James F. Byrnes High School

💃🏼 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.

Please see the athletic events that will be hosted this week. Monday, September 14, 2026 🏐 Boys Volleyball vs. Mauldin Byrnes Main Gym 7:00 PM Tuesday, September 15, 2026 🎾 Girls Tennis vs. Mauldin Beech Springs Courts 5:00 PM Girls Volleyball vs. Mauldin Byrnes Main Gym 🏐 JV 5:30 PM 🏐 Varsity 7:00 PM Thursday, September 17, 2026 🏈 Sub-Varsity Football vs. Spartanburg 🏈 C-Team 5:30 PM 🏈 JV 7:00 PM Saturday, September 19, 2026 🏐Boys Varsity Volleyball Varsity Games vs. Riverside, Eastside, Clover and PAC 🏐 JV Games vs. Fort Mill, Nation Ford, Blythewood, May River, Eastside and PAC Byrnes Main Gym Byrnes Old Gym Byrnes New Auxiliary Gym 8:00 AM 🎟️ Ticket information: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/sc/duncan/organization/14048/byrnes-high-school/tickets

🖥️ Tech Tuesday 🖥️ Power Up Your Future! ⚙️Mr. Proffit’s Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) class created a transfer system (assembly line) and learned about manufacturing costs.  🧬 Mrs. Bracken’s PLTW Biomedical Science class did a gel electrophoresis lab today to determine if the DNA left at a crime scene belonged to a specific suspect.

🇺🇸 MOVE MONDAY 🇺🇸
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🏈 ROTC wanted to give a shout out to the Cadet Rebel Flag crew and the ColorGuard and Drill teams for their fantastic display honoring 9-11 Friday night on Nixon Field. 💪🏼 ROTC cadets doing a relay race that consisted of a fitness challenge followed by flying a drone through an obstacle.

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃
Move. Lead. Conquer. 🏀Coach Fowler’s PE3/boys basketball team is playing in a fall league and working in the weight room! 🤼 🤼‍♀️ Coach Pruitt’s PE 3 students/Wrestling Team hit the weight room today.

🎨 CREATIVE FRIDAY🎨
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🇺🇸Mrs. Grant’s Chamber Orchestra performed Friday morning at the AFROTC 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony. 🧊Mrs Sheehan's art students created 3D cubes with facades of numbers, eyes, emojis, and letters to name a few. Overlapping was emphasized. Future artists are athletes too, raising the ultimate question, "What would Art be like if it was treated like a Sport?" 🖼️ Mrs. Long’s Art Appreciation students worked on their group Frayer Model Critiques on famous artworks. 🏜️Mrs. Long’s Art 2 students completed their Folk Art Line Landscape Projects.

✍️ CREATIVE FRIDAY✍️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 👥Mrs. Hollis’s English class worked on their Commercial Parodies- Graphic Organizer in small groups. 📕 Mrs. Bowens English class enjoyed the beautiful weather in our new courtyard while completing their independent reading time. 🇺🇸Dr. Cash’s AP language class analyzed and discussed rhetoric in visuals, articles, and speeches about the events of 9/11. We will never forget! ✂️ Ms. Gossett’s English 2 students created their own poems using chopped words from “Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes and were to arrange the words in any order to create their own poem with a unique title within their small groups. At the end, the origin of the words was revealed to prove to them that they too can be creative poets, and that poetry transcends genres .

🏈 Highlights from last night's game against Greer 🐝. Another lighting delay⚡️had the score at Rebels 34-3 Greer with 3:34 left in the first half. Game resumed and ended in a W!! 55-17!

Class of 2027 Students and Parents: 🎓Senior Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) meetings start Mon., 9/14/26 and run through Fri., 10/30/26. 🎓 Seniors must meet Face-to-Face (F2F) with their assigned School Counselors. (Parents are encouraged to participate: F2F or virtually or by phone conference). 🎓 Meeting appointments are booked online by either the Senior or the Parent using the Online Booking Link located on the Guidance website: https://byrneshighschool.setmore.com/ 🎓 All IGP meetings will take place in the Guidance Suite. Parents will check in at the main lobby. 🎓 School Counselors have appts. scheduled at 30-minute intervals. See you soon!!