Over the past few years club life at Abington Friends School has seen many changes. Following the COVID-19 shut down, remote learning, and hybrid instruction, student life had been decimated with very...

If there are three words that every American high school student has heard in their history class, those words are “freedom of speech.” Included in every lesson plan is the assurance that this baseline...

Recently, Abington Friends School took nine students to the Pennsylvania Scrollathon event at Germantown Friends School. AFS mentioned this field trip to students after it happened, but some may still...

The College Board—a nonprofit ubiquitous in the area of college applications—moved the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to digital-only in 2024 and have been broadly moving their testing protocols to...

As schools nation-wide begin to adopt more intrusive badge-based security and entry systems, Abington Friends School is keeping up with this crack down on security. In the first week of school, every AFS...

October 10, 2025 may have started off as a normal day–students attending classes, chattering in the hallway, frantically finishing assignments–but it certainly did not end as most Fridays normally...

This October, Abington Friends School will roll out a sweeping phone ban for upper school students using Yondr pouches. Yondr pouches have become increasingly popular in recent years, with an estimated...

Earlier this fall, a service dog joined the AFS community to assist student Isabel Grey ‘26. The dog is well-trained and only on campus for Grey, but there are important behaviors for students to be...

On September 10, 2025, one man and his rifle rocked the nation. On that fateful Wednesday, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot through the neck by a sniper while talking to students at Utah Valley...

With a large number of students relying on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in some capacity and that number only seeming to grow by the year, the news of a number of routes...

AFS Roobotics will no longer be competing at tournaments this school year–here’s some clarity on why. There are several factors that have pushed this decision, and we’ve interviewed students as well...

Through a time of constant change, news sources provide information, some of which hold varying perspectives, and at times, biases.  This past week, students of all high school grades and teachers...