James F. Byrnes High School

💙❤️ Next stop: STATE! ❤️💙 The James F. Byrnes Marching Band is ready to take the field at the 6A SCBDA State Marching Band Championships! ⏰Plan YOUR day! 5:45 am send-off at Founders! ⏰12:45pm prelim performance at South Carolina State University. Bring your cheers, wear your Byrnes colors, and help us fill the stands! Let’s show our students how proud we are of their hard work and dedication. Leave it all on the field! 💙❤️ 📸: SS Photography

🖼️ CREATIVE FRIDAY 🖼️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 👩‍🎤Mrs. Sheehan’s Art 1 students have gone from stomping on clay to now creating ceramic tiles. Using the clay slab roller is a new experience, and artists are crushing it... Well maybe rolling it! 🖼️Art club with Mrs Sheehan is going extraordinarily well! From completing the mini canvases with an easel to using watercolor colored pencils to create famous painting postcards, and starting psychedelic scratch art designs, it is an art atmospheric explosion. 🔨Mr. Smith’s Honors Theatre students are stepping into the world of theatrical design! For their latest project, they are taking on different design roles and reimagining Shakespeare’s classic works in settings and styles entirely of their own creation! 🎵🍩 Mr. Gunter’s Chorus students attended All State Auditions on Thursday and celebrated with donuts after! 🫟 Mrs. Long’s Art Appreciation students finished Chapter 8 today that focused on Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Printmaking in more detail. They did an artwork for each media. 🎨 Mrs. Long’s Art 2 students finished printmaking last week and have been working on their Favorite Things acrylic paintings.

📝CREATIVE FRIDAY 📝
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 📗Mrs. Cathcart’s classes emphasized the importance of relying on text evidence by drawing Frankenstein’s creature using quotes from the book. They took note of differences between the original creature from the book and all the different Hollywood portrayals. 🪩Mrs. Warren had Club Frankenstein in room 3214 today. Things got weird and spooky as students read about the Creature’s demands in the novel. Students got VIP tickets with all-access passes to the club and the official bouncer (Mrs. Warren, duh) checked the guest list as students entered. Students got a kick out of the club music as they entered. 📚Dr. Grant's English 3 Honors students gain background knowledge to understand The Crucible as an allegory of the McCarthy trials.

🔬Discover & Design Thursday ➗ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🩸Mrs. Wright’s Biology classes were learning about mutations. To show how mutations can change the function of proteins, they built models of what hemoglobin looked like, and what sickle cell looked like using origami! ❌Mrs. Shirley’s Algebra 2 classes reviewed exponential and radical forms of equations. ♾️ Ms. Mathews’ AP Calculus classes completed a Card Sort Activity to practice using  L’Hospital’s Rule for determining limits that give an indeterminate form.

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. 💀 Last Thursday, Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 Honors students learned about the symbolism around Dia de los Muertos. 💀🌼 Legends come to life through comics! Mrs. Greenfield’s students share legends from Spanish-speaking countries for our Day of the Dead project. 🎯 Goal: Explore Hispanic culture and practice writing and speaking in Spanish. 📚💬

🖼️ CREATIVE FRIDAY 🖼️ Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎼Band students learned some new choreography for the show. 🪊Mr. Harrison shared his band students practicing this morning. 👩🏼‍🎨Mrs. Sloan's Art 2 Honors completed artist studies and then created a 3D sculpture inspired by their famous artist! 🎻Mrs. Grant’s Orchestra students enjoyed a performance from the Converse University cello choir. They played a short concert and had a question and answer session about music at the college level. 📷Mrs. Chambliss’ Photography students learned about forced perspective and setup their own scenarios. They also experimented with creating ghost images with their pinhole cameras. 🦔Mrs. Chambliss’s’ Art 3 Honors students created drypoint etchings of textured animals and is now adding mixed media. 👟 Mrs. Sheehan’s Art 1 students stepped into 3D design with two amazing projects! 🎨 Shoe-Texture Clay Stamps: To kick off ceramics, students literally stepped on wedged clay to capture patterns from the bottoms of their shoes! These custom stamps are now drying and will soon head to the kiln for a double-firing and vibrant glazing. Costume Changeables: Embracing the magic of character design, the class used creative paper folding to build interactive mix-and-match costumes, allowing for nine unique combinations.🎨

📝CREATIVE FRIDAY 📝 Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🐦‍⬛Mrs. Chandler’s CP English 3 classes read and annotated “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. Students also read “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, and they had to speed debate using textual evidence! 🐦‍⬛ Mrs. Harrison’s students enjoyed Edgar Allan Poe Day Activities. 🍫Mrs. Hollis’s students had a trick that turned out to be a treat with Friday’s Taste “Test”. Students explored the effective use of figurative language by enjoying tasty treats while exploring mood & tone with movie posters for Halloween.🎃

We couldn’t let October end without showing our appreciation for our amazing principal, Mrs. Erin Greenway! 💙 Thank you for your leadership, dedication, and commitment to making Byrnes a place where students and staff can thrive. We appreciate all you do each day to make a difference in our Rebel family! Happy National Principals Month! 🎉

College Application Day was a great success last week!! ✔️168 Seniors ✔️398 college applications ✔️15 college admission reps/support agency volunteers ✔️10 BHS staff Special thanks to our Guidance Counselors and Guidance Staff that made it happen!! And to our gracious hosts, Librarians, Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Dickerson - who elevate any event offered in our Library. Thanks to everyone in the building who played a role!

🏀 Byrnes Boys basketball tryouts for JV and Varsity will be held Wednesday November 4th and Thursday November 5th from 5:30-7 in the main gym! All student athletes trying out must have an updated physical and all forms completed in Arbiter. Please see Coach Fowler, Coach Wimphrie , or Coach Kauffman with any questions.

F.I.G.H.T. (Friends Into Getting Healthy Together) Club put on their helmets and took to the pavement to brush up on their cycling skills after some classroom instruction on bicycle safety with the help of our resident cycling enthusiast, Coach Deering!

🔬Discover & Design Thursday 🔬 Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🎃Mrs. White’s AP Biology students got messy with their Scary Statistics Lab! 🥽Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensic Science students have been busy this week with their fiber identification lab. 🪢

🔬Discover & Design Thursday ➗ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🎂Mrs. Stells Geometry Students worked on a real-world project focused on volume and surface area of cakes. They worked on designing a cake with 3D figures and finding the total volume and surface area of their cake.  🎓Mrs. Gilmore’s AVID Students toured Anderson University. Opportunity knowledge in action!

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. 👨🏼‍🍳 Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 2 Honors presented a menu. Each group listed what they needed to buy, where to find the ingredients 🛒, steps to prepare the food 🥘 and how to set the table for this meal. 🍽️ 🧭Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 3 Honors worked with affirmative and negative imperatives by giving directions and advice to move around the city.

🎺 Come see the James F. Byrnes Football Band and Competition Band perform their full shows before the Competition Band heads to the 6A State Championships on November 7! 📅 Thursday, November 5 • 7:30 PM 📍 Nixon Field, Byrnes High School

Our Movie-Themed Trunk or Treat sponsored by Teacher Cadet and Leadership Byrnes was a great success last night! Thank you to Mrs. Poore and these fabulous students for putting on a great event!

🖥️ Tech Tuesday 🖥️ Power Up Your Future! Last week, in Mr. Warren’s Media Tech class, students conducted a session called “Fix the Production.” In this session, students presented a scenario depicting a potential issue in a broadcast production. Students were divided into groups and tasked with collaboratively identifying and resolving the problem to restore the production to its original state. This hands-on activity involved getting students out of their seats and engaging in group work and proved highly effective in motivating and engaging them.   

Boys Wrestling season will begin on Monday November 2nd. Wrestling practice on November 2nd and 3rd will be 8:00-10:00am. Practices will begin after school on November 4th and will run 4:00-6:00 at Byrnes High School Wrestling room. Athletes must have an updated physical and all forms completed on Arbiter to be able to participate. Middle Schoolers and 9th graders can ride the activity bus over to Byrnes and then will need to be picked up at Byrnes at 6:00.

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🏀 Coach Fowler’s PE3 class started champions week today!! The Runnin’ Rebels are getting ready! 🏋️‍♂️Coach Cross’ Strength and Fitness class was in the weight room today. 🍁 Coach Higdon’s Outdoor Adventure Class build survival shelters and used leaves for insulation. 👔Coach Justus’ AVID seniors taught life skills to their classmates. Knox Clyburn and Zahara Donald practice Life Skills of tying a tie and sewing a button.  🧵🪡 🇺🇸 ROTC has been busy! Including a group photo with Cadet Cara Williams at the Military Officer's Association of America Awards Dinner. 🛫JROTC ERAU Dual-Enrollment class went to Greenville Downtown AirPort for pre-flight training and a lunch on the airport. The JROTC Color Guard supported Senior Night and helped out at the Walnut Grove Plantation All Hallows Eve Trick-Or-Treat event. 🎃

Monday, October 26, 2026
Girls Flag Football
Nixon Field
6:30 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Southside
6:30 PM Byrnes Blue vs. Riverside
7:15 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Riverside
7:15 PM Byrnes Blue vs. Southside
Tickets: https://fan.hudl.com/tickets/VGlja2V0ZWRFdmVudDZhZGNkMjRhYmExYjk0NjRlOTEyNTM0ZQ==

Tuesday October 27, 2026
Girls Golf State Championship @ River Hills Golf and County Club

Friday, October 30, 2026
Varsity Football at Eastside 7:30pm
Tickets: https://gofan.co/event/6782678?schoolId=SC696

Saturday, October 31, 2026
Cross Country Jiim and Eileen Kilbreth Spartanburg County Cross Country Championship @ Arboretum.