Academic Challenge
FSW offers a challenging, innovative, effective curriculum that exceeds the standards set forth in the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Our aim is to provide a nurturing, individualized, child-centered, reality-based learning environment that enables each child to develop according to his/her inner needs, interests, and abilities, and to achieve his/her fullest emotional, social, spiritual, and academic potential. Our preschool program lays a critical foundation for future growth as students explore areas such as Practical Life, Sensorial Activities, Cultural Areas, Language, Mathematics, Art and Kindermusik, and hone their large and small motor skills in our outdoor environment. In elementary and middle school, students focus on Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science on a daily basis, in conjunction with enrichment courses and activities such as Physical Education, Spanish, Art, Music, Service Learning and Meeting for Worship. In Middle School enrichment courses are expanded to include French, Yearbook, Drama, Dance, Chorus, Keyboarding, Essential Computer Skills, Student Newspaper, Quakerism, Health, and Study Skills. Our curriculum is relevant, research-based, developmentally appropriate and process-oriented. It emphasizes social justice and personal responsibility throughout.