Fayerweather Street School

We end this year inspired, hopeful, and more than a little teary-eyed as our intrepid Class of 2026 walks out the doors of Fayerweather Street School ready to keep doing big things that challenge us to make the world stronger, wiser, and more just. Congratulations, Fayerweather Streeet School Class of 2026!

All School Meeting is one of the ways we practice being a community, by listening, showing up, and building something together. Last Friday, we kicked off Pride season with our annual LGBTQ+ Pride ASM, with student-led presentations, musical numbers (and a special appearance by a certain Pink Pony Club member!), a full-school pride parade, and a dance party to close it out.

Happy Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

Walking the halls of Fayerweather is always an explosion of color, but especially now while our Spring Art Show is up! Students from PreK up through 8th grade have their work on display, from fiber arts and figure drawing, to ceramic puppetry, mug making, pond dioramas, and more! The gallery stays up until May 28 when we throw our annual Music & Art Fest with musical performances from students of all ages!

If you were anywhere near Fayerweather today, you probably heard a loud chorus of people screaming "Go Boats!" at the top of their lungs. That's because today was our annual Regatta, a Fayerweather tradition where students build boats and then race them against each other. More than just a fun event (though it really is!), it's also the culmination of weeks of hard work as students build their boats from scratch and then undergo several rounds of testing for buoyancy, seaworthiness, and aero/hydrodynamics. The boats are iterative, meaning they've gone through multiple changes to reflect what each student learned during their testing.

This year, we also added a new dynamic: older students had the option to build non-wind powered boats, with motors made of battery powered fans, dynamic energy rubber bands, and more!

Things got totally tubular at Fayerweather today on 80s Day (our fourth day of Spirit Week). There were, of course, scrunchies, neon colors, and more, but this is Fayerweather, so some of us took it a little further, which is why you'll see people dressed like they're in their 80s (or even one gnarly medieval soldier from the 1280s).

Well, it's hump day, and some of our students had some really strange looking humps on their back ... and that's because today was also Anything But a Backpack Day for Spirit Week! Whether it was picnic baskets, coolers, suitcase, colanders , or bindles, our students were creative and resourceful (and now we know that they could figure out a way to get all the groceries in the house in one trip!).

Spirit Week had us seeing double (and triple! and quadruple! and ...) today as PreK through 6th grade dressed up to match! And our Unit students took it a step further as they chose the theme "Rhyme without Reason." (Can you guess the rhyming looks in the last picture?)

May the Fourth be with you!

Today we kicked off Fayerweather Spirit Week with a truly out-of-this-world theme: Star Wars and Space! Jedi knights roamed the halls next to entire galaxies, and our lower school Science teacher, Anna, even got in on the excitement with a fun demonstration of gravity and orbits!

Stay tuned all week for more themes (all of them incredibly silly)!

In today's photos: an older student and a kindergartener who stayed in their book long after play time had started.

That's our Special Friends program. Across the school, older students are paired with younger ones for the year. The pairs stay together so the relationships have time to grow.

The point of it: our younger students get to feel known by an older friend, and our older students get to see themselves as mentors, both socially and academically.

This is what we mean when we say learning at Fayerweather happens in community.

Twenty-five of our eighth graders are graduating in June. Next year they'll be at nine different high schools:
Cambridge School of Weston (6 students)
Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (5)
Somerville High School (5)
Boston University Academy (3)
Minuteman High School (2)
Concord Academy (1)
Dublin School (1)
Milton Academy (1)
Arlington High School (1)

Some are staying close to home in Cambridge or Somerville. Others are heading an hour away. The list includes large public schools, small independent day schools, a regional vocational-technical school, and a boarding school in southern New Hampshire.

What you're looking at is the result of a placement process that begins, really, much earlier than the application year. The teachers and advisors who guide our 8th graders through their high school search have been teaching and learning from these kids for years. They know them. So when it comes time to apply, the question is concrete: where is this particular kid most likely to keep growing? The answer is different for different students, which is why a graduating class of 25 ends up at 9 different schools rather than two or three.

Congratulations to the Class of 2026. We're so proud of you, and we can't wait to see where you go from here.