James F. Byrnes High School

We would like to welcome Mr. Jemiah Wimphrie to our Support Staff in Study Hall! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Wimphrie!

⚛️Discover & Design Thursday — Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🦁 Mrs. Wright’s Biology students are finishing up a lion digestion lab that shows students how proteins are digested into amino acids and then are used to synthesize proteins! They are building their very own protein that is used in the body of consumers! ⚡️Mrs. Graham’s Chemistry students made the ATP/ADP cycle with play dough to show how energy is released. ✖️Mrs. Shirley’s Math students Practiced Factoring and completed their first Benchmark. 📊Mrs. Hedgpeth’s Math students created one-pagers from Unit 2. 🔤Mrs. Grimes Math students worked on a lesson about the key features of quadratics. 🎒 Mrs. Gilmore’s students worked in Collaborative Study Groups.

We would like to welcome Mr. Joseph Whisnant to our Special Education Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Whisnant!

🌎 WORLD WEDNESDAY 🌎 Speak It. Know It. Experience It. ✍️Mrs. Lopez Spanish classes played charades to practice hobby-related vocabulary! 👑Mrs. Yarmolik’s German 2 classes worked on a modern version of the Cinderella fairy tale. They had to come up with an additional scene and assign roles for an expressive classroom dramatization. 👾Mrs. Martin’s students reviewed by playing Gimkit. 🏫Mrs. Petit’s Spanish 3 Honors students created and presented mini posters of school clubs to the class, in Spanish. The lesson was on "be going to + infinitive". Some of them were: club de baile, ABC de cocina and club de teatro.

There will have an interest meeting for Boys Wrestling Thursday September 3rd at 6:00 in the Byrnes High School Cafeteria. This is for any 7th-12th graders interested in learning more about our wrestling program.

Wear your college colors on FRIDAY for College Colors Day!!

Mark your calendars for:
September 14, Senior IGP Meetings begin
September 24, College Fair at Byrnes

Join HOSA! An informational meeting will be Tuesday, September 8 during FLEX in Room 1159.

Open season for Girls Wrestling will begin Tuesday September 1st. Practices will be in the wrestling room at Byrnes High School. Practices will run 4:00-5:30 on Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridays during the month of September. Freshmen are allowed to ride the activity bus over to Byrnes high school for open seasons workouts. Any girl interested in wrestling must have a current physical and all forms completed on Arbiter. Please reach out to Coach Brandy Green at brandy.green@spart5.net and/or Coach Landon Anderson at landon.anderson@spart5.net with any questions.

We would like to welcome Mrs. Danielle Watkins to our Social Studies Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mrs. Watkins!

🖥️ Tech Tuesday 🖥️ Power Up Your Future! 🩸 Mrs. Bracken’s PLTW: PBS class did a blood spatter lab to determine height from which blood droplets at a crime scene fell. 👥Mrs. Brinsons webpage design students were tasked with creating a website mockup using Canva. The website had to be focused around a student athlete with an NIL deal. After the students completed their mockup, they were tasked with developing and designing a webpage, from scratch, that depicted their Canva mockup. 🎧Mr. Warren’s Media Tech students ran the Jumbotron during last week’s C-Team/JV game against Dorman. This opportunity is part of a district internship program that gives students real-world experience working in live production through Media Tech. 🎥Mr. Baltz Digital Marketing students finished marketing plans last week on music streaming services.  Students wrote scripts and filmed their advertisements.

Open season for Boys Wrestling will begin Wednesday September 2. Practices will be in the wrestling room at Byrnes High School and will run 4:00-5:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the month of September. Middle school athletes can ride the activity bus over for these workouts. Anyone interested in wrestling can attend these practices. Athletes must have a current physical and all forms completed on Aribiter in order to participate. please reach out to Coach Pruitt at Kane.Pruitt@spart5.net with any questions.

We would like to welcome Assistant Band Director Mr. Harrison Thornton to our Fine Arts Department! Welcome to the Rebel family Mr. Thornton!

🏃 MOVE MONDAY 🏃 Move. Lead. Conquer. 🐶 🍪 ☄️Coach Justus’s AVID 4 students collaborated with the Life Skills Class to draw a dog, step-by-step, they shared cookies their class had baked earlier in the day and then they all went to the gym for some game time.  It was a great opportunity for the AVID seniors to spend some time mentoring other students.

There will have an interest meeting for Girls Soccer Team Tuesday September 1st at 6:00 in the Byrnes High School Cafeteria.

Reminder, Girls Flag Football Tryouts begin tomorrow! Tuesday, September 1 and Thursday, September 3 at Beech Springs Middle School 4:00-5:30pm. All students must have a current physical in order to participate. Students should reach out to Coach Justus or Coach Sirovatka for more information.

We would like to welcome Mr. Kedar Peeples to our Support Staff in In-School Suspension! Coach Peeples will also be joining the Track and Field Team as an Assistant Coach for sprints and jumps. Welcome to the Rebel family Coach Peeples!

Open season for Boys Wrestling will begin Wednesday September 2. Practices will be in the wrestling room at Byrnes High School and will run 4:00-5:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the month of September. Middle school athletes can ride the activity bus over for these workouts. Anyone interested in wrestling can attend these practices. Athletes must have a current physical and all forms completed on Aribiter in order to participate. please reach out to Coach Pruitt at Kane.Pruitt@spart5.net with any questions.

✍️ CREATIVE FRIDAY✍️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 📚Ms. Little’s English class worked on a Brochure project in the library. 👥Ms. Chandler’s English classes did a “speed dating” activity where they had to answer thematic, broader questions from The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green! Afterwards, they had to write about which of their peers’ responses stuck with them the most. They also had to rate the response from 1-5 stars (which mimics every chapter in the book of essays that they’re studying). 🤗Mrs. Cathcart’s English classes did a Romanticism scavenger hunt in a section of Jane Eyre, looking for elements of nature, individualism, imagination, and goodness in people. 💬Mrs. Harrison’s AP Literature students used Book Club Conversation Cards. 🗯️Mrs. Bailey’s English students made parts of speech posters. 🎤Mrs. Wyatt’s Yearbook students interviewed each other to practice their interview skills and strategies. ☄️Mrs. Watts’ English students played a game called The Most Ridiculous Game and they were required to use common house tools like tongs or a child’s broom to gather vocabulary clues from a ball pit full of ridiculously random items. Students then race back to the table to create matches with their team.

🎨CREATIVE FRIDAY🎨
Fine Arts Friday
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎨Mrs. Sheehan’s Art 1 class prepped projects about understanding the versatility and joy of watercolor. ✏️ Mrs. Long’s Art 2 Class completed their Sketch Assignments on Shading Techniques. 🖼️ Mrs. Long’s Art Appreciation Class learned about appropriation by recreating the Mona Lisa. 🤪Mrs. Chambliss’ Honors Art 3 students wrapped up their Funny Phobia projects! The goal was to change the overall emotion of the phobia. 📷 Mrs. Chambliss’ Photography class finished building pinhole cameras and has been testing out exposures. 🎻Mrs. Grant’s Chamber Orchestra worked on a professional recording. 🗡️Mr. Thorntons Colorguard class worked on new Sabre choreography. 🎺 Mr. Thornton’s Symphonic Band class worked on Fundamentals. 🎶 Mr. Gunter’s Chorus students completed a team building exercise for Bel Canto and they rehearsed We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace. 🖍️Mrs. Sloan's Art 2 class completed their first project, "Overlapping Initials". Students used color pencils to create a unique composition and worked on their color blending techniques.