Category: Jr. Sr. High School

Nine sophomores & juniors represented FHS at the Southern Nebraska Conference Sportsmanship Summit on Wednesday, September 25.  The event occurred at Stone Creek Lodge in McCool Junction.  All eleven conference schools were represented.  Students broke into groups where they discussed ideas to promote sportsmanship at their schools.  Then each group shared with everyone else their ideas.  Students also enjoyed listening to the guest speaker, Matt Martin who is a track coach at UNL.  Our students enjoyed meeting students from other schools and gaining positive ideas.  Stay tuned for what our students are planning to do at FHS to promote sportsmanship!

Students in some of Mrs. Kristi Peterson’s math classes made some human graphs using a large coordinate plane on the practice football field.  They learned how to substitute numbers in place of variables and move to the appropriate coordinates.  Depending on the equation, they learned how to form a line or a parabola.  

On Wednesday, September 11, 8th Grade American History students and Politics students participated in the 9/11 Museum’s Anniversary in the School webinar.  The students started the day brainstorming what they knew, what they thought they knew, and things they wonder about.  After a class discussion and question and answer period, we logged into the webinar and joined 200,000 students from all 50 states and 13 other countries learn more about the events that happened that day.  We watched survivors tell their story of that days events They watched 2 people that were at the Pentagon, 2 people that were at the Marriott Hotel between the Twin Towers, and a journalist reporting on site that day.  

Students Brant Gillham and Addy Linscott had the awesome opportunity to experience a one of a kind event.  While practicing and logging  hours for Driver’s Education, these two students, along with Mr. Scott, got to see a Bobcat and her cubs in the wild.  The incident happened west and north of Gilead on a gravel road.  Brant wanted to show Mr. Scott a farm where some of his relatives lived.  Mr. Scott agreed, and was very glad he did, as all three passengers got to see this bobcat pick up a baby in her mouth.  She took the baby up the hill and disappeared.  Pretty soon she came again and got another.  In total she removed two babies. The spots on their bellies were very visible as the sun beat down on their shiny coats. There could have been others carried before we got there, but that remains a mystery. It was a day we will never forget!