Our Mission Statement:
Provide a learning environment which fosters critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication to prepare all students for the challenges of the 21st century.
National Honor Society Induction Ceremony
Congratulations to:
Jahnavi Bulusu, Jacob Collette, Joselyne Cruz, Leighla-Marie Dantes, Isabella Fallon, Jocelyn Gonzalez, Nora Hayes, Emma Honcz, Olivia Jones, Grace Kiernan, Maria Korman, Taylor LaFountain, Karthikeya Lakoji, Cameron Lefebvre, Emily Maruottolo, Katherine McTigue, Ellen Pan, Elle Philpott, Mackenzie Posey, Matthew Preneta, Olivia Salai, Isabella Sanchez, Erin Schmitt, Julian Sevillano, Elizabeth Tran, Lillian Vernucci, Manya Vijay, Lindsay Wiederhold.
Senior Families
All seniors ordered their cap & gowns this week!
GRADUATION EXPENSES:
A date has not yet been set for graduation. The Board of Education will determine the date in April. As in past years, students will be required to pay $40 to cover the costs of graduation expenses, which includes cap, gown, and diploma cover. Please pay online at https://www.milforded.org/o/fhs/page/foran-high-school-dues-for-senior-graduation-expenses. If you would prefer, you may pay by check made payable to Foran High School, or pay with cash. Checks or cash can be dropped off to Mrs. Carino or Mrs. Golebiewski in the main office.
If you have any questions please contact Senior Class Advisors,
Shauna Newall snewall@milforded.org or Melissa Cacioppo mcacioppo@milforded.org
Career in Trade
Attention students who are interested in learning about a career in a trade such as plumbing, electrical, and HVAC. A representative from the Connecticut Apprenticeship program will be here on December 15th. Interested students should see Ms. Wunder in the school counseling office to sign up and learn more about these fields.
Model UN at University of New Haven
The Model United Nations classes recently went to their first conference at the University of New Haven. Students in the Conference worked with other world leaders to discuss the topics of Mental Health Awareness and Aid along with Protecting Civilians during armed conflict. The students in Mr. Phelan's class were awarded Honorable Delegation and 8 students won awards at the conference. Shout out to: Zackary Israelite, Venice Montanaro, Ava Scholl, John Brown, Jillian Junga, and Isabella Valentin.
Ms. Jones's Advanced Creative Writing students collaborate in the Teaching and Learning Commons to engage in small-group writer's workshops. Writer's workshops are an opportunity for students to read and discuss one another's work, to share feedback and ideas, and to support one another in the revision process. Currently, each student is writing an original short story, pursuing a topic and genre of their choice to develop their authorial voice.
Latin students visited the Yale Art Gallery and learned about ancient excavations, art, and artifacts from Yale docents and Professor Charles Mercier,
The Sci-Lions, Foran Science Olympiad team is preparing the Yale University Science Olympiad competition on February 4th
Intro to Photography Students Explore Shutter Speed
Intro to Photography students were exploring the components of exposure by isolating shutter speed. Students were working with partners to either create a stop-action effect or the illusion of intentional motion within their images by selecting an appropriate shutter speed for their moving water. Here are some photos of students in-action as well as images created by Teresa Lin and Rebecca Scicchitano, Jackie Maurice, Ariel Phantharangsy, Olivia Rodriguez and Sophie Hofmeister, Nadia Williams, Gabby Parfett and Isabella Salai.
This week Robotics 1 classes built drag racers to learn about gear ratios, weight distribution, and torque. We raced with two categories, furthest distance in 1 rotation (best gear ratio should win) and furthest distance in 5 seconds (fastest Car). Period 3 Overall Winners were Luke Cruz and Juan Laboy. In period 5 One Rotation winner Joe Galaburri, and Steven Ghaly won for Fastest Car.
Mr. Dillon’s engineering class is teaming up with Mr. Domeracki's wood tech class to design and build catapults.
Power Tech busy with Repairs!
Intro to Early Childhood Education visited The Goddard School in Orange CT to observe and identify the philosophy, curriculum, teaching and guidance techniques, and the materials and layout.
Mrs Deloma presented “Banned Books and Censorship” and “Choosing Quality Children’s Literature” to introduce the Diversity Unit in Early Childhood Education.
Mrs. GaNun’s TEAMS class learned a new game called Quall. Each team had to utilize their teamwork skills in order to be successful in protecting their wall while balls came flying with hard hits using a pillow polo stick. The students enjoyed playing this new activity and Mrs. GaNun enjoyed seeing their excitement and smiles participating in PE class.
Girls Soccer
Congratulations Colleen Ardolino!
CGSCA Girls Class L All State
Boys Soccer
Rob Petrie - CSCA Assistant Coach of the Year
Nico Agresti - CSCA Class M All State
Cristian Boutote - CSCA Class M State
SCC Captain’s Council
Floyd Little Athletic Center
Foran Wrestling represents the Plunge for Bristol! Support for their community that lost two police officers in the line of duty
Join the Coding Club! We participate in coding competitions like Cyberstart America which allows you to learn and advance your cybersecurity skills and possibly win scholarships!
No prior coding experience required.
If you're interested, stop by 393 after school on Tuesdays.
Forever Friends
Attention Forever Friends! Join us on Wednesday, December 14th, for a holiday movie get together! The meeting will be in room 365 from 2-3:30pm. We hope to see you there.
Pajama Day!
Foran raised $338 for Connecticut Children's Foundation and showed their support by wearing PJs today in school.
