Students encouraged to read to help strengthen your vocabulary because of the language component on these two major college placement tests
What is the ACT and SAT?
100
This organization was created this year to help organize a week of festivities, culminating in a school dance.
What is The Homecoming Club?
100
FVS supports this by preserving electricity, by turning of lights/Ipod docks, conserving heat by regulating thermostats, and recycling aluminum. plastic, cardboard and paper.
What is conservation?
100
They are a group of distinguished seniors selected by FVS faculty who help set the tone of the School community by acting as intermediaries, providing informal peer counseling, helping manage evening study hall and leading by example.
What are RAs?
100
If you are feeling feverish or ill, you stop by this place on campus.
What is the Health Center?
200
This is a valuable collection of extracurricular activities, and experiences a student has participated in during their high school career
What is an activities resume?
200
This group organizes events such as Unity Day, and reminds the school of holidays such as Martin Luther King Day so we can respect diversity.
What is the Student Cultural Organization?
200
This simplified meal saves money, which we then donate to local non-profit organizations.
What is Austerity Day?
200
This is a service organization made up of student-elected varsity athletes for the purpose of improving relations between FVS and other schools, developing leadership skills, encouraging good sportsmanship and fostering school spirit.
What is the varsity club?
200
This adult contacts your parents/guardians to discuss your academic progress on campus. This adult is a good resource to speak about academic struggles, personal or family issues, for they advocate for you during your times in need.
What is the Advisor?
300
When choosing how many extracurricular opportunities to take part in, college admission reps state this number as a good number of activities to join, so that a TRUE passion can be demonstrated.
What are 2 or 3 activities?
300
This group is committed to creating a greater understanding of our differences, especially about TOLERATING differences in viewpoints on sexual orientation and gender identity.
What is the Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA?
300
Freshman complete it in Transitions
Sophomores complete it on campus
Juniors complete it off campus
Seniors complete this off campus
What is Community Service Graduation Requirements?
300
This group of students serves as a vehicle for suggestions and opinions from the student body on how to improve the School.
What is the community council?
300
These adults are required to maintain confidentiality. They are bound by ethics to not reveal any information you share with them UNLESS you are planning on hurting yourself or someone else.
What is The School Counselor?
400
If you are planning on playing a division I or II college sport, you may want to check out this association to learn about all of their regulations and requirements.
What is National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)?
400
This small group, consisting of a student body president, vice president and secretary, works with the student body's suggestions on how to improve the school.
What is community council?
400
This project is designed to promote ecological awareness and to make a lasting contribution to the School and/or the larger community while
encouraging students to embrace physical and emotional challenge and to work collaboratively while serving others.
What is Senior Seminar?
400
These students are designated by the faculty as exemplars of academic behavior and serve as role models for other students and offer tutoring to other students at no charge. New members are inducted twice yearly in an all-school ceremony.
What is the Froelicher Society?
400
This person is responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing a variety of programs and services which are designed to assist and support students in achieving academic and personal success.
What is the Dean of Students?
500
This June college placement test is available to freshmen in such academic areas as Biology, Math and Chemistry....but many students do not choose to take this optional test.
What is an SAT II Subject test?
500
These are the 3 school publications that are printed at FVS and run by students.
What is the Athenaea (magazine of arts and letters), the Dane (newspaper) and The Owl (yearbook)
500
Designed by the Conservation Corps Club, this day's worth of activities promotes awareness of and appreciation for the natural environment around us.
What is Earth Day?
500
This select group of student ambassadors serve as campus tour guides for prospective families visiting the School.
What is the Gold Key Club?
500
Nutrition, Suicide Prevention, Drugs and Alcohol Prevention, Internet Safety...these are some of the topics covered by this FVS program