HFIS – The News of the Highlands

They’re great fundraisers!

March 11, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

The Highland Falls Intermediate School has completed the American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge fundraiser.

21 HF-FMCSD students to be honored

March 4, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

MIDDLETOWN — SUNY Orange will celebrate the outstanding achievements of 608 local students — 21 of them from the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District — when the College hosts its 30th Sojourner Truth Awards Program at 6 p.m., Friday, March 6 in the Edward A. Diana Physical Education Building on the Middletown campus.

20 were in spelling bee

January 29, 2020 Mary Jane Pitt

20 students participated, in front of all their peers, in the 2020 HFIS Spelling Bee, sponsored by the HFFM Parent Teacher Partnership.

HFIS students are now seasoned legislators

November 27, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

That’s one of the key goals of New York State’s Social Studies curriculum, to teach students not only about what has happened and what is happening in the world around them, but to learn how to express themselves — respectfully — in debates.

Thank you, Mr. Wendell!

October 10, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

Section 9 athletics recognized sports officials all across Orange and Ulster Counties last week.

Did you notice our recent typo?

September 13, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

The Friday, August 23 issue of The News had a big typo — right on the front page, right in the top headline. Did you notice it?

Eighth graders honored at Moving Up

July 11, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

State Senator James Skoufis was a guest at the Highland Falls Intermediate School’s recent 8th Grade Moving Up ceremony.

Congratulations to these class leaders

June 14, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

The Board of Education of the Highland Falls-Fort Montgomery Central School District, administrators, teachers, parents and others gathered in the O’Neill High School Library last Thursday evening to celebrate the Top 10 graduates of the high school (they’ll graduate on Tuesday, June 25) and Top 5 eighth grade graduates of the Highland Falls Intermediate School (they will ‘move up’ on Wednesday, June 26).

Their fundraising helps us all!

April 4, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

These three students were the top fundraisers when the HFIS 3rd through 6th graders participated in Jump Rope for Heart, a fundraiser for the American Heart Association again this year.

Marzella Rhodes spoke to the Board of Education

Learning about one another

February 14, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

On January 18, Highland Falls Intermediate School seventh and eighth graders — in an activity planned relating to Martin Luther King Day — spent a day participating in activities about different forms of prejudice.