James F. Byrnes High School

⚽️ There will be a Boys Soccer Team meeting today at Byrnes for those interested in spring soccer. 📍 cafeteria 👥 grades 7th-12th ⏰ 6:00pm Contact Joseph.Campbell@spart5.net with any questions.

🏃AFJROTC cadets were out this morning for an early jog.

For home athletic events check out the Hudl events page for access to any and all events: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/sc/duncan/organization/14048/byrnes-high-school/tickets Monday, September 21, 2026 Men's Volleyball Main Gym JV vs. Riverside 5:15 PM Varsity vs. JL Mann 7:00 PM Girls Flag Football Nixon Field Byrnes Blue vs. Greenville 6:00 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Southside 6:00 PM Byrnes Blue vs. Southside 7:15 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Greenville 7:15 PM Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Girls Varsity Tennis vs. JL Mann Beech Springs Courts 5:00 PM Girls Volleyball vs. JL Mann Main Gym JV 5:30 PM Varsity 7:00 PM Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Girls JV Tennis vs. Landrum Beech Springs Courts 5:00 PM Friday, September 25, 2026 Varsity Football vs. Gaffney Nixon Field 7:30 PM

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🥏 Coach Griswold, Coach Higdon and Coach Diggs took their students to Century B Park in Greer to play disc golf. 🚐Coach Justus’ Personal Health Students designed and created models for healthy food trucks and even planned meals and inventory.

Help to send off the Rebel Regiment to their first competition of the season! Saturday at 4:15ish in front of Founders.

Do you struggle with the dreaded “What’s for dinner?” Dilemma? Tonight ✅ Wednesday night ✅ Come out and support Byrnes Percussion at Panera Bread tonight from 4pm-8pm and Whataburger on Wednesday night 6pm-8pm. Help send them to the World Championship!

Attention Students and Parents:
💳 Order your yearbooks and senior ads here: jostens.com https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1042745/James-F-Byrnes-High-School/

💸 Yearbooks are currently $70. The price increases September 5th.

🗓️ Senior ads start at $50. Prices increase October 3rd.

⚠️ Ad sales END January 15th.

📸 Picture day for sophomores & juniors is September 29th.
MAKEUP picture day for sophomores & juniors is October 20th.

🤵‍♂️ MAKEUP Senior Portraits are October 6th & 7th at Byrnes.

🏫 Sign up for an ON-CAMPUS appointment here.: https://schedule.planhero.com/events/fbd08e2c8/byrnes-high-senior-class-of-27-makeup-portraits

📍 If you can't get an on-campus appointment, sign up for a STUDIO appointment here.: https://schedule.planhero.com/events/58147e26a/class-of-27-senior-portrait-appointment-in-studio/event_dates/289915
NOTE: The studio is in Greer.

⚠️ These are the last opportunities to have your portrait taken for the yearbook AND displayed at graduation.

9️⃣ BFA picture day is October 22nd. (MAKEUP BFA picture day is November 6th. )

Do you struggle with the dreaded “What’s for dinner?” Dilemma? Monday night ✅ Wednesday night ✅ Come out and support Byrnes Percussion at Panera Bread on Monday night 4pm-8pm and Whataburger on Wednesday night 6pm-8pm. Help send them to the World Championship!

💃🏼 CREATIVE FRIDAY🎻 
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎻 The Byrnes Orchestra had a “Star Spangled Banner” rehearsal in preparation for their performance at next week’s football game. 🤠 Mrs. Archie’s Dance 1 students learned some Social Line Dances. 🪞Mrs. Sheehan's Art 1 students learned to draw self portraits through observation. Self portraits are a challenge since facial features are complex and requires self-discipline. Great 1st attempts! 🖼️Mrs. Sloan's Art 2 students worked on finishing up their printmaking project! 🎞️Mrs. Chambliss’s Photography students developed film today. 👏🏼 Mrs. Long’s Art 2 students completed their Wire Sculpture Projects today!

✍️CREATIVE FRIDAY✍️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎴 Ms. Harris’s English II students played a logical fallacies card game to study for their quiz today. 👥Dr. Grant's English students collaborated to analyze a treaty for bias. 👑Mrs. Cathcart’s class read and acted out a scene from Macbeth.

Happy AVID Day! Look at these great groups of AVID students and some of our AVID door competition participants.

⚽️ There will be a Boys Soccer Team meeting next week at Byrnes for those interested in spring soccer. 📍 cafeteria 👥 grades 7th-12th ⏰ 6:00pm Contact Joseph.Campbell@spart5.net with any questions.

⛳️Last weekend the girls golf team competed in the two day tournament at Old Barnwell. They made the top ten and won the par 3 scramble! Great job, Rebels! 🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️

The Runnin’ Rebel Golf Tournament will be held October 10th at River Falls in Duncan. Contact Layne.Fowler@spart5.net to register. Registration will also take place on October 10.

➗Discover & Design Thursday ➗ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🏎️Ms. Mathews’ Calculus Honors students completed a ramp lab and used distance measurements over time to calculate average velocity. ☄️Dr. Mathews Algebra 1 Honors students played Grudgeball while reviewing for their Systems of Equations test. Students worked out the problems on whiteboards and if their team was correct, they got a bonus shot. They can choose to keep their points or take points away from other teams.

⚛️Discover & Design Thursday ⚛️ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🌱 Mrs. Wright’s students are learning and viewing different structures such as the stomata present in producers that perform gas exchange during photosynthesis! 🫧 Mrs. White’s AP Biology students using bubbles to model the cell membrane. ☀️ Mrs. Demumbreum's Environmental Science students created Energy Pyramids showing tropic levels and examples of the organisms in each level. 🐇 Mrs. Demumbreum’s Environmental Science students used a PhET simulation to study populations of rabbits based on abiotic and biotic limiting factors and based on those factors sometimes the rabbits took over the world!🌍 🩸 Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensic Science students interpreted blood spatter (paint) based on both surface texture and angle of impact for their serology unit.

The eSports Rocket League team won 3 games against Sebastian River High School in Florida who won none. Check out these stats: 20 goals to 1!

We were honored to welcome members of the Greater Greer Chamber to Byrnes High School! Their visit provided an opportunity to highlight the many ways our students are preparing for college, careers, and the workforce through programs such as PLTW, Media Technology, Fine Arts, Dance, Esports, and more. We are grateful to have them as community partners who are willing to invest their time, share their expertise, and help us continue building strong pathways for our students. We appreciate you all! Thank you for sharing your time and talents with our students!

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. 📔Mrs. Maria Greenfield’s Spanish Class created a poem by selecting words from an existing text and covering the remaining words. This activity encourages creativity, reading comprehension, and vocabulary development. 🛍️ Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 2 Honors class worked on their reading strategies with a text about shopping in a Guatemalan market. ⚽️ Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 3 Honors students researched about athletes around the world in order to do a short presentation where they used vocabulary of nationality, sports, sports gear and facilities. 🎤 Mrs. Yarmolik’s German 2 students practiced their listening and speaking skills. They watched authentic videos and noted answers from interviews; they also practiced interviewing each other. 🔢 Ms. Patinella’s German 3 Honor students sequenced a story in the simple past tense. 👥Mrs. Garcia’s Spanish 1 class learned relationships and practiced introducing their family and friends. 👥 Mrs. Martin's French students interviewed each other to find a person who likes each of the vocabulary activity terms they were learning.

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. 🎟️ Mr. Morton’s Honors Economics students worked on their podcasts - Should the Secondary Market for Event Tickets be Regulated? 🖍️ Ms. Thompson’s Social Studies students used informational passages to make posters based on legislation and events associated with the Plains Indian war. 🎩Ms. Watkins Current Events students debated 9/11 foreign policy using Six Thinking Hats principles.