
Today in Media Literacy 7, 7th grade students had a guest speaker, Ariana Moyer, from Erie News Now. Ariana helped prepare the class for their upcoming interview project called "Humans of My School." Ariana covered information about interviews, jobs in journalism and answered questions. Then many students got the chance to practice their interview skills on each other in front of Ariana and with Ariana.

Congratulations to Hannah Nichols for being named a Semifinalist in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. Hannah is one of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 70th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring.
Congratulations Hannah! Way to make the tigers proud!

Students in Ms. Nelson’s 9th grade American Studies course practice geography skills using various modalities: physical maps, online quiz tools, audio songs, and kinesthetic tactual puzzles. Mrs. Fox sang with us too and joined the conversation where we reflected on how our brains learn.





Teacher's Assistant Shaheer Essa provides feedback to Robbie Chevalier and Julia Burford as they complete a peer evaluation of another lab group's science notebook in AP Biology.


Miss Miele’s AP English Language and Composition students created engaging presentations to demonstrate their understanding of the content and rhetorical strategies used in their summer reading book, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. Their presentations displayed strong analysis skills!






This week in 7th grade ELA, students have begun a collaborative project to design a utopia. Each class looked at examples of utopias, considered the large problems in the world, and began redesigning our physical world to eliminate issues. This activity promotes science fiction writing skills by employing scientific, technological, and medical solutions to formulate a perfect society!




On Friday, August 30th, FMS kicked off this year's ROAR program with a school wide pep assembly. Students were reintroduced to the ROAR program and school expectations.

On Friday, teachers were welcomed back to school by some of our students, band and cheerleaders. It was a great day!






Hot off the presses, Mr. Barbour's most recent article written for Edutopia.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/starting-faculty-summer-book-club

The Fairview School District is holding open sessions for anyone who needs support this week. Please join us at FHS today from 6-8 PM or 1-3 PM tomorrow. Therapy dogs will be present at both sessions.


Former FMS 8th grader, Mariya Hoja, won the state Civics Bee competition in Hershey last Friday. She beat fourteen other competitors from around the state and will represent Pennsylvania in the National Civics Bee competition in Washington DC this November. Congratulations Mariya on a job well done! Good luck in November!





Dear Fairview Family,
Please see the attached letter from Mr. Stark, which was also emailed to all families earlier today and posted on Schoology. In addition to the information in this letter, please keep the following links for your information as needed:
How to help a grieving friend (link to the Caring Place site):
https://highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/pdf/help_grievingfriend.pdf
https://highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/pdf/questions_grieving_children_ask.pdf
https://highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/pdf/questions_grieving_teens_ask.pdf


Erie County Technical School's May Student of the Month.





Using PCR and gel electrophoresis equipment purchased using a Fairview School Foundation MiniGrant, Bubba Tofel proudly displays his Agricultural Monitoring for Antibiotic Resistance results.



Our last Chopped Chef's campions of this school year were Emma Gyllenberg, Will Harmston, Ethan Dongre and Cadence Gannoe with a Garlic Shrimp Creamed Corn. This was an original recipe created by students for their final project.


9th and 10th grade Wellness getting ready for summer with backyard games, pickleball, and CPR.






Recently, 5 girls from the 7th grade traveled to Penn State Behrend for the 29th Annual Math Options Career Day. They participated in a variety of hands-on interactive workshops that demonstrated careers and educational opportunities related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields.






Over the Memorial Day weekend, members of Fairview's Speech & Debate team were in Chicago for the NCFL Grand National Championships. They were among approximately 2000 students from across the US. Four Tigers managed the difficult task of breaking into Day 2 of the competition - the highest number to do so in at least 28 years! Theo advanced to the semi-final round of Student Congress; Anish and Lucky were octo-finalists in Declamation. Lucky then advanced to the quarter-final round before bowing out, placing 16th - 3 places higher than last year! In Extemp, Peter also made it to quarters and placed 22nd, outdoing his 26th place finish from last year! Congrats to these four as well as to Ulyana, Tanmay and Shaheer who also qualified for the tournament! It was an amazing season!

Nine students from Fairview Middle School - Jailyn Bull, Jenna Bull, Lennon Cook, Mariya Hoja, Nora Khan, Maha Rallapalli, Sahasra Talla, Logan Thompson, and Shri Veeranki - recently competed at the PJAS State Meet, located at Penn State University. Each student designed and conducted professional experiments, and they presented their findings to a panel of judges. These students performed exceptionally well, earning eight First Awards and one Second Award. Logan Thompson even earned a perfect score. Congratulations to these participants for their impressive projects!




Pre-AP Biology students, Corbyn Pontier and Sarah Adams, successfully transform bacteria with pGLO.

