Welcome back . . . The 2009-2010 school year is off to a great start. Supply lists can be found below. Click on the links for either a PDF file or Microsoft Word file. Teachers are starting to update their homepages on this site.
Agenda Handbook Correction A student fee is owed by all students. Students who are eligible to receive free lunch pay $15.00; all other students pay $30.00. This fee helps defray the cost of some supplies, equipment rental and special activities. | ||||
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Project Lead The Way - Regatta
PLTW students are listening to a presentation by Terence McMahon, the Vice-Chairman of Discovery World, at the Regatta Kick-Off Event.
PLTW students are designing the hulls of their boats that they will be building for the upcoming Regatta Event (Saveland Park, May 16, 2009 - 2:00 PM). |
Help Name Our New School The naming process has been closed to the general public as of May 15, 2009. The School Governance Councils of both Bay View High School and Fritsche Middle School will meet soon to narrow down the list of suggestions for a final decision. Click here to see the list of suggested school names
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 Fritsche at iFair Several Fritsche students were featured in coverage of the iFair. Click the link below to see the new coverage by Channel 12. |
All final web site updates have been completed including the uploading of all student photos! The site contiains a lot of multimedia so you will need Quicktime installed on your computer to view the site. Quicktime is a free program that can be downloaded at: www.quicktime.com. * If you have already visited the Washington D.C. site, be sure to hit the "reload" button on your web browser to reload the pages and see all of the updates are being done each day! You can find the link for the trip on the Fritsche web site listed under the "organizations/clubs" section or click below for a direct link:
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Fritsche - Washington D.C. 2009 Web Site
Fritsche Drumline #1
On Saturday, March 14th, the Fritsche Middle School Drumline took 1st place at the Middle School Drumline Competition. This is the 3rd year in a row that the Drumline has won the competition! |
 Fritsche Media Site The Fritsche Media Site has been updated for 2009. It has a new look with new photo albums and streaming videos. You will need Quicktime installed to view the videos. You can get Quicktime for free at www.quicktime.com. You can get to the media site anytime by clicking the "photos/achives" button to the left or click this link below: |
 Touching Sports Story A touching story about sportmanship, leadership, compassion and humanity has been in the media lately. It involves the MPS Madison High School Basketall Team, the coach of their basketball team, Frtische's own Aaron Womack Jr. and a team from Dekalb, IL. Please take some time to click on the links below to read and watch video of this touching story. |
Annual Ski Trip On Friday, February 13th, students from Fritsche went on our annual ski trip out to Sunburst Ski Area in Kewaskum, WI. An extension of Ms. Eggert's gym program, students were able to get out on the slopes for the day, receive a beginner ski lesson from Sunburst and enjoy a nice sunny winter day on the slopes.
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Visit from P&H Mining Engineers from P&H Mining recently visited Fritsche to talk with our Project Lead The Way students regarding careers in engineering.
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PLTW - Fluid Power Challenge Twenty four Project Lead the Way students participated in Fluid Power engineering training last Friday at MSOE. These students will participate in December in a fluid power competition at MSOE. They will compete against teams from other Wisconsin and Illinois schools. The competition is allowing students to apply their own creativity to their understanding of engineering processes to solve a problem. Their engineering challenge on Friday was to build a ramp powered by compressed air. All six of Fritsche's teams succeeded in building ramps! They enjoyed it and are now practicing for the challenge of designing a structure which uses fluid power to move objects. These pictures show our Fritsche Project Lead the Way students at work (but they sure make it look like fun!)   |
Superintendent Visits Fritsche Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent William Andrekopoulos along with school board member Terry Falk and other directors of the Milwaukee Public Schools got a first hand look this morning at the Fritsche Project Lead The Way lab and met with teacher Lynn Rinderle. During their visit to Fritsche they took a tour of the School and learned about our Virtual High Schools program.  |
Visitors from Japan
On Tuesday, November 4th, twenty educators from the country of Japan visited Fritsche. These educators were here to see our facilities and learn our methods for teaching students.
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Mega Event The Mega Event was a fun-filled time for the top sellers of the PTO fund raiser. Students were treated to snacks as well as given the opportunity to spin the wheel for money! The inflatable games provided a lot of laughs for the participants and spectators.
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New Technology at Fritsche As part of a major upgrade by the Milwaukee Public Schools and with grants from P&H Mining, Fritsche has seen some major technology changes over the summer.
A large grant from P&H Mining allowed Fritsche to become part of the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program. Room 131 was rebuilt into a state of the art lab for PLTW.
Our Multicom computer lab in 134 received all new computers over the summer. Teacher Al Hunley now has powerful computers for teaching multimedia skills to his FAVE students.
The 119 computer lab was completely redone over the summer. New computers and desks provide a great environment in which to work. This is a general school lab that teachers may check out for class use. |
Lenny Zwier Retires Lenny Zwier retired from Fritsche last week after 14 years of serving the staff and students of MPS. He spent 3 years at Bayview and the last 11 here at Fritsche, all of this after spending the bulk of his career working for Mobil Oil. Thank you Lenny for your kindness that you shared with everyone here at Fritsche.
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Fritsche Mock Election Today Fritsche students got the opportunity to cast their vote for the president of the Unites States during the Mock Election that was held today. Students used the actual ballot that adults around the country will use on November 4. Stay tuned for the results of the election. Election Results McCain = 39, Obama=819  |
Fritsche In The News . . .
Fritsche Middle School was recently featured on Channel 12 News. Our Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program was used as part of a feature to show how local businesses are investing in the education of Milwaukee students. P&H Mining has given generously to Fritsche to make our PLTW program a reality! Click the link below to view the news segment on the Channel 12 web site . . . |  |
 Fritsche Middle School and P&H Mining Equipment are proud to announce that Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is coming here for the 2008-2009 school year. Starting in September students will be able to take this new program as one of their FAVE (Fine Arts and Vocational Education) classes. Students will take this class in a brand new state-of-the-art digital classroom. The new room will have the latest computer technology, a projection and audio system for instruction as well as a large work area for the unique projects that PLTW students take part in. What is PLTW? It is a program that takes math, science and technology and combines them in a unique project driven learning enviroment. In other words students get a taste of an engineering program through the use of advanced mathematics, various sciences and the latest in computer technology including computer aided design (CAD).
If you want to learn more about PLTW, please click this link:
Project Lead The Way
A program like this costs money. We have partnered with
P&H Mining Equipment
for this program. They are providing considerable financial support as well as technical expertise for the program. We thank them for investing in education here in Milwaukee and more specifically here at Fritsche Middle School. Their support is making this program a reality here at the School.
* Students and Parents - if you are interested in being a part of this great program for next school year, please talk to your guidance counselor right away |
Rock Climbing As part of a physical education field trip, students recently went rock climbing!
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Hunger Task Force
8th grade students (Nathanial, Briana, Lydia and Liz) recently created a radio commercial for the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee. This program is sponsored by a grant from Harley-Davidson. Click below to listen to the commercial! |
 Students here at Fritsche recently performed our annual spring musical. They year they performed "Seussical, The Musical". Four performances were attended by all Fritsche students, area elementary school students, parents, family members and the community at large. Congratulations to all of the performers on a job well done!
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 Track Team The Fritsche Track Team ran, jumped and threw to win big at the middle school track meet on Friday, May 9th. Good job and thank you to the Track Team and Mr. Kowalski. |
Fritsche Middle School placed first at the Milwaukee Battle of the Drumlines competition. Click the red link below to see them in competition.
You will need to have Quicktime installed to view this video. You can get it from www.quicktime.com.
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"Fritsche World Drums" program
You will need Quicktime installed on your computer
to view this video.
It is a free download and can be found at www.quicktime.com
The Fritsche "World Drums" program is offered
as part of one of our FAVE Music classes.
Students may elect to take music as their FAVE class
and then be a part of the "World Drum" program.
Students in Mr. Danko's class get crazy about the Read 180 Program.  |
RiverDeep - Learning Management System RiverDeep is a computer based enrichment program for math and language arts. Fritsche has had RiverDeep for a couple of years now, but only recently has the system shown its true potential. A recent purchase added new material to the system and RiverDeep is now available to students and parents from any Internet capable computer. Be sure to check out RiverDeep by clicking: http://riverdeep.fritsche.milwaukee.k12.wi.u  
7th grade students use the newly upgraded RiverDeep Learning Management System
on one of Fritsche's four wireless laptop labs.
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What's New for Fritsche Middle School is currently under construction. Please come back later.