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The hub of our dynamic N-12 community, Wheeler's campus at the top of College Hill in Providence, offers student-focused learning spaces designed to encourage discovery, collaboration, play, and achievement.
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Our 120-acre farm in nearby Seekonk, MA provides students with state-of-the-art athletic facilities. It's a pastoral counterpoint to our urban campus—and is a living, hands-on laboratory for a range of unique programs.
On the FarmSee Our Stories
We’re almost at the end of a great week here at Wheeler, and we’re wrapping it up with a beautiful shot of last night’s double rainbow over the Hope Building, captured by senior Sky L. ’27. 🌈
“I was walking out of the gym from Volleyball practice, ready to go home,” says Sky, “when I heard people really excited about something, so I went to look and saw how beautiful the sky looked with the double rainbow. I had to capture it because it felt like a rare moment we were lucky to see. It made me feel happy and appreciative, and I felt like it was a special moment for our team.” 🌅
And now, we’re heading into the weekend with Friday Night Lights! Good luck to our Varsity Field Hockey and Varsity Girls Soccer @WheelerWarriors as they take the field tonight at Wheeler Farm. Both games start at 4:30pm. 🏑⚽
Oct 2
Nursery Teachers Ashley Kenner P’28, P’33 and Matt Silveira noticed early on that the children in this year’s Mockingbird class have a keen eye for spotting creatures 👀 in the forest. On nearly every trail adventure, Mockingbirds can be found turning over logs 🪵, digging in damp soil, or searching high and low in hopes of finding living things.
From finding salamanders 🦎 at Fire Pond to watching turtles 🐢 sunbathe at Wheeler Pond, Mockingbirds captured the many moments and conversations sparked on the trail and began creating a catalog-style classroom book titled “Mockingbird Forest Book.”
Each student designed their own page and recalled their observations through a co-writing process with Ms. Kenner and Mr. Silveira. For example, Ethan described a moment when he found a worm: “I am holding a worm. I am not being rough. I am being gentle. I found it under a rock. I moved it and it was heavy.”
Other Mockingbirds were eager to contribute what they already knew about their animals, like Livy, who recalled, “Sometimes frogs are green or gray. Some toads look like frogs.”
After completing their first set of pages in their forest book, Mockingbirds and their teachers shared a few excerpts from their creation at the Nest’s first community meeting of the year. They also led four other classrooms in an animal guessing game, putting their growing knowledge of the farm’s forest to the test! 🌳🌲
Oct 2
The Hamilton Institute presents its fifth annual Learning Differences Seminar with Dr. Gregory Fabiano, who will deliver the keynote address, “New Directions in Intervention and Treatment for Children with ADHD,” on October 15.
Dr. Fabiano will share newly studied, research-supported approaches for supporting children with ADHD, followed by a Q&A and conversation about how to put these approaches into practice.
He’ll also discuss the latest innovations in treatment, including positive behavior supports in the classroom, effective parenting strategies, and a broader shift from a symptom-based, deficit model toward approaches that promote academic and social-emotional skill development. Attendees will leave with practical tools and strategies to help every child build the skills they need to thrive.
Educators, parents, caregivers, clinicians, and individuals with ADHD are encouraged to attend!
You can learn more about the seminar and RSVP through the link in our bio. And if you’d like to hear from Dr. Fabiano before then, he was recently the featured guest on the inaugural episode of the all-new “Unlocking Unique Minds” Podcast (listen via https://bit.ly/4hXCAJH).
As Dyslexia Awareness Month begins, we’re looking forward to sharing more upcoming events and program activities from the Hamilton Institute. ♥️
Oct 2
In a special moment on the soccer pitch today at Wheeler Farm, Head of School Mark Anderson P’27 watched his oldest child, Stella, coach her Friends Academy Middle School squad to a 1-1 tie against the Warriors.
“Stella is a teaching fellow at Friends Academy, teaching Middle School English and coaching soccer,” Mr. Anderson shared along with this dad and daughter selfie.
“After many years of watching Stella play sports, I was proud to see her on the sideline coaching her students/players and passing along her love of the game.” @friends1810
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