5th Graders Join the Big Leagues
While team trips to other schools can be chaotic affairs — complete with forgotten water bottles and last-minute trips to the corner deli to grab snacks — the all-new Fieldston […]
At Ethical Culture, Students Dance Like No One’s Watching
“Remember what I told you ladies about those turns in your sneakers so you don’t hurt your ankles,” Ethel Calhoun reminds a group of 5th Graders. She turns to the […]
Raising Readers: Supporting Children’s Reading Development
Literacy is tantamount to lifelong learning. As a result, a foundational skill we teach children at the elementary school level is how to read. Here are some tools, broken down […]
Middle School Environmental Club Tackles Climate Change
The cafeteria is abuzz with chatter as students exchange jokes over General Tso’s chicken and orange juice. But for the leaders of the Fieldston Middle School Environmental Club, who are […]
Dr. April Benasich Visits the 7th Grade
On Friday, January 24, Dr. April Benasich, a neurologist from Rutgers University, spoke to the 7th Grade. Dr. Benasich oversees an infancy lab where her team studies the development of […]
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 […]
Ethical Culture’s Historic, All-Girls Robotics Club Races the Clock
Every year, Lan Heng’s 5th Grade Computer Education class at Ethical Culture focuses on three projects: the school yearbook, a graduation slideshow of memories, and a robotics feat. But some […]
UN Official Visits ECFS as 7th Grade Studies Climate Change
On a frigid Friday in January — less than a week after temperatures in New York skyrocketed to a summery 70 degrees — Hamid Rashid, Chief of the Development Research […]
ECFS Community Gathers for Solidarity March
Sunday, January 5, was a bright, brisk day. The sun warmed the faces of members of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School community as they marched, shoulder to shoulder, across the […]
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, […]