James F. Byrnes High School

🎨 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!!

Tonight, Greer comes to Byrnes for a 7:30 kickoff.

And on this September 11th, we pause to remember and honor the lives lost, the heroes who answered the call, and the families forever impacted by 9/11. We will never forget.

Greer at Byrnes | 7:30 PM

Ticket Link: https://fan.hudl.com/tickets/VGlja2V0ZWRFdmVudDZhOTVkYTA5NWEzMzMzMDI2OTRjOTRkMA==

*Cash Options Available at the Gates

*Credit / Debit Card Payment Available at the Gate


-No outside food allowed in the stadium

-A "clear bag policy" will be enforced for entry into the stadium.

-Metal detectors will be in place at all gates, and used for all spectators and guests.

-Fans are encouraged to arrive early to minimize wait times.

-All spectators will be required to stay on the side of the stadium (home or visitor) at which they enter.

-All spectators must stay seated in the stands, unless visiting the restroom or
concession stands.

-Any student, middle school age or under, MUST be accompanied by a parent or other adult. Those who are unaccompanied will not be sold a ticket, nor granted entry into the game.

👟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

⚛️Discover & Design Thursday ⚛️ Calculate. Experiment. Create. 🐾Mrs. Kuronya’s Biology students tested two unknown food kibble pellets based upon their knowledge of nutrition and macromolecules they had to determine which should be fed to a carnivore and which to a herbivore. 🩸 Mrs. Demumbreum’s Forensic Science students completed a blood typing lab to determine donor compatibility between blood types resulting in positive and negative outcomes. 🎒 Mrs. Gilmore’s Precalculus students worked in Collaborative Study Groups.

🌏World Wednesday🌏 Speak it. Know it. Experience it. ✈️Mrs. Yarmolik's German 3 students practiced a conversation between a passenger and a Lufthansa Airlines staff member at the check-in counter. The task was to state the itinerary and the amount of luggage, select a seat, and find out the flight departure time.

💧 🪲 🐌🔬💧 Mrs. Wright and Mrs Kuronya’s Honors Biology classes sampled macroinvertebrate diversity near the Middle Tyger Library to determine stream health.

🎨CREATIVE FRIDAY🎨
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 🎻 Mrs. Grant’s, orchestra students worked on partner collaborations and analyzed new music. 💃🏼Mr. Thornton and Mr. Cohen’s Colorguard class is learning new choreography for the show. 🧑‍🩰Mrs. Archie’s Dance 1 students worked on World Dance Projects- translating dances from other countries to teach to the each other. 👩🏼‍🎨Every Friday is the day to showcase the "Artist of the Week" in all of Mrs Sheehan's art classes. A goodie bag, art stickers, and the coolest art brush ink pen are some of the perks including bonus points, and art passes. This week we worked in color, design, and creativity. Congrats Jayla! 🖼️Mrs. Long’s Art 2 class worked on their landscape pieces today.

📚 Students Become Authors! Mrs. Hollis’ English classes visited the library this week to show their understanding of George Orwell’s Animal Farm! Students combined their knowledge of the novel, the history of the Russian Revolution and USSR, and English Language concepts like allegory and satire to create their very own "Chapter 11" using Book Creator. It was so much fun seeing students apply what they’ve learned, think critically about Orwell’s message, and put their own creative spin on the story. 📖 We loved having Mrs. Hollis’ classes in the library and seeing their creativity and understanding come to life! 💙 Your Favorite Librarians: Mrs. Dickerson and Mrs. Roberts

✍️ CREATIVE FRIDAY✍️
Imagine. Create. Inspire. 👤Ms. Harris’s English students have been working on their body biographies for Of Mice and Men. Avery and Lydia wanted to share their finished body biography! 🐥Mrs. Wyatt’s Yearbook students created Duck Superheroes! Mrs. Wyatt shared her duck, Delilah the Determined Duck. Delilah’s strengths are persistence and curiosity. Her weakness is that sometimes she quacks before she thinks and quacks over others. How cute!

Today was College Colors Day!!

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.