Fire Prevention Week at Antrim ElementaryThe Antrim Fire Department visited AES to share fire safety information with the students as part of Fire Prevention Week!
DCS Kindergartners Lead The PledgeSusan Ellingwood and the Kindergarten students lead the pledge for Kindergarten through 5th-grade students at Dublin Consolidated School.
Donations Go To Local Food BanksStudents at ConVal High School get ready to load hundreds of pounds of food donations that have been collected over the past week for distribution to local food pantries. Thank you to everyone who contributed non-perishables and cash to New Hampshire Tackles Hunger!
FES Students Observe Raptor MigrationAs part of their bird migration unit, students in Francestown Elementary School's Team Owl hiked up Pack Monadnock with educators from the Harris Center for Conservation Education to look for raptors migrating south for the winter.
Peterborough Elementary Students Enjoy RecessPES students enjoy the great September weather during recess. Students use the play structures, the sandbox, the soccer field, or play in the shade. Recess offers them a time to engage in peer interactions in which they practice and role-play essential social skills.
Monarch Butterfly ReleaseIn their classroom, Kindergarten children at Temple Elementary School watched the day-by-day life cycle transformation of a monarch butterfly, from its caterpillar state through metamorphosis to a fully-formed butterfly. It was exciting to release the butterfly outside.
ConVal Regional High School Principal Michelle Voto announced today that senior Liam McCall has been named a Commended Student in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2020 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards,
Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
“Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” commented a spokesperson for NMSC. “These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.”
McCall is the son of Eric and Christine McCall of Peterborough.
ConVal senior and New Hampshire’s Youth Poet Laureate, Rachel Sturges, recently read from her poems at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough. The event was sponsored by the Peterborough Poetry Project.
Alice Fogel, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate, introduced Rachel and the other speakers saying the idea for a NH Youth Poet Laureate position came to her at the suggestion of a New Hampshire teacher. In her role as poetry advocate, she decided to initiate the position through the NH State Council on the Arts as a way of bringing poetry to more people. Rachel explained that in her role she is focused on using social media to attract young people to poetry events around the state.
Ms. Fogel described the three young poets reading as “Not trying to draw attention to themselves but to poetry” by expressing “eloquent complications” of life and drawing on the support of teachers and other writers. In introducing Rachel, Ms. Fogel described her poetry as “looking outward from herself at the world and understanding the complexities [through her] unique and creative” poems.
The NHYPL is an honorary one-year unpaid position held by NH high school students with a dedication to excellence in writing, and who have the enthusiasm to heighten the visibility and value of poetry by and for young people in New Hampshire.
The Peterborough Poetry Project is currently hosting a contest with the theme of New Hampshire (past, present, future, or fantasy). Deadline: September 30th. Details for the contest are at: peterboroughpoetryproject.org/contests.
In attendance at the reading were ConVal teachers Ben Putnam, Jason Lambert, Eric Bowman, and ConVal Librarian Rachael Bowman.
I have always loved the beginning of school which is our opportunity for students and teachers to begin again, with renewed energy, the journey toward a better future.
Our students come at times excited, at other times apprehensive; at times ready to engage in learning, and at other times needing support.
The journey from kindergarten through senior year encompasses 2,340 days. And while 2,340 days seems like a long time, the truth is that these 13 years go by very, very quickly. Most importantly, we don’t take this journey single-handedly, for you, their parents are paramount to their success.
In these 2,340 days we teach, we inspire, we comfort, we encourage, we support, and we celebrate. To make all this happen, every day counts.
In these 2,340 days, we teach our students to play well with others, to work out their differences, and to express their emotions appropriately so they can build healthy relationships with their peers and others throughout their lives.
In these 2,340 days, we teach students to use their words to express themselves, to share their thoughts, to sing, and to converse in other languages.
We teach them to read, so that they can discover and explore new knowledge and the wonder that this world holds for them. We teach them to write, so they can express themselves, explain themselves, and share with others their hopes and dreams for themselves and our world.
We begin with learning to count objects and extend to applying math in ways that will help them discover patterns, create models, learn to code and assist in discovering new ways to analyze and solve the challenges we now face and those we may face in the future.
In these 2,340 days, we also engage our students in the arts, the sciences, and so much more.
We hope that your student has had a wonderful opening, and I look forward to our continued work together.
Thank you.
Dr. Kimberly Rizzo Saunders
Superintendent
ConVal School District
In the spring of 2016, NH Department of Environmental Services issued recommendations for voluntary testing of lead in drinking water at all schools and daycares. This action was in large part a result of lead toxicity to children from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
On February 8, 2018, Governor Sununu signed Senate Bill 247 Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning. This law requires, among other actions, that all schools and licensed childcare facilities test lead in drinking water at all locations where water could possibly be ingested by children.
The ConVal School District contracted with a State of New Hampshire approved water testing vendor to perform the testing in all of our schools. A total of 590 fixtures were tested according to DES protocols. Any location that was found to be outside of the acceptable levels has been labeled and clear signage has been affixed to indicate that this is not to be used for drinking water. It is important to note that the areas that have signs are not areas where students would typically drink water.
The first round of testing was required to be completed by July 1, 2019, and to be done every 5 years thereafter.
Listed below are the results of the sampling at every school that was completed in 2019.
ConVal Regional High School Principal Michelle Voto announced today that senior Liam McCall has been named a Commended Student in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2020 competition for National Merit Scholarship awards,
Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
“Those being named Commended Students have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success,” commented a spokesperson for NMSC. “These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation. We hope that this recognition will help broaden their educational opportunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.”
McCall is the son of Eric and Christine McCall of Peterborough.
On Friday, October 4th, Peterborough Fire and Rescue visited PES to talk to the school about fire safety. Chief Ed Walker joined us for morning meeting, and members of the department visited with their fire trucks and ambulances. PES students got the opportunity to ask questions and explore the vehicles.
Fire Prevention Week at Antrim Elementary The Antrim Fire Department visited AES to share fire safety information with the students as part of Fire Prevention Week!
DCS Kindergartners Lead The Pledge Susan Ellingwood and the Kindergarten students lead the pledge for Kindergarten through 5th-grade students at Dublin Consolidated School.
Donations Go To Local Food Banks Students at ConVal High School get ready to load hundreds of pounds of food donations that have been collected over the past week for distribution to local food pantries. Thank you to everyone who contributed non-perishables and cash to New Hampshire Tackles Hunger!
FES Students Observe Raptor Migration As part of their bird migration unit, students in Francestown Elementary School's Team Owl hiked up Pack Monadnock with educators from the Harris Center for Conservation Education to look for raptors migrating south for the winter.
Peterborough Elementary Students Enjoy Recess PES students enjoy the great September weather during recess. Students use the play structures, the sandbox, the soccer field, or play in the shade. Recess offers them a time to engage in peer interactions in which they practice and role-play essential social skills.
Monarch Butterfly Release In their classroom, Kindergarten children at Temple Elementary School watched the day-by-day life cycle transformation of a monarch butterfly, from its caterpillar state through metamorphosis to a fully-formed butterfly. It was exciting to release the butterfly outside.
