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Est.
1697
For more than 325 years, we’ve adapted to meet each generation’s moment.
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AFS is a community.
At AFS, we like to say it’s not school as usual—it’s learning you feel in your head, your hands and your heart.
Connection fuels learning. Our leadership in experiential learning means student do more, belong more and become more thoughtful, engaged changemakers.
This week at AFS...
!["Community is a Process": Upper School Jams Out with the Philly Sound Exchange]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1775836372/abingtonfriendsnet/dsleuopo65dpqjl1dop0/communityday-4.jpg","width":2048}])
What began as a tech-free experiment—an intentional pause from screens—has grown into something more expansive: a day set apart from the usual rhythm of classes and assignments, where students gather not to be evaluated, but to explore. This year, that exploration took on a new form: a kind of “field day” for the arts, grounded in a central theme—Agency Through the Arts—and brought to life through a partnership with Philly Sound Exchange.
![Seeing the Stars Differently: From Voyager to Artemis in the AFS Classroom]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1775154017/abingtonfriendsnet/vfrczi9o2milyosdlirs/voyager-01-10.jpg","width":2048}])
As the world looks to NASA’s Artemis missions—returning humans to the orbit of our Moon and laying the groundwork for deeper space exploration—our students at Abington Friends School are also learning to see the universe in new ways
![Inside Robotics at AFS: Students Learn How Drones “See” the World]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1773859188/abingtonfriendsnet/d9mffahnsdrn6zowjsan/robotics-drones-penn.png","width":1660}])
Middle and Upper School students at Abington Friends School recently got a hands-on look at cutting-edge drone technology during a special visit from Penn Engineering graduate student Dexter Ong.
![Abington Friends School Names Amy Bosio as New Chief Financial and Operations Officer]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1773092938/abingtonfriendsnet/pqon9ir2n58pwm2tnsqa/afsseal2400x1600px.jpg","width":2200}])
Abington Friends School is pleased to share that Amy Bosio will be stepping into the role of Chief Financial & Operations Officer following the retirement of Martha Scache.
Abington Friends School is pleased to announce that Zaccai Williams will join the school as its next Lower School Director beginning July 1, 2026.
![Nia Hammond '26 Wins WHYY Youth Media Award for West Philly Reporting]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1770926205/abingtonfriendsnet/b8txuy5ucon5sigdv1lt/niahammondreporting.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1770926205/abingtonfriendsnet/b8txuy5ucon5sigdv1lt/niahammondreporting.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1770926205/abingtonfriendsnet/b8txuy5ucon5sigdv1lt/niahammondreporting.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1770926205/abingtonfriendsnet/b8txuy5ucon5sigdv1lt/niahammondreporting.png","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1770926205/abingtonfriendsnet/b8txuy5ucon5sigdv1lt/niahammondreporting.png","width":1239}])
AFS senior Nia has turned a lifelong love of storytelling into action—from launching her own YouTube channel to producing two award-winning, original news segments this summer through WHYY’s Youth Summer Journalism Program.