May Staff and Students to Celebrate!
These students and staff were recognized for their excellence at our May Community Meeting.
NHS Induction Ceremonies
Congratulations to BFA's National Honor Society Members!
Charlotte McIntyre was inducted into the National Technical Honor Society at Northwest Career and Technical Center
Kaelynn Sandvil and Megan Rainville were inducted into the Burlington Technical Centers National Technical Honor Society.
Out & About
French students visited the Biodome and Old Town Montreal. They exercised their language skills by ordering food and shopping during the trip.
Ryan and Isaiah playing wiffle ball with their elementary buddies and friends
Three BFA Fairfax students attending the Natural Resources Mechanical technical program at CTE participated in a welding contest at Camp Johnson on 5/17/24. Chase Murray, Zeb Wilcox, and Brody Leduc all had a great showing, with Chase and Zeb's team winning 1st place! The win earned Chase and Zeb $1,000 scholarships to the Advance Welding Institute in South Burlington, VT. Congratulations to all of the students who participated and thanks to CTE for providing such wonderful opportunities to our BFA Fairfax students!
Many congratulations to the Class of 2024! Join us for Graduation on Saturday June 15th, at 10am under the tent.
Live stream link: https://lcatv.org/live-stream-2
Green Up Day
Clear and Effective Communication
Students can demonstrate organized and purposeful communication.
Students can gather information from actively speaking, listening, and participating in class.
Know Your Rights students use a Harkness Disuccsion to explore viewpoints on a variety of laws.
ELA 2 students work on writing Research papers.
Communication through perspective art.
Taking advantage of a sunny day and working on the listening side of communication.
Self Direction
Students have self-awareness, initiative, flexibility, and resilience in their learning.
Students have individual responsibility for their learning.
Students use technology to support and enhance their learning.
Sam completes notecards of evidence that will eventually become a research paper.
Students in online learning are both wrapping up coursework and also starting new online courses they will complete over the summer.
Emily creates beautiful art through embroidery in the Art of Craft.
Driver's Ed students work diligently on learning road signs.
Creative and Practical Problem Solving
Students observe and evaluate situations in order to solve problems.
Students persist in solving challenging problems and learn from failure.
Students test soil properties in Earth & Space.
Emily simplifies rational expressions by factoring and cancelling common factors.
Mr. Johnson's Psychology class considers the impact of nutrition on mental health.
Physics 2 students make predictions for projectile motion.
Informed and Integrative Thinking
Students apply knowledge from multiple sources to make sense of their learning.
Students apply prior knowledge to the current task.
French class students are working on Informed and integrative thinking by applying what they've learned on comparative structures in French to rank different products all week- in the pictures they are ranking different types of chocolate chip cookies and potato chip flavors.
Heredity and Genetics students play The Cell Game to learn to cell cycle.
Art students create woodworking art for a history project.
Sophomores are busy finalizing their PLP websites for their Sophomore Exhibitions the last week of school.
Responsible and Involved Citizenship
Students take responsibility for their actions and understand their impact on the community.
Students collaborate effectively and respectfully.
US History: World War 2- Vietnam students present their research to their peers.
A group project in US History explores the origin of Jim Crow laws.
After the AP exam, Calculus students work to create helpful resources for future calculus students.
Members of the Yearbook Committee sort the 2024 Yearbook for distribution.
Counseling Department
May/June Newsletters from the Counseling Office
Earlier this month, the group of rising juniors and seniors pictured below, participated in a mentor training at Camp DREAM to become peer mentors next school year.