SFWS 2012-2013 School Year Start Date
The first day for the 2012-2013 school year will be August 27, 2012 for the high school campus and August 29, 2012 for the grade school campus. The last day of school before Winter Break will be Thursday, December 20, 2012 (no school on that Friday), with the grade school resuming classes on Monday, January 7, 2013. The high school will have a Service Day on Monday, January 7, 2013, with regular class schedule resuming on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. The last day of the school year at the grade... Read More
The first day for the 2012-2013 school year will be August 27, 2012 for the high school campus and August 29, 2012 for the grade school campus. The last day of school before Winter Break will be Thursday, December 20, 2012 (no school on that Friday), with the grade school resuming classes on Monday, January 7, 2013. The high school will have a Service Day on Monday, January 7, 2013, with regular class schedule resuming on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. The last day of the school year at the grade... Read More
College Counseling Update
Junior Families: Please mark your calendars: The National Association for College Admissions Counseling will be holding its annual College Fair on Saturday, April 21, 2012, from 1:30 - 4:30PM at the Concourse Exhibition Center at 7th and Brannan in San Francisco We recommend your son or daughter preregister at www.gotomyncf.com and avoid the lines at the door. This is an excellent fair and an opportunity for students to get their questions answered and... Read More
Junior Families: Please mark your calendars: The National Association for College Admissions Counseling will be holding its annual College Fair on Saturday, April 21, 2012, from 1:30 - 4:30PM at the Concourse Exhibition Center at 7th and Brannan in San Francisco We recommend your son or daughter preregister at www.gotomyncf.com and avoid the lines at the door. This is an excellent fair and an opportunity for students to get their questions answered and... Read More
Re-enrollment for 2012-13 is here!
Re-enrollment contracts for returning students for 2012-13 will be mailed February 3rd and need to be returned to the School by February 17th. This return date is earlier than prior years but brings us into line with the enrollment calendar of other area schools. Important: Because we recognize the possible burden of paying tuition and a deposit for next year, we will defer collecting tuition—as we have in the past—for the following dates: February 20th, March 1st and March 5th. FACTS... Read More
Re-enrollment contracts for returning students for 2012-13 will be mailed February 3rd and need to be returned to the School by February 17th. This return date is earlier than prior years but brings us into line with the enrollment calendar of other area schools. Important: Because we recognize the possible burden of paying tuition and a deposit for next year, we will defer collecting tuition—as we have in the past—for the following dates: February 20th, March 1st and March 5th. FACTS... Read More
SFWHS Model United Nations Club
SFWHS Model United Nations Club will travel to UC Berkeley March 9-11 to participate in the 60th BerkeleyModel UN Conference (http://www.bmun.net). We will join over 100 schools from all over the world in this three day conference, debating and discussing actual UN topics, such as the Status of Women, Disarmament, and International Security. Our delegates--twenty students from Grades 9-12--will represent the country of Georgia. Good luck!... Read More
SFWHS Model United Nations Club will travel to UC Berkeley March 9-11 to participate in the 60th BerkeleyModel UN Conference (http://www.bmun.net). We will join over 100 schools from all over the world in this three day conference, debating and discussing actual UN topics, such as the Status of Women, Disarmament, and International Security. Our delegates--twenty students from Grades 9-12--will represent the country of Georgia. Good luck!... Read More
The Oasis 2012 Game: calling all students!
The Oasis Game will take place in Sacramento during February Break (Feb 20 - 24). This is an opportunity to create positive change in the world through community service. Rather than spending that week sleeping in, watching TV, or hanging out with friends, youth leaders from the Sacramento Waldorf School and The GreenHouse will be busy designing, planning, and implementing significant changes in the community. This process, The Oasis Games, is a program of the... Read More
The Oasis Game will take place in Sacramento during February Break (Feb 20 - 24). This is an opportunity to create positive change in the world through community service. Rather than spending that week sleeping in, watching TV, or hanging out with friends, youth leaders from the Sacramento Waldorf School and The GreenHouse will be busy designing, planning, and implementing significant changes in the community. This process, The Oasis Games, is a program of the... Read More
Spring Night 2012We are excited to announce that Spring Night 2012, SFSW’s Annual Benefit Auction will be held on Saturday, April 28 at the General’s Residence in Fort Mason. It will be preceded by the online auction from April 18 - 25. To make Spring Night a successful fund-raising event, we rely on parents and extended community to make donations of services and items to auction. To make a donation, please go to www.sfwaldorf.org/donations. We also ask merchants in the wider Bay Area community to... Read More
Mary Anne McGill, Librarian
Our high school librarian, Mary Anne McGill joined SFWHS six years ago and brings a wealth of experience to the High School Library. She has worked at public, corporate, and academic libraries including the San Francisco Public Library, the Electric Power Research Institute and U.C. Hastings College of the Law. For eleven years, she managed the library for the World Affairs Council of Northern California where her job included planning and producing a weekly "Meet the Author"... Read More
Our high school librarian, Mary Anne McGill joined SFWHS six years ago and brings a wealth of experience to the High School Library. She has worked at public, corporate, and academic libraries including the San Francisco Public Library, the Electric Power Research Institute and U.C. Hastings College of the Law. For eleven years, she managed the library for the World Affairs Council of Northern California where her job included planning and producing a weekly "Meet the Author"... Read More
Liv Leuthold (Class of 2002), UCLA Medical School
After graduating from San Francisco Waldorf High School, Liv Leuthold (SFWS Class of 2002) went to Brown University where she majored in neuroscience. Between college and medical school, she worked with Teach for America where she taught middle school special education for two years in San Jose. She is now finishing her fourth (and final!) year of medical school at UCLA and is applying for residencies in surgery. Advancement Associate Seraph White recently interviewed her about her studies.... Read More
After graduating from San Francisco Waldorf High School, Liv Leuthold (SFWS Class of 2002) went to Brown University where she majored in neuroscience. Between college and medical school, she worked with Teach for America where she taught middle school special education for two years in San Jose. She is now finishing her fourth (and final!) year of medical school at UCLA and is applying for residencies in surgery. Advancement Associate Seraph White recently interviewed her about her studies.... Read More
The HS Drama Club presents..."You Can't Take It with You"
Save the Date: March 23-25 Dance Mission Theater 3316 - 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 The students are hard at work rehearsing already and are having a lot of fun developing their zany characters and working as an ensemble. "You Can't Take It with You" is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened in New York at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances. The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize... Read More
Save the Date: March 23-25 Dance Mission Theater 3316 - 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 The students are hard at work rehearsing already and are having a lot of fun developing their zany characters and working as an ensemble. "You Can't Take It with You" is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened in New York at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances. The play won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize... Read More
Chengdu Waldorf Grade School Receives License in ChinaA milestone was reached for worldwide Waldorf education on 10 January 2012 when the Chengdu Waldorf school received a full license as a grade school (as well as kindergarten) from the education authorities in Chengdu, Sichuan province. This was the result of a “Long March” and some tireless work over seven years by the whole faculty, especially the three founding teachers Li Zhang, Harry Huang, and Zewu Li (father of Mai in the SFWHS tenth grade). Zewu will be visiting the San Francisco... Read More
New Mahogany Bookshelves in HS LibraryOver the Winter break, the HS received a beautiful and greatly needed gift from parent Antoine Noor Adabachi. While students and faculty relaxed into the holidays, Noor designed, built, delivered and installed 92 custom bookshelves for the southern wall of the library. The bookshelves, made of mahogany, double the current space capacity and include five columns of shelving specifically designed for book displays. The library collection had recently reached capacity due to limited shelving... Read More
Annual Fund Updates
Congratulations to K3, 3rd Grade, and 4th Grade for joining K1 and 1st Grade at 100% participation for our 2011-2012 Annual Fund campaign. This wide-based support greatly strengthens our fundraising and supports the mission of the school. Thank you! Read More
Congratulations to K3, 3rd Grade, and 4th Grade for joining K1 and 1st Grade at 100% participation for our 2011-2012 Annual Fund campaign. This wide-based support greatly strengthens our fundraising and supports the mission of the school. Thank you! Read More
Stars Once Spoke – Eurythmy PerformanceSan Francisco Youth Eurythmy Troupe Program 2012Jewish Community Center SF Tuesday February 7th at 7:00 pmWednesday February 8th at 4:00 pm This new program by director Astrid Thiersch will be premiered in February 2012 with students from San Francisco Waldorf High School, 15 to 18 years old. It features choreography to music of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Paul Winter. A special tale, The Dream Eater by Michael Ende, shows the magic side of sleep, and poems in several languages and humoresques... Read More
SFWHS Spirit Week 2012: Tuesday, January 17 - Friday, January 20
SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT! Come support our teams! Monday - MLK Holiday - NO CLASSES/National Day of Service Day Tuesday - PJ Day - students come to school in pajamas (don't forget your robe & slippers!)Games at lunch in parking lot! Wednesday - Sports Team Jersey Day - wear a team jersey or uniformVarsity Girls Basketball Game @ Gateway, 4pmVarsity Boys Basketball Game @ Gateway, 5:30pmGO WALDORF! Thursday - Class Color Day ... Read More
SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT! Come support our teams! Monday - MLK Holiday - NO CLASSES/National Day of Service Day Tuesday - PJ Day - students come to school in pajamas (don't forget your robe & slippers!)Games at lunch in parking lot! Wednesday - Sports Team Jersey Day - wear a team jersey or uniformVarsity Girls Basketball Game @ Gateway, 4pmVarsity Boys Basketball Game @ Gateway, 5:30pmGO WALDORF! Thursday - Class Color Day ... Read More
Tuition Assistance Deadline: January 13, 2012
The Affordable Tuition Program requires an annual application. Families wishing to request a grant for the first time as well as those wishing to continue with the program must have their applications submitted to PSS by January 13 to be considered in the first round of consideration. Please contact Mona Nemetz in the business office at 415-931-2750 ext.304 or mnemetz@sfwaldorf.org if you need application information or visit the "Affording a Waldorf Education" page on our website. Read More
The Affordable Tuition Program requires an annual application. Families wishing to request a grant for the first time as well as those wishing to continue with the program must have their applications submitted to PSS by January 13 to be considered in the first round of consideration. Please contact Mona Nemetz in the business office at 415-931-2750 ext.304 or mnemetz@sfwaldorf.org if you need application information or visit the "Affording a Waldorf Education" page on our website. Read More
Race to Nowhere Film Screening - March 15, 7:00-9:00pmPlease join us for a screening of Race to Nowhere at the high school campus on March 15, 7:00 - 9:00pm. RSVP at http://rtnsfwaldorf315.eventbrite.com/ Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has... Read More
HS Literary Reading at The Booksmith on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
Come and celebrate the release of Full Stop., SF Waldorf High School's biannual literary magazine! On Friday, February 3rd at 5:30 pm, students from the SF Waldorf High School will celebrate the release of the Winter 2012 (Issue Seven)of their literary magazine - Full Stop. at The Booksmith at 1644 Haight Street. Join us for an evening of music, literary readings and delicious refreshments. Contributors Noam Baruch, Jules Christeson, Owen Christofferson, Rebecca Cohen, William... Read More
Come and celebrate the release of Full Stop., SF Waldorf High School's biannual literary magazine! On Friday, February 3rd at 5:30 pm, students from the SF Waldorf High School will celebrate the release of the Winter 2012 (Issue Seven)of their literary magazine - Full Stop. at The Booksmith at 1644 Haight Street. Join us for an evening of music, literary readings and delicious refreshments. Contributors Noam Baruch, Jules Christeson, Owen Christofferson, Rebecca Cohen, William... Read More
Novelist Lisa See"Forgotten History: The Lost Stories of Women's Lives in China" All School AssemblyTuesday, February 14, 20122:45 - 3:35 pm*Parents are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Jessica Eicher at 415.213.6111 or email jeicher@sfwaldorf.org.Book signing to follow program at the SF Waldorf High School From Lisa See's highly regarded international bestseller Snow Flower and the Secret Fan to her bestseller, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See’s novels have been infused with her Chinese... Read More
SF Waldorf High School Winter ConcertThursday, December 8, 6pm San Francisco Scottish Rite Masonic Center2850 19th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132-1602 Located one block from our high school campus, on site parking available. All SFWS families and friends are warmly invited to the annual high school music concert featuringthe High School Orchestra, the Jazz Ensemble, the Guitar Ensembles, World Music and Drumming Ensembles, and the High School Choir. Come and enjoy a festive celebration and a wonderful array of... Read More
Sports Basement Family & Friends Fundraiser Happy Hour!Loading... Friday, December 9, 5:30-7:30pmGet ready for winter adventures WHAT: Complimentary drinks and nibbles for adults and children 10% off your purchase AND 10% donated back to SFWS Great holiday gifts for the outdoor enthusiasts in your life Top-tier gear for snow, hiking, camping, cycling, yoga, running, pilates, swimming and more WHEN: Friday, December 9, 5:30-7:30pm WHERE: Sports Basement, Presidio (across from Crissy Field)610 Old Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94129... Read More
