Students from Fairview, including high school students Casey Bolla, Julia Burford, and Ellery Nornhold, attended the "Ship to Shore" Program conducted by the Regional Science Consortium. They sailed on the converted fishing vessel the Lettie G. Howard, drew aquatic samples from the bay, learned about the physics behind shipbuilding and used these principles to create their own vessel prototype.
Students in Mrs. Iapalucci's Creative Writing classes began a poetry unit by working in groups to create spine poems using their independent reading books!
The winner of athlete of the week in gym class!
8th Grade Honors ELA students have been focusing on elements of author's craft. Last week, we applied our understanding of imagery & sensory details to create Paint Chip Poems. This creative writing task was also a perfect time to implement all stages of the writing process, with a focus on prewriting and peer review.
Mr. Barbour’s AP Research class spent the day at the PennWest Edinboro Baron-Forness Library. They accessed the library’s digital research collection and checked out books. They also got the chance to speak with AP Research students from Northwestern and General McLane about their respective research questions. It was a very productive day!
The AP Physics students use a dot timer to analyze the motion of a walking person. In the second lab they used the dot timer to determine the velocity of a falling object with respect time in order to use the appropriate graph procedures to calculate the gravity at Fairview high school!
The FHS World Language Department would like to say bienvenido, bienvenue and welcome to our new Spanish teacher David Segoviano. Raised in Mexico City, educated right here in Pennsylvania and after 10 years of teaching at Seneca High School, Mr. S brings invaluable experience that will greatly benefit our language program.
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.
