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Today, we relaunch the FWSU Blog for the 2023-24 school year. For the past 10 years, we have shared the stories of our schools on a regular basis to give insight, provide backgrou...

Check out the work of our awesome students and the fabulous Mr. Lane! St. Albans' Messenger Article: BFA Fairfax Students Study Environmental Changes in Franklin County

For anyone who enters the Richard A. Brown Memorial Gymnasium at BFA Fairfax, one of the first things that stand out is the number and variety of banners hanging on the walls repr...

Jacob Antonovich attended the American Regions Math League as part of the Vermont Math All-Stars. It is the largest math league meet in the country. The team consisted of 23 stude...

Link to BFA Fairfax Graduation Livestream : https://lcatv.org/live-stream-...

Have you ever wondered about how to start a conversation with your teenager about drugs and alcohol? We know this can be a challenging and complicated topic and want to share a co...

For 13 years, Senator Bernie Sanders has asked Vermont High School students to participate in his State of the Union Essay contest. This contest challenges students to highlight ...

Throughout a majority of the first 3 quarters of the school year, I have had the pleasure of working with Kai Fan, a senior at BFA Fairfax, on an augmented reality (AR) sandbox th...

Every year, we honor two Franklin West educators as our Educators of the Year. Last year, we implemented a new process for selecting our recipients. Educators are nominated by the...

Monday, March 20th was more than just a normal Monday at BFA Fairfax. Not only was it the official start of spring as a season, but more importantly, for multiple eager student-a...

Read the Official Press Release here . March 21, 2023 | Fairfax, VT – At a Special Board Meeting on March 20, 2023, the Fairfax Board of School Directors voted to hire...

By Heather Weeks, BFA Fairfax Elementary Physical Education Teacher Addresses all FWSU Action Plan Targets: Proficiency-Based, Personalized Learning Distributed...

STUDENT RECORDS: Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax, Vermont, will be destroying any non-essential materials from student files of graduates from the Class of 2016. SPECIAL...

Each morning students across FWSU are greeted as they enter the buildings or classrooms to start their day. Sometimes it’s in rain gear with an umbrella, sometimes it’s in full wi...

High School Spanish Novice students wrote simple children’s stories about an animal in Spanish as their culminating presentational writing assessment for Semester 1. T...

This week, we were able to recognize January’s FWSU Educators at each of our schools. Educators are chosen from those who were nominated by parents, students or colleagues. Typica...

FWSU Transferable Skill: Responsible and Involved Citizenship: Demonstrate ethical behavior and the moral courage to sustain it. UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: Prom...

December was a busy month in all of our schools and it got away from us before we had the chance to recognize our Educators of the Month. Over the last two weeks, we were finally ...

Addresses all FWSU Action Plan Targets: Proficiency-Based, Personalized Learning Distributed Leadership and Student Agency Safe, Equitable, Healthy, Flexible Learning...