Welcoming Grads Back to FSP

Pictured above: FSP graduates who attend Baxter Academy of the Sciences with current teacher and FSP grad, Ruby Peterman

In December, we held our annual "Life After FSP" evening. We experimented this year by hosting a small panel of students and inviting all our graduates in high school back to share about their experience in a fair-style Q&A. It was a lot of fun! We can't wait until next year!

Here are two sentiments shared by graduates:

I felt like I heard about how I was in this bubble at Friends School. And I thought that how could I find friends outside of this bubble of people I was connected with here? I wasn’t sure how I was going to make friends. And then, I started making friends and realized that I know how to find my people. Friends School helped me see people for who they are. And there are a lot of people to be friends with. But I haven’t forgotten about my Friends School friends. 

-- Mount Ararat High School, Sophomore  

Friends School does a good job of helping you cultivate curiosity. In high school, I have a bigger workload and have needed to improve my systems to help me stay organized. But I feel like what has helped me the most, when I think about my peers, is that I already figured out how to be curious and excited about learning. I learned that here.

-- Waynflete, Junior 

A note that many graduates brought up that they loved Dareth's study skills. We are excited to share that long-time Spanish teacher and OT, Dareth, will be returning to lead a series of study skill sessions that focus on executive function and test prep starting in January for seventh and eighth-grade students!