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 […]
ECFS Shows School Spirit by Giving Back
This year’s Homecoming, on Saturday, September 28, promises to be another celebration of Orange Pride. But along with the sports games, the food, and the gathering of community, the latest […]
ECFS Summer Stories from Around the World
Both of ECFS’ campuses are once again buzzing with life: Pre-K students take their first confident — or not so confident — steps at their new schools, Fieldston Middle Schoolers […]
ECFS Receives Community Service Award at NYCP Benefit
On March 5, 2019, ECFS received the Estée Lauder Companies Distinguished Volunteer Award at the New York Common Pantry (NYCP)’s annual Fill the Bag Benefit. In November 2018, students in […]
Understanding Where We Are: The City Semester Experience
In their first day in City Semester photography, students begin by entering “1970s South Bronx” into a Google Image search. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the images that emerge are those of burnt […]
Fieldston Lower Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. in Song
Fieldston Lower assemblies have easily become one of my favorite traditions. Each assembly typically revolves around a theme, and music teachers Blake and Bárbara help to coordinate sing-alongs or songs […]
ECFS Continues Partnership with New York Common Pantry
For more than 20 years, students from the Community Service Advisory Board In-Training (CSAB-IT) have had a long-standing partnership with the New York Common Pantry to provide families in the […]
From Lake to Lab: Pushing Science Skills One Step Further
It’s a crisp October morning in Van Cortlandt Park. At 10:30am on a Thursday, the park is mostly quiet, save for the hooting and hollering coming from a grove of […]
With Memory Project, Students Help Others See Themselves
In 2006, my first year at Fieldston, a 7th Grader introduced me to the Memory Project. It is a charitable, nonprofit organization that invites art students to create portraits for […]