How ECFS Is Moving Its Campus Online
Amid the unprecedented COVID-19 situation, the world has changed in ways that were unimaginable even two months ago. As the Ethical Culture Fieldston School practices physical distancing, it has undertaken […]
Letters to the Editor: Championing Women in Science
Students in Katherine Kartheiser’s 9th Grade Biology class were assigned a simple comparison of two sets of data: One was the page in their textbook covering endosymbiotic theory (how structures […]
ECFS Engineering Club Works Together in Perfect Harmony
If someone were to tell you that they were tinkering with the fifth energy transfer in their Rube Goldberg machine, you might first pause them to ask what on earth […]
ECFS Student Shares Her Experience Delivering Joy
On Tuesday, December 17, the 9th and 10th Grade community service classes at ECFS came together for the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center Winter Solstice Festival. The community center, commonly referred […]
Rabbis Hirsch and Davidson Speak at Upper School Assembly
On January 9, 2020, ECFS invited Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch from Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Rabbi Joshua Davidson from Temple Emanu-El to share their perspectives about anti-Semitism historically, the Holocaust, […]
ECFS Students Talk Mental Illness with Empathy and Strength
It’s Thursday morning, and the entire Fieldston Upper School community is gathered in the auditorium to hear about the week’s assembly topic: mental health. Rather than bring in a medical […]
Upper Schoolers Spread Holiday Cheer, One Cabbage at a Time
Monday, November 18, is a cold, gray day on the Upper West Side of Manhattan — not yet the dead of winter, but the air no longer carries with it […]
Dancers and Actors Perform Original Work on the ECFS Stage
Students with a passion for performing arts at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School have no shortage of educational, engaging, and enlightening options to choose from. In recent years, actors performed […]
Striking Out: ECFS Students Join the Global Climate Strike
Emma V. ’20 looked around the crowd gathered in the Stu-Fac — fellow environmental club leaders and over a dozen faculty and staff who met after school to discuss the […]
It Takes a Village: The Making of the ECFS Spring Musical
Before the audience took their seats in the Fieldston auditorium, before the first lights illuminated the set, before the cast — electric and exhilarated — took their places and steadied […]