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
F-M Hornets Sting Out Cancer Month games to be held May 4 and 8
News of Districtwide Interest
During
May, F-M athletic teams will show their support for cancer research and
awareness by selecting one of their home games as a “Sting Out” event. Prior to
the game, athletes will wear specially created lavender (to represent all
cancers) Sting Out t-shirts. Fans are encouraged to wear the Sting Out shirts
to the games to show their support. A limited number of t-shirts will be...
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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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School budget vote day is Tuesday, May 21
News of Districtwide Interest
Annual
School District Budget Vote: May 21, 2013
7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fayetteville Elementary School
2013-14
budget at-a-glance
Proposed budget: $76,410,610
Budget increase: $1,834,488 or 2.46 percent
School tax levy: $54,842,986
Estimated tax levy increase:
$1,344,288 or 2.51 percent
Go to www.fmschools.org/budget for more budget
information.
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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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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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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.
Grade 4 Parent Orientation Meeting - May 21
Enders Road Elementary School
This meeting is for current Grade 4 Parents at Eagle Hill at 7:00pm in the LGI. An introduction to Grade 5 will be covered.
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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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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Books are Food for Thought Book Drive
Eagle Hill Middle School
Beginning on Monday, May 20, the PRIDE Club and the Character Education Committee will sponsor a book drive at Eagle Hill. Books are Food for Thought provides new and gently used books to children who are receiving free meals in Central New York. Donations may be dropped off in the main foyer at Eagle Hill Middle School before homeroom (7:30 - 8:00 am) during the week of May 20 - May...
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Board of Education to meet Tuesday, May 21
News of Districtwide Interest
The Fayetteville-Manlius School
District Board of Education will hold a special meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 21,
in room 6 at Fayetteville Elementary School, 704 South Manlius St., Fayetteville.
Meeting Agenda
1. Opening Items
1.01
Call to Order
1.02
Pledge of Allegiance
1.03
Approval/Revision of Agenda
2. Superintendent's Report
2.01
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Annual Showboat production highlights F-M High School students’ talents
News of Districtwide Interest
In the
mood for some jazz music? How about rock, broadway or hip hop? Want to
experience slam poetry, watch step dancing or see the seniors give a final
musical tribute?
The annual
F-M High School student-run talent show, Showboat, has that and much more.
Shows take
place in the high school auditorium 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4.
Tickets
are $5,...
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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 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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Zoo field trips incorporate foreign language lessons
News of Districtwide Interest
Nearly 200
Fayetteville-Manlius School District students recently took field trips to the Rosamond
Gifford Zoo where their teachers incorporated foreign language lessons into their
visits.
On March
20, 43 first-year Latin students from Eagle Hill and Wellwood middle schools visited
the Syracuse zoo to investigate animal nomenclature and make cross-cultural
connections. On April 10,...
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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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F-M students examine turning points in history through National History Day Contest
News of Districtwide Interest
Fayetteville-Manlius High School senior Hye Joo Lee won first place in the New York State National History Day Contest and is heading to the national
finals.
On April 29, Hye Joo and 11 other Central New York regional
winners from F-M competed in the New York State finals for the opportunity to advance
to the National History Day Contest. National finals will take place in...
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F-M Education Foundation seeks new board members
News of Districtwide Interest
The F-M Education Foundation is seeking new board members.
The Education Foundation is an independent organization with a
mission to support and enhance the educational opportunities for all Fayetteville-Manlius
School District students. Any parent or community member interested in
supporting its efforts as either a board member or a volunteer is welcome to
attend the foundation's...
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F-M High School yearbook earns national recognition
News of Districtwide Interest
Fayetteville-Manlius High School’s yearbook, "OakLeaves," has been recognized for excellence and featured in the 2013 "Gotcha Covered Look Book, Volume 11," which celebrates the best-of-the-best in yearbook design
and coverage. Jostens
"Look Book" is a collection of spreads and photos from outstanding
yearbooks and features their creative themes, cool covers, dazzling designs,
relevant...
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