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FRAMINGHAM HIGH SCHO OL The Friendly Flyer INSIDE THIS ISSUE: VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 OCTOBER 2017 Principal’s 1 Corner Department 2-14 Principal’s Corner News Social Studies 2 Dear FHS Families, Tech/Engineering 2 It is hard to believe we have reached November already! Term I report cards were issued on Health/PhysEd 3 November 3 to all students. The Spring 2017 MCAS results were mailed this past week. Students in the Class of 2018 who are recipients of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Math 3 recently received notification via postal mail. The John and Abigail Adams Scholarship is a merit-based scholarship program that provides a tuition waiver for up to eight semesters of World Language 4-5 undergraduate education at a Massachusetts state college or university. To be eligible, Fine/Performing 6 students must score in the Advanced category on one of three high school MCAS tests in Arts English Language Arts, Mathematics, or STE (Biology, Chemistry, Introductory Physics or Technology/Engineering), score in the Proficient or Advanced category on the remaining two Special Education 6 high school state assessment tests, and have a combined MCAS score on these assessments that ranks in the top 25% in their school district. For more information on the John and English 7 Abigail Adams Scholarship click here. If a student in the Class of 2018 did not qualify for the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, you may quality for the Stanley Z. Koplik Certificate of Bilingual/ESL 8 Mastery Award. This scholarship also provides a tuition waiver a tuition waiver for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education at a Massachusetts state college or university. PSW Youth Careers 9 Please see your counselor if you have any questions about these scholarship programs. Library 10 Dual Enrollment and Early College High School courses will be offered second semester to ADC 11 FHS Seniors and Juniors through Mass Bay Community College and Framingham State University. Lisa Slavin, Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management at Mass Bay Cornerstone 12 Community College, and Erica Reyes Senior Advisor and Coordinator at the Metro West College Planning Center representing FSU, presented these programs to the PTBO at the RFL 13 October meeting. Early College High School course offerings will be determined over the Bridge 14 next few weeks. Applications and registration information will be posted to the website, available in the counseling office as well as the College and Career Center in the 15 FSU-Mass Bay library. Please see Ms. Wong or Ms. Reyes for more information. more details on page 15. School Counsel- 16-17 ing Very best regards, Mrs. Banach, Principal Class News 18-19 Athletics 20-21 Please visit our website at: www.framngham.k12.ma.us For Seniors 22 Follow us on Twitter! @PrincipalBanach @FHSFlyersSports Announcements 23 P A G E 2 Social Studies It has been a busy start for FHS history and social science department. As far as professional development, we have been busy rewriting our modern world assessments as well as analyzing our mastery manager data. Our teachers have been collaborating on updating summer readings and current events projects. Our teachers have been teaching a wonderful array of historical topics. For example, economics students conducted a stock market simulation, US I students have created their own colony, and art history students built Greek art. Our students have been producing wonderful work including Colombian Exchange menus, letters writing letters to Governor Baker on whether or not Columbus Day should be a national holiday, and psychology brain projects. Check out the projects below: Technology/Engineering TV 1 Students just got finished with their introductory weeks on Flyer News live for the first time! Students were able to shadow the normal daily crew then take over for the last half of the week. Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 P A G E 3 Health and Physical Education The Health and Physical Education Department has been off and running this fall. We have been collaborating with other departments for increased student engagement and have been seeing positive results! As we adjust and refine our offerings, we are optimistic about continued success. Into our second year of a district-wide initiative to vertically align Health and PE curriculum, FHS HPE teachers will be conducting peer observations in various buildings across the district. Krysta (Peplowski) Ottaviani and Ellen Sowa will be heading to elementary and middle schools on October 31st. Ellen Sowa also recently attended a 2-day conference with several other folks across the district. It was hosted by Gender Spectrum and provided information about gender identity. She is looking forward to bringing the information she learned back to the district. Ed Mantie attended a 3-day “Game Change” conference about intimate partner violence and bullying prevention. He, along with several other colleagues in the school are looking forward to implementing the program at Framingham High School. As Freshmen Fitness classes begin moving into cardiovascular units, teachers will be using heart rate monitors. Although we have been using this technology for a while now, some classes will be piloting new Polar OH1 monitors. These monitors go around the forearm or upper arm, as opposed to the chest. P A G E 4 World Languages New Staff The World Languages Department is pleased to welcome Ignacio Rodriguez Montero, our fourth visiting teacher from Spain. Señor Rodriguez arrived early this month and is enjoying the warm welcome he has received from FHS faculty and students. FHS Students Abroad Many families attended the informational meeting this month to learn about the Global Navigator Scholarships through The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE). These scholarships are intended to open the world to students, helping them navigate across languages, connect with other cultures, and develop global competencies for thriving in today’s interconnected world. Students can choose from a variety of programs, including global entrepreneurship, marine ecology, public health, community development and cultural experiences. The Global Navigator Scholarships has earmarked $25,000 in scholarship dollars for Framingham High School students to study abroad during the summer of 2018. This will be the third summer FHS students have traveled with CIEE. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who elect to apply to the CIEE Summer High School Abroad programs will be considered for the awards, based on both academic merit and financial need. The application deadline is December 1. It can be found at https://my.ciee.org/login. FHS Students Traveling to Spain Ms. Nollet is organizing a student trip to Spain for April vacation of 2018! Students will be traveling to Madrid and Andalucia, visiting some of the most historic cities in Spain. Planning has been underway since last year. There are still some spots left on the trip - if you are interested, please see Ms. Nollet in D210 or contact her at [email protected] Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 P A G E 5 World Languages, Cont. Spanish Three and Four Students Study Central and South America See below, or walk through A hall, to see the fabulous work our Spanish three and four students have been doing in their study of the geography of Central and South America. Mandarin Chinese Classes Celebrate the Moon Festival The Mandarin Chinese classes made moon cake to celebrate the mid- autumn festival or Moon Festival which fell on October 4th this year. In celebration of the festival, students also read Chang E, a legendary Chinese tale. They then presented the story using shadow puppets and made comparaisons with Thanksgiving. P A G E 6 Fine & Performing Arts Tickets for FHS Drama Company's production of Mary Poppins are available now online at www.showtix4u.com. Performances are November 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 7pm. Special Education October 11, 2017 was Future's Day at FHS. Our learning center class went on a field trip to practice life skills. The class took public transportation, the MWRTA bus to Target. At Target , the students participated in a scavenger hunt, they had to locate items, and determine the price and whether or not they had enough money to buy the items. Then the class went to Shopper's World where they chose a store that they could see themselves wanting to have a job at in the future. They interviewed employees at the stores to find out more about what they do. For example, one group went to PetSmart and spoke to the woman who worked at the "Pets Hotel." She told them about the different jobs she has to do, the animals she takes care of, and why she likes working there. Then the class went to TGI Friday's for lunch where the students practiced ordering off a menu, and paying a bill. Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 P A G E 7 English Mr. Antonellis has joined the English Department as a long-term substitute for Ms. Lovett during her maternity leave. Mr. Antonellis is a former one-to-one aide in the district, is a graduate of Framingham State University’s Teacher Licensure Program, and holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Criticism from UMass Dartmouth. He is also a graduate of FHS! Ms. Sicotte will be taking the junior students from her A.P. English Language classes on a field trip to Walden Woods and the Thoreau Institute at Walden Pond on Oct.30th. Our former teacher of English and current FHS Librarian Ms. Courchesne will serve as a chaperone. The FHS Writing Center (E207) has been busy this term. Since the start of the school year we have recorded 1,188 visits by students who drop in for one-on-one writing conferences with English teachers or just to use a chromebook during a study hall.