The campus was humming with activity on the Upper School Parents’ and Guardians’ Day! It was a joy to see parents and guardians attending classes and spending the day with their children to get a glimpse of Upper School life. Our thanks to all who helped plan and organize this special day! Enjoy a gallery of photos here!
It was a pleasure to welcome Middle School parents and guardians this fall! Parents and guardians were able to sample their children’s classes and learn more about life in the Middle School. See more photos in the gallery here!
We love our pets and building community, so we were thrilled to host the Community Dog Walk once again this year! It was a lovely fall day as members of our community and their four-legged friends took a stroll around campus to enjoy the beautiful fall foliage. Thank you to all who paw-ticipated!
Enjoy more photos here!
This years’ FallFest was a lovely day of food, friendship, music, games, and community! Our thanks to all who helped this event a success, especially our team of volunteers! Enjoy more photos here!
In addition to the girls varsity soccer FSL Championship, there are other fall season achievements to celebrate! We are proud of all of our student-athletes and the work they do on and off the field! Here are a few highlights:
This season’s Waring Award Winners are: Nina Atkins ’27 (Field Hockey), Maya Holt ’26 (Girls Soccer), Deyvi Ramos ’26 (Boys Soccer)
Congratulations to our fall season student-athletes who signed their National Letters of Intent to continue their academic and athletic careers at the collegiate level! These seniors are:
Grant Alexander – St. Bonaventure – lacrosse
Maya Holt – Moravian University – soccer
Catherine McDonough – Ohio Wesleyan – lacrosse
Emma McDonough – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – lacrosse
Sam Mojica – Connecticut College – lacrosse
Lucy Smith – Stevens Institute of Technology – soccer
Atlee Vanesko – Ohio State – basketball
Quartez Walker-Welch – Hampton University – lacrosse
Enjoy more photos of the signing here!
Join us in congratulating the girls varsity soccer team, Head Coach Scott Bissett, and Assistant Coaches Paul Lehmann, Grace Bendon, and Julia Marrone! They won their fourth Friends Schools League title in a row, which ties the current record of consecutive titles in FSL history! The team also advanced to the PAISAA Championship. Way to go, ‘Town! See this tenacious team in action here!
The Faculty and Staff Exhibit recently showcased what our staff and faculty have been creating! This exhibition brought together artwork from across departments and divisions—painting, sculpture, textiles, and more. It was an opportunity to see the ideas, experiments, and personal projects being explored by the adults in this community outside the classroom. From bold visuals to quiet moments of reflection, the show offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative energy that drives our campus community. Enjoy their work here!
Through the support of the McLear Visiting Artist Fund, we were honored to welcome Rebecca Kamen this fall, an artist and lecturer on the intersection of art and science. Kamen says her “artwork is informed by wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and by connecting common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and re-imagine what the scientists see.” She worked with students from Diantha Giltz’s and Domenic Frunzi‘s art classes to explore these connections between art and the sciences. Students first visited the lab in the Science Center to look at various types of soil (and the organisms in it) through microscopes, then used what they saw as inspiration for their sketches and art pieces.
Kamen says she loves coming to Westtown and working with our students; this is her second visit. In fact, she was the inaugural artist in the McLear Artist-in-Residence program, though her residency was cut short by the pandemic. The McLear Artist-in-Residence Program was created in January 2019 to support a residency in the Upper School visual arts department. Artists-in-residence are chosen by the Upper School arts faculty, and preference is given to artists working in the visual arts, particularly those exploring the intersections between art and science.
The Upper School fall play was Peter and the Starcatcher, a thrilling prequel to Peter Pan! The story begins as a young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates—led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own—the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.
Our thanks to Theater Director Shawn Rowley, and our amazing cast and crew for this excellent production!
See the talented cast in action here!
