Extended Day & Extracurriculars
After school at Fayerweather.
The school day ends at 3:00, but the building doesn't quiet down. Kids stay to build, code, draw, run, rehearse, and roll for initiative in the Gamer's Guild. The afternoon is for chasing whatever's caught their attention, and we've built a calendar that gives them real things to chase.
Extracurriculars
Each season we publish a catalog of clubs and classes students can opt into. The mix shifts year to year, but the range stays consistent: visual art and design, sports, coding, world languages, movement, strategy and tabletop games, building, and outdoor skills. Recent offerings have included parkour with instructors from Parkour Generations Boston, intermediate Scratch coding for kids who've already mastered the basics, a clothing design studio that ends in a fashion show if the designers want one, Pop Art and mixed-media painting, basketball, soccer, yoga, Spanish exposure, and LEGO engineering challenges that introduce real building vocabulary—plates, studs, SNOT, MOC. Classes are led by FSS teachers, specialist instructors, and outside experts we trust with our students.
We choose programs that let a kid go deeper on something they've already started caring about, or stumble into something they wouldn't have found on their own.
Theatre
Our theatre program is one of the things we are quietly proudest of. Grades 3–6 stage a full musical each year. Grades 7–8 produce a play and bring it to the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild's Middle School Drama Festival, where our students compete against schools from across the state. We've come home with Gold Medals, the Stage Manager's Award, Excellence in Props and Costume Design, and multiple Excellence in Acting and Excellence in Performance awards.
While the awards are gratifying, what they show is what we actually care about: middle schoolers running tech, designing costumes, holding scenes, and trusting one another to land a moment in front of an audience that doesn't know them.
Extended Day
Extended Day is our after-school care program, open to all PK–8 students from dismissal until 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday. It's separate from extracurriculars—a place to play, snack, do homework, and be with friends across grade levels. Younger students (PK–2) and older students (3–8) have their own groupings with age-appropriate activities and supervision, and the two groups cross paths often enough that a fourth-grader can still find her kindergarten buddy.
Families can register for the full season or use drop-in care when schedules shift.
Early Morning Care
For families who need an earlier drop-off, Early Morning Care opens at 7:45 AM and runs until classrooms open at 8:15. Students get thirty supervised minutes of free time with FSS specialists before the day begins.