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 […]

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Varsity Boys Soccer Scores State Championship

The afternoon of Sunday, November 3, was cold and windy. As the Fieldston Varsity Boys Soccer team zigzagged across the field at Manhattanville College, passing the ball back and forth […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Innovative Haute Couture from the House of ECFS

The first dress to come down the runway is iridescent. Light bounces off dozens of sheets of cellophane, folded and layered to form the full skirt of a ball gown. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Unity Without Unison: Fieldston Dance and New Second Line

“What is your intention today?” The question is posed to seven Fieldston Upper girls who are sitting down in a circle in Fieldston’s dance studio. As implied by the face […]

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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 […]

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