GFS News

History Department Head, Rob Goldberg, received the prestigious 2024 Lawrence W. Levine Award for his book, "Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children's Toys in 1960s and 1970s America."

The joyful energy was infectious as GFS students, faculty, and staff gathered to witness the partial solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Rana Roosevelt ’25 uses poetry to process her own life experiences while at the same time considering the experience of those who hear or read her work.

Thirty high school students tested their coding might at GFS' annual Quackathon earlier this month. The winners designed new solutions for measuring neighborhood trash output and improving the distribution of food to food banks. 

Now in its seventh year, the Philadelphia Youth Film Festival has grown from the wild idea of a few industrious students into a well-oiled machine that perennially impresses.

Thanks to the joyous and generous spirit of the GFS community, both on campus and online, this year's Giving Day broke a record. For 24 hours, students, faculty, staff, parents, grandparents, alumni and friends rallied to raise more than $340,000 - our highest ever amount, and reach our goal of 500 gifts, too, for a total of 591. 

Chris Allen’s drive to tell complex, untold stories was born at GFS. 

Each January at GFS, upper school students take a break from their studies and school day routine to venture out into the unknown.

During the 1960s and 70s, social activists targeted children’s toys in their quest for change and found surprising success. This is the uncharted story GFS Upper School History Head Rob Goldberg tells in his new book, “Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America” published this past fall by Duke University Press.