Activities & Clubs

It's our Inaugural Year! Check the NJHS page for all info. 

Here is a document that details this amazing leadership program, available to 8th graders only.

Information coming soon...

This fabulous program will be offered and coached by  Mr. McKay. Here is the information from Mr. McKay.

"Practice" will begin sometime in or after November.  Then, Mr. McKay hosts a school competition in January to determine who is on our team.  The top 6 go to the competition (historically in February).  This year, it looks like most of the competitions for MC will be online.  FAQ 

• Schools register in the fall and work with students during the year. Students will have the opportunity to take 4 online practice competitions beginning in October.

• Between 1 and 15 individuals from each school participate in the 2021 Chapter Competition, which will be available online February 5 at 1:00pm ET through February 6 at 1:00pm ET

• The top scoring student from each school and the top 20% of individuals from each chapter advance to the 2021 Chapter Invitational Competition, taking place online February 25 at 7:00pm ET.

• Top students from the Chapter Invitational Competition advance to the 2021 State Competition, taking place online March 25 at 7:00pm ET.

• The top individuals from each state receive an all-expenses paid trip to the 2021 Raytheon Technologies MATHCOUNTS National Competition, which takes place May 8-11 in Washington, DC.

The Optimist Club is currently gathering interest from schools around the state to determine if they have enough teams interested in competing in an online tournament. SHMS will have at least 6 teams that would be interested! They will let us know sometime in October. Reacho ut to G/T Advisor Janeen Cappelletti to stay updated. If Brain Bowl is a "go" Senor Sanchez and Mrs. Cappelletti will be coaching again this year and will send out the sign-ups and practice times! The district competition typically takes place at the end of January.

Fun and non-competitive club designed to introduce students to speech and debate concepts and engage in friendly debates on varied topics  Coming in October 5 in person SHMS weather permitting. This club is coached by our G/T Advisor Janeen Cappelletti and an FHS Varsity Speech and Debate member.

Coached by G/T Advisor Janeen Cappelletti. Contact her with interest.

New Book Club Forming with Mrs. Cappelletti: Students ( all grades), do you love to do close reads?  Are you interested in practicing your Socratic method and annotation skills all while making new friends? Then this  literary book club is for you!  We will be meeting every Monday at 2pm for 30 minutes ( virtually). Our book is the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I will assign pages each week, no reading ahead! I will also be assigning literary analysis activities. If you are wanting to join please sign up using this form: https://forms.gle/X3FNWoNi3AS1jfAN6.  Questions or issues with the form please email: janeen.cappelletti@bvsd.org