band competes in cpa

by Patrick Oneal

CPA stands for Concert Performance Assessment. It is held at various schools across the state. For our region, the band will perform at Nation Ford High School. The process starts in the fall. There is an approved list of music sorted by difficulty that directors can choose based on the ability of their ensemble and the instrumentation/voicing of their ensemble. For a typical high school band, grade III is to be expected but every program is different. We went on a grade III this year.

LCSD Honors Choir

by Taylor Greene

On March 8, the following Buford High students participated in the Lancaster County School District Honor Choir: Summer Batson, Emilee Cornelius, Naomi Robinson, Alexis Funderburk, Danielle Patterson, Tabitha Thompson, Mikayla Oakley, Landon Williams, Crayden Bradley, Caleb Boykin and Selvin Jenkins. The rehearsals and performance took place in the Multipurpose Building. It was followed by a concert that night at 6 P.M. for parents. Clinician was Dr. Andrew Hewish from Bob Jones University.

The whole honor choir is comprised of 66 singers from Lancaster High school, Indian Land High School, and Andrew Jackson High School. Students from various schools were given part tracks with their music, and were able to rehearse all day from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. This is the first year that auditions were held in order to participate. It was a great learning opportunity for the students and directors of each program.

Buford's new brew crew

by Michael Escamilla 2/3/23 (menu updated 2/27)

Baked goods and coffee are being offered to all faculty and staff.

Kendall Horne has teamed up her Family Consumer Science and Educators Rising club to have students serve teachers for a recently proposed fundraiser called, The Buford Brew.

To teachers from students, The Buford Brew will take orders and directly deliver to teachers and staff alike. You may get your order taken in the first week of February by emailing Horne your order and you will receive an email confirming your order from a member of The Buford Brew Crew. The Buford Brew Crew for the following days after your order has been confirmed, will spend class time as well as flextime working on and delivering your order.

The Buford Brew will raise money for Horne’s new classes, Family and Consumer Science 2, Food and Nutrition and future projects for all of her classes. These new classes will be available next school year for students to join. Horne’s other reason for starting this service is to teach students how to manage a business in the food industry as well as financing and responsibility– and to share her love for coffee.

In just the first week of The Buford Brew, they’ve already made more than half of what they’ve spent on this sweet fundraiser’s start-up.

Students craving the Brew Crew’s baked goods may now purchase them at lunch on Thursdays and fridays.

Mr. belk caught red handed

The Health Science Clinical Study students taught Mr. Belk one of the skills they had demonstrated. To demonstrate mastery of "doffing gloves" (removing gloves) without contaminating oneself, students applied ketchup (simulated blood) to the gloves by "washing their (gloved) hands" with it. The goal is to not have lingering ketchup on them anywhere after gloves were removed.

Med science 2 is off on the right foot

2/15/23

In Sports Medicine 2, Dr. Medinger's class performed Postural and Gait assessments. The students observed their peers for malalignments in their posture and documented them accordingly. The students also performed Gait assessments which involved assessing their peer's walking patterns. They painted their feet to assess stride patterns in terms of weight distribution, stride length, as well as stride width. After that information was recorded the students observed their peers for foot/ankle, knee, hip, and upper body positioning during their walk that may not be aligned with a normal gait pattern according to certain characteristics they were provided with. The students then took their analysis and developed a chart for their peers that included the area of concern, overactive muscles, underactive muscles, and potential injuries that could result from the areas of concern. With this information, they then developed a corrective exercise plan to resolve the imbalances and prevent future injuries from occurring.

FFA shows off their green thumb

1/19/23

Every year the Agriculture Department grows their own plants to sell in the spring. Students learn all phases of plant care and greenhouse management from the experience. The plants need daily attention and the students are trained to recognize issues before it becomes detrimental to the crop.During the sales students will learn customer service as well. Each week a different student is put in charge of the greenhouse and it is counted as a daily grade.

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