James F. Byrnes High School

🔬Discover & Design Thursday ➗ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🧫Mrs. Yarborough’s Chemistry students looked at precipitates through the bottom of a microwell plate. 🫆Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensics students hosted Spartanburg’s County’s Chief Coroner Investigator Jonathan Lawson to share his experience as a coroner and his prior experiences in law enforcement. ⚠️Dr. Hedgpeth’s Math classes witnessed the dangers of extrapolation on Friday with the conclusion of their Barbie Bungee activity. While a few Barbies had a good jump, most of the models did not hold up to extrapolation. One particular doll appeared to explode upon impact!

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.

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎
Speak It. Know It. Experience It.

🌎🇲🇽🇨🇴🇩🇴🇬🇹🇵🇪🇪🇸 Mrs. Greenfield’s Spanish 1 students worked on their Hispanic Heritage Project with the objective to explore the culture and traditions of a Spanish-speaking country while developing Spanish language skills. 🌎✨

⌨️Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 2 Honors practiced their spelling with an online typing game and then read and corrected statements about food and beverages.🍔🧃

Our AVID students took a field trip to Greenville Tech yesterday!📚

🖥️ Tech Tuesday 🖥️ Power Up Your Future! 🎥Media Tech interns running the Jumbotron. This opportunity is part of a district internship program that gives students real-world experience working in live production through Media Tech.

Make sure this is your view today! It is picture day!!!

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🏋️‍♀️ Coach Cross’s Strength and Fitness students hit the weight room today. 🥏 Coach Higdon’s PE classes played disk golf at Tyger River Park. 👟FIGHT Club (Friends Into Getting Healthy Together) did a mile of cardio on Main Street and were able to stop at Ohana's for a cool treat thanks to retired club founder, Coach Holcombe.

Reminder: Picture day is tomorrow, Tuesday September 29.

👟Track and Field Open Season Conditioning starts on October 5th.
📅Practice Mondays and Wednesdays 4pm-5pm
💪Physicals must be uploaded to Arbiter in order to practice
‼️ Grades 10-12

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 were $70 but prices increased September 5th.

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

⚠️ Ad sales END January 15th.

📸 Picture day for sophomores & juniors were 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. )

Congratulations to these Hall of Fame Athletes and Coaches! Once a Rebel, Always a Rebel!

🎶The Rebel Regiment took the Grand Championship yesterday at the Foothills Tournament of Champions. Congratulations, Rebels!! Presenting the James F. Byrnes HS 2026 Fall Production……… “Frames of Mind” join us on a journey of self-reflection using our past experiences and former versions of ourselves to ultimately unlock our greatest potential. Our musical selections include: Kaleidoscope of Mathematics from a Beautiful Mind by James Horner Unseen no. 4 by Micheal Torke Javelin by Micheal Torke Agape by Nicholas Britell Go Do by Jósnsi Musical Design by Michael Martin and A.J. Pace Visual Design by Jon Vanderkolff Program Coordination and Aesthetic Design by Jim Moore

✍️ CREATIVE FRIDAY ✍️ 
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🤩Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. Dickerson, Ms. Little and Mrs. Watts had an early morning library meeting planning lots of fun for next week! 🐷 Ms. Harris’s students worked on a poster analyzing perspective and allegory in Animal Farm. 📝Ms. Little’s English students designed advertisements using persuasive devices. The three groups posing were the standouts in 3rd period! 🦋Dr. Cash's AP Language students analyzed lyrics from Dolly Parton songs in honor of 9 25.

🎨CREATIVE FRIDAY 🎨
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🖼️ Mrs. Sheehans art students reinvented the Mona Lisa. Creavity unleashed! 🧑‍🎨Mrs. Sloan's Art 2 and Art 2 Honors classes have completed their wire sculptures and prints! Students brought their ideas to life in both 3-D and 2-D  artwork!   🌀 Mrs. Long’s Art Appreciation completed their Kandinsky inspired group artworks this week! 🎨🖌️ Mrs. Long’s Art 2 students worked on their watercolor techniques! 💃🏼Mrs. Archie’s Dance 1 students completed a Scavenger Hunt to match Choreographers to their Masterworks.

🧑‍🔬Discover & Design Thursday👩🏻‍🔬
Calculate. Experiment. Create.

🧪Mrs. Yarborough’s Chemistry students practiced naming compounds.

🔬 Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensic Science students started their trace evidence unit with an introductory microscope lab.

➗Discover & Design Thursday ➗
Calculate. Experiment. Create.

📈Dr. Hedgpeth's classes built their bungee cords for Barbie Bungee today. They have collected data, created linear models, and determined how many rubber bands will result in the best bungee jumps for Barbie and friends.

📏Dr. Coker’s Honors Precalculus students completed an activity to help visualize and understand radian measure.

🖊️Mrs. Grimes math students practiced rewriting equations in exponential and logarithmic forms.

🌎WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎
Speak It. Know It. Experience It.

📝Mrs. Yarmolik’s German 3 students used visual manipulative aids to practice sentence structures involving reflexive pronouns.

👗Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 2 Honors students practiced their speaking skills on how well clothes fit and giving suggestions to others. They worked on a dialogue and a game where they had to give spontaneous answers.

Our School Improvement Council SIC had their first meeting today to kick off the new year!

Teachers spent the Early Release afternoon training on Panorama for Teachers. This is a multifaceted platform that allows teachers to view data on student grades, attendance, social/emotional learning, and many other important pieces of data allowing a wealth of data analysis for teachers to better serve our students. Teachers then worked within their Professional Learning Communities (PLC) to discuss "What might mean for our teaching?" Teachers discussed how they could use this program to help students within their PLC and collaborate on next steps for the PLC.

⛳These Lady Rebels Golf Team hosted 25 teams from all over the state to play in "The Lady Rebel". This was the first 18 hole tournament of the year on August 27. This is the 15th year the tournament has been held.

These girls (each pictured) had the opportunity to compete in the tournament: Nealy Pretulak, Olivia Ledford, AJ Smith, Mallory Davis, Ivy Thompson, Kelsie Vaughn, Misa Desai, Emmeri Johns, and Adeline Watchorn.

Proud of their hard work this season. They have 5 more match-ups in season play.

🚩September 28 against Spartanburg @ Woodfin
🚩September 30 against Woodmont @ The Creek
🚩October 1 Woodmont @ Carolina Springs
🚩October 6 Smith Memorial @Newberruy Country Club
🚩October 9 Battle @ The Brooke