Hey ey ey ey! It's GAME DAY! Fredonia loves the Bills! 🫶
The Fredonia Board of Education will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, January 24, at 6:00 PM in the High School Library. Visit our website for the agenda.
We're BACK! Our Unified Bowling team had their first practice this week and we can't wait to get back out there. 🎳
Meet Rudy, another proud member of our growing therapy dog family! 🐶
Rudy was adopted by the Gugino family, and his humans attend our middle school. He is a two year old Labradoodle trained by Kaleigh Bell from Shaylah's Canine Commands in Forestville. Rudy comes from a long line of therapy dogs. His mother is a therapy dog at a middle school in Ohio!
Therapy dogs have been proven to benefit both students and adults on multiple levels, including being helpful in terms of mental health support and reducing anxiety.
When not working in the District, Rudy enjoys meeting new friends, swimming, watching squirrels, and TIMBITS! His most favorite thing to do is watch for his humans to come home on the school bus.
We can’t wait to welcome Rudy who will be joining our third and fourth grade classes for periodic visits. We communicated with our students and families before moving forward with this initiative. We appreciate everyone involved for their support as we continue with our ongoing efforts to create a welcoming and supportive environment within our schools.
Keep your eyes out for more fun features on our newest canine member of the #fredoniafamily!
We're back with another update from the District Office. This week we feature our history-making girls wrestling team, the Peaceful Bus project, well wishes to Damar Hamlin, and the introduction of our second therapy dog, Rudy. Woof woof! 🐾
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The end of December is traditionally badminton time in our PE classes! To expand upon that, badminton tournaments were played as an intramural after school activity.
Congrats to our winners:
11th and 12th Grade Doubles:
1st place Lucas Hoffman and Neil Cosico
2nd Place Jay Hawk and Calder Annear
3rd Place Gigi Ferro and Alex Weiss
11th and 12th Grade Singles:
Winner Jayden Yerico and runner up Lucas Hoffman
9th and 10th Grade Singles:
1st Place RJ Koopman
2nd Place Aiden Czekanski
3rd Place Brady Helmer
The Badminton Unit and Intramural Tournaments concluded with an after school Staff Student Tournament. Thanks to Mrs. Johnston for keeping this fun tradition going for 16 years!
Congratulations to this year's Fall All WNY Senior Scholar Athlete winners and honorable mentions!
All WNY Senior Scholar Athlete Winners:
Greta Frerichs Girls Swimming
Claire Marshall Girls Soccer
All WNY Senior Scholar Athlete Honorable Mention:
Calder Annear Boys Soccer
Rylee Beers Girls Soccer
Emerson Bramer Girls Swimming
Matthew Brown Boys Cross Country
Lauren Cerrie Girls Soccer
Micah Davis Football
Sarah Davis Girls Soccer
Gigi Ferro Girls Soccer
Clayton Frazier Boys Cross Country
Annie Gondek Girls Soccer
Molly Greenough Girls Swimming
Gianna Gullo Girls Tennis
Zachary Hall Boys Soccer
Arianna Huber Girls Soccer
Giacinte Laurito Girls Cross Country
Adam Lesch Boys Cross Country
Angelina May Girls Swimming
Lucy Prevet Girls Tennis
Abby Roth Girls Swimming
Josephine Tomaszewski Girls Soccer
Jenna Truby Girls Swimming
Jayden Yerico Boys Soccer
A message from Dr. Zilliox:
Hello Fredonia Families,
Please see the message below that we shared with our students today. We ask that you reinforce and support this message for all of our athletic events, but especially in relation to rivalry games.
Thanks to all those who will be attending our basketball games this week vs. Dunkirk and Southwestern. We appreciate your support of our teams, but please keep the following in mind:
Cheer for our team, not against our opponent.
Keep the language clean with no swearing.
Be respectful of the officials.
Be respectful of their fans and parents.
Represent our school positively.
Do not engage in negative social media dialogue with opposing teams and fans.
Best of luck to all players and coaches. Go Billies!
Stay classy Fredonia!
Dr. Zilliox
bzilliox@fcsd.wnyric.org
The Fredonia Board of Education will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, January 10, at 6:00 PM in the High School Library. Visit our website for the agenda.
Happy Three Kings Day to our #fredoniafamily!
For Hispanics, Three Kings’ Day is the culmination of the holiday season, the day when additional gifts are exchanged and big family celebrations take place. Children write letters in advance to the Three Kings, telling them how good they were during the year and asking for gifts. On the Night of Kings (January 5th), children place their shoes outside their bedrooms so that the Three Kings will leave presents in them.
To learn more about Three Kings Day, click below:
https://coolassociatesllc.com/three-kings-day-hispanic-holiday/
https://kidsclubspanishschool.com/learn-about-three-kings-day-in-hispanic-countries/
Happy New Year! Let's be our best 'Billies in 2023! 🎆
Our Art Honor Society is prepping for an exciting new project...stay tuned! 😲
🌟 Merry Christmas to our #fredoniafamily! 🎄
Judith Przybyla, School Counselor, presented to Maggie Snyder's PreK class this week about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. They learned about traditional items such as the menorah, latkes and dreidels. Happy Hanukkah to all of our #fredoniafamily who celebrate!
Congrats to our students on another great issue of the Spectator! Check out the full issue here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=FredoniaCentral&set=a.874442710624194
The District Office is proud to share our latest issue of the Fredonia Forum, a print newsletter published to take a deeper dive into some of the exciting things happening in our district. Households in the district will receive their copy in the mail sometime next week!
You can view the full newsletter here: https://www.fredonia.wnyric.org/page/district-newsletter
Fun fact: our newsletter is copy edited by students from Dr. Gerber's WRTG-354 class at Fredonia. This has been a great partnership to ensure our newsletter is the best it can be when we publish. Huge thank you goes out to our Print Shop as well for making this vision come to life!
We're back with another weekly update from the District Office. This week, we are highlighting some holiday celebrations, congratulating our PTECH student of the month, sharing a great video on the Polar Plunge, and much more. Enjoy the rest of the week!
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The Fredonia Board of Education will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, December 13, at 6:00 PM in the High School Library. Visit our website for the agenda.
Please also note: the BOE Policy Committee will hold a meeting Wednesday, December 14 at 4:30 PM in the HS Library.
This year's polar plunge to benefit @SpecOlympicsNY was a HUGE success! Our team, the Chilly Billies, smashed their fundraising goal and raised $6,965 for the cause! Check out what a fun (and frosty) time they had this past Friday! ❄️🌊
Thanks to student Ryan Davis for this video.
https://youtu.be/EFiaEGQOJcA
The second graders in Mrs. Price’s class enjoyed working with Mr. Haase and his high school seniors recently during their technology class. The students collaborated on building a catapult. They tested their design using a cookie and a marble. The final goal was to see if they could shoot both objects into a cup. This was achieved by working cooperatively to make changes to the placement of the catapult due to the weight of the object. It was an awesome learning experience for all students. The seniors learned the importance of being patient while mentoring, and the second graders learned a little physics and walked away with a “Big Buddy”.
