FHS Sketchbook Winners of the Week
Ping Pong Club is back in action! After the retirement of Mrs. Stevens, Ms. Nelson's room now houses the table and the energetic club members!
Physical Education is a favorite of students shown here enjoying a game of volleyball.
Students in the upper level French courses have been reading "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. They also had the chance to act out chapters 10-15.
Ms. Turner's ninth grade environmental science students moved with teams through a variety of stations to review biomes.
Learning shape, form, space and texture in intro to the visual arts. Thanksgiving style.
Aditya Turaga and Bhavani Devineni carefully adjust the temperature of a water bath to study the effect of temperature on enzyme activity. Gurjap Singh and Amani Thomas use Vernier LabQuest interfaces and spectrophotometers, purchased with the help of the Fairview School Foundation, to measure the rate of enzyme activity.
Mrs. Nies's Law courses recently heard a presentation from local defense attorney, Breyton Graves, who works for Sebald, Hackwelder and Knox. Attorney Graves spoke about his educational background, the legal process and his real life courtroom experiences. The students found the presentation engaging and interesting!
Class champions for the BSL this week, Hockey, Gator Ball and Pickleball.
Fun Friday with Mrs. Nies, Mr. Corbin, and Mrs. McManus' classes.
Mrs. Fair’s 10th Grade English class combined their ELA and engineering skills to create forts that could withstand the elements on the island in the novel Lord of the Flies. Students used textual evidence to both build their forts and design the tests necessary to determine if their huts could withstand the harsh elements on the island. Students designed tests for sand storms, earthquakes, rain, wind, rock slides, and possible attacks from the island beast using simple materials like spray bottles, kitty litter, rocks, and a fan.
Public Speaking students, Javis Nesbitt, Ethan Dongre, Elisa Garcia, and Quinn McGinty from Mrs. Fair’s Public Speaking class acted as Sharks for 6th grades Shark Tank projects today! The Sharks were tough but made some great deals today!
¡Vamos a España! Ariana Belfiore and LaRaena Cruz have been awarded full scholarships to our 2025 trip, sponsored by @fairviewschoolfoundation. These deserving young women demonstrate dedication and excellence in our Spanish program each day as they did in their scholarship essays. ¡Felicidades Ariana y Raena! ¡Y gracias Fairview School Foundation!
Students in Mrs. Quiggle's American Studies class created posters about new technologies created during World War 1. They also made note-taking guides for their peers. Here they are, completing a Gallery Walk as they learn.
Members of Fairview's Speech & Debate team participated in the annual M&M Invitational tournament at Behrend, co-hosted by McDowell and Mercyhurst Prep. The tournament attracted over 200 students from 14 schools. Many plaques were earned by our Tigers. Allie & Maggie Mahoney were the tournament champions in Duo Interp. Hannah Nichols was double-entered in Prose and Poetry and finished in third and sixth place respectively. Ulyana Hoja earned her first bid to next spring's state tournament by finishing fourth in Student Congress. Other Tigers called to the stage for awards were: Bhavani Devineni - 5th in Prose; Tanmay Sharma - 5th in Original Oratory; Peter Trabold - 3rd in Impromptu; Shaheer Essa - 5th in Student Congress; and the duo Interp team of Maddy Poese & Zaina Mansour made their debut and finished in 3rd place. Congratulations to all!
Students in Ms. Nelson’s American Studies 9 class are “on the trolley” as they practice analyzing 1920’s primary source posters and write using fun slang words of the era. The activity was the “bee’s knees”!
Students in Mrs. Quiggle’s American Studies class question one another in an attempt to determine if the assassination of Archduke Fran’s Ferdinand was part of a larger, European royal conspiracy.
Four students were able to go to Penn State Behrend for Women in Engineering Day. They learned from women Engineers from our local industries through hands on experiences.
Every week in Spanish 1, Señor Lowe chooses two "estudiantes de la semana" (students of the week) based on who has been an example of good character in the previous week. With a little help from home, the students have to determine who the student is based on facts presented in Spanish. All of the students will be chosen at some point in the class because at Fairview, everyone shows examples of good character! La pregunta: Who will it be next week?
Mr. Parmeter's students are working hard in the classroom. The students are solving and graphing linear inequalities and presenting their results to the classroom where they are discussed. Hands on practice are big keys to mastering the math content, and helps prepare for the Keystone test given to the Algebra 1 students in January.
