Enjoy your break.
The next eLook will be March 24.
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FHS has art students win awards
The
regional art competition, Visual Art Scholastic Event (VASE), took
place recently. More than 2500 art pieces
were judged.
FHS ended up winning 52 Gold Medals with eight students advancing to the state level. Students advancing to state are ... |
32 compete, all win at Galveston Science Fair
All 32
FHS students who competed in the Galveston County Science Fair this
Saturday won at least one award. FHS students swept the Senior
Division and earned a total of $3400 in cash prizes. In addition, Ben
Braun was awarded a $2500 college scholarship. In individual awards, the Shell Award was presented to ... |
Lacrosse Night Raffle April 3
To bring more attention to the sport and to increase the attendance at
the games, the Friendswood High School Lacrosse Program would like to
offer several prizes to be raffled off at ...
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The Friendswood Junior High Theatre Department presents "Just Another High School Play" by Bryan Starchman on Thursday, March 5, 2009 and Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the FJH Auditorium. Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for students/children.
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FHS AD competes at State, takes third place
The
Friendswood Academic Decathlon team took third place overall at the
state competition in San Antonio recently. The team also placed second
in the Super Quiz relay and second in the overall team Super Quiz. AD team members by group include ...
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Parents of 6th grade students who will go to FJH next year:
Meet with the JH counselor & principal
March 10 6:30 pm
or
March 23 6:30 pm
in the JH Snack Bar
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Westwood is one of 25 schools selected as national finalists.
Westwood
Elementary has been named one of 25 schools and two districts to be
National Finalists in its National Schools of Character (NSOC) awards
program sponsored by The Character Education Partnership (CEP).
CEP, the nation's leading advocate for quality character education,
chose the 27 National Finalists from a record 185 applicants across the
United States. CEP will be conducting site visits to all National
Finalists throughout the end of April. CEP's Blue Ribbon Panel will
then meet to select approximately 10 winners in ... |
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 4 FHS Speech students win Transportation contest
FHS
students Megan Brann, Lesleigh Balkum, Kristi Board, and Johnathan
Moore placed first in their respective grade levels recently in the 8th
Annual School Bus Safety Speech Contest sponsored by the Texas
Association for Pupil Transportation at Region IV. They will compete
at the state level in April.
The contest is intended to encourage high school students to be conscious of the importance of school bus safety and promote ... |
FISD Food Services to add The Bistro at FHS
Friendswood High School welcomes something new to
the school cafeteria. The Bistro at FHS will offer a special food item
for each day of the week.
Opening
March 9, The Bistro offers an opening special. Students who
purchase one of the new menu items will receive a free 16-ounce drink
March 9-13. The Bistro line will introduce more selections for the students and
ability for students to make more menu choices. Three of the five days
food services will be making ... |
 Author sends note of thanks to Westwood knitters
Westwood Elementary knitters received a special delivery from Minnesota
author Julie Jerslid Roth recently, which included two signed copies of
her book, Knitting Nell and a special
letter to club members. Here is what she had to say:
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Education Foundation thanks underwriters, donors for their support
A True Blue Evening,
this year's fundraiser by the Friendswood ISD Education Foundation
March 7 at Space Center Houston has a slate of underwriters that made the event possible.
Foundation directors and the event co-chairs CiCi Newkirk and Selena
Ellis want to thank the following partners for helping make A True Blue Evening
possible: Commerce Equities, Inc. and the businesses of the
Acadiana Center; Bay Architects, Lexus of Clear Lake and AMOCO Federal
Credit Union. They and this year's Foundation Major Donors were recognized at the gala by name. Major donors attending included the Moody Foundation (Bobby & Ingrid Moody), Walter & Elaine Manning, and The Boeing Company,
"Their support and partnership allowed us to plan a very special evening for the honorees," Ellis said.
Six Distinguished Alumni honored at the event include Floyd Brown Jr., Beryl Cline, Jim Hill, Randy Speck, Kent Ballard & Honorary Alumnus David Hearn, MD.
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FJH has winners in Galveston Science Fair
Carpe Diem was the motto for Friendswood Junior High
scientists when they competed recently at the Galveston Science Fair.
According to science teacher Suzanne Humble Davies, they successfully
seized the day and many awards. The winners of the Galveston show have the opportunity to compete in the upcoming ... |
 Read Across America at Westwood
This program is celebrated nationwide by the National Education Association (NEA).
This day is a means by which educators can encourage
and inspire students to become lifelong readers. The date was
originally chosen by the NEA on the birthday of famed children's
author, Dr. Seuss.
This year Westwood Elementary encouraged families to be a part of the celebration by reading ...
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Swim teams set records at State Meet
The 2009
State 4A Swimming and Diving Championships were incredible! Friendswood
High School was very well represented and the kids swam their best!
Many of the swimmers on the team swam their best times ever and state
and national records were broken.
Senior Cole Cragin set the National High School Record in the ... |
FHS visitors teach, form Integrity Teams at Westwood
Three FHS PALs visited Westwood Elementary teachers Morgan Ryza and
Heather Bowen recently to reinforce character-building efforts,
specifically in relation to the Fairness Pillar. After deciding to share the sweet treats so everyone gets one, students
were given a heart-shaped paper on which to write or draw ways in which
they can show fairness. They then circled up and, rolling a
rubber-band ball to help decide who should ... |
Golf Tournament set to benefit FHS Baseball
The 2008 Mustangs raised the bar with the first ever run to the Baseball state tournament! Many of you took that ride up to Austin to watch the boys make Friendswood proud. We need your ongoing support to continue to provide the tools and equipment needed to keep making this program better.
Please come out to Timber Creek March 11. Shotgun start is at 1:00 with registration starting at 10:00 am, putting contest at 10:30 am.
The registration fee is $125 and includes green fee, cart fee, range balls, lunch, beverage tickets and door prizes.
Please contact Larry Singleton, (713) 203-1946, Russ Rhodes, (713)
249-5938 or Tom Goodwin, (713) 201-7177 for additional information.
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Speech student advances to Nationals
FHS
speech student Kristi Board has advanced to nationals in Birmingham,
Alabama this summer in Humorous Interpretation with her piece, Mulan.
Cailey Fitzgerald was named Semifinalist in international extemporaneous speaking.
Megan Brann and Seth Zawila were named ... |
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