FLYER NEWS HOMEROOM HEADLINES March 25 - March 29, 2019 Good morning FHS! Salute to Framingham! Congratulations to our Student and Staff Honorees! CONGRATULATIONS! Health and Physical Education Department Head Mike Foley to be Inducted into the Swim Coaches Hall of Fame! Read more... Class of 2019 Roast: Strader Skewed FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL PLEASE NOTE MARCH 26-29 FIRST AND SECOND PERIOD FLIPPED FOR MCAS TESTING March 25: Day 7 CBGFE March 26: Day 1 ABCDE March 27: Day 2 CADGF March 28: Day 3 BAEFG March 29: Day 4 ACDEF DATES TO REMEMBER March 25: Election packets for class officers, student government and Student Advisory Council are available from Ms. Abreu in B205 March 26-29: MCAS ELA Class of 2021 March 28: Framingham State University, McCarthy Center Forum 7:00pm Space Hero or Nazi Villain? The life of Wernher von Braun - register below March 28: METG 2019 Drama Festival Finals at the John Hancock Hall 5:00pm March 31: FSU Sisters Day Out for FHS 12:00pm at FSU (details in flyer below) April 2: NHS Blood Drive April 4: Mr. FHS 7:00pm auditorium April 4: Diversity Forum 2:00 E 117 April 5: Term III ends May 1: AM Collaboration May 6-17: AP Exams MCAS ELA MCAS ELA is this week. Testing room assignments are posted in the windows of the main office and the grade offices. Your homeroom teacher also has a list of testing room assignments. If you do not know your testing dates and room assignment, I ask that you please be certain to know this by the end of the day tomorrow. Computer based MCAS ELA testing is for 2 days only. Half of the class is testing on March 26th and 27th and the other half of the class is testing on March 28th and 29th. Please report to your testing room immediately after first period on the days that you are assigned to MCAS ELA. Testing begins promptly at 8:34. If you have any questions about MCAS testing, please see Mr. McGillivrary. All MCAS test administrators and proctors are reminded to read the script verbatim. Homework should be kept to a minimum and major assessments should not be administered to students who are scheduled for MCAS. Framingham State University Elevate and Connect: Youth Summit 2019 Open to all students. First come, first served basis, 20 seats available. Please contact Rachel Erickson at the College and Career Center in the Library. FHS Robotics Team 9421X invited to the 2019 VEX World Championship!: This is the sixth year in a row the FHS team will have compete at Worlds and the fifth year in a row that 9421X has been at Worlds. We are the only Massachusetts public high school to compete in six out of the last six years. There are only two other schools in New England that have made six of the last six, congratulations! Flyers by Night is a huge success!! FHS Drama Company will be advancing to the State Finals of the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild festival with their production of Animal Farm. The state finals feature the top fourteen productions in the state will span over three days at the John Hancock Building in Boston. Awards from the Semi-Final Round were presented to: ● Natalia Buitta for the role of Napoleon ● Michael Celestin for the role of Old Major ● Jessie Landes for the role of Squealer ● Diego Castrillo-Vilches, Alex McLaughlin, and Brendan Qi for Live Music ● Caitlyn Doucette, Vicky DaSilva, Maya Puffer, and Michelle Moran for Make-Up and Hair Design and Execution ● Bridget Donovan for Lighting Execution FHS will perform as the first show of the weekend - Thursday, March 28th @ 5:00pm. They will also perform for freshman English classes this week on Thursday, March 21 @ 8:00am. Please come and support the FHSDC with their long-standing legacy at State Finals! From School Counseling: 10th and 11th graders: You must schedule an appointment with your school counselor to complete your schedule for next year. This must happen before March 29th. 11th graders - you received a link in your email to your counselor’s appointment book. 10th graders - you can sign up on the school counseling website. 9th graders: You received your course recommendation forms in homeroom last week. Counselors will be pulling students from math courses in order to meet with each student to review course selections during the last week of March and first week of April. In the meantime, please discuss your recommendations and electives with your teachers and parents and guardians. Please come ready to your assigned math class to choose classes. Aspen X2 new feature enabled - Password Reset Portal In Aspen, there is a self-service password reset feature which allows users to reset their account password without having to call the Technology Helpdesk for assistance. If you are an FPS Staff member or a student in grades 6-12 you can use the password reset feature, but you need to set the security preferences before using it for the first time. Please refer to the documentation below to set up your security questions. This documentation can also be found on the Technology department Aspen X2 Information webpage. There are also links on every school website under the homepage Quick Links and in the Families and Students menu section, so that it can be easily referenced. Aspen X2: Setting Your Security Questions for Password Reset Aspen X2: Self-Service Password Reset Instructions The Office of Technology strongly encourages students in grades 6-12 and all FPS staff to enable Aspen X2 security questions and use the password reset link. We are hoping the password reset portal will make the process of logging into Aspen X2 easier for staff, students and families as we approach the time of year when more people access their accounts for transportation registrations and viewing school data. Please note: 1. If your account is disabled, you will have to call the helpdesk for a password reset. At that time, we will instruct you on how to set up the security preferences. 2. Parents and Students currently log into the student’s Aspen X2 account with the same login ID and password. SCHOLARSHIPS - College & Career Center Senior students -- there are a number of scholarships posted on Naviance and in the College & Career Center (A106) that are due between 1/1/19 and 5/1/19. Need help applying? See Ms. Erikson in the College & Career Center (A106). Seniors: Remember to complete the FAFSA. Your financial aid package depends on it! Seniors: If you received notice that you qualified for the Koplik Scholarship, please remember that your application is due to your counselor by May 1st. Framingham State University, McCarthy Center Forum 7:00pm Space Hero or Nazi Villain? The life of Wernher von Braun Few figures in the history of technology provoke a reaction as quickly as Wernher von Braun. The rocket scientist was a card-carrying Nazi who built the world's first ballistic missile with slave labor from concentration camps. As the war wound down, he surrendered to the Americans who took his rocket-building team and his talents to the United States, along with hundreds of Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians under the auspices of “Operation Paperclip”. In the United States he first designed weapons and eventually was in charge to develop the epic Saturn V rocket that sent six sets of Apollo astronauts to the moon. In between, he managed, through charm, wit and undeniable genius, to become a charismatic spokesman for space travel in America. The speaker is Dr. Michael Neufeld, from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Neufeld’s careful research provides a view of von Braun as a man like Goethe's Faust, who "uses his infernal powers to build great engineering works for what he believes to be the betterment of mankind." Faust mistreats his workers and inadvertently kills people in his way, but he feels no guilt, because "he cannot accept personal responsibility." The event is free and open to the public but registration is required. Click HERE to register. For more information visit: https://moon-landing.org/events/vonbraun --- The 2019 FHS Library March Madness is upon us. This year we will be deciding: What pop culture moment in the last 100 years was most significant in moving forward the cause of social justice in America? Vote here for who moves from Final Four to the "Terrific Two"! March Madness Schedule Mon. 3/25: Final Four Voting closes - (4 --> 2) Thurs. 3/28: Championship Voting closes - (2 --> 1) Fri. 3/29: Winner announced - FACULTY AND STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS FHS Staff Book Club - Upcoming Book Discussions 3/27 @ 2:30 pm in the Closed Classroom - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 4/24 @ 2:30 pm in the Closed Classroom - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Several members of our book club are considering enrolling in a Reflective Reading course offered for grad credits online by Dominican University out of California: Dominican University Reflective Reading Course. So, we decided to choose our books for the next 3 months from the course’s book list; all of these books are ones that had been on our “to-read” list anyway, so we’re killing 2 birds with one stone. Our book discussions will not be related to the course, so you’re welcome to come discuss these books with us whether you’re planning to take this course or not. FHS Staff Yoga Tuesday afternoons at 2:20pm in the Library Closed Classroom, for a 70 minute class.