Fairview School Foundation's FHS October student of the month. These students were recognized for our second pillar of ROAR, which is Ownership. Congratulations!
Mr. Blystone's Wellness 9 class learning CPR.
Local accountants from PICPA visited the FHS accounting students. Amy Swartzfager, CPA from Cook Wealth, Scott Herzing, CPA from McGill, Power, Bell, and Associates, LLP and David Niemira, CPA from Fairview School District shared their career journey to the accounting profession. The accounting professionals shared what kind of career opportunities are available in the accounting field, and how accountants can help businesses and individuals meet financial goals.
Intro to Fashion is finishing up making their pillows!
Halloween is a great time to see students break out of their comfort zones and try something new. These three came up with an award-winning group costume as the 3 Amigos.
Juniors and seniors were invited to Beaumont Technologies this week to learn about the history of the company, the products they make and the opportunities for employment. The students enjoyed the hands-on approach to learning and the hospitality offered by the staff.
FHS students visited Penn State Behrend for the annual Business Day. Students attended mock college classes related to finance, international business, MIS, accounting, marketing, and sports administration. Students also toured campus and had lunch in the dining hall.
These AP Calculus students have been working very hard and earned a "green" score on the last College Board assignment. Keep up the hard work.
Carrying the banner together! We are a bonded, learning community, and we miss you when you are not here! FHS 9th graders promote a sense of belonging by sending absent students a class photo letting absent students know they are missed.
Partner's Club Halloween Party.
Winners from volleyball in the BSL.
Fairview hosted a Model United Nations bloc meeting where world issues were discussed. This year Fairview is representing Sudan, the United Kingdom, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well a Salem Witch Trial Crisis Committee.
Students in Creative Writing updated artist Phillip Niemeyer's chart where he symbolically captured American life from 2000-2009. They had a limited amount of time to interpret one year metaphorically by considering different elements of society (fads, fears, It!, etc.). Many groups interpreted 2024. Victoria and Sammi came up with the most metaphors for multiple years, Bear's group reflected on 2020, and Leena, Makenzi, Rachel, and Peyton remembered the killer clowns that scared us all in 2016.
Students in Mr. Parmeter's classroom are using scatter plots and fitting of a line to take real world data and write equations of a line. (y=mx+b). Using the equation of a line the students are predicting what the data would look like in the future, as well what it would have looked like in the past. Connecting the math to the real world, helps in the understanding of the content while motivating them tp be good problem solvers.
On Friday, October 18th a group of students visited Mercyhurst University to learn about the history of and the experience offered at Mercyhurst.
Students in AP Statistics are using a dice shuffleboard game to bring probability terms to life.
Mrs. Fair's sophomore English class performed the last act of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Students were responsible for dramatic reading, acting, and designing costumes.
Thirteen FHS art students attended Edinboro Art Day at PennWest. They participated in live demonstrations and hands-on workshops to explore what college life would be like in an arts program.
Photo II students explored analog photography. They learned how to think in black and white, expose film, develop negatives and print in the darkroom. This process helped the students slow down and pay attention to details. They also had to work through setbacks and think about many factors that could change their images.
Mariya Hoja shadowed aquatic biologist Sarah Magyan recently. She learned how scientists at the Regional Science Consortium monitor the waters of Lake Erie for toxic algal blooms, and participated in water sample collection.
