by Editor | Mar 27, 2023 | All MFS News, Uncategorized
Middle School Kicks Off Intensive Learning Week with Day of Service For one week each March, regular classes are suspended for “Intensive Learning,” when Middle and Upper School students and teachers engage in an in-depth study of a specific subject, often involving...
by Editor | Apr 28, 2022 | Academics News, All MFS News, Campus Life News, Classroom Unit, Uncategorized
Middle School Intensive Learning Spotlight: Fifth Grade – “Living Out Quaker Values in Our Community” Fifth grade students enjoyed a diverse range of activities during Intensive Learning in late March. The theme for the week was “Living Out Quaker Values in Our...
by Editor | Apr 26, 2017 | All MFS News
For the “Let’s Sew for Babies!” Intensive Learning class, a group of Upper School students spent the week of March 24-31 on campus learning about sewing in order to provide baby clothes for the Philadelphia Nurse Family Partnership, an organization that works to...
by Editor | Apr 19, 2017 | All MFS News
By Andrew Rowan ’19, Marketing and Communications Student Intern Drowning in post-it notes, magic markers, play-doh, Lincoln logs, and more, a group of students spent their Intensive Learning week thinking about real issues using a problem solving technique called...
by Editor | Apr 13, 2017 | All MFS News
Most academics never have an opportunity to examine Ben Franklin’s personal annotated copy of the Constitution. But the students in History Teacher Eliza McFeely’s “Cabinets of Curiosities” Intensive Learning class were invited to do just that at the...