Welcome to the Florence High School

Welcome to Florence High School. We are very excited about our ability to communicate with the world! We hope that it will provide a glimpse of the wonderful things that are going on within the halls and arenas of FHS. Please take time to explore our web page and see just how great it is to be a Falcon at Florence High School!

The city of Florence, Alabama is located in Northwest Alabama, with a population of approximately 36,000. Florence High School (FHS) serves as the city’s public high school with an enrollment of approximately 976 students in grades 10-12. The Freshman Center serves an additional 372 ninth graders. These figures represent a rich, real-world diversity of students - all races, cultures, religions, ethnic origins and abilities.

Students will be dismissed today as follows (due to inclement weather):

Hibbett, Weeden, Handy 11:00 a.m.

All other schools 11:30 a.m.

Employees will be dismissed by building administrators when employees no longer needed to supervise students.

Please drive cautiously.

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	Morning Announcements

	Student of the Week Each week, teachers are asked to nominate students for Student of the Week. Students are chosen based on citizenship, attitude, and all round good students. This week's student of the week is Davian Barnett, nominated by Coach Lamm. Congratulations! Also, a Faculty Member of the Month is chosen from student nominations at the end of each month. This month's winner is Coach Fowler nominated by Mary Alan Tice. ASMA Winners Congratulations to the December ASMA winners: First Place with a perfect score of 7 correct answers: Stuart Bartmess Second Place with 6 correct answers: Kaitlin Eckl, Porter Mitchell Third Place with 5 correct answers: Christie Connolly, Michaelann Rodriquez, Taylor White, Joe Woesyendiek Fourth Place with 4 correct answers: Sarah Abroms, Eldwin Aparicio, Sean Bogran, Alex Matthews
	FHS Theatre Students Excel at Trumbauer The Florence Falcon Theatre students attended the 69th Annual Walter Trumbauer State Competition this past weekend, December 4 and 5. These students competed with 1,100 other students in 1,230 events in a packed weekend of theatre, and brought home many awards. Students will now begin to focus on the Alabama State Thespian Festival which will be held Feb. 26th-28th at Florence High School. Being selected to host the event is an honor in itself. Winners this past weekend were: One Act Play- I Bring You Flowers- 6th Place Christie Connolly- All Star Cast Darby Burgess and Jamie Connolly- 3rd Place Readers Theatre Comedic Candace Williamson- 3rd Place Solo Acting Female Dramatic Superior Ratings I Bring You Flowers Drey Mitchell and Christie Connolly- Duet Acting Dramatic Suzanne Reese and Drey Mitchell- Duet Musical Dramatic Tanner King- Solo Musical Dramatic Tanner King and Lane Hardison- Duet Musical Dramatic Daniel Dean- Solo Acting Dramatic Diana Bates and Elizabeth Wright- Duet Reader's Theatre Comedic Diana Bates- Solo Acting Comedic Jessica Hept and Hannah Oberlies- Duet Acting Dramatic Demarcus Anderson- Solo Acting Dramatic Jac St. John and Adam St. John- Duet Musical Comedic Savannah Harlan and Candace Williamson- Duet Acting Comedic Jeressa Cunningham- Solo Musical Comedic Alexandria Bates- Solo Acting Dramatic Suzanne Reese- Solo Musical Dramatic Katie Dalrymple is the theatre teacher at Florence High School. She will continue to serve as the District III Chair for this event. Congratulations students and Mrs. Dalrymple!
	FHS YEARBOOK AND STAFF WIN AWARD Congratulations to the 2009 yearbook staff and editor Carly Hannah! The 2009 edition of the FHS yearbook was awarded a First Class Honor Rating by the National Scholastic Press Association.
	Teacher Web Pages Check out a new exciting feature on our web site! Many of our teachers are creating their own web pages for individual classes. Several have been posted to the page "Teacher Web Pages." Click on the link to see what pages have been posted. http://www.florencehs.com/Teacher Web Pages/Teacher_web_pages.html Welcome to the Florence High School - Home of the Falcons


	Florence City Schools Strategic Plan

	Florence High School Strategic Plan

Deposit money into your child's lunch account using PayPal.

This new technology will allow you to use the internet to log on and see what and when your children have been eating, what their current balances are, and make some notes against their accounts for the manager to see. To participate in this process you must have a PayPal account.