A special thanks to Officer Ras for presenting in Mrs. Nies's law class this week. Officer Ras discussed school safety, local crime and the importance of having self-awareness.
As part of the Harry Potter elective course, students crafted Patronus Night Lights. After reflecting on their individual personality traits (and taking a plethora of online Patronus quizzes), students analyzed the symbolism of various animals and mythical creatures. Just as a Patronus reflects the personality of the wizard who cast the spell, students selected a Patronus that best reflects their personality.
Ninth-grade students in Mrs. Nies’s social studies classes concluded their study of the Progressive Era by creating posters highlighting key amendments and legislation enacted during that period.
Mrs. Nelson’s American Studies 9 students created a cat’s meow sharing environment, complete with floor seating and a fireplace, to share ducky 1920’s stories with their peers. Combining slang words of the decade and poster images, students wrote copacetic tales about tomatoes and big cheeses. The class was on the trolley and hitting on all sixes!
The Ap Physics uses the conservation of energy law in order to determine the velocity of a sphere launched into the air!
The college prep physics proves that clockwise torques and counter-clockwise torques are equal in order to achieve rotational equilibrium!
The latest chapter of the Fairview-Cholet Exchange was a huge success! 26 students and three teachers from the Renaudeau High School spent two weeks living with Fairview families. From the moment the students were reunited after the June portion of the program, to the excursions to Niagara Falls, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, to the moments spent in classes, to the various activities arranged by host families, to the farewell dinner and the teary-eyed goodbyes on October 23, this will go down as one for the books. We look forward to hearing about the students staying in touch and perhaps even getting together again. À la prochaine!
On November 8, Fairview's Speech & Debate team competed in the annual M&M Invitational at Penn State Behrend. The team took second place honors in the Speech sweepstakes thanks to outstanding results by all who represented us. Ulyana Hoja and Shoaib Essa each saw nothing but first place ballots from their judges throughout the day; Ulyana in Student Congress and Shoaib in Impromptu. Mariya Hoja was the tournament champion in Extemporaneous speaking and the Duo Interp team of Caleb Nallaraja and Pranay Gollu also took first place. Caleb and Pranay also competed in Poetry interp and placed second and third respectively.
Fairview's Speech & Debate team kicked of the 25-26 season November 5 at Cathedral Prep for the first CFL of Erie tournament of the year. Maddy Poese, Ulyana Hoja and Mariya Hoja all placed first in their events, Dramatic Performance, Student Congress and Extemporaneous, respectively. They also earned scholarship for Gannon University.
Five Choir students from FMS and FHS had the opportunity to attend the 2025 IU5 PMEA Jr. District Choir festival on November 7th & 8th. The festival took place at Corry High School with guest director Mr. Bruce Yates, retired General McLane music teacher. 150 students were in attendance including Jenna Bull (9), Sid Ganeshan (8), Arianna Herrera (7), Chloe Snyder (8) and Claire Thompson (8). Jenna was also selected to perform a solo in the piece "Give Us Hope."
Fairview High School won Best Large School and Best Overall School (1st place overall) at the Gannon Model United Nations Conference this weekend. 30 Fairview delegates contributed to this team win, including Vishvak Mamidala and Chloe Smith (3rd place in their committee), Masa Alkhudari, Ananya Desireddi, and Emily Gravelle (2nd place in their committees), and Charles Allen, Sadhikya Boga, Ava Duncombe, Harsha Murali Santhakumari, Olivia Jardina, Nena Pfeffer, and Logan Thompson (1st place in their committees).
AP Biology students Anna Buhl and Tessa Trudnowski use bioluminescence to study quorum sensing and cell signaling between different strains of bacteria. The bacteria in the bottom of the petri dish cannot glow on their own, but the can "hear" the chemical signal sent by the glowing bacteria on the the top and respond by also displaying bioluminescence.
Business Day at Behrend: Fairview Business students had a chance to visit Penn State Behrend and see college professors in action teaching a variety of business classes. They took a tour of the campus and visited college classrooms.
Before students can apply strategies for finding probabilities and interpreting them they must understand the vocabulary of probability. Students used a game called dice shuffleboard to begin to understand the important terms. After the game they gave examples from the game for each term.
Fairview School Foundation's FHS October students of the month. These students were recognized for our second pillar of ROAR, which is Ownership.
Miss Ramsay's Public Speaking class wrapped up the quarter by presenting their final Oral History projects to family, friends, and teachers. Students interviewed people in their lives to explore the stories that connect our community and deepen our understanding of the past.
Congratulations to Jocelynn Terella for being nominated to the Erie News Now Northwest PA CLASS Act Emerging Leader by the FHS English department.
Halloween costume contest at FHS.
Dr. Tim Bianco of Allegheny College visited Economics students in Mr. Brinling's class. Dr. Bianco shared his experience with the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States as well as advice on careers in economics.
Students in Baking Basics are completing their observations from our science experiment lab! Each group made chocolate chip cookies, testing a different leavening agent or amount of flour. Our control group cookie used 1 tsp of baking soda. Other groups used 1 tsp of baking powder, 1/2 tsp of baking powder and a 1/2 tsp baking soda and no leavening agent. We then had two groups that went back to 1 tsp of baking soda but changed the amount of flour to more or less than the control. This was a great way to see how baking truly is a science!
