, to perform our best at work, or interact well with others. The same is true for children, of course, and many variables can impact learning. Read more

Caring for our environment is one of the three priorities defined in Westtown School’s Strategic Vision. To continue our important work in this area, we have been partnering with sustainability consultants, Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants.  This piece was written by Claire DuBois, Sustainability Intern with Boyer Sudduth.   Lower School Science Teacher Amanda Read more