Fair Lawn Public Schools

On October 21st, the Forrest School PTA hosted our annual Fall Festival. The students enjoyed bouncy houses, carnival games, face painting, a haunted maze, and pumpkin patch. Thank you to our amazing PTA and parent volunteers for making this such a successful event.

In accordance with Fair Lawn Public Schools focus on prioritizing the themes of diversity and equity in our schools, students at Forrest participated in an assembly enhancing their understanding of the Indian holiday, Diwali. Each student decorated a plastic cup during art class with Miss Cohen and learned rhythmic patterns to a montage of Indian music with Mrs. Knitel. The culminating experience included a read-aloud video of a children’s book about Diwali and a performance of their cup routine.

The district will be having their first wellness weekend of the 2022-2023 school year this weekend, October 29-30, 2022!!!

Fair Lawn High School is proud to announce that 14 of its seniors of the Class of 2023 have been recognized for outstanding achievement in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. These 14 students earned accolades as Commended Scholars. They scored within the top 50,000 of all students who took the PSAT exam in 2022 nationwide. Principal Paul Gorski observed, “Having so many students achieve this milestone demonstrates their commitment to achievement and the leadership they show within the academic environment at Fair Lawn High School. These members of the Class of 2023, and all their classmates, have bright futures ahead!” Pictured left to right: Aaron Bach, Alexander Dong, Siddharth Easwaran, Jayden Humphris, Aashika Jagadeesh, Nianshao Li, David Makarovsky, Elliot Markovich, Alisa Polishchuk, Dhruv Raut, Sahil Reshamdalal, Jainam Shah, Loren Sorin, Edward Trivella.

Fair Lawn Public Schools will be closed on Monday, October 24, 2022 in observance of Diwali.

Below is the QR Code for our monthly board meeting tonight at Memorial Middle School at 7:30PM.

**REMINDER** All Fair Lawn students will have an early dismissal, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 for teacher professional development.

Please join the Chinese Department presenting Celebrate Mid Autumn Festival 2022 on Wednesday, October 19 at 6PM at the Memorial Middle School Gymnasium.

Forrest School took part in National Walk/Bike to School day this morning. Over 80 students, staff, and parents walked from Fire House # 1 on George Street to Forrest School. It was a great start to the day!!!!!

Warren Point ended the Week of Respect with the annual Color Games! Each grade level wore a different color which represented the pillars of character. Students and staff had fun participating in activities and events that supported teamwork, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness, and trustworthiness. Thank you to Ms. Nolan for organizing the games and to the PTA volunteers for helping to run each event!

Lyncrest School kicked off their Week of Respect with a visit from Lokai Rose. Tina Lokai visited each classroom with her diverse Ambassador Animals: Margarita the tarantula, Bluey the skink, Jimmy the millipede, and Herbie the snake. She taught the students to open their minds and look beyond their fears to learn more about these amazing creatures. Thank you to the Lyncrest PTO for sponsoring this program!

Forrest School kicked off the Week of Respect with Manners Monday. Fourth graders learned about etiquette/table manners while dining at the "Forrest Bistro". Making eye contact and generating conversation are a few of the lessons learned while students enjoy a 5-course meal served to them by Mr. Placenti and 4th grade parent volunteers.

Fair Lawn Schools will be closed, Wednesday, October 5, 2022 in observance of Yom Kippur.

Warren Point kicked off the 2022 Week of Respect with an amazing assembly! Brian Chevalier, Musical Teaching Artist , led students in songs about respect, kindness, and friendship. He also taught them song lyrics in sign language and had groups of students leading their class in song. Students had a great time singing, dancing, and clapping along to the music! Thank you to the Warren Point PTA for sponsoring this amazing assembly!

Tonight is Back-to-School Night at Fair Lawn High School starting at 7PM in the Auditorium. Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to FLHS Senior Assaf Izhar, who received a perfect score on his AP® Computer Science Principles Exam. Out of 137,000 students who took this test, Assaf was one of 196 students with a perfect score! Pictured L to R, Karen Rood, AP Computer Science & Robotics Teacher; Senior, Assaf Izhar; FLHS Principal, Paul Gorski; and Lauren Gimon, Supervisor of Mathematics. This is quite an accomplishment. Assaf is an outstanding young man and worked very hard and deserves this!

Back-to-School Night's continue in Fair Lawn! Looking forward to you joining us at Warren Point this evening at 6:30 PM!

Tonight is Thomas Edison's Back-to-School Night at 6:30PM! We hope to see you there!

Thomas Jefferson Middle School's Back to School Night is at 6:45PM TONIGHT! Hope to see you there!