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Westfield Friends School Celebrates International Day of Peace
The annual celebration was on Sept. 21.
Westfield Friends School students celebrated the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21 by making peace doves to hang along the fence that borders the school’s campus on Riverton Road in Cinnaminson, school officials said this week. The doves are multi-colored and share messages of peace with the entire community.
The Westfield community of students and teachers also wore white as a symbol of peace and joined hands in the “back yard” of the school to send messages of peace and harmony out into the world.
Beginning in 1981, the United Nations General Assembly declared Sept. 21 as the International Day of Peace. This is a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
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The theme of this year’s commemoration was “Partnerships for Peace – Dignity for All.” The goal was to highlight the importance of all segments of society to work together to strive for peace.
Westfield Friends School (established in 1788) is a coed, Quaker Day School serving students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade and centrally located in Cinnaminson.
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As a Friend’s school, each child is nurtured and valued as an important part of the community. Education of the whole child includes a strong academic program, vibrant classes in music, visual arts, languages, and computers and the ability to recognize and cherish the light in each person.
Students are prepared both academically and socially for rigorous high schools in the region and develop a lifelong love of learning and a concern and care for their classmates and the wider world in which they live.
As a Quaker School, Westfield Friends teaches the values (known as the Quaker SPICES) to their students beginning at the youngest age in Pre-K through the teenage years in eighth grade.
The school teaches the values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship of the environment.
Students take these teachings with them as they graduate and move on to their high school and college years and beyond.
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