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Congratulations to the Cast and Crew of
Too Many Detectives at the Murder Mansion!
They are moving on to the State One Act Drama Festival at BFA St. Albans on April 10th-11th.
Portrait of a Graduate
Students & Staff of the Month
Students & Staff of the Month
Congratulations to our March Students and Staff!
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.
Foundations 2 students wrote children's stories and read their stories to children in the elementary school, practicing reading in French and interpreting the text in English for their audience
Students analyze primary sources as they prepare for their 9th grade research project in Foundations of ELA.
Freshmen review the CPEA essay format (claim, point, evidence, analysis) with an escape room challenge.
Our Typhoid Mary mock trial was a great way to get students creating claims and using evidence and analyzing to support their claims.
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.
Botany students start sunflower and strawflower seeds.
Ren sketches 3D blocks in Foundations of Visual Arts class.
Ceramics students working on their clay pieces.
Math students solve missing angle puzzles in Intro to Geometry and Statistics.
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.
Freshmen in Math 2 find the best quadratic equation for the shape or picture they've taken.
Students using their fractional reasoning skills to bake in Math 1.
A student in HTML and Website Design practices with coding language.
Stella hard at work on an AP Calculus problem.
Informed and Integrative Thinking
Students apply knowledge from multiple sources to make sense of their learning.
Students apply prior knowledge to the current task.
AP Literature students complete a "body mapping" exercise analyzing a character from their reading. The different body regions map to various character traits:
Head- character’s thoughts
Heart- character’s desires / loves / needs
Arms- what the character has or has to give
Legs- what the character has overcome
Feet- the core beliefs the character is standing on
Students consider the role of political cartoons in their US History 1900s-1930s course.
French students create a scene and then give directions to their partner to recreate the scene on the other side of the barrier. A great way to practice interpersonal communication in French, thanks John Tague for sharing the idea with me!
Students find textual evidence to back up a claim in their Heroes and Villians class.
Responsible and Involved Citizenship
Students take responsibility for their actions and understand their impact on the community.
Students collaborate effectively and respectfully.
For the end of Ecology & Evolution class, students put all of their ecology concepts together to create terrariums (mini ecosystems). They got to take them home with the challenge of keeping the ecosystem alive and thriving.
Students make pizza during a Wellness activity on the early release day.
In Forensics, students learned about Arson and fire forensics. Fairfax Fire Chief Micah Genzlinger took students through lessons on fire forensics and how to read burn patterns. Students had time to build their own "mini buildings" and then burn them outside. Firechief Genzlinger was present to help students analyze the burn and put out the blaze! They even got to use thermal imaging cameras to see how hot the fire was!
Another Wellness Activity on the early release day was sushi roll making!
Counseling Department
We are expecting Student Schedules for 26-27 to be ready in May.
Check out our running list of Summer Opportunities
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Future Planning
Still time for juniors to attend workshops on Resume, Career Training, Financial Aid & College Essay as well as attend Franklin County Apprenticeship Fair
Grade 11 Future Planning Events
Now is a great time for seniors to be exploring and applying for local scholarships
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Linnea Jahn will return from maternity leave in April
Katherine McElroy Welch: https://calendly.com/kmcelroy-3
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