James F. Byrnes High School

What a great Homecoming Week! There have been so many activities for our students to participate in and one of those is our Food Drive! 🥫Our students raised 4,000 canned food items for Middle Tyger Community Center's Food Bank! 💙 🥫 Leadership Byrnes won the class food drive collection contest. 🥫Congratulations to Beta Club for taking 1st place with their “Campbell’s Soup” sculpture! Other amazing sculptures included: 🏈 Mrs. Springer’s class: “Nixon Field” 🛻ROTC: “Lil Red Pumpkin Truck” 🌳 Leadership Byrnes: “Castle de Leadership in the Enchanted Forest of Sir Byrnes” 🥁Art Department: “Mini Macy’s” Check out their sculptures! Thank you to everyone who supported our school and community food pantry!!

Today is the day! You can still come out and register and support the Runnin' Rebels at The Runnin’ Rebel Golf Tournament. At River Falls in Duncan today! Registration will take place today too!!

🖼️ CREATIVE FRIDAY 🖼️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎨 Mrs. Sheehan's Art 1 students are working with acrylic paints using dry brush techniques for transitional blending. This a true test in patience, skill, and color theory. They cannot wait to show off the final split portrait results!

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. 🚨🚑🚒🚓Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensics Science class hosted Greenville County 911 Operator, Byrnes Alumni, Kelsey Hendrix. She spoke about job requirements and a day in the life of a 911 operator. She answered student questions and provided insight into the various responsibilities of first responders involved in 911 calls. 🧮 The Rebel Math Team competed in their first Math Madness competition Monday afternoon. The competition runs asynchronously, so there are no results, yet! 🪎Dr. Hedgpeth's Statistical Modeling students worked hard on a Correlation Treasure Hunt today. ⌛️Mrs. Gilmore’s Math students did a “Precalculus Throw Back” to review and prepare for Q2.

🖍️Hispanic Heritage Month celebration in the library. Students were invited to collaborate on Talavera Tiles. Once completed a mosaic will be created.

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. 🌺Mrs. Petits Spanish 2 and Spanish 3 Honors completed Hispanic Heritage Month with a closing activity. They took a look at the other classes' display of renowned Hispanic professionals in the USA, in order to find relevant information about their contributions in different fields (while enjoying Hawaiian theme day on Monday). 🌎 Mrs. Greenfield’s Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 students proudly shared their cultural presentations while celebrating diversity and developing communication skills for 🌎🇲🇽🇩🇴🇵🇪 🇪🇸 Project #2 of Hispanic Heritage Month. 📣Mrs. Garcia’s Spanish students presented their projects for Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Math department was able to gather together and celebrate THREE new doctors on Friday! Congratulations to Dr. Sellie DeMarco, Dr. Amber Hedgpeth and Dr. Megan Coker on on this major accomplishment!! 🎓🎓🎓

The homecoming parade will begin at approximately 4:30 PM, tomorrow, October 8th. The parade will form in the parking lot directly in front of Byrnes, across HWY 290, and will route the perimeter of Duncan Elementary. The best location for observers will be on the sidewalks surrounding Duncan Elementary and in front of Byrnes Freshman Academy. Come out and support all of your favorite Rebels!!

The students versus faculty basketball game results are in! Students for the win! It was a close game! Sorry teachers maybe next year!

Please see below the events that will be hosted this week at Byrnes HS. Visiting team and spectator information, as well as ticketing information, for these events: 🎟️ https://fan.hudl.com/usa/sc/duncan/organization/14048/byrnes-high-school/tickets Monday, October 5, 2026 🎾 Girls JV Tennis vs. JL Mann Beech Springs Courts Start 5:00 PM 🏈 Girls Flag Football vs. Dorman Nixon Stadium 6:00 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Dorman White 6:00 PM Byrnes Blue vs. Dorman Blue 7:15 PM Byrnes Blue vs. Dorman White 7:15 PM Byrnes Silver vs. Dorman Blue 🏐 Boys Volleyball vs. Woodmont Byrnes Main Gym Varsity 6:00 PM Tuesday, October 6, 2026 🎾 Girls Varsity Tennis vs. Woodmont Beech Springs Courts Start: 5:00 PM 🏐 Girls Volleyball vs. Woodmont Byrnes Main Gym JV 5:30 PM Varsity 7:00 PM Thursday, October 8, 2026 🏈 C-Team Football vs. Burns, NC Nixon Stadium *All Fans will be seated on the Home side.Start 6:30 PM Friday, October 9, 2026 🏈 Varsity Football vs. Mauldin Nixon Stadium 7:30 PM

Congratulations are in order for members of both our girls and boys swim teams, who are headed to the 2026 Swimming State Championships! This championship run is the result of podium finishes in Region swim competition for Kira Garrett, who got first place in both the 200 and 100 free AND set a new team record in the 200 free with a time of 1:57.21! Along with Charlie Malone, who got third place in the 100 back! Bailey Williamson, Abigail Moore, Caroline McCarty, and Kira Garrett got third place in the 400 free relay. And Kira Garrett and Charlie Malone for got All Region--top 20 point scorers!! The Class AAAAA Swimming State Championship sessions will be held this Thursday (girls) 10/8 at 6:00pm and this Saturday (boys) 10/10 at 6:00pm at the University of South Carolina Natatorium in the Solomon Blatt Physical Education Center located at 1440 Wheat Street Columbia SC 29201. The following athletes will be part of the STATE TEAM: Girls: Ellie Brooks Nyah Henderson Caroline McCarty Ava Seman Bailey Williamson Ally Stocum Kira Garrett Abigail Moore Boys: Logan McCarty Jameson Lea Charlie Malone Nathaniel West Our swim team is coached by Coach Liz Whalen. Additional information about the swimming State Championship can be found here: https://schsl.org/archives/19964

🚒 Today, Mrs. Demumbreum's Forensic Science class hosted: 🔥 Spartanburg County Captain, Byrnes alumni, Jacob Newman 🔥 Lieutenant Ryan Jones of Duncan Fire department and 🔥 Firefighter, Byrnes alumni, Brady Rice from Duncan Fire Department. Students were able to ask questions, talk about real-world problems and, of course, use some fire tech on the fire truck and try on some gear. And even high schoolers enjoy stickers!! 🥰

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🏋️‍♀️Coach Pruitt’s PE 3 wrestling students hit the weight room today. 🇺🇸 ROTC attended the Raider Meet at Dorman on Saturday.

🎶 That's a wrap! The C. Phillip McIntyre Tournament of Bands was a success. We have an amazing Rebel Regiment Family of staff, students volunteers and boosters who pulled off a modified rain schedule for the remaining 18 bands and pulled off an amazing full day showcase! Thank you to all the bands who came from all over South Carolina to participate!

Tournament of Bands today has an updated abbreviated schedule for 18 remaining bands https://schedules.competitionsuite.com/3eab95a0-6aca-409c-bb22-3677b7749102_standard.htm Byrnes Bands begin performing at 1:40 pm with final awards at 2.

Teachers were busy today in staff development sessions with their Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and departments. Additional sessions on campus included the AVID site team and department chair meetings. Our District Staff Development Day also allowed specialty groups to meet with their colleagues from other campuses including: all Career Development Facilitators, all Guidance Counselors and all Multilingual Learner Program Teachers. It was a great day!

🔬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.🍔🧃