F-M High School June exam and review sessions scheduled
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
June 2013 Exam Schedule Review SessionsGeometry Review 2013 Calendar Global History and Geography Regents Review SessionTrig Regents Review 2013 Calendar
Powerpoint for Parents of Incoming Grade 5 Students
Eagle Hill Middle School
Please click on the link below to view the Powerpoint Presentation from the Grade 5 Parent Orientation.
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Milk carton recycling program is underway
Enders Road Elementary School
Second grade students at Enders Road Elementary
School are part of a “green team” of recyclers. The team has been collecting
milk cartons at the end of their lunch time and then preparing them for
recycling by rinsing and flattening them.
“The students are excited to take part in something that is
so quick and easy to do, but makes such a difference in the lives of others and
helps the...
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Gr. 4 NYS Science Performance Test
Enders Road Elementary School
Gr. 4 NYS Science Performance Test will be administered on Thursday, May 23 in the morning.
Final Exam Schedule for 2013
Eagle Hill Middle School
Please open the link below to see the Final Exam schedule for 2013.
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Open House - May 28
Enders Road Elementary School
Families are welcome to attend an Open House on Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00-8:30 pm.
Mr. Rayome's RELAY WALK
Enders Road Elementary School
Come cheer on Mr. Rayome as he walks on the blacktop from 4-8pm in honor of Enders' students who participated in Footsteps for Fitness and in support of people living with Type I Diabetes. Stop by the Cards for Kids table and make a card for students in CNY who are newly diagnosed with Type I Diabetes.
Reminder: District to close on May 24, 2013
News of Districtwide Interest
There will be an important change to the
Fayetteville-Manlius School District May 2013 calendar.
Because the district did not use its emergency school
closure days allotted for the 2012-13 school year, the district is on track to
fulfill the number of days that students are required to attend school.
Therefore, the district will be closed on Friday, May 24, 2013 so there will...
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Expanded parking lot under construction by district office building
News of Districtwide Interest
The Fayetteville-Manlius School District’s district
office parking lot is being expanded to accommodate more vehicles, improve
traffic flow and make safer F-M High School student drop-off and pick-up.
“Our existing parking lot does not offer enough parking
for the number of community members, parents, staff and students who use it,” Superintendent
Corliss Kaiser said. “When there are...
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Wellwood author visit was pure poetry
Wellwood Middle School
Author Sally Valentine visited Wellwood Middle School on May 1 and conducted a poetry workshop with 65 students in grades five through eight as well as some faculty members and parents. The visit was sponsored by the Wellwood Home School Association.
Ms.
Valentine shared her children’s mystery adventure book series as well as her
latest collection of poems, “There Are No Buffalo in Buffalo.”...
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Wellwood's 4th/5th Grade Event
Wellwood Middle School
The event is on Thursday, May 30th from 3:30 - 5:30 PM. Volunteers are needed. Please contact Mary C. John at (315) 727-4450, if you can help. Click on the flier below for more information.
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Drug-free, alcohol-free, supervised celebration to be held after F-M’s Senior Ball
Fayetteville-Manlius High School
The Fayetteville-Manlius After The Formal Informal (ATFI) parent group is hosting the Fayetteville-Manlius High School Senior Ball “After Party,” a drug-free,
alcohol-free, supervised celebration held immediately following the ball on
June 1 from 11:30 p.m. – 2:30 a.m. at the YMCA in Fayetteville. Seniors and their dates are encouraged to attend the celebration, regardless of whether or not...
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Fayetteville Elementary Field Days
Fayetteville Elementary School
Fayetteville Elementary Field Days will be held on Friday, June 7th (raindate-Monday, June 10th). Students in grades 1 -4 will participate in various track and field type events. Attached is a schedule for each grade level along with other helpful information for both parents and athletes. Spectators are definitely welcome - hope to see you there!
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F-M alumni to be inducted into F-M Hall of Distinction
News of Districtwide Interest
The
Fayetteville-Manlius School District and the Fayetteville-Manlius Education
Foundation will be inducting three new members into the F-M Hall of Distinction:
one for his outstanding military service, another for his outstanding film
editing career and the last for her role in international
rural development.
Lieutenant
Colonel Mark Schmitt, a 1987 F-M graduate; Steven Rasch, a 1972...
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F-M bus drivers driven to compete in special needs bus 'roadeo'
News of Districtwide Interest
Serpentine. Back alley dock. Railroad
crossings.
These driving terms may not be familiar to
the casual driver. But, successfully navigating through those obstacles while
driving a special needs school bus helped Fayetteville-Manlius school bus
driver Christie Hrynio and bus
assistant Sherry Cooper place first in the state-wide Special Needs Team Safety
“Roadeo” in July 2012.
Earning
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F-M voters approve $76.4 million budget; decide on seven other propositions
News of Districtwide Interest
Residents sign in to vote.
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On May 21, Fayetteville-Manlius School District voters approved the district’s $76.4 million 2013-14 budget proposal, elected three Board of Education members and voted upon six other propositions.
The following results are unofficial pending verification of the absentee ballots; however, the ballots have been reviewed and will not impact the final results:
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F-M Science Olympiad teams among the best in the nation
News of Districtwide Interest
Two
Fayetteville-Manlius School District Science Olympiad teams placed among the
best in the country at the 2013 Science Olympiad National Tournament May 18
at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
The
F-M High School Varsity Science Olympiad team placed eighth out of 60 teams in
its division. The Eagle Hill Middle School team placed 10th out of the
60 teams in its division.
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Eagle Hill Middle School students takes top spots in bridge-building competition
News of Districtwide Interest
Eagle Hill Technology and Engineering club students recently
competed in the 23rd Annual Green Construction Groups Balsa Wood
Bridge Competition held at the State University of New York College of
Environmental Science and Forestry on April 12. The competitors were
challenged to build the lightest bridge that could support the most weight.
Eagle Hill students entered a total of six bridges...
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Eagle Hill 2012-2013 Music Calendar Available
Eagle Hill Middle School
Please click on the following link below to view the calendar for the Music Department events at Eagle Hill for this year.
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Assemblyman Stirpe secures state money for F-M literacy program
News of Districtwide Interest
The Fayetteville-Manlius School District will begin a
literacy initiative this summer thanks to $100,000 in additional state aid
secured by Assemblyman Al Stirpe.
As budgets dwindled over the past several years, F-M
lost its summer reading program for students in need of extended learning time.
Part of this money will bring back this much needed opportunity for children.
Students who will...
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FMHS literary magazine named one of the best in nation
News of Districtwide Interest
Voices, the Fayetteville-Manlius High School literary
magazine, has been named one of the top student literary magazines in the
country. The 2012 edition of Voices
received the “Highest Award” from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
in its national judging of student literary magazines. Voices is one of only 26 magazines in the
nation to be recognized with the...
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F-M Latin students receive awards on National Latin Exam
News of Districtwide Interest
More than 130
Fayetteville-Manlius Latin students throughout the Fayetteville-Manlius School
District received awards on the National Latin Exam (NLE) in 2013, including
seven who earned perfect scores.
More
than 154,000 Latin students from all 50 states and 13 foreign countries took
the exam in March.
At F-M High School:
One hundred high school students received
awards on the...
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F-M News Budget Edition is in the mail
News of Districtwide Interest
The May 2013 F-M News Budget Edition will be
arriving in mailboxes throughout the Fayetteville-Manlius School District soon.
The newsletter is chock full of information on
the 2013-14 budget proposal and includes:
An overview of the $76.4 million proposed budget; Highlights of student accomplishments; A line-by-line look at the proposed budget; and Voter information.
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Broadcast Journalism students participate in film festivals
News of Districtwide Interest
Two
area film festivals have kept filmmakers at Fayetteville-Manlius High School
busy.
The
school’s Broadcast Journalism Club is teaming up with the East
Syracuse Minoa (ESM) High School Video Club to co-host the Central New York (CNY)
High School Film Festival.
The
festival will be held at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James Street, Syracuse, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 6....
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Observe the Moon at the F-M Observatory
News of Districtwide Interest
The F-M Observatory will be open to the public Friday, May 17
and Friday, May 24 from 8:30 – 10:30 p.m.
On May 17, Damian Allis, Ph.D., of CNY Observers &
Observing, will provide an introduction to stargazing as well as information
about how the night sky moves.
The event is free and open to the public. The observatory will
only be open if the skies are clear and the Moon is...
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Voters decide May 21 on new capital reserve fund
News of Districtwide Interest
On May 21, the
Fayetteville-Manlius School District will be asking voters to decide on the
creation of a new $10 million capital reserve fund.
A capital reserve
fund allows school districts to set aside money for future construction
projects and major purchases. Most school districts have capital reserve funds,
and in 2010, F-M residents voted to create a $5 million capital reserve fund.
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F-M High School student wins summer trip to Germany
News of Districtwide Interest
Fayetteville-Manlius School District senior Colin Barber has been selected for a one-month trip to Germany that will include a two-week school program, a homestay with a host family, atwo-week international seminar and excursions to places of cultural and historical significance.
Colin
is one of 44 students selected from across the country to receive the American
Association of Teachers of...
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F-M senior breaks career goal scoring record for lacrosse
News of Districtwide Interest
On
May 4, Fayetteville-Manlius High School senior Kevin Lux scored his 144th
goal as a member of the F-M boys varsity lacrosse team, breaking the school’s
all-time career goal scoring record set 31 years ago.
Kevin, an attackman, has scored 48 goals and made 35 assists so far this season. There are three games remaining in the regular season.
The F-M lacrosse
scoring record was...
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F-M High School named one of the best high schools in nation, earns silver medal
News of Districtwide Interest
U.S. News & World Report magazine has named Fayetteville-Manlius
High School one of the best high schools in the nation.
In the rankings,
released on April 23, F-M High School earned a silver medal. It ranked 579
nationally out 21,035 U.S. public high schools, and 72 out of 1,149 high schools in New York State. The high
school was named to the list in 2010 as well.
According...
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F-M voters to decide on safety and security enhancements
News of Districtwide Interest
Fayetteville-Manlius School District residents will
have the opportunity to decide on May 21 whether the district moves forward
with a nearly $1 million capital project proposal to enhance the district’s
current safety and security measures.
The $989,300 plan, which includes reconfiguring
each school building’s entrance and office area, changing classroom door locks
and installing...
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F-M environmental club to transform courtyard into wildlife habitat
News of Districtwide Interest
When you think of a high school campus,
you may not picture wrens, butterflies or hummingbirds. However, the
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Environmentally Conscious Organized Students
(ECOS) club is trying to change that image.
The ECOS club invites members of the community to
bring a shovel and dig in as the club transforms a courtyard in House 2 at the
school into a wildlife habitat...
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Eagle Hill students raised more than $5,000 for blood cancer research
News of Districtwide Interest
Eagle Hill Middle School students recently raised $5,547.50
to benefit a local charity researching blood cancers, for a total contribution
of $15,000
in three years.
This was
the school’s third year supporting the
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) of Central and Western New York through
its Pennies for Patients program.
“I think the fundraiser not only makes a
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