San Juan Island Pilot’s Association donates $500.00 for public school Museum of flight field trip The San Juan Pilots Association was pleased to donate $500 to the San Juan Public Schools Foundation to help fund the 7th grade field trip to the Museum of Flight. This donation provided assistance with transportation to the museum, located…
Here are two Thank You notes from the Friday Harbor Special Education Team: Dear San Juan Public Schools Foundation: Thank you for granting our request to purchase the Banking Math for Today’s World book. The students in the High School Special Education Program are already benefiting from working on math assignments from this book. We are currently having Apps…
The 21st annual Knowledge Bowl starts at 7pm on February 10th at the Community Theatre. Doors open at 6:30, with a bake sale & the FHHS Jazz Band at 6:45! Three student teams (FHMS 8th graders, FHHS freshmen/sophomores and FHHS juniors/seniors) go head to head with four local service group teams: Kiwanis, Soroptimists, Lions, and Rotary. The…
There are more books on the shelves: A note from FHHS/FHMS librarian Lisa Salisbury…. Dear San Juan Public Schools Foundation, Thank you for your AMAZING support of the Middle-High School Library!! Your continual support provides a wide variety of valuable resources for the staff and students in grades 7-12. The resources purchased through numerous SJPSF…
Celebrate academic excellence on our soccer fields! Congratulations to the FHHS Girls AND Boys Varsity Soccer teams, who were named 2014 Washington 2B State Academic Champions this fall. This means our Wolverines have the best team GPA of all the 2B schools in the state. And they headed strong into the playoffs after finishing 1st…
Besides the obvious, the FHHS STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) program plays an important part in giving women on the island a better chance to succeed in fields often dominated by men. Here’s more from Tae Yoo & the Huffington Post: ++++++++ Tae Yoo, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Cisco It’s a startling pair…
It’s always great hear from the people who get it! FHHS senior Max Haenel dropped the Schools Foundation a note the other day: Dear Public Schools Foundation, My name is Max Haenel and I am a student at Friday Harbor High School. I am writing to sincerely thank you for your generous donations to our…
Principal Diane Ball and the SJPSF Board’s Mike Taylor share the “thank you!” poster made by the teachers and kids at the elementary school for the Foundation’s contributions this year!
For the fifth year, the LEOs (the high school service club affiliated with the San Juan Lions Club) has made a donation to SJPSF – this year’s $500 check was presented by advisors John Towson and John Bostrom, advisors and FHHS senior & LEOs president Isabel Gabriel to SJPSF chair Nancy Young and SJPSF vice-chair…
The Phone-a-Thon, held on October 7th & 8th, was awesome! We brought in $42,000 in pledges this year. As they say, “It takes a village!” Thank you to this amazing community! Volunteer students, parents, and educators spent hours at our call center this year. A big thanks to them as well! The generous support of islanders…