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Students & Staff of the MontH
Students & Staff of the MontH
Due to a snow day our February students and staff of the month will receive their awards at our March meeting.
Winter Carnival
Portrait of a Graduate
BFA's Students in Action...
Course-work sections are organized by the five Transferable Skills students work on in their classes. These skills are highlighted in our Portrait of a Graduate and build students' capacity for career and college readiness.
Course-work sections are organized by the five Transferable Skills students work on in their classes. These skills are highlighted in our Portrait of a Graduate and build students' capacity for career and college readiness.
Clear and Effective Communication
Students can demonstrate organized and purposeful communication.
Students can gather information from actively speaking, listening, and participating in class.
Students discuss the book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
Heroes and Villains students discuss the power and influence of notable historical figures.
Senior Aydin Naylor, student in public speaking, is the runner-up in the Franklin-Grand Isle Rotary Speech Contest.
Students in Sports Literature share reflections and analysis of the novel Beartown in a Harkness discussion.
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.
AP Stats students work on a Connect Four review game about confidence intervals for proportions.
Students in the Non-Fiction Texts course are hard at work on their final essays.
Applied Stats students finish up work on one-variable statistics.
Avery works to complete his Harkness research prep for Foundations of Global Citizenship.
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 manipulate equations in a Marbleslides challenge.
Using the First Derivative Test to find relative maximums in AP Calculus.
Math 3 students attempt an end of the trimester engineering challenge. Who can build the tallest tower?
Students work on reflection pieces after completing a task understanding the Electoral College.
Informed and Integrative Thinking
Students apply knowledge from multiple sources to make sense of their learning.
Students apply prior knowledge to the current task.
Students in Sports Literature interviewed a journalist from The Athletic about his experiences covering professional hockey and perspectives on the role of sports in society.
Spanish Foundations 2 students built towers after learning about the human tower contest that takes place in Tarragona, Spain every year.
Financial Literacy students build a salary based budget including choosing a career, determining take home pay, and learing how to budget for adulthood.
Finding the correlation coefficient for a scatterplot in Intro to Geometry and Statistics.
Responsible and Involved Citizenship
Students take responsibility for their actions and understand their impact on the community.
Students collaborate effectively and respectfully.
Mariah works with her Elementary buddy during advisory.
An art student shares a bright sunset picture with the community.
Many students have been helpful as high school classrooms get packed up and moved ahead of the next phase of construction.
In Contemporary Literature, students prepared and shared a 1 minute pitch about their choice novels.
Counseling Department
Scheduling for 2025-2026
Students recieved Scheduling Materials for the 25-26 School Year in Advisory. Students who are at tech centers during advisory or who were absent, please connect with your school counselor and/or advisor. Course requests will be due Feb 14th.
Tech Center Presentations, Visits, and Applications are in progress. Contact Jesse Gaudette for more information.
Student and families can use these link to book a meeting with their school counselor:
Katherine McElroy Welch: https://calendly.com/kmcelroy-3
Linnea Jahn: https://calendly.com/linneajahn
Grade 12
Be sure to keep an eye on the local scholarship document in the coming months.
VSAC Scholarships are due February 12th, be sure to get a copy of your transcript to upload to your VSAC portal. VSAC Guide for uploading the necessary documents to your VSAC portal.
Grade 11
Sign up with your school counselor by Feb 14th if you would like to take the SAT at BFA on April 11th
College and Career Planning Workshops at BFA this winter and spring.
Early College Applications are open, May 1st is the priority deadline.
Juniors please book a meeting with your school counselor to discuss courses for senior year as well as post-high school plans.
Grade 10
During advisory earlier this month students attended a presentation from CCV about Dual Enrollment & Early College.
Dual Enrollment : Details for: CCV, VTSU, UVM, & Norwich
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