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Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

The Voice of the Loy Norrix Community

Knight Life

Kyle Shack teaches Government B during 5th hour.  He helps individual students during work time to make sure they understand the material.

Teachers prefer teaching more than one subject a day, but not more than three

William Murphy June 7, 2023

Most students only have a teacher for one class a day, but imagine yourself as a Loy Norrix teacher, having to teach upwards of 3 subjects per day! “I always planned on teaching multiple subjects,”...

Forensics team members accept their trophy at the MIPA conference. Many team members attribute their success to the amount of preparation done prior to the events.

Loy Norrix forensics reaches success after a year of preparation and encourages others to join the club

Foster Neve-Jones, Assistant Web Editor and Knights Speak June 1, 2023

Watching someone stand on stage in front of dozens of people, performing a speech or a presentation or even an entire story made up on the spot, you rarely think about how much work went into the piece...

May 27 Weekly News Digest: Forensics team wins, Galesburg-Augusta High School walkout, and Midwest tornadoes

May 27 Weekly News Digest: Forensics team wins, Galesburg-Augusta High School walkout, and Midwest tornadoes

News Team May 29, 2022

KPS News  On Tuesday, May 31, masks will become optional for KPS students at school.  The Loy Norrix Forensics team took a trip to Mackinac Island on the weekend of May 21st to compete in the Mackinac...

Sophomore and junior place first in state forensics duo finals

Sophomore and junior place first in state forensics duo finals

Milo Turner May 20, 2022

Forensics is a multiple-event extracurricular that combines elements of drama, speech, musical arrangement and presentation.  On April 30, high school forensics teams from across the state met at Troy...

In the trophy case outside drama teacher Dan Laffertys classroom sits the first place Spartan Invitational award.  Its a tall one, with three shiny green pillars meeting at the top with a silver star.

Seniors win first place in Michigan State Forensics Invitational

Josephine Velo, Executive Director March 9, 2022

The Loy Norrix trophy cases are loaded, but soon another will be added following the Forensic team’s win on the Saturday of Feb. 19. Loy Norrix seniors Liam Braun and Elias Nagel-Bennett competed...

Dan Lafferty has been acting for 10 years, starting in local theatre and moving onto travelling work with Missoula Children’s Theatre. He’s now teaching in his first year at Norrix, hoping to carry over the successes of the departing teacher, Mrs. Carrow.

Staff shakeup in the Loy Norrix Drama department

Elias Nagel-Bennett, Copy Editor September 30, 2021

J11, that room tucked away in the far side of the building. Low ceilings, dim lights, a consistently cool temperature. For many it is a familiar, or at least a comfortable space. And for as long as any...

Forensic team students play a game during a team bonding session. The forensics captains often try to organize bonding events in order to create unity and friendships within the team.

The Loy Norrix forensics season is in full swing

Brandon Schnurr, Web Editor February 13, 2020

Blocking, cutting, drafting, rehearsing: these are just some of the things happening right now on the Loy Norrix Forensics team. The forensics season is officially in full swing, and the students involved...

Junior Becomes Captain for the Forensics Team

Junior Becomes Captain for the Forensics Team

Elliot Russell, Editor-in-Chief December 14, 2018

The Loy Norrix Forensics Team has been a large part of junior Riley Dominianni’s high school career since the start. Before coming to Norrix, Dominianni participated in many theatrical productions....

Forensics Team Takes States

Forensics Team Takes States

Amarra Lyons May 14, 2018

After working hard all season long, the time finally came for the Knight’s forensics team to head to the final States tournament. After coming in the top groups at regionals, the qualifying group consisted...

Junior Grace Erway sings and directs the voices of the team. While she does this, she adjusts their pitches and respective notes to make the finished product sound more audibly appealing. Photo Credit / Sidney Richardson

The Multiple Team is Next to Normal

Sidney Richardson January 25, 2017

  Among the many events that make up the forensics department, a department that showcases the acting and speaking abilities of a performer, you will find the Multiple Team. Multiple is an event...

The Forensics Team Goes to Mackinac

The Forensics Team Goes to Mackinac

sophiaboismier May 27, 2015

On Friday May 15th, a small portion of the forensics team drove about five hours to a  Shepler’s Ferry that carried them through Lake Heron all the way to the fudge famous: Mackinac Island. The forensics...

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