Month: April 2017

  • Living the Legacy

    Living the Legacy

    During the cold month of January, FXW students and families warmed hearts and spread good cheer by completing eight group service projects, including: Spending a combined 200 hours cleaning St. Malachy School and sorting and organizing food for 30 hours at the Lakeview Pantry Making 40 loveys for the babies in the NICU at Lurie…

  • FXW Creates Community Around Math

    FXW Creates Community Around Math

    More than 110 families participated in FXW’s 2nd annual STEM Night. They participated in 22 different events ranging from exploring gravity and programming robots to creating rockets out of paper and straws. Students showed their parents how to use maker-space while cardboard challenges encouraged creative problem solving and engineering. In addition, 7th and 8th graders…

  • February Athletics

    February Athletics

    In the spirit of friendly rivalry, FXW and Sacred Heart–two great, independent Catholic schools — participated in a compassionate rivalry during this month’s recent basketball competition. Joseph Carlini, FXW’s Athletic Director said: “These two schools represent what is great about independent catholic education and what is certainly needed in our city right now and in…

  • Did You Know?

    Did You Know?

    Over 142 FXW families teamed up with DKMS (a non-profit blood donor registry) in order to help parent, Jacey Walsh, find a blood donor match with the hope that she could have a life-saving stem cell transplant. Now, our donor families are on the registry and might help someone well beyond the walls of FXW.…