FRAMINGHAM HIGH SCHO OL The Friendly Flyer INSIDE THIS VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 WINTER 2018 ISSUE: Principal’s 1 Corner Department 2-14 News Principal’s Corner Social Studies 2 Health/PhysEd 3 Dear FHS Families, World Language 4-5 How quickly the first semester went by! We recently had our Semester II student assemblies to discuss academic stamina, achievement, expectations and respect. Special thanks to our Fine/Performing 6 faculty and staff who presented pertinent information to our students. Class Officers Arts presented on upcoming events including fundraisers, Senior Prom, and Junior Cotillion. English 7 Many of our Seniors have applied Early Action, Early Decision, and Rolling admissions at a number of prestigious colleges and universities. Information on where are students are Bilingual/ESL 8 applying is on page 24. Special Education 8 We have over 50 students taking Early College High School classes at Massachusetts Bay Community College and Framingham State University. We are pleased to offer the PSW Youth Careers 9 Framingham State University class Effective Communication at Framingham High School for the first time. This course is on Tuesday and Thursday immediately afterschool and is Library 10-11 dismissed before the late bus. Summer Session I Framingham State University courses will be offered at FHS beginning mid-May. These college courses are offered at no cost to the RFL 12 student and students earn 4 college credits upon successful completion of the class. Students FSU-Mass Bay 13 who are underrepresented in college admissions or who will be the first in their family to attend college are strongly encouraged to participate. Accessibility to Early College and Dual Class News 14-15 Enrollment college courses is part of our 2017-2020 School Improvement Plan. Dr. David Gotthelf, Ph.D. NCSP presented to the FHS Faculty and Staff on anxiety and school Athletics 16 performance. The presentation covered strategies that educators can use to support students in managing the demands of school and understanding the impact anxiety has on academic School 17-21 progress. This presentation was sponsored by Middlesex Partnerships for Youth. Counseling The Framingham High School Foundation received a very generous donation of $50,000 from Announcements 22-23 Middlesex Savings Bank. These funds will be used to support extra-curricular activities, arts, and athletics at FHS. Please read the full press release on page 23. Exciting News 24 Thank you for all you do to support our students and school community. Very best regards, Senior News 25 Mrs. Banach, Principal Please visit our website at: www.framngham.k12.ma.us Follow us on Twitter! @PrincipalBanach @FHSFlyersSports P A G E 2 Social Studies It has been a busy month in the Social Studies department. We have been working on standardizing our curriculum maps, using understanding by design to standardize our unit plans, and finalizing common exams. We have also been enjoying teaching the Constitution, Great Depression, and Imperialism in our classrooms! We have managed to do all this while still taking our students on an array of field trips. Check out the photo below from Boston House of Blues: Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 P A G E 3 Health and Physical Education The Health and Physical Education Department has been busy doing a variety of professional development. During the November 7th Professional Development day, Stacey Freda, Ed Mantie, and Emily Viti attended the annual MAHPERD Conference. Lara Gibson, Krysta Ottaviani (Peplowski), and Michele Merrick participated in a discussion about trauma-informed yoga practices, and other folks learned about best practices for archery. Julie Williams attended a conference, as a part of the 5-year grant, “Promoting Adolescent Health and School Success” through DESE and the CDC about Parent Engagement. Additionally, continuing with the district initiative for HPE, peer observations are on-going. Lisa Cronin and Michele Merrick visited elementary and middle school health and PE classes on November 21st, Ed Mantie visited middle school PE classes on December 12th. Mike Foley will be visiting classes on January 10th, Stacey Freda and Lara Gibson on January 30th. Winter HPE highlighted course is: Dance Fitness. This course, taught primarily by Krysta Ottaviani (Peplowski) instructs basic dance moves for 8 ballroom dances. Throughout the course, students also learn fitness dances. By the end of the course, students choreograph and teach their own fitness dance! A department favorite ballroom dance is the tango. P A G E 4 World Languages FHS Students Abroad We are delighted to announce that at this point, six FHS students have been offered Global Navigator Scholarships through The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) to travel this summer. These students have been offered money to fund travel to various countries including Peru, Germany, Spain and Portugal. The Global Navigator 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. It’s not too late! If your student is interested in traveling this summer with CIEE there is still money available! Applications are being accepted through February 15th. Students can learn more at my.ciee.org. You can also reach out to Mrs. Jones ([email protected]) or stop by and see her in A200 (the World Languages office). Spain Ms. Nollet is traveling Spain with FHS students during April vacation! Students will be traveling to Madrid and Andalucia, visiting some of the most historic cities in Spain. Planning has been underway since last year. Please see Ms. Nollet in D210 or contact her at [email protected] if you have any questions. Canada Mrs. Hennelly and Ms. Lally are taking students to Quebec City, March 2-4. For those students signed up, the final payment is due to Mrs. Hennelly by January 22. The first student meeting regarding the trip is January 23 in A208. There is also a parent/student meeting Monday, February 12, 6-7pm in the FHS Library. Any questions should be directed to Mrs. Hennelly at [email protected] or you can stop by and see her in A208. Department News VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 P A G E 5 World Languages, Cont. El Día de los Muertos This fall the Spanish classes studied El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead). El Día de los Muertos occurs on November 1st and 2nd each year in Mexico. Families celebrate their loved ones who have died by creating altars in their homes and decorating with candles, photos, or special dishes that their relatives loved. See the pictures of the various altars that were constructed. P A G E 6 Fine & Performing Arts FHS Drama Company Department News Benefit Performance- Friday, March 2nd- 7:00pm FHS Theatre Tickets: $10. Reserve early to ensure that you have a seat. VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 P A G E 7 English We are pleased to have Mr. Antonellis joining the English Department, replacing Mr. Menna who resigned to become an assistant principal at Medway Middle School. Mr. Antonellis is a Framingham native and earned his teaching license through Framingham State. In the Fall he covered for Ms. Lovett during her maternity leave. Three, full-time student teachers will be working in the English Dept. during Semester 2. Mr. Diamond from Brandeis University will be working with Mr. Eliot, Ms. Fischer, and Mr. Antonellis. Ms. Kalesnick from Framingham State will be working with Mr. Pimentel. Ms. Ehrlich from Wellesley College will be working with Mr. Chancey. Congratulations to Sarah Sagan (Class of 2018) who represented FHS in the 2017-2018 Massachusetts Lions Club Youth Speech Competition after winning a preliminary contest in Mr. Compton’s Public Speaking class. The FHS Writing Center has continued to see an increase in usage with a record-breaking 2,473 student visits logged during Term 2. During Semester 1 English Teachers volunteered a total of 77 hours after school for the 289 students who accessed The Writing Center after school. P A G E 8 Bilingual/ESL For Bilingual/ESL at FHS and throughout the district the past month has been all ACCESS all the time. Students have been taking on line tests in each of the four domains: listening, reading, writing and speaking. The month long marathon of testing ends in the first week of February, just in time for the MCAS science retest! On December 6th, a group of Bilingual/ESL students attended a Celtics game as guests of TD Bank. The invitation to be part of the TD Bank Clubhouse came through the efforts of Vinicius De Souza, a former FHS student who is now a manager at TD Bank. In order to select 16 students from the nearly 300 in the program, the department ran a contest. Students were invited to communicate the reasons why they should be chosen to participate. Students at every level submitted entries in the form of essays and power point presentations. Eli Driscoll chaperoned the select group to Boston Garden to watch the Celtics beat the Mavericks 97-90. Special Education Thanks to a DESE grant for transition planning, the special education department has been able to open the Fleagle Market. This is a "school store" where students can purchase pens, pencils, paper, poster board and other school supplies during lunch and study hall periods. It is run by students and they are learning valuable vo- cational skills such as keeping an inventory and using a cash register. The store is self sustaining as all of the money collected goes back into buying more supplies.