My name is Tod Silegy and I am the athletic director at South Meadow School. Your son/ daughter has indicated that he/she is interested in trying out for a 2019 fall sport at South Meadow School. Try out dates for boys white and blue soccer teams, girls soccer, girls field hockey, boys and girls cross country, and girls club volleyball, will start Wednesday, August 28th, right after school. All athletes should report to the gym to meet their respective coach.
Try out times for all fall sports will be from 2:30 to 4:00. An SMS
Sport Try Out reminder will go out early August in the Peterborough
Transcript/Ledger.
All students trying out for teams will be done with practice and off the field,course,court, by 4:05. Students may go home on the late bus, walk home, or be collected by their parents in the Back upper parking lot. Please do not pick up your child out front due to bus confusion. Please collect your child no later than 4:15.
Students in grades six, seven, and eight, are eligible to play
field hockey, soccer, and club volleyball. Students in grades fifth, sixth, seventh, and eight are
eligible to run cross country. A new SMS
Academic Eligibility Requirement will be in the 2019 SMS HANDBOOK, replacing
the older SMS requirement.
All students trying out must bring with them at try outs the attached
parent permission form and an updated or current pre-participation physical evaluation. Updated or current means that your son or
daughter has had a physical within the last two years. For example:
If you son/daughter had a physical as a sixth grader he/she would need
an updated physical as an eighth grader.
THE UPDATED PHYSICAL FORM MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE FIRST PRACTICE
AND SENT IN WITH THE PARENT PERMISSION FORM ON THE FIRST DAY OF PRACTICE. All students must have BOTH forms in hand on the
first day of practice even if there is one in the nurse’s office. Please do not wait until the last
minute.
Please direct any questions to me at 924-7105 ext. 1268. I will be out of my office until
August.
Sincerely yours,
Tod Silegy
SMS Athletic Director
P. S.
All students for soccer and field hockey should bring with them to try outs appropriate foot-wear, shin guards, and a mouth piece. Field hockey athletes must also wear PROTECTIVE EYE WEAR. Cross country athletes must bring appropriate foot-wear for running. Volleyball athletes should bring sneakers and appropriate clothing. ALL athletes should bring water bottles.
My name is Tod Silegy and I am the athletic director at South Meadow School. Your son/ daughter has indicated that he/she is interested in trying out for a 2019 fall sport at South Meadow School. Try out dates for boys white and blue soccer teams,
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GES/HES Girls On The Run had SO MUCH FUN at the 5K!
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As a culminating event to the AES Eagle Recognition program, students and staff spent their "assembly" time on Shea Field flying kites, playing soccer, and many other activities. Pictured above is a student learning to fly a kite!
As a culminating event to the AES Eagle Recognition program, students and staff spent their “assembly” time on Shea Field flying kites, playing soccer, and many other activities. Pictured above is a student learning to fly a kite!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), also known as the Summer Meals Program, provides kids and teens with free meals when school is out.
The program was established to ensure that children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. In 2018, the SFSP provided more than 1.5 million nutritious meals and snacks to children nationwide.
Each SFSP location will be open Monday through Friday, beginning on July 8th and ending on August 16th. Please note that all children 18 and under are eligible for this program and can access it at any of the locations listed below.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), also known as the Summer Meals Program, provides kids and teens with free meals when school is out.
The program was established to ensure that children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. In 2018, the SFSP provided more than 1.5 million nutritious meals and snacks to children nationwide.
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The last day of classes for the 2018-2019 school year will be Thursday, June 13.
End-of-year exams for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are scheduled for the following dates and times:
Friday, June 14, 2019
Block 1 Exams 7:45-9:15
Block 2 Exams 9:45-11:15
Monday, June 17, 2019
Block 3 Exams 7:45-9:15
Block 4 Exams 9:45-11:15
Buses will leave school at 11:20 am on a modified, late-bus schedule. Students are expected to leave campus at that time unless otherwise engaged in school-related work. There will be a regular bus run at 2:20pm but late buses will not run from the high school on exam days.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Make-up exams will be held by arrangement with individual teachers and students are expected to leave campus as soon as they have finished their makeups.
Students who have completed their year-end exams by Monday, June 17, are not expected to be at school on Tuesday.
Have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you in August!
On March 13, 2019, the Contoocook Valley School District filed a Complaint in the Cheshire Superior Court regarding the State's obligation to ensure a constitutionally adequate education for New Hampshire children. The Mascenic, Monadnock, and Winchester School Districts joined the Complaint.
The Complaint laid out how, using the State’s own formula and the State’s own data, the State’s base adequacy funding falls far short of constitutionally sufficient funding for the children of the ConVal, Mascenic, Monadnock, and Winchester School Districts and throughout New Hampshire.
On June 5, 2019, the Court issued a comprehensive, 98-page decision.
The Court’s findings were consistent with our assertion that the present levels of funding for public education in the State of New Hampshire are unconstitutional. The Court specifically held the State’s current per pupil funding levels are “unconstitutional as applied to the Petitioning school districts.”
In particular, the Court held that the State was unconstitutionally failing to fully fund transportation costs for all students, unconstitutionally failing to fully fund facilities costs and unconstitutionally failing to fund the costs of teachers at proper teacher student ratios.
Additionally, the Court awarded attorneys’ fees.
The Court also indicated that any formula design that forced communities to raise dollars to subsidize the State’s obligations would be “ripe for adjudication.”
The Court also found that the funding formula was “not only unsupported by the legislative record but [is] clearly or demonstratively inadequate according to the Legislature’s own definition of an adequate education.”
You can read the court's decision in its entirety here.
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The Complaint laid out how, using the State’s own formula and the State’s own data,
Ms. Ambrosini’s class enjoyed a Pollinator Unit with the Harris Center.
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Griffin Kelley, who is a co-teacher in Mr. Wozmak's U.S. History course, introduces the class to an assignment that involves the creation of a comprehensive timeline.
Students will choose from a learning menu of online resources and from curated texts which are provided to them in Google Classroom as materials to establish a sequence of events that has led the current circumstances in Venezuela.
The topic is important because it involves a number of contested areas: oil reserves, humanitarian issues, questions of dictatorship vs democracy, and Cold War era rivalries — specifically Russia, which has significant interests in the Venezuelan oil industry, as well as in the destabilization of western democracies.
The assignment is an example of the blended learning environment at ConVal in which students and professional staff work together in a student-centered setting which permits for student voice and choice.
Griffin Kelley, who is a co-teacher in Mr. Wozmak’s U.S. History course, introduces the class to an assignment that involves the creation of a comprehensive timeline.
Students will choose from a learning menu of online resources and from curated texts which are provided to them in Google Classroom as materials to establish a sequence of events that has led the current circumstances in Venezuela.
A student in Mr. Ewing's class works on a segmented wood turning piece. The bowl is made up of maple wood, with mahogany inserts.
Segmented turning is a wood turning technique on a lathe where the initial workpiece is composed of multiple glued-together parts. The process involves gluing up several pieces of wood to create patterns and visual effects in turned projects.
A student in Mr. Ewing’s class works on a segmented wood turning piece. The bowl is made up of maple wood, with mahogany inserts.
Segmented turning is a wood turning technique on a lathe where the initial workpiece is composed of multiple glued-together parts. The process involves gluing up several pieces of wood to create patterns and visual effects in turned projects.
The combined 8th Grade Orientation and Celebration of Learning drew large crowds of parents and students to ConVal High School last Tuesday evening.
During 8th Grade Orientation, incoming students had the opportunity to meet their school counselors and explore the school's many co-curricular programs, from the Math Team to the specialized choral and instrumental ensembles. Community-based programs, like the 1729 Robotics Team and Cornucopia, were also on display.
In addition, the ConVal sports programs provided opportunities for early sign-ups and conversations with coaches. All three season sports were represented: football, soccer, field hockey, bass-fishing, wrestling, cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, softball, baseball, lacrosse, cross-country running, and many more.
During the Celebration of Learning portion of the evening, visitors were treated to a variety of exemplars of student learning, such as photo exhibits, woodworking samples, and presentations by the architecture and engineering programs that are offered by the Region 14 Applied Technology Center.
The Social Studies program held the YES competition finals in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre. The finalists were the Phoenix House, presented by Nikki Bell and Tristan Hutchinson; the Monadnock Area Transitional Shelter (MATS), presented by Daisy Young and Ava Goohs; End 68, presented by Kenzie Costello, Isabelle Lasky-Rigrod and Jasmin Reed; and Chucky's Fight, presented by Carly Kimball and AJ Adkins.
The winning charitable organization was Chucky's Fight which will receive a $3,000 grant through the Mariposa Museum, with the financial support of C&S Wholesale Grocers and Joseph's Coat & Cultural Cocoon.
Thank you to all who could attend the evening, and we hope to see you again next year!
The combined 8th Grade Orientation and Celebration of Learning drew large crowds of parents and students to ConVal High School last Tuesday evening.
During 8th Grade Orientation, incoming students had the opportunity to meet their school counselors and explore the school’s many co-curricular programs, from the Math Team to the specialized choral and instrumental ensembles.
240 students and 60 teachers from across the country came together in Chicago this past weekend for a sustainability summit.
ConVal Science and German students worked together to grapple with questions about a sustainable future.
Teachers Cindi Hodgdon and Anna Muncy accompanied students Eddie Sulborski, Max Shumway, Henry Bernstein, Erich Clark, Jackson Burnham, Greta Topping, Rosie Crooker, and Jaylin Calistro.
Congratulations to Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne who, after a rigorous selection process, will join the incoming cohort of Art21 Educators, starting this summer. In 2017, Miss G. was the recipient of the PBS Digital Innovators Award.
As their website explains, Art21 is a global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time. A nonprofit organization, Art21’s mission is to inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists.
The members of the Art21 Educators program come from rural and urban communities and teach a variety of grades. As a year-long intensive experience, the Art21 Educators program encourages teachers to consider new ways that contemporary art can support teaching and learning both in the arts and other disciplines.
Art21 provides unparalleled access to the artist’s voice to diverse audiences around the world, using the power of digital media to introduce millions of people to contemporary art and artists. For over two decades, Art21 has changed the paradigm for teaching and learning about the creative process.
In addition to its Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast television series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Art21 produces the digital film series New York Close Up and Extended Play; and special artist projects including the Peabody Award-winning feature William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Art21 also creates educational resources and professional development programs; annual public programming; an online publication featuring guest contributors; and a comprehensive website at Art21.org.
The 2019–20 Art21 Educators Cohort, the organization's ninth class of artists, consists of:
Lisa Becker, John Marshall High School, Saint Charles, MN
Jennifer Bockerman, Moore Middle School, Lincoln, NE
Tobacco Brown, ArtUp, Memphis, TN
Sarah Ceurvorst, The Ellis School, Lower School, Pittsburgh, PA
Elizabeth Denneau, Marana High School, Tucson, AZ
Kayleigh Gillies, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, LA
Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne, Contoocook Valley Regional High School, Peterborough, NH
Kate Jellinghaus, Westwood High School, Roslindale, MA
Sarah Kolker, Mural Arts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Andrea Mancuso, Nichols School, Buffalo, NY
Jennie Maydew, Achievement First Bushwick Middle School, Ridgewood, NY
Birra-li Ward, Woodleigh School, Victoria, Australia
Congratulations to Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne who, after a rigorous selection process, will join the incoming cohort of Art21 Educators, starting this summer. In 2017, Miss G. was the recipient of the PBS Digital Innovators Award.
As their website explains, Art21 is a global leader in presenting thought-provoking and sophisticated content about contemporary art, and the go-to place to learn first-hand from the artists of our time.
Monadnock Music's Lend an Ear program visited AES's 3rd graders introducing them to the Harp, Flute, and Viola. The ConVal Arts Enrichment Program helps support bringing these musicians to the ConVal Elementary Schools.
Monadnock Music’s Lend an Ear program visited AES’s 3rd graders introducing them to the Harp, Flute, and Viola. The ConVal Arts Enrichment Program helps support bringing these musicians to the ConVal Elementary Schools.
Sergeant Bob Edwards spoke to AES students at our annual Memorial Day Assembly. He shared the history of Memorial Day as well as his family's military involvement through the years.
Sergeant Bob Edwards spoke to AES students at our annual Memorial Day Assembly. He shared the history of Memorial Day as well as his family’s military involvement through the years.
On May 23, ConVal High School students who have qualified as New Hampshire Scholars took a field trip to the Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester to take in a Fisher Cats baseball game.
The New Hampshire Scholars Initiative is an effort by area business and school volunteers to encourage and motivate all high school students to complete a defined, rigorous academic course of study that prepares them for successful transition to college or university coursework or vocational and technical training necessary to enter today’s competitive job market.
New Hampshire Scholars are high school students who have pledged to complete the State Scholars Core Course of Study, a specific sequence of academic courses in English, math, science, social studies, and foreign language. The New Hampshire Scholars philosophy is based on the belief that it is better to be successful in an academically challenging course than to get a higher grade in an easier course.
On May 23, ConVal High School students who have qualified as New Hampshire Scholars took a field trip to the Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester to take in a Fisher Cats baseball game.
The New Hampshire Scholars Initiative is an effort by area business and school volunteers to encourage and motivate all high school students to complete a defined,
Congratulations to Allison Bull, Ian Aldrich, and Kelley Akerley! The ConVal Envirothon Team took 1st place in the forestry category and 3rd in the wildlife category on Competition Day.
Envirothon is an annual, environmentally-themed, academic competition for high-school-aged students organized by the NCF-Envirothon, a program of the National Conservation Foundation.
The competition is held by the United States and Canada on a regional, state, and bi-national level.
This year's event took place on May 21, 2019, and was hosted by the New Hampshire Technical Institute (NHTI) in Concord.
Congratulations to Allison Bull, Ian Aldrich, and Kelley Akerley! The ConVal Envirothon Team took 1st place in the forestry category and 3rd in the wildlife category on Competition Day.
Envirothon is an annual, environmentally-themed, academic competition for high-school-aged students organized by the NCF-Envirothon, a program of the National Conservation Foundation.
The competition is held by the United States and Canada on a regional,
Three ConVal students were recognized for their writing excellence by the Scholastic Writing Awards Committee and the National Writing Project in New Hampshire.
Jasmine Reed received an Honorable Mention Award, August George a Silver Key, and Rachel Sturges also a Silver Key.
The students' writing projects had been nominated by their English teachers, Mrs. Smith (McKay) and Mr. Lambert.
Three ConVal students were recognized for their writing excellence by the Scholastic Writing Awards Committee and the National Writing Project in New Hampshire.
Jasmine Reed received an Honorable Mention Award, August George a Silver Key, and Rachel Sturges also a Silver Key.
The students’ writing projects had been nominated by their English teachers,
ConVal High School’s Celebration of Learning is a collaborative event that showcases the accomplishments of its students, including coursework, projects, original artwork, and performances.
The event will take place on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, from 6:30-8:00 pm, in conjunction with an orientation program for 8th grade students and their parents.
In a variety of locations, representative student work will be showcased from such courses as the ones that are offered by the Applied Technology Center, Art, English, Health and Wellness, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, and World Languages.
The showcase will also present internships, project-based learning, and extended learning opportunities (ELOs). Students will be on hand to demonstrate their learning experiences and discuss their achievements.
A detailed program of the evening's showcase, complete with a map for easy navigation of the school, is available here.
ConVal High School’s Celebration of Learning is a collaborative event that showcases the accomplishments of its students, including coursework, projects, original artwork, and performances.
The event will take place on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, from 6:30-8:00 pm, in conjunction with an orientation program for 8th grade students and their parents.
8th Grade Orientation and ConVal's semi-annual Celebration of Learning will be held as a joint event this year, starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in the ConVal Gymnasium.
Parents and students will have the opportunity to start exploring the varied athletic programs at ConVal and the many co-curricular programs that ConVal offers students.
To help plan your visit, here is a more detailed program and directory, complete with a map for easy navigation around the school.
8th Grade Orientation and ConVal’s semi-annual Celebration of Learning will be held as a joint event this year, starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in the ConVal Gymnasium.
Parents and students will have the opportunity to start exploring the varied athletic programs at ConVal and the many co-curricular programs that ConVal offers students.
ConVal's held its first-ever Spring Fest in the afternoon of Friday May 24.
The Fest celebrated the release of the 2019 ConVal Yearbook. All over campus, students reflected on the year's events which had been captured in photos and stories in the yearbook.
For seniors, the signing of the yearbooks was a particularly bittersweet moment as many of them will be leaving for college in the fall.
The Spring Fest also showcased the school's many co-curricular programs, including the athletic offerings that students enjoy.
ConVal’s held its first-ever Spring Fest in the afternoon of Friday May 24.
The Fest celebrated the release of the 2019 ConVal Yearbook. All over campus, students reflected on the year’s events which had been captured in photos and stories in the yearbook.
For seniors, the signing of the yearbooks was a particularly bittersweet moment as many of them will be leaving for college in the fall.
ConVal’s annual POPS Concert will be performed on Thursday, May 30, 2019, starting at 6:30 pm in the gymnasium.
The POPS Concert in May is one of the biggest fundraisers for ConVal Music each year. It features performances by all the instrumental and choral ensembles and tickets are available for ballroom table-style seating near the performers as well as bleacher seating. Table seating includes refreshments (fruit, baked goods, water) while baked goods are also sold at the concession area. Baskets of donated goodies are raffled off, and program ads are sold to generate revenue for the music department.
The students, under the joint direction of Krystal Morin and Jim Wickham, have prepared a program with diverse musical selections following a Nautical theme. Selections will include "The Navy Hymn (Eternal Father)", "With Wind and Water" by Brant Karrick, "Take Me To the Water" by Rollo Dillworth, "The Sounding Sea" by Eric William Barnum, "O Waly, Waly" by Jay Bocook Plus, and "Surfin USA" by the Beach Boys. Plus, music from Pirates of the Carribean and Once on This Island, amongst other selections.
The following choral ensembles will perform: Chamber Choir, The Clef Hangers (girls a cappella), The Morin Tune (boys a cappella), Select Choir, and Concert Choir. Instrumental pieces will be performed by the Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Concert Band. The concert will conclude with a Combined Ensemble performance of Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea."
Admission is $5 for a bleacher seat. Limited table seating is still available ($10.00 a seat). Please contact Jim Wickham at jwickham@conval.edu to inquire about purchasing a table seat.
ConVal’s annual POPS Concert will be performed on Thursday, May 30, 2019, starting at 6:30 pm in the gymnasium.
The POPS Concert in May is one of the biggest fundraisers for ConVal Music each year. It features performances by all the instrumental and choral ensembles and tickets are available for ballroom table-style seating near the performers as well as bleacher seating.
During its meeting on May 21st, the ConVal School Board expressed its support for Francestown to shift from traditional grade-level instruction to multi-age instruction. This is in alignment with the District's Strategic Plan. FES plans to instruct students in two grade bands (K-2 & 3-4) as a pedagogical philosophy vs. a financial decision.
This model is based on the idea that each student develops academic skills at their own pace. Students will receive instruction based on where they are academically instead of based on chronological age. We have been using this model successfully throughout the year during our intervention blocks and now we are expanding it to the whole day.
Students will be instructed using a team approach, with three educators primarily responsible for each grade band. There is a lot of flexibility in this model and the goal is to provide instruction for each student in such a way that they are challenged, but not frustrated.
We will be holding two informational sessions for anyone who is interested in what this will look like for students, teachers, and families next year. Please join us on June 6, at either 3:45 or 5:30 in the FES Library.
Please let us know if you need childcare in order to attend by calling the office 547-2976.
During its meeting on May 21st, the ConVal School Board expressed its support for Francestown to shift from traditional grade-level instruction to multi-age instruction. This is in alignment with the District’s Strategic Plan. FES plans to instruct students in two grade bands (K-2 & 3-4) as a pedagogical philosophy vs. a financial decision.
We had an awesome time with the Pierce community at Children and the Arts Day in Peterborough! This year's theme was "Let Your Light Shine," and Pierce's light was shining brightly.
Students, teachers, staff, and parents marched in the parade. It was great to see the school's moss green T-shirts on display during the parade and afterwards at the many events of the daylong program.
Even some future Pierce students were part of the events, as the pictures below show.
We had an awesome time with the Pierce community at Children and the Arts Day in Peterborough! This year’s theme was “Let Your Light Shine,” and Pierce’s light was shining brightly.
Students, teachers, staff, and parents marched in the parade. It was great to see the school’s moss green T-shirts on display during the parade and afterwards at the many events of the daylong program.
For C Day of the Kindergarten ABC Countdown, they had Care For Your Egg Day and had an egg drop. They used recyclables to protect the egg then dropped them from the top of a ladder. 6 of our 26 eggs survived the fall! They had a lot of fun seeing if the eggs survived!
For C Day of the Kindergarten ABC Countdown, they had Care For Your Egg Day and had an egg drop. They used recyclables to protect the egg then dropped them from the top of a ladder. 6 of our 26 eggs survived the fall! They had a lot of fun seeing if the eggs survived!
Congratulations to ConVal High School students Greta Topping, Zoe Werth, Finn Wegmueller, and Katrina Kipka for winning an international video-making contest about a Wincent Weiss song.
Weiss is a German singer-songwriter who gained recognition for his music after participating in Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German adaptation of the international Idol franchise, in 2013.
The winners will travel to Germany this summer to go to a Wincent Weiss concert and to hang out with the singer himself.
In December 2018, Weiss performed a two-hour concert in the gymnasium after ConVal Regional High School received a school of excellence designation for its German program.
You can view the students' winning video entry here.
Congratulations to ConVal High School students Greta Topping, Zoe Werth, Finn Wegmueller, and Katrina Kipka for winning an international video-making contest about a Wincent Weiss song.
Weiss is a German singer-songwriter who gained recognition for his music after participating in Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German adaptation of the international Idol franchise,
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Thanks to our volunteer extraordinaire Mrs. Mayer, our daffodils, tulips and grape hyacinth are in full bloom in our GES gardens!
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Check out the latest newsletter to read more about other events at HES.
The Mary Varnum Platts-Peterborough Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, hosted an Awards Day luncheon at Emma's Pub and Kitchen in Rindge, NH, on May 15, 2019.
Three students were presented Good Citizen certificates and a scholarship check. The other three students were presented US History certificates and Medals. The honored students were (l-r):
Ashley Jewell, Good Citizen from Mascenic High School
Evan Coyne, Good Citizen from ConVal High School
Asia Porter, US History, from ConVal High School
Chris Wilkins, US History from Mascenic High School
Georgia Wolterbeek, US History from Conant High School
Kevin Rogers, Good Citizen from Conant High School.
The Mary Varnum Platts-Peterborough Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, hosted an Awards Day luncheon at Emma’s Pub and Kitchen in Rindge, NH, on May 15, 2019.
Three students were presented Good Citizen certificates and a scholarship check. The other three students were presented US History certificates and Medals. The honored students were (l-r):
You are invited to our Jazz Band Concert this Sunday, May 19th at 2 pm in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre!
We will be playing Jazz standards like April in Paris and Fever, classics like Fly Me to the Moon and All of Me, and contemporary hits like Higher Ground and Pick up the Pieces.
A reception will follow in the cafe with light food and drinks. We hope to see you there!
Please contact Jim Wickham with any questions you may have.
Each spring AES girls participate in the Girls on the Run program. This program works to encourage pre-teen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games, culminating in a celebratory 5k run.
Each spring AES girls participate in the Girls on the Run program. This program works to encourage pre-teen girls to develop self-respect and healthy lifestyles through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games, culminating in a celebratory 5k run.
UPDATE: LAST DAY TO REGISTER — TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
Registration is now open for the 2019 ConVal Summer Academy which will be held July 8 – August 1, 2019.
The Academy is a great way to extend student learning through the summer to prevent the usual “summer slide” — the traditional loss of academic skills and knowledge over the course of the summer holidays. Taking ConVal Summer Academy courses also helps to get requirements and electives out of the way so that your student’s class schedule can remain flexible and open to opportunities during the regular school year.
The Academy offers participation in a musical drama production ("Annie, Jr"), art instruction in ceramics, jewelry-making and metalsmithing, an English comedy workshop, and a course in forensic science, just to mention some of the most popular selections.
In addition, the Academy offers credit recovery and readiness courses in Mathematics as well as regular courses (e.g. American Government, American Economics) that can be accomplished on a concentrated time schedule.
Attendance in the Summer Academy is free for students of the ConVal School District, including incoming freshmen. All that is required is a deposit for attending a class ($25 for students in grades 5-8, $50 for high school students) but the fee is refunded upon completion of the course.
There are two day-long workshops organized by the School Counseling Department in conjunction with the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation (NHHEAF). One specializes in the college admissions process, the other concentrates on the college admissions essay.
UPDATE: LAST DAY TO REGISTER — TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019
Registration is now open for the 2019 ConVal Summer Academy which will be held July 8 – August 1, 2019.
The Academy is a great way to extend student learning through the summer to prevent the usual “summer slide” — the traditional loss of academic skills and knowledge over the course of the summer holidays.
ConVal Music and Theatre Arts presents our inaugural “MisCast Cabaret,” an evening of performances playing against type and breaking traditional theatrical boundaries!
Performances will be on Thursday, May 16th at 7 pm, Friday, May 17th at 7 pm, Saturday, May 18th at 1:30 at Children in the Arts, and Saturday, May 18th at 7 pm. All evening performances are at the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School, Peterborough.
Tickets are available online at cvlht.com and at the door, $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. The performance on Friday, May 17th will benefit ConVal Community Dollars for Scholars scholarship program.
Students have selected and rehearsed their own favorite musical numbers, and will present a variety of classic and contemporary performances with their own unique twists! Come to hear an old song in a new way, or to be introduced to new musical material! Shows represented include everything from standards such as A Chorus Line, Chicago, and Fiddler on the Roof, to mega hits such as Hamilton, Waitress, and Dear Evan Hansen.
ConVal High School students performing include Kylie Boyle, Miranda Craig, Alissa Cutting, Chloe Griggs, Cheyenne Heinselman, Anna McGuiness, Jaiden Petrain, Clara Quintanilha, Sean Roberts, and Haley Serafine.
“MisCast Cabaret” is directed by Krystal Morin, Brian Moore, and Elizabeth Moore.
ConVal Music and Theatre Arts presents our inaugural “MisCast Cabaret,” an evening of performances playing against type and breaking traditional theatrical boundaries!
Performances will be on Thursday, May 16th at 7 pm, Friday, May 17th at 7 pm, Saturday, May 18th at 1:30 at Children in the Arts, and Saturday, May 18th at 7 pm.
Opera is a visual art that combines music, theatre, and dance to create a spectacular performance. Originating in Italy more that 400 years ago, today opera is enjoyed by audiences worldwide and is performed in almost every language, including English.
Students at Pierce School were treated to an operatic performance presented by the Raylynmor Opera company from Peterborough, NH. Soprano, Rebecca Shorstein sang "Oh Mio Babbino" by Giacomo Puccini, shared her enthusiasm for opera with the children and staff at Pierce.
Opera is a visual art that combines music, theatre, and dance to create a spectacular performance. Originating in Italy more that 400 years ago, today opera is enjoyed by audiences worldwide and is performed in almost every language, including English.
Students at Pierce School were treated to an operatic performance presented by the Raylynmor Opera company from Peterborough,
Thanks to the ConVal ATC department, FES fourth grade students spent some time in the Curiosity Cube. This is a mobile science lab that has been developed by MilliporeSigma and travels the country to deliver science lessons to thousands of children. The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported on this and FES staff and students were featured in the article. Here is a link to the article: https://www.ledgertranscript.com/Curiosity-cube-comes-to-ConVal-25394067
Thanks to the ConVal ATC department, FES fourth grade students spent some time in the Curiosity Cube. This is a mobile science lab that has been developed by MilliporeSigma and travels the country to deliver science lessons to thousands of children. The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported on this and FES staff and students were featured in the article.
On May 12, 2019 Charlotte from FES earned runner-up in the Elementary School Division poetry contest sponsored by the Peterborough Poetry Project. Congratulations, Charlotte!
The mission of the Peterborough Poetry Project is to promote the writing, reading, and thinking of poetry as part of everyday life. What does that mean? Writing poems is a way to have fun while sharing observations and insights with other people or just saving your poems to ponder later. By sponsoring public events such as the book fair, discussion groups, and poetry contests, we hope to encourage the understanding and appreciation of poetry.
On May 12, 2019 Charlotte from FES earned runner-up in the Elementary School Division poetry contest sponsored by the Peterborough Poetry Project. Congratulations, Charlotte!
The mission of the Peterborough Poetry Project is to promote the writing, reading, and thinking of poetry as part of everyday life. What does that mean? Writing poems is a way to have fun while sharing observations and insights with other people or just saving your poems to ponder later.
Students in Mr. Rothhaus' and Mrs. Iwanowicz's classes got to explore the Millipore Curiosity Cube this week.
The Cube is a large shipping container that has been converted into a mobile laboratory. In it students could inquire about various elements, explore the human body — skeleton, heart, and lungs — with 3D goggles, and get to work with an electronic microscope.
“The Curiosity Cube program began in 2017, as a platform to increase access to science education in elementary and middle schools,” the Millipore website explains. "The concept of The Curiosity Cube is actually based on our Curiosity Labs™ program, in which our employees go into classrooms and conduct hands-on experiments with a class.”
“With the Curiosity Cube, we’re able to extend our impact beyond the classroom and reach even more students and their families.” You can read further details about the Curiosity Cube here.
Millipore Sigma is a global science and technology company with around 52,000 employees working in more than 66 countries and a diversified portfolio of over 300,000 products.
Students in Mr. Rothhaus’ and Mrs. Iwanowicz’s classes got to explore the Millipore Curiosity Cube this week.
The Cube is a large shipping container that has been converted into a mobile laboratory. In it students could inquire about various elements, explore the human body — skeleton, heart, and lungs — with 3D goggles,
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Millipore Sigma offered ConVal Regional High School the opportunity to host the company's Curiosity Cube on its national tour this week. Students from all schools in the district were welcome to book an exploratory tour during the two days that the Cube was available in Peterborough.
The Cube is a large shipping container that has been converted into a mobile laboratory. According to Millipore, the aim of the Curiosity Cube is to spark interest in the sciences.
"As a life science company, curiosity has always been the force that drives us and continues to motivate us," the Millipore website explains. "The Curiosity Cube® is an extension of our desire to put our expertise in science and technology to work for human progress."
"The Curiosity Cube program began in 2017, as a platform to increase access to science education in elementary and middle schools. The concept of The Curiosity Cube is actually based on our Curiosity Labs™ program, in which our employees go into classrooms and conduct hands-on experiments with a class."
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You can read all the details about the Curiosity Cube here.
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Please consider volunteering with us on Saturday, May 18th
at Children & the Arts Day "Let your Light Shine"! You
will check in with Kim Taylor (student volunteers) at the CAA
Information Booth in front of The Monadnock Center on Grove Street before
and after the time slot for which you volunteer. Wear comfortable shoes
and clothes appropriate for the weather. We will lend to you an
attractive orange "volunteer" shirt to wear during your volunteer
shift. Please return the shirt after your shift. Also PLEASE limit
student signups to ONE slot only.
You must sign up to
volunteer on STUDENT SHIFTS on the link below:
This year we are asking to limit the shifts to ONE per student.
Please consider volunteering with us on Saturday, May 18th
at Children & the Arts Day “Let your Light Shine”! You
will check in with Kim Taylor (student volunteers) at the CAA
Information Booth in front of The Monadnock Center on Grove Street before
and after the time slot for which you volunteer.
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As part of the AES--PTO Spring Fest, Officer Horn from the Antrim Police Department in conjunction with the Antrim Recreation Department, hosted a Bike Rodeo for Antrim children to learn about bike safety.
As part of the AES–PTO Spring Fest, Officer Horn from the Antrim Police Department in conjunction with the Antrim Recreation Department, hosted a Bike Rodeo for Antrim children to learn about bike safety.
Please park in the back of the building
and enter through the gym entrance.
This night is designed for new parents to meet
the administration of South Meadow School.
There will be a meeting in the gym starting 6:00pm. Tours of the building will be offered from 6:30-7pm
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Digital Photo and Video students Stephanie Barney, Olivia Mullins, Alyssa Spiller, Zachary Nielsen, and Eddie Pope have earned the right to have their films shown at this year's New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival (NHHSSFF) on May 18.
Originality, cinematic storytelling and technical execution are the primary scoring elements of the NHHSSFF. All films, regardless of type or genre, are judged on the filmmaker's ability to effectively captivate an audience through cinematic expression.
After an initial review of all the submissions, the films with the highest scores will be screened at the annual two-hour New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival, which takes place at Red River Theatres in Concord.
In order to be considered, films must be produced exclusively by students in grades 9-12 who are currently enrolled and attending a New Hampshire public or private high school, or who are residents of New Hampshire and enrolled in high school elsewhere. New Hampshire homeschooled students ages 14-18 are also eligible. Films do not have to have been created as part of a school project.
Digital Photo and Video students Stephanie Barney, Olivia Mullins, Alyssa Spiller, Zachary Nielsen, and Eddie Pope have earned the right to have their films shown at this year’s New Hampshire High School Short Film Festival (NHHSSFF) on May 18.
Originality, cinematic storytelling and technical execution are the primary scoring elements of the NHHSSFF.
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The week before April Break was busy at DCS. Students were cast for the play on Monday, rehearsed for 4 days and put on two awesome performances on Friday! Well done DCS! Thanks to Arts Enrichment, Dublin Community Foundation, and our very own PTO for the support to make this happen!
The week before April Break was busy at DCS. Students were cast for the play on Monday, rehearsed for 4 days and put on two awesome performances on Friday! Well done DCS! Thanks to Arts Enrichment, Dublin Community Foundation, and our very own PTO for the support to make this happen!
On May 2, ConVal Regional High School signed an articulation agreement with Keene State College, giving ConVal students who have completed a CTE program up to 8 credits at Keene.
The agreement goes into effect immediately. Therefore, students enrolling in classes at Keene State this fall are eligible to receive this new benefit.
The faculty and staff of the Region 14 Applied Technology Center provide opportunities for all learners to integrate academic knowledge and technical expertise in order to prepare students for further study in a specific career.
The Region 14 Applied Technology Center currently offers the following certificate programs:
Advanced Manufacturing Systems
Building & Construction Trades
Business Management
Careers in Education
Computer Networking
Computer Programming & Software Development
Digital Photography & Video Arts
Engineering & Mechanical Design
Fire Science & Emergency Technician (EMT)
Graphic Design
"I'm very excited about this new partnership," said Jen Kiley, the Director of the Region 14 Applied Technology Center at ConVal Regional High School. "Keene State College has shown significant interest in transitioning towards a full dual enrollment program, beyond the articulation. This is a great opportunity for our students."
On May 2, ConVal Regional High School signed an articulation agreement with Keene State College, giving ConVal students who have completed a CTE program up to 8 credits at Keene.
The agreement goes into effect immediately. Therefore, students enrolling in classes at Keene State this fall are eligible to receive this new benefit.
Sarah Newell and Jill Karlicek received 2nd place in the American Institute of Architects New Hampshire (AIANH) High School Design Competition.
The objectives of the competition are to: increase awareness of the relationships between space, human scale and function; gain experience in recognizing the various challenges in planning and designing indoor and outdoor spaces for specific uses; exercise analytical abilities and creativity in solving the problems; and gain experience in communicating planning and design ideas using scale drawings and models.
The competition gives students a fun opportunity to develop these skills and to learn about the various aspects of planning and design.
All New Hampshire high school students are encouraged to participate. Students can work individually or in teams of up to three students. Top winners receive cash awards to help with their college education.
Congratulations, Sara and Jill, on a job well done!
Sarah Newell and Jill Karlicek received 2nd place in the American Institute of Architects New Hampshire (AIANH) High School Design Competition.
The objectives of the competition are to: increase awareness of the relationships between space, human scale and function; gain experience in recognizing the various challenges in planning and designing indoor and outdoor spaces for specific uses;
As part of the April 25, 2019 Selectmen’s Advisory Committee, each Selectperson in attendance shared current and upcoming town projects. The purpose for sharing stemmed from an interest in identifying potential opportunities for collaboration.
The discussion that soon emerged focused on the different towns’ efforts to explore what it would take to bring high-speed Internet access to all, which, simply put, would be both difficult and expensive. As a result, the Committee wondered if approaching the pursuit of high-speed Internet access would be a potential area for cross-town collaboration.
Pursuing high-speed Internet access as a region — rather than as individual towns — may be a more cost-effective way. It may also hold greater appeal for Internet service providers (ISPs) because a regional approach potentially would provide a greater combined customer base for them. The focus also seems appropriate for the Selectmen’s Advisory Committee to explore as it is an issue that would benefit both the individual towns and the school district.
A digital divide currently exists within the region, one that is characterized by a substantive gap separating those who have ready access from those who have restricted access or none at all. The difference in access can contribute to inequities in educational and employment opportunities, as well as options to participate in social and civic affairs.
Ultimately, the Selectmen’s Advisory Committee decided that this topic is worthy of further exploration. As a result, the decision was made to schedule a follow-up meeting to continue and broaden the conversation. Each Selectperson agreed to bring to the follow-up conversation a representative from their individual town who sits on their town’s committee that would be involved in investigating high-speed Internet access (e.g., Planning Committee, Information Communication Committee).
As part of the April 25, 2019 Selectmen’s Advisory Committee, each Selectperson in attendance shared current and upcoming town projects. The purpose for sharing stemmed from an interest in identifying potential opportunities for collaboration.
The discussion that soon emerged focused on the different towns’ efforts to explore what it would take to bring high-speed Internet access to all,
Congratulations to SMS eighth-grader Daniel McCall who is the winner of the 2019 statewide American Legion Junior Oratorical Contest!
The contest took place recently at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. The purpose of the New Hampshire American Legion Junior Oratorical Contest is to allow students in grades 6 through 8 an opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the Constitution of the United States.
There are two parts to the contest — the prepared oration, whose subject must be on some phase of the Constitution and is from 3 to 5 minutes in duration, and the assigned topic where contestants are asked to speak for 2 to 4 minutes on a topic relating to the Constitution.
Contest participants are judged on depth of knowledge of the Constitution, originality of their oration, skill in selecting examples, voice, diction, posture, poise, eye contact, and use of gestures.
The junior oratorical contest serves as a stepping stone for the American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest and helps participants develop the ability to address an audience at a young age.
Congratulations to SMS eighth-grader Daniel McCall who is the winner of the 2019 statewide American Legion Junior Oratorical Contest!
The contest took place recently at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester. The purpose of the New Hampshire American Legion Junior Oratorical Contest is to allow students in grades 6 through 8 an opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of the Constitution of the United States.
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MATH EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE FOR ALL
One of the School Board’s goals for the 2018-19 school year focuses on exploring educational equity within the math department at ConVal High School.
This focus involves analyzing the ways in which ConVal School District, ConVal High School, and the Math Department operate to “ensure that every learner--in whatever learning environment that learner is found--has the greatest opportunity to learn enhanced by the resources and supports necessary to achieve competence, excellence, independence, responsibility, and self-sufficiency for school and for life” (Scott, 2001, p.6).
As a result of the School Board’s commitment to educational equity, recent meetings of the Education Committee included discussions on patterns and trends that surfaced as a result of exploring educational equity within the math department (see meeting minutes for February, March, and April).
At the April 15, 2019 meeting of the Education Committee, discussion led to some initial recommendations for changes to Policy IKF – High School Graduation. Proposed changes include requiring all students to complete Algebra I and increasing the number of required math credits from three to four. These recommendations were sent to the Policy Committee to be reviewed and considered at their upcoming May 7, 2019 meeting. If Policy Committee supports the proposed changes, a revised version of Policy IKF will be brought to the full School Board for approval and adoption.
The Education Committee’s recommendations would increase ConVal
High School’s expectations and requirements for graduation. The recommendations
also align with current thinking by—and recommendations from—experts in the
field of mathematics:
High schools should offer continuous four-year mathematics pathways with all students studying mathematics each year, including two to three years of mathematics in a common, shared pathway focusing on Essential Concepts, to ensure the highest-quality mathematics education for all students.
(National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2018)
The Education Committee of the School Board typically meets on the
third Monday of each month at 5:30 pm in the Boardroom at the SAU 1 Offices.
These meetings are open to the public. Committee meeting agendas and minutes
can be found on the ConVal School Board’s website.
References
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2018). Catalyzing change in high school mathematics: Initiating critical conversations. Reston, VA: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.
One of the School Board’s goals for the 2018-19 school year focuses on exploring educational equity within the math department at ConVal High School.
This focus involves analyzing the ways in which ConVal School District, ConVal High School, and the Math Department operate to “ensure that every learner–in whatever learning environment that learner is found–has the greatest opportunity to learn enhanced by the resources and supports necessary to achieve competence,
During Spirit Week students focused on the many ways to show respect by representing Sportsmanship, Recycling (Crazy Hair Day), Dreaming of Respect (Pajama Day), Earth Day and Respectful Book Character Day.
Pierce celebrated Earth Day with multi-aged activities that focused on water and how to treat the resource with respect. Children sculpted clay amphibians and learned about vernal pools. Very springtime.
Mr. Shultz, Pierce art teacher, gave the students an opportunity to use water creatively in a painting project.
Mrs. Germain discussed pollution and demonstrated what an oil spill would look like. The children came up with some different techniques and tried to remove the oil from the water in their tank.
Students heard the true story about a child in Africa, The Water Princess, and how water affects her daily life read by Ms. Sutton. After brainstorming ideaS about their own positive experiences with water, students worked on a project that will be displayed in the multi-purpose room.
Mrs. Parsons, Title 1 teacher, arranged for community readers to come to school to share books in the classrooms, capping a great Spirit Week here at Pierce.
During Spirit Week students focused on the many ways to show respect by representing Sportsmanship, Recycling (Crazy Hair Day), Dreaming of Respect (Pajama Day), Earth Day and Respectful Book Character Day.
Pierce celebrated Earth Day with multi-aged activities that focused on water and how to treat the resource with respect. Children sculpted clay amphibians and learned about vernal pools.
On the evening of April 17th, the School Board of the Mascenic Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
On the evening of April 17th, the School Board of the Mascenic Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
The Con Val School District welcomes Mascenic's participation, and thanks the Mascenic Board for taking this important step to ensure that every child in New Hampshire has access to a constitutionally adequate education.
That another district has joined this movement is further indication of the importance of this issue. This shows the increasingly difficult positions of NH school districts as they seek to provide equitable education.
We look forward to working with the Mascenic School District in this important action to hold the State accountable for its constitutional obligation.
— The ConVal School Board
Note: Please see also this related article in the New Hampshire Union Leader (April 24, 2019).
On the evening of April 17th, the School Board of the Mascenic Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
On the evening of April 17th, the School Board of the Mascenic Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
8th Grade Orientation and ConVal's semi-annual Celebration of Learning will be held as a joint event this year, starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in the ConVal Gymnasium.
Parents and students will have the opportunity to start exploring the varied athletic program at ConVal and the many co-curricular programs that ConVal offers students, among them the following:
Visitors will also be able to explore the many student-led Celebration of Learning stations that will be open throughout ConVal Regional High School. Students from all departments will share their classwork and unique projects that they have completed over the course of the semester.
Keep checking back the ConVal website — to help plan your visit, a more detailed program will be published here ahead of the event.
8th Grade Orientation and ConVal’s semi-annual Celebration of Learning will be held as a joint event this year, starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in the ConVal Gymnasium.
Parents and students will have the opportunity to start exploring the varied athletic program at ConVal and the many co-curricular programs that ConVal offers students,
Congratulations to ConVal Science teacher Moira Milne who is the recipient of the 2019 New Hampshire STEM Excellence in Teaching Award.
The award was presented during a faculty meeting at ConVal Regional High School on Wednesday, April 17, by Bob Rotier. Rotier is the Mathematics & Science Teacher Awards Chair of the New Hampshire Society of Professional Engineers (NHSPE).
NHSPE is the society of engineering professionals in New Hampshire that promotes the ethical and competent practice of engineering, advocates licensure, and enhances the image and well being of its members while implementing the program of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) at the state level.
Congratulations, Dr. Milne, on this prestigious award!
Congratulations to ConVal Science teacher Moira Milne who is the recipient of the 2019 New Hampshire STEM Excellence in Teaching Award.
The award was presented during a faculty meeting at ConVal Regional High School on Wednesday, April 17, by Bob Rotier. Rotier is the Mathematics & Science Teacher Awards Chair of the New Hampshire Society of Professional Engineers (NHSPE).
To get into the spirit of spring, AES staff created dioramas using Peeps. Once completed students, staff and visitors were able to vote on their favorite diorama. The winning diorama was Bob Ross and Camping with his Peeps.
To get into the spirit of spring, AES staff created dioramas using Peeps. Once completed students, staff and visitors were able to vote on their favorite diorama. The winning diorama was Bob Ross and Camping with his Peeps.
Last week Mrs. James taught us about tapping trees for maple syrup. She also taught us how to make maple candy by pouring hot maple syrup onto snow. It was so much fun to watch it harden! She read us a story called “Sugar on the Snow” by Nancy Watson and we made our own prints on paper of maple trees using finger paint!
Last week Mrs. James taught us about tapping trees for maple syrup. She also taught us how to make maple candy by pouring hot maple syrup onto snow. It was so much fun to watch it harden! She read us a story called “Sugar on the Snow” by Nancy Watson and we made our own prints on paper of maple trees using finger paint!
- See the Program that evening for a full list of the offerings
May 28th- Grade 8 Families at CVHS
8th Grade Orientation and ConVal’s semi-annual Celebration of Learning will be held as a joint event this year, starting at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in the ConVal Gymnasium.
Parents and students will have the opportunity to start exploring the varied athletic programs at ConVal and the many co-curricular programs that ConVal offers students.
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Summer Adventures! at South Meadow School July 9, 10, 11 July 16, 17, 18 9 am to 12 pm
Great Brook School July 23, 24, 25 July 30, 31, and August 1st 9 am to 12 pm
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Dr. Vince Virga is a veterinarian, scientific writer, and conservation activist. A three-time Macdowell fellow currently in residence at the Colony, Virga gave a TASC talk on his specialty of animal behavior and wildlife conservation.
Virga presented a comprehensive slideshow with photographs and video clips, explaining how animal care guidelines in zoological parks and wildlife preserves have evolved over the past three decades.
The original philosophy was centered on how the animal is best displayed for the convenience of visitors, with little regard to animal welfare beyond the safety and physical health of the animal.
More current thinking in zoological park construction involves the consultation of animal behavior specialists who help ensure that the artificial habitats mimic more closely conditions in the wild and incorporate design principles that take into consideration stimulation through play and the animal's natural exploratory behavior.
Virga ended his presentation with an appeal to students to become more actively involved in wildlife conservation. According to his research, there are multiple hotspots around the world where endangered species are disappearing more rapidly than previously known.
The key factors in this worrisome development are habitat encroachment and climate change. Virga's concern is that people are insufficiently alarmed about this issue, even though the warning signs point to a clear and present danger of permanent loss of wildlife.
Before taking student questions, Virga ended on a positive note by sharing two examples of activists in their late teens and early twenties making a significant difference in the wildlife conservation movement.
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On April 15, the Region 14 Applied Technology Center inducted forty ConVal Regional High School students into the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS).
The National Technical Honor Society currently serves approximately 100,000 active members. NTHS honors the achievements of top CTE students, provides scholarships to encourage the pursuit of higher education, and cultivates excellence in today’s highly competitive, skilled workforce.
The 2019 inductees were: Alanna Batty, Annastasia Bond, Lindsey Carey, Emma Carpenter, Grace Cleary, Alessia Coburn, Molly Cole, Owen Collins, Tracey Dailey, Haley Davis, Austin Davison, Emily Donovan, Julia Donovan, Kayla Duval, Serena Edwards, Trevor Faber, Skyler Fortin, Sean Grady, Shayna Hanley, Cole Heinselman, Emma Hixson, Elizabeth Holland, Lillian James, Kara Keiper, Rebecca Kulbacki, Mackenzie Ledger, Isaiah Michaels, Nicholas Noke, Alexandria Payero, Kayla Rautiola, Molly Reed, Evan Shippee, Madeline Shippee, Dylan Stapleton, Leah Stone, Delaney Thompson, Nicholas Tower, Marguerite Tremblay, and Natalie Tremblay.
The National Technical Honor Society helps schools recognize students for their achievement in career and technical education. Members receive a membership certificate in a professional presentation portfolio. In addition, members receive an official NTHS diploma seal, graduation tassel, lapel pin, and window decal to show their affiliation with NTHS.
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The National Technical Honor Society currently serves approximately 100,000 active members. NTHS honors the achievements of top CTE students, provides scholarships to encourage the pursuit of higher education, and cultivates excellence in today’s highly competitive,
Students in Cindi Hodgdon's German class welcomed Dirk von Manteuffel on Monday. Von Manteuffel is a designer and a member of the German Design Museum Foundation.
He gave a presentation on the German Bauhaus style, its cultural roots in the Weimar Republic, and the "form follows function" design principles that Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe later applied to the construction of skyscrapers in the United States.
After the presentation, students were invited to explore Bauhaus design principles to construct a chair using only paper, paperclips, and plastic straws as raw materials. Their various designs were later presented to the class, in German, and cataloged by von Manteuffel.
The “Discover Design—Discover Bauhaus” workshop is part of the Year of German-American Friendship. This initiative is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Students in Cindi Hodgdon’s German class welcomed Dirk von Manteuffel on Monday. Von Manteuffel is a designer and a member of the German Design Museum Foundation.
He gave a presentation on the German Bauhaus style, its cultural roots in the Weimar Republic, and the “form follows function” design principles that Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe later applied to the construction of skyscrapers in the United States.
This whole-school event celebrates art and provides students with a variety of art/learning activities throughout the day. Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Francestown Elementary School recently celebrated Whole School Literacy Day.
Students from ConVal Regional High School took a field trip to Francestown to help make their students' day special.
Among the readers were: Jade Bailey, Jordan Bernier, Ashlie Chandler, Lena LaFleur, Zoe Werth, and Jarrett Wohle.
Congratulations to sophomore Brigham Boice who is the recipient of the 2019 James Grant Youth Achievement Spirit Award.
Boice earned the award for his commitment to preserving Peterborough's history. He is a volunteer for the Peterborough Historical Society and is a colonial interpreter. As a colonial interpreter, he dresses in traditional colonial clothing and demonstrating cooking techniques from the 17th and 18th centuries.
A self-taught computer programmer, Boice took his love of history into the digital age, creating Newpast: Peterborough 1886. This interactive game allows the user to explore Peterborough as it was in 1886 as compared to how it is now.
Congratulations to sophomore Brigham Boice who is the recipient of the 2019 James Grant Youth Achievement Spirit Award.
Boice earned the award for his commitment to preserving Peterborough’s history. He is a volunteer for the Peterborough Historical Society and is a colonial interpreter. As a colonial interpreter, he dresses in traditional colonial clothing and demonstrating cooking techniques from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Dean of Faculty Michelle Voto, Dean of Students Steve Bartsch, Director of School Counseling Kim Chandler as well as several students and parents attended a workshop on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavioral Health & Wellness (MTSS-B) at the Falls Event Center in Manchester recently.
The MTSS-B framework has been shown to improve student engagement, create school climates and cultures that are positive and inclusive of all students, and improve student academic and behavioral outcomes.
This interactive, hands-on training was provided by the University of New Hampshire for school-level leadership teams to prepare for the implementation of an evidence-based multi-tiered system of support framework.
Participants focused on how to establish Tier 1 “universal” systems. School teams learned how to organize their learning community to include diverse school and community voice, create a positive school-wide system, align multiple efforts and resources and how to create a coherent, consistent, and positive environment for all students.
Dean of Faculty Michelle Voto, Dean of Students Steve Bartsch, Director of School Counseling Kim Chandler as well as several students and parents attended a workshop on Multi-Tiered Systems of Support for Behavioral Health & Wellness (MTSS-B) at the Falls Event Center in Manchester recently.
The MTSS-B framework has been shown to improve student engagement,
On Friday, a week after our preliminary injunction hearing, the judge denied our request for an immediate increase in education funding from the state. Overall, this is a very positive result for ConVal. Although denying an immediate injunction, the case will be completed within the fiscal year. So although April 1 has passed, the issue is not moot, according to Judge Ruoff. The districts “seek funds from the State as fulfillment of its constitutional obligations during the 2019 Fiscal Year,” he wrote, meaning we can still try to claim those funds until June 30. The judge also clearly sees the issue, that no school district can provide an adequate education with the State’s current “adequacy” payment.
Our argument, joined by the
Winchester School District, is that New Hampshire’s school funding levels fall
unconstitutionally short of what it actually takes to educate a child in our
state. Our lawsuit builds on the NH Supreme Court case law going back to the
Claremont I and II of the 1990’s. At
that time, it was established that the state has a duty to provide and fund an
“adequate education” and the funding system in place at that time, was
invalidated.
Again, the most important part of this
step, although denied, was that we got our objection to the inadequacy of the
April 1st adequacy payment onto the record. We were never counting on $20+
million being deposited into our bank account last week. We knew it would not
be that easy.
This judge’s
ruling was good for us, as he ruled that he had the power to grant the relief
we are seeking, that he can do that any time prior to the end of the fiscal
year, and that he intended to rule one way or the other well before then. He
also signaled that he was open to our basic argument. All in all, this was a very
positive result.
We will continue to keep you informed as we move forward in this process.
On Friday, a week after our preliminary injunction hearing, the judge denied our request for an immediate increase in education funding from the state. Overall, this is a very positive result for ConVal. Although denying an immediate injunction, the case will be completed within the fiscal year. So although April 1 has passed,
Ms. Towne’s class presents at Morning Meeting this morning, including a student who led the Pledge of Allegiance for the student body.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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In March, the Educators Rising club at ConVal Regional High School sent students to a statewide competition at the Southern New Hampshire University's School of Education where they engaged in the series of performance-based events to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and growing leadership in education.
The students' participation was a first in the history of the club which is open to juniors and seniors enrolled in the Region 14 Teacher Education Program. They competed in a blend of individual and team events in categories such as public speaking, ethical dilemma, creative lecture, job interview skills, and children's literature.
Three ConVal students — senior Leah Stone, junior Tracie Dailey, and junior Molly Reed — were selected for their creativity, commitment, and professionalism to move on to the national Educator Rising competition which will be held in Dallas, Texas, from June 22-25, 2019. Congratulations on qualifying for the national conference!
The Educators Rising organization is a division of Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK), a professional organization that supports students who are interested in education-related careers. PDK helps guide young students on a path to becoming accomplished teachers, beginning in high school and extending through college into the profession.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Each year, elementary students in grades 3 & 4 participate in the New Hampshire Statewide Assessment System (NH SAS). Please visit this link to access the 2019 assessment window:
This year, the FES 3rd & 4th grade students will take the following NH SAS assessments:
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Writing
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FES plans to test students during the following days from 10 am – 12:00 noon:
Please make every effort to ensure your child is at school during these times. If for some reason, you know your child will be absent, please let us know as soon as possible so we can arrange for an alternative testing session.
Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Section 1111(b)(2) and New Hampshire law, RSA 193-C:6 requires each school district in the State to implement a set of high-quality academic assessments that includes, at a minimum, assessments in mathematics, reading/language arts and science to be administered in each of grades 3-8 and not less than once during grades 10-12; and in science not less than once during grades 3-5, grades 6-9, and grades 10-12. Furthermore, ESSA sections 1111(b)(2)(B) require State assessments to be the “same academic assessments used to measure the achievement of all public elementary school and secondary school students in the State,” and provide for the participation in such assessments to all students.
State assessments are an important part of a student’s core educational program. They provide an evaluation of student mastery of content and skills in various academic areas, serve as one tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school and be college- and career-ready, and help inform future instruction in the classroom. Along with student work on classroom assignments, projects, essays, and local assessments, state assessment results give teachers and you, the parents, important information about where students are on their path toward academic success.
If you choose to exempt your student from the state assessment (permitted in RSA 193-C:6), you must submit a form to the school the student attends. Please contact the principal to receive a copy of the exemption form. Please understand that if you choose to exempt your student from the assessment, no scores or summary of individual student performance, based on the statewide assessment, will be provided to you or your student.
The testing times for the NH SAS are as follows:
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Reading
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English Language Arts/
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Mathematics
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FES will send your student’s Individual Score Report home as soon as possible after receiving results from the State of NH.
Parents may access training tests for the NH SAS by going to the portal at https://nh.portal.airast.org/training-tests.stml.
If you have any questions related to this assessment administration, you may contact your child’s teacher or me. Thank you for supporting your student and encouraging him/her to do his/her best during this assessment administration.
Sincerely,
Katherine Foecking
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Grade 4: Monday 4/8,
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[post_content] => Students from four New England high schools competed at the Goethe Institut's Hip-Hop Battle Boston last Saturday. The participating schools were: Boston Latin School, Boston, MA; ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH; Cony High School, Augusta, ME; and Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA.
Each school put forth two teams. ConVal sent Team "Dudelsack" (German for "bagpipe"), consisting of Grace Christensen, Alexis Cleary, Bronwyn Tyler-Wall, and Finn Wegmueller; Team "Die Bernsteins" was represented by Lenny Romard, Eddie Sulborski, and Greta Topping.
For the competition, the teams workshopped to write rap texts about a given topic, practiced their performance, improved their pronunciation and stage presence, and got inspiration from experts - all in German, of course!
The event was judged by a four-person jury comprised of representatives from the Goethe Institute, the German Consulate, the Berklee School of Music, and the German School in Boston, and Team "Dudelsack" emerged as the winner. As part of their first prize, their rap song will be professionally recorded in the weeks to come.
The Goethe Institut is a non-profit German cultural association that operates 159 institutes worldwide with the mission to promote the study of the German language abroad and to encourage international cultural exchanges. Around 246,000 people take part in Goethe Institut activities every year.
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[post_content] => Students who are interested in career paths involving mechanical engineering are invited to a forum presentation and discussion in the ConVal Library Learning Commons in half-hour increments during Block 2 and TASC (9:00 am – 11:00 am) on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
The guest speakers will talk to students about the industry, share projects, and answer questions. Female prospective engineers are especially encouraged to attend. This is a general audience forum, you do not have to be enrolled in an ATC course to participate.
If you are interested in attending this special event, please see Mrs. Fabianski in Room 159 or send an email to kfabianski@conval.edu.
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[post_content] => The ConVal junior and senior prom will be held at the Keene Country Club in Keene on May 11, 2019. The theme is the Roaring 20's.
The event will begin at 7:00 pm and end at 10:00 pm. Prom tickets are on sale for $35 during all lunches from April 1st through April 12th.
If you intend to bring a non-ConVal guest to the prom, forms are available in the Main Office. Forms need to be returned to Mr. Bartsch.
If you have any questions, please contact senior class advisor Eric Kostecki or talk to Ms. Rebecca Dunn.
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The event will begin at 7:00 pm and end at 10:00 pm. Prom tickets are on sale for $35 during all lunches from April 1st through April 12th.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Pierce students had the experience of drumming with Peg Keeler, recent guest and artist in residence at our school. A very experienced educator and recipient of the NHAHPERD Teacher of the Year Award in 2012, Peg Keeler has trained with Drums Alive. (Drums Alive® is a curriculum and training program that combines fitness, with drumming, music, and educational concepts that improve the physical, emotional, and social health of participants.) Peg brought her enthusiasm and dynamic approach to Pierce School as she taught students in each grade their own special drumming routines. The fun, excitement, music and movement engaged all students. During a well attended evening performance, the children demonstrated what they had learned from Peg for for their parent and friends. It was a wonderful and entertaining show appreciated by all. Thank you Peg Keeler !
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The sale includes mattresses from name brands like Simmons Beautyrest as well as adjustable beds and pillows. All sizes — twin, full, queen, and king — will be on sale with a discount. Financing options are also available.
For more details, see this website.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Three singers and a pianist created a surprise opera flash mob in ConVal’s cafeteria on Tuesday. The experience is a new opera outreach project from the Colonial Theatre in Keene which aims to expose and educate people on the world of opera music.
The singers posed as kitchen and maintenance staff and pretended to be working in the cafeteria while students entered for lunch. The students might’ve suspected that something was up due to the presence of an upright piano right in the middle of the cafeteria. Once most of the students were through the lunch line and seated, the five-minute scene began.
The singers dueled and competed for attention with excerpts from Bizet's Carmen and Strauss' Die Fledermaus. They eventually join forces to end with the famous trio from Verdi's La Traviata. After the performance, the musicians engaged with students to discuss what they just saw and heard!
To follow up on this experience, Ms. Morin will be utilizing some of the Metropolitan Opera's educational resources in her choral ensembles to discuss opera music in our world today.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Mrs. Fabianski received the Program of Excellence Award at the Annual Conference of the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association in Kansas City, Missouri.
The engineering program at ConVal’s Region 14 Applied Technology Center was recognized, as the award letter noted, because the "school’s technology and engineering education program is truly exemplary among other programs in your state."
The International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) is an organization devoted to improving technology education and engineering through the use of technology, innovation, design, and engineering experiences at the K-12 school levels. It represents over 35,000 technology educators throughout the world.
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The engineering program at ConVal’s Region 14 Applied Technology Center was recognized, as the award letter noted, because the “school’s technology and engineering education program is truly exemplary among other programs in your state.”
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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By now you have heard that the ConVal School District has filed a lawsuit against the state of New Hampshire. The state’s ever-increasing downshifting to towns and cities, has reached a breaking point. The ‘Claremont Decision’ of 1993 decided that “the State has the exclusive obligation to fund a constitutionally adequate education and that the State may not shift any of the constitutional responsibility to local communities.” For the past 26 years, there has been legislative work on interpreting the meaning and level of funding that constitutes “adequate.”
The numbers show a startling gap: the state provides a base adequacy payment of $3,636.06 per pupil. This amount is based on a formula that does not fund actual transportation costs, does not apply actual teacher/student ratios to classrooms, does not accurately reflect the benefits required by the state, does not include the cost of school nurses, superintendent services or food services—as required by state law, and provides less than 20% of the actual facilities operation and maintenance costs. Using the state’s own data, the cost according to its own formula, is $9,929 per pupil exclusive of transportation. ConVal’s per pupil cost, including transportation, (remember, we are a nine-town school district) is $10,843.60. The actual average per pupil cost across New Hampshire is $18,901.32.
We decided that we could sit or we could act. ConVal chose to take action. The State needs to ensure that not another generation’s education is put at risk by unstable and inequitable funding. The board and administration are committed to transparency and will be providing weekly updates and additional information on three social media platforms: FaceBook at ConVal Takes Action, Instagram at conval_takes_action, and Twitter at ConVal Takes Action. We will be holding information sessions in our nine communities as well, and will publish a list of days, times and locations.
We welcome your feedback, and look forward to talking to you about this step.
— The ConVal School Board
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Contoocook Valley School District, in its effort to keep our communities informed, is sharing the following important information:
As many are already aware the Contoocook Valley School District filed a Complaint against the State regarding its continued failure to adequately fund a constitutionally adequate education on March 13, 2019. ConVal has requested the Superior Court order the State to comply with its constitutional mandate this fiscal year and in particular prior to the final adequacy payment of April 1, 2019. Therefore, the District also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to request that the State be made to pay the shortfall of adequacy in the amount of $16,961, 843.75.
A preliminary injunction is an order from the court, early in the stages of a lawsuit that requires a party to act or not act in a certain way pending a ruling or outcome. There are multiple reasons to request an injunction, in this case we want to be sure that we do not let April 1, 2019 go by without indicating that the State’s adequacy payments have been insufficient and thereby potentially lose our standing to receive what we believe is the correct amount in adequacy.
The State has until March 26, 2019 to respond in writing to our Motion for a Preliminary Injunction and the Cheshire Superior Court has scheduled a hearing for March 29, 2019 at 9 AM in Keene.
— The ConVal School Board
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As many are already aware the Contoocook Valley School District filed a Complaint against the State regarding its continued failure to adequately fund a constitutionally adequate education on March 13,
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Students at AES just finished a month-long exposure to computer coding during their after school coding club. Organized by Mr. Stultz and Mrs. Syre-Hager, students had the opportunity to learn the basics of coding while working with kid-friendly themes such as Star Wars and Angry Birds. Dash, a programmable robot, made an appearance a few times where students took turns coding commands to made it move, turn, and beep. The students needed to show grit in order to move from level to level, and they did so throughout the sessions. Filled with a sense of accomplishment, each student walked away the feeling of self-satisfaction and a newfound interest.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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The ConVal School District welcomes the Winchester School District’s participation in ConVal's legal action to seek adequate school funding for its students.
We thank the Winchester Board for taking this important step to ensure that every child in New Hampshire has access to a constitutionally adequate education.
That a third district has joined this movement so quickly is further indication of the importance of this issue and underscores the increasingly difficult positions of New Hampshire school districts as they seek to provide equitable education.
We look forward to working with the Winchester School District in this important action to hold the State accountable for its constitutional obligation.
— The ConVal School Board
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March 24, 2019
The ConVal School District welcomes the Winchester School District’s participation in ConVal’s legal action to seek adequate school funding for its students.
We thank the Winchester Board for taking this important step to ensure that every child in New Hampshire has access to a constitutionally adequate education.
That a third district has joined this movement so quickly is further indication of the importance of this issue and underscores the increasingly difficult positions of New Hampshire school districts as they seek to provide equitable education.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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GES 2nd graders enjoyed a day at the Old Pound Road Sugar House, tapping trees and sampling maple syrup!
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Students are dissecting owl pellets in Mrs. Hastings' class today. Hands-on Science is a great way to kick off our study of local birds!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Congratulations to the cast and crew of 2 Be or Naught 2 B, the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild (NHETG) entry, who participated in our regional Festival at Kearsarge on Saturday.
Adapted and directed by August George, who was commended specifically for lighting design, the production was well-received and enjoyed by all.
Great work, ConVal Theatre!
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Great work,
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The 92nd New England Music Association (NEMFA) Festival took place this weekend.
Eleven ConVal students qualified for participation, based on their outstanding evaluations on previous NEMFA solo and ensemble festival events: Grace Christensen (soprano), Isabel Dreher (percussion), Aria Drew (soprano), Sean Grady (bass), Paul Kelly (euphonium), Patrick Lacroix (bass), Sandra MacKay (violin), Olivia Mullins (clarinet), William Sennett (trombone), Emeline Tyler-Wall (bass clarinet), and Bronwyn Tyler-Wall (trombone).
This year, the Festival Concert was hosted by Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, CT, where three days of intense rehearsals culminated in a stellar concert by the all-New England Band, Chorus and Orchestra.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => FC Bayern München, Borussia Dortmund, Mönchengladbach, RB Leipzig, Eintracht Frankfurt — fans all over the world know these German soccer clubs which consistently rank high in the German Bundesliga and in the Europa-wide championship leagues.
To celebrate "Fußball" (soccer), the Goethe Institut organizes an annual "Bundesliga Total!" contest, in which students of German from around the nation demonstrate their soccer knowledge in a variety of contests by being matched against one another in their knowledge of the Bundesliga.
At the eastern regional finals in Washington, DC, this past weekend, ConVal's "Bundesliga Total!" duo Finn Wegmüller and Anna Gombas took third place in a field of 25 teams.
The Goethe Institut is a non-profit German cultural association that operates 159 institutes worldwide with the mission to promote the study of the German language abroad and to encourage international cultural exchanges. Around 246,000 people take part in Goethe Institute activities every year.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Congratulations to ConVal Regional High School for winning first place in the New England-wide "Theaterfest" contest.
The Theaterfest was organized by the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It featured dramatic presentations in German by middle, high school and college students from New England.
ConVal's winning entry was a 15-minute short play entitled "Zapping" which portrays a person who is compulsively switching between cable channels. The resulting collision of dialogues between advice on a cooking show and commentaries on two different sports channels leads to puns, double entendres, and humorous word plays.
The German drama team consisted of Alexis Cleary, Rosie Crooker, Aria Frehner, Ben Kriebel, Grace Phillips, Greta Topping, and Finn Wegmueller. Congratulations, all, on this prestigious achievement!
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Congratulations to ConVal Regional High School for winning first place in the New England-wide “Theaterfest” contest.
The Theaterfest was organized by the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It featured dramatic presentations in German by middle, high school and college students from New England.
ConVal’s winning entry was a 15-minute short play entitled “Zapping”
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Students participated in workshops with engineers from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard involving Lil' Bits school makerspace electronic kits, tried their hands at orbital and artistic welding with staff from Decco, New England's most experienced process and mechanical contractor, as well as Manchester Community College (MCC), and they experimented with 3D Painting using Microsoft.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => On Thursday, ConVal Visual and Performing Arts department leader Mary Goldthwaite-Gagne wrote a 1,500-word post on the PBS Education Blog entitled "Ways to Integrate Art Into Your Classroom."
In her blog post, "Ms. G," as she is known at ConVal, explains how she uses PBS resources, such as Art21 and The Art Assignment, to share with her students the works of contemporary artists.
Not only does online access to these remarkable resources make it easier to bring far away resources into the classroom without the cost and complications of a field trip, what Ms. G appreciates that "artists are shown in the context of their exhibition spaces and in their studios. You get an intimate look at their creative process."
The blog post explains in detail which artists she has featured in her instructional practice — Kiki Smith, Robyn O'Neill, Janine Antoni, Nancy Spero, Lenka Clayton, Elizabeth Murray, to name but a few — and how their works impacted both the students' understanding of art and their self-image as art makers.
She sees it as her mission as an art teacher "to help students find their way into art; I wholeheartedly believe that art is for everyone. Many of my students come to high school somewhat estranged from artmaking after a middle school loss of confidence and my role is to help them find their way back to art. My students are encouraged when they see that there are myriad ways to be a maker."
Goldthwaite-Gagne was named a PBS Digital Innovator representing the state of New Hampshire in 2017. Read Ms. G's blog post in its entirety here.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => As part of learning about the biological Levels of Organization, biology students of Carol Young, Anna Muncy, and Brock Lambert dissected specimens. The students are able to see the organism, organ systems, organs, and tissues of various specimens and make comparisons.
Students dissected crustaceans (crayfish) on Wednesday and echinoderms (sea stars) on Thursday. The students were asked to take photos of certain structures during the dissection to complete a small project once the dissections are complete.
“I was really excited to do this dissection. It can be difficult to find what we’re looking for but I feel that it’s been a good experience. We’ve been identifying a lot of the structures and learning about their functions,” said sophomore Emma Anderson. She also discussed how the dissections related to what was being learned in class. “Sciences is absolutely my favorite class.”
The new lab space that was completed in September 2018 is especially accommodating for dissections. Students have lab table space to break into groups and have adequate working space. Cleaning up is quick and easy as there are numerous sinks, paper towel dispensers, and soap for students.
Anna Muncy observed, “It is a science teacher’s dream to see students be able to clean up their workspace quickly and well. Aside from the educational and time benefits, it is also a safety benefit as space is properly cleaned of chemicals.”
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => At the meeting of the Mascenic School Board Monday evening, a sharing agreement was signed that will have Mascenic rejoin the Region 14 Applied Technology Center (ATC), located at ConVal Regional High School.
The agreement will allow students from ConVal, Jaffrey-Rindge, and Mascenic to attend each other's applied technology and trade programs.
ConVal will contribute to the consortium courses in computer networking and programming, digital photo and video, engineering, firefighting and EMT training, graphic design, manufacturing and woodworking, as well as teacher education.
For full details, see the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript article here.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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On the evening of March 19th, the School Board of the Monadnock Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
The ConVal School District welcomes Monadnocks' participation and thanks the Board for taking this important step to ensure that every child in New Hampshire has access to a constitutionally adequate education.
That another district has joined this movement so quickly is further indication of the importance of this issue. This shows the increasingly difficult positions of New Hampshire school districts as they seek to provide equitable education.
We look forward to working with the Monadnock School District in this important action to hold the State accountable to its constitutional obligation.
— The ConVal School Board
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On the evening of March 19th, the School Board of the Monadnock Regional School District voted unanimously to join ConVal’s lawsuit against the State of New Hampshire.
The ConVal School District welcomes Monadnocks’ participation and thanks the Board for taking this important step to ensure that every child in New Hampshire has access to a constitutionally adequate education.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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We invited the Conval High School National Honor Society students to read a story and provide a connected activity; thirty-five high school students joined us. 35! It was awesome. Each classroom had 2, 3, or more high school students sharing their love of reading and sharing stories with our students. A huge thank you to Conval High School, and PES reading teacher Adine Aldrich for making this happen.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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ConVal Regional High school is taking part in the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), a survey that is sponsored by the New Hampshire Departments of Education and Health and Human Services in cooperation with the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The survey will ask about the health behaviors of 9th- through 12th-grade students. The survey will ask about nutrition, physical activity, injuries, and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. It will also ask about sexual behaviors that could lead to pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
Students will be asked to fill out a survey that takes about 45 minutes to complete. For full details, please see this letter from the ConVal School Counseling Department.
ConVal Regional High school is taking part in the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), a survey that is sponsored by the New Hampshire Departments of Education and Health and Human Services in cooperation with the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The survey will ask about the health behaviors of 9th- through 12th-grade students.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The ConVal Chorus Annual Spring Concert will be performed at the Union Congregational Church in Peterborough on March 19th, 2019, starting at 7:00 pm. The concert is free and open to the public.
Dedicated to choral works by women composers, the "She Hath Wings" concert will feature selections such as "Be Like the Bird" by Abbie Betinis, "Winter's On The Wing" from The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon, "Light of A Clear Blue Morning" by Dolly Parton, "Baciai per haver vita" by Vittoria Aleotti, "How Can I Cry?" by Moira Smiley, and "We Are" by Ysaye M. Barnwell. Other selections will include works by composers Laura Farnell, Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Susan LaBarr, Jocelyn Hagen, and Anne Lister.
Special this year is the collaboration with the Cecilia Ensemble of the Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs, directed by former ConVal chorus director Esther Rhoades.
The snow date for the concert is March 26th, 2019.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The ConVal High School Music Department welcomed the 39th Army Band and Alex Favazza Jr for their Visiting Artists Day.
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Their set-list included "Zoot Suit Riot," "Uptown Funk," "Saturday in the Park," "Sir Duke," and many more.
The choirs held a workshop under the direction of UNH Choral Director, Alex Favazza. He worked on repertoire for their upcoming concert on March 19th entitled, "She Hath Wings."
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The Contoocook Valley (ConVal) School Board wishes to thank you for your endless support of our students, staff, and programming.
Voter approval of the operating budget ensures a continued excellent and supportive education for the children of our district. Furthermore, passing the teacher's contract for the next two years tells us that you value and appreciate our staff for the incredible work that they do.
We heard very clearly that a change to the funding formula or additional busses is not a direction you want the district to follow as we pursue answers to questions regarding declining enrollment, increasing educational costs, single-start times, and how services and/or funding is allocated to each school.
Future communications with the public and discussions at school board meetings will continue to take place about these topics and challenges.
Thank you again for supporting warrant articles #1 and #2 on this year's ballot.
The Contoocook Valley (ConVal) School Board wishes to thank you for your endless support of our students, staff, and programming.
Voter approval of the operating budget ensures a continued excellent and supportive education for the children of our district. Furthermore, passing the teacher’s contract for the next two years tells us that you value and appreciate our staff for the incredible work that they do.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Todd Goodwin, Storyteller and Game Leader, taught and led families in games they are able to take home with them. This program was sponsored and funded by Title 1 Family Engagement.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => March 13, 2019
The Contoocook Valley School District, widely known as ConVal, filed a Complaint and Motion for a Preliminary Injunction today in Cheshire Superior Court. Twenty-six years ago, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, in the landmark Claremont decision, determined that it is a State obligation to ensure a constitutionally adequate education for New Hampshire children. Subsequent decisions by the Court also determined that the State cannot shift that responsibility to the local communities.
Efforts on the part of the New Hampshire Legislature have been ongoing since 1993 to resolve the funding shortfalls. Regrettably, the Legislature to date has been unable to provide adequate funding to the local communities so that all children in New Hampshire receive a fair and equitable education, forcing local taxpayers to choose between supporting the children in their communities and being overwhelmed by increasing local taxes.
The Complaint lays out, using the State’s own formula and the State’s own data, how the State’s base adequacy funding falls far short of constitutionally sufficient funding for the children of either the ConVal School District or New Hampshire. The State’s current funding of only $3,636.06 per child does not fund the actual transportation costs incurred by districts, does not apply the actual teacher-student ratios, does not accurately reflect the actual benefits required by the State, does not provide any funding for school nurses, superintendent services, or food services as required by state law and provides less than 20% of the actual statewide average facilities operations and maintenance costs. The current proposed legislation does little to provide permanent, guaranteed adequacy and while it may provide temporary relief to some communities, it is not a permanent solution to an ongoing problem.
The ConVal School Board has not taken this step lightly, it is time for the State to fulfill its promise to our children and to bring relief to the local taxpayers.
— The ConVal School Board
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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School spirit and excitement were particularly high this basketball season, as no one could remember the last time there was a line stretching out to the parking lot, waiting to get into a home game.
The Cougars bested the Raiders 53-45 and moved on to the Division II semifinals.
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The Cougars bested the Raiders 53-45 and moved on to the Division II semifinals.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The annual Spring Concert will be performed on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, starting at 7:00 pm in the gymnasium.
The Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and Concert Band ensembles will perform under the direction of Jim Wickham. The program will include pieces like "Steampunk Overture," "Classical Gas," "Come Out Swinging," Earth, Wind, and Fire's "September," "Jungle Fantasy" and music from the soundtrack "How To Train Your Dragon."
We hope to see you at the concert! Admission is free. Please make sure to arrive in time to secure a good seat.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => by ConVal School Board Member Janine Lesser
The Deliberative Session on February 6th was instructive to the school board. The session opened with testimony from several parents and community members explaining why the items mentioned in an earlier Monadnock Ledger-Transcript article (on the default budget) should not be cut from the school budget. These community members spoke with great passion, which we entirely appreciate, and support. Although we knew any cuts would be very unpopular, the point of the warning was not to intimidate or scare, but simply to lay bare the reality of six years of decreasing state support, the continuing enrollment decline, and narrow and to-the-bone budgets.
The operating budget has been flat over the last five years, with annual increases below 1 %. These budgets were crafted with taxpayers in mind to keep the increases to property taxes to a minimum. These lean budgets absorbed, along with regular inflation, increases to transportation, food services, and health care benefits, increased staffing costs due to inability to hire certain required professionals, and spikes in special education services. In 2018, the nine communities voted to support the operating budget and the Fact Finder Report. That was a strong statement that our residents want to support the schools, the students, and especially that they want their teachers paid in a competitive way. But that vote caused an average of 11.81% increase in property taxes, depending on your town.
This year, the realities of the budget development are that there are no places to make up these regular budget increases: health care benefits, retirement benefits, school maintenance that has become absolutely necessary, transportation contract increases, food service contract increases, and statutorily required special education increases. In addition, we have a new two-year teacher contract, which the board and the CVEA fully support.
In 2018, the state statute that directs how school districts must develop their default budget changed to not allow any expenses that were not included in the previously approved budget, outside standing contracts. That required ConVal to propose a default budget that had to leave $1.2 million in required expenses out of the default--making it necessary to make deep cuts should our proposed operating budget not be approved. The cuts that were listed were the least invasive to the core mission of the school district.
But the point of the default budget, and the article that we advanced, was to alert our nine communities to the crucial nature of passing the operating budget, and not going to default.
Those cuts include 6.5 staff positions in the middle and high school (in addition to the staff cuts that have naturally occurred due to declining enrollment); the Cornucopia Project, New Hampshire Dance Institute, summer programming and Quest programs; the Fresh Fruits & Vegetables program in the elementary schools; fees for the AP courses and the Running Start college credits; the district Arts Enrichment & Integration program; 5th block at the high school (a crucial source of academic support); and the girls & boys hockey, golf, spirit team, and freshman boys basketball co-curricular programs. These cuts look as bad to us as they do to school families, and they are not the total cuts that will have to be made. It is a good lesson on how slim our school budget is, and what cutting $1.2 million out of it means.
We have not found a way to create a firm estimate on how much a consolidation of schools could save. It is more complex than a simple addition. We first have to create a model that looks at the educational plan. We are looking at the model advanced by a previous board working with community members, as well as the models advanced by our administration. Will we be able to deliver services at least with the same quality as we do now? Is there a chance to increase services (maybe contemplate universal pre-K?) with the plans for consolidation?
The communities around our small elementary schools want answers to how a school closing might affect their community. Those have to be answered in order for the voters to make a choice on the educational configuration that will make the most sense for all nine communities. That is why the board fully supported article #12 of the warrant. And finally, the state must step up to its financial obligations. New Hampshire’s constitution has one of the strongest commitments to public education in the country (ncsl.org, The State Role in Education) but is, with Illinois, one of the two states most dependent on property taxes to fund that commitment. Property taxes now pay for 69% of public education in New Hampshire. If property tax payers are looking for demons, that is a good place to start.
In closing, we want to urge everyone to support the proposed operating budget for the coming year, Article #1 on the warrant and the teacher contract, Article #2. It is a bare-bones, skeleton budget and the default budget would mean drastic cuts that will greatly impact student experiences.
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The Deliberative Session on February 6th was instructive to the school board. The session opened with testimony from several parents and community members explaining why the items mentioned in an earlier Monadnock Ledger-Transcript article (on the default budget) should not be cut from the school budget.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => During Kindness week, the students made their own clay hearts. We then came together as a class to figure out a way to attach all of our hearts together into one large heart. We did this project to celebrate being kind to one another and and to understand the importance of working together as a class!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => On Thursday, two English classes engaged in a debate on whether or not voluntary euthanasia should be legal in the United States. One class (Ms. Vanat and Mr. Manni) had been selected to argue in favor of the position, the other class (Mrs. Holcombe and Mr. Mudrick) argued in opposition to the perspective.
The debate followed a strict format with opening statements from both sides, alternating comments of agreement and disagreement, and formal closing statements.
All speakers had to make a claim or rebuttal argument, provide evidence for their position, and explain their reasoning. Teams were allowed to ask clarifying questions and, for prescribed periods of time, could conference with their teammates and teachers.
Throughout, the debate was passionate but civil. In the end, students got to score who had prepared and presented the better arguments for their position.
Judging from the success of this first debate, there will be other opportunities for students to hone their debating and public speaking skills.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Temple Elementary School will be holding their first monthly Community Lunch. Please join us March 15th at 12:30 p.m.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => by ConVal School Board Member Stephan Morrissey
For the past several years, there have been several constituents and groups that have been advocating for later start times for high school students. Both the board and administration are aware of a number of studies that seem to support better educational outcomes for high school age children in those places that have adopted later starting times. The board requested proposals that would accomplish this.
Based on prior surveys, the administration formulated a single tier system that would keep older children and elementary children separate while accomplishing this goal. It was their opinion that the best way would require us to add more bus routes and would add about $800,000 plus to the budget ANNUALLY. This cost number assumes our current school configuration and meets the goal that prior surveys seemed to demand.
Our large district geography, along with parents’ impression/desire that grades K-12 not be on the same bus, combined with the number of schools within the district, make this desirable action an expensive one. The board decided to approve and advance this to the voters by a narrow margin because it was felt that the voters should have the final say if this educational benefit was a worthwhile investment.
Please feel free to contact members of your school board with any questions and with your opinions. Lastly REMEMBER TO COME OUT AND TO VOTE!
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For the past several years, there have been several constituents and groups that have been advocating for later start times for high school students. Both the board and administration are aware of a number of studies that seem to support better educational outcomes for high school age children in those places that have adopted later starting times.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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GES students are getting ready for their Big Top Adventure on Friday 3/8 at 6:30pm! Come enjoy the show!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Students who are interested in career paths involving engineering and/or architecture are invited to a forum presentation and discussion in the ConVal Library Learning Commons in half-hour increments during Block 2 and TASC (9:00 am - 11:00 am) on Thursday, February 21, 2019.
The guest speakers will talk to students about the industry, share projects, and answer questions. Female prospective engineers and architects are especially encouraged to attend. This is a general audience forum, you do not have to be enrolled in an ATC course to participate.
If you are interested in attending this special event, please see Mrs. Fabianski in Room 159 or send an email to kfabianski@conval.edu.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Over February break, nine ConVal students of Spanish participated in a trip to Costa Rica. Señor Kennedy guided the immersive language learning experience in conjunction with the company Ecoteach.
The students visited an organic coffee cooperative, spent nights with local families, visited a school, rode horses, and got to explore the ecology and ecosystems Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast.
"We had a great trip and learned a lot," Mr. Kennedy said. "Students saw animals like sloths, crocodiles, tropical birds, and iguanasin their natural habitats, they got to interact with native speakers, and we ate some great food."
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The AES-PTO invited NH Fish and Game to Gregg Lake to instruct students how to Ice Fish. Although it was a catch and release program all had fun!
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As part of a unit on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 2nd and 4th graders were visited by Dick Dunning (who is part of the NH 6th reenactment group) who answered questions and shared items and "stories" about life during the war. This was a wonderful hands-on experience for the students.
As part of a unit on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, 2nd and 4th graders were visited by Dick Dunning (who is part of the NH 6th reenactment group) who answered questions and shared items and “stories” about life during the war. This was a wonderful hands-on experience for the students.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => by ConVal School Board Members Bernd Foecking and Janine Lesser
After looking at the 2018-2019 tax bill and the proposed budget for 2019-2020, it can appear that educating ConVal students is expensive. Closer examination: the average per pupil cost in ConVal is slightly below the average for New Hampshire. Until recently, the ConVal school budget had been flat, rising under 1% each year. However, the voters approved last year’s budget and the Fact Finder Report. This provided a salary increase to those covered by the CVEA contract bringing our pay scale almost in line with districts where we compete for teachers and special service professionals. This was a strong statement; ConVal residents want to support the schools and the students, and they want their staff paid in a competitive way.
Exacerbating the budget are two important factors that without intervention will continue: decreased student enrollment and downshifting the cost of a NH constitutionally guaranteed public education to local property taxes. This trend will continue.
The nine communities all feel the tax increases; some more than others depending on the year and reassessment factors. We have seen many opinions and guesses about how much a school consolidation could save the district and, consequently, each town. Over the past three years, the school board and administration have been involved in trying to find a district reconfiguration plan that is educationally sound first, and fiscally sound second. This included trying to come up with a projected financial estimate. Consolidation would be a significant shift in how and where we deliver education. We can look at the budget and remove the cost for the community schools including the services that are delivered at those schools and draw our conclusions from those numbers. We can come up with numbers for additional bus routes. We can estimate how big classes could be, how many extra students could be educated with the faculty at the remaining schools as well as project how many positions would be eliminated.
While we can come up with those numbers, we have not found a way to create a firm estimate on how much a consolidation could really save. It is more complex than just simple addition.
We first have to create a model that looks at the educational plan. Will we be able to deliver services with the same quality as we do now? Is there a chance to increase services (maybe contemplate universal pre-K?) with plans for consolidation? The towns in our district who may face school closures-- Hancock, Temple, Dublin, Greenfield, Bennington and Francestown--are, in most cases, opposed to those closures. The communities around our small elementary schools want answers as to how a school closing might affect their community, and what the proposed education will look like. All nine towns need a defendable estimate as to what the savings will be. And what might be the unintended consequences. These questions are valid and must be answered to the fullest extent possible.
We are in favor of giving the voter the chance to vote on a sound consolidation plan. And, much work towards this has been done. Though we could have pushed it through for the March 2019 ballot, in the end many school board members and the Selectmen’s Advisory Committee felt that we simply did not have enough answers to move consolidation onto the ballot.
Taking this step without sound answers for the public will undoubtedly lead to the disintegration of the district. Implementation of such a plan is a long, multi-year process, but begins with support by all nine communities. While it might seem that a decision was pushed down the road for another year, a better starting point--a plan with more answers-- might mean a shorter implementation period.
We do want to caution against using firm numbers in any discussion about consolidation. It is misleading and we then tend to focus on a numerical goal. We will continue working towards an excellent alternative to how we deliver services where the monetary savings would be a welcome bonus. However, it is important to remember that without the state taking up its constitutional responsibility to children, tax relief will be fairly small and short termed.
In closing, it is crucial that everyone support the 2019-2020 operating budget. It is a “maintenance of efforts” budget. Community members who doubt this reality must look at the past five years to see how the budget absorbed contractual and inflation increases. Therefore, the administration started this current budget cycle with a stripped down, minimalist budget. If it does not pass, the default budget would mean drastic cuts to programming that will have a direct impact on our students.
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by ConVal School Board Members Bernd Foecking and Janine Lesser
After looking at the 2018-2019 tax bill and the proposed budget for 2019-2020, it can appear that educating ConVal students is expensive. Closer examination: the average per pupil cost in ConVal is slightly below the average for New Hampshire. Until recently,
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The printer was purchased through a federal grant awarded to the school to explore the crossovers between engineering and art.
Those who are interested in printing may create their own design or choose from many already available templates.
Interested in learning more? Contact Jennifer Kiley, ATC Director, or Karen Fabianski, engineering instructor.
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ConVal Kindergarten Registration and Screening
Child MUST be 5 years old before September 30, 2019
Kindergarten Registration and Screening Southern Tier
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 8am-3pm at Peterborough Elementary School
For children residing in Dublin, Greenfield, Peterborough, Sharon and Temple
***SNOW DATE is Thursday, March 21,
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => As part of "World Read Aloud Day", to celebrate reading, Mr. Pimental has been reading books with several classes. In this photo, Mr. Pimental is reading aloud to Mrs. Hasting's 3rd Grade Class.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => ConVal High School is excited to welcome the Class of 2023!
The first step in the transition from middle school to high school will begin with an informational night for parents/guardians on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 6:30 pm at ConVal High School. This program is for parents and guardians only, as the students will have their own meetings with us at their school.
On February 11, the high school counselors will begin working with the Great Brook and South Meadow eighth graders on selecting courses for next year. Independent school students are invited to the high school on Friday, February 15 at 9:30 am for an information session. Please RSVP to Kim Chandler at kchandler@conval.edu.
We are eager to meet our new Freshman class and to work with them on choosing their classes.
Families outside of the ConVal School District can obtain a registration packet by emailing Registrar Stacy Whitaker at swhitaker@conval.edu or calling 924-4120.
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[post_content] => ConVal Regional High School students have begun their extended learning opportunity (ELO) in phaze welding at the MAxT makerspace on Vose Farm Road.
The Phaze Welding Technology Center provides a one-of-a-kind training program at MAxT which prepares students to become American Welding Society (AWS) Certified welders.
AWS provides the only certification that allows them to work as a welder anywhere in North America, opening up opportunities for higher wages and career advancement.
Led by instructor Dan Guillou, the certificate program is 130 hours, taken at the pace of the student, where they learn how to do basic metal inert gas (MIG), flux core and stick welds.
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[post_content] => by ConVal School Board Member Rich Cahoon
Over the past decade, there have been many efforts to study the configuration of ConVal schools, and to recommend alternative models that would be educationally appropriate and financially sustainable. In addition to the not fewer than six potential models considered in the past year, there were earlier efforts such as the Elementary School Study Committee, the Model Study Committee, and the District Study Committee.
What these efforts all have in common is that none of them recommended undoing the middle school model, and moving sixth grade into the elementary schools. Multiple studies involving thousands of hours of effort on the part of dozens of ConVal administrators, School Board members, and members of the public, and none have ever identified moving sixth graders back to our small elementary schools as being an educationally sound approach.
There is a reason for this: ConVal’s middle schools work. They provide broad and rigorous educational opportunities, do so in a fiscally responsible manner, and support the social and emotional wellbeing of our students.
First, ConVal’s middle schools provide excellent educational opportunities. In recent years, both South Meadow School and Great Brook School have been honored as New Hampshire Middle School of the Year. Staff members have received awards for excellence, at the regional, state and national levels.
Students at our middles schools have access to a wider array of offerings than we are able to offer in our small elementary schools. So far this year, my fifth-grade student at Great Brook School has been able to access courses in robotics, computer programming, Spanish, and Greek mythology. These programmatic offerings are simply not feasible in an elementary school with a student body of a few dozen students.
Second, ConVal’s middle schools are financially efficient, and maintaining the middle school model costs less than adding grades to the elementary schools. There are meaningful economies of scale in larger buildings. When there are 75 students in a given grade in one building, fewer teachers are required than when those 75 students are spread out over six or seven buildings. At some elementary schools, there are not enough classrooms available to move in two additional grades, and doing so would require adding on to the buildings, at considerable cost.
Every year, the New Hampshire Department of Education gathers data from all New Hampshire School Districts and publishes a spreadsheet of the cost per student for each district, broken out by grade level. In 2017-2018, the per-pupil cost of ConVal middle schools was $17,233. The per pupil cost of ConVal elementary schools was $20,099. Moving students back to elementary schools does not make financial sense.
Third, ConVal’s middle schools are supportive of the social and emotional needs of our students. Advocates for ConVal’s small elementary schools often speak of the “family-like” environment of our smallest schools. It is true that many students find an environment where they spend five years with the same very small cohort of peers to be rewarding. But this is not true of all students. In the ConVal district, more families from small schools request that their children be moved to a larger school, than families from larger schools request assignment to a smaller. By the time children reach the end of fourth grade, many of them are ready for the opportunity to broaden their social horizons. Our middle schools provide that opportunity, as well as providing a smooth transition from small elementary schools to a much larger high school
ConVal’s administration has never recommended educating sixth grade students in our small elementary schools. Doing so would limit the educational and social opportunities available to those students, and come at a significantly higher cost. So why would we do it? ConVal’s middle schools work.
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Over the past decade, there have been many efforts to study the configuration of ConVal schools, and to recommend alternative models that would be educationally appropriate and financially sustainable. In addition to the not fewer than six potential models considered in the past year,
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Over the weekend, ConVal's Select Choir took first place in the Hillsboro Lion's Club's first annual New Hampshire High School Sing-Off Competition.
The Choir performed a challenging repertoire, including "Here We Come A-Caroling," a traditional English carol arranged by Joshua Sparkman; "Weep O Mine Eyes" by John Bennett; "Sleeping in Winter's Arms" from Wenceslas by Bob Chilcott; and "Tshosholoza," a traditional South African freedom song, arranged by Jeffrey Ames. Grace Christensen ('20), Sean Roberts ('19), and Aria Drew ('20) were the soloists.
The $1000 prize from the High School Sing-Off Competition will go towards providing scholarships for the choir's upcoming trip to Montreal, Canada.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => On Friday, February 15, a packed audience in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre was treated to the "Love & Winter" edition of the Black Fly Story Hour.
The event was a fundraiser for the Thornton Wilder Center for the Arts, the proposed ConVal High School performing arts center building.
Jamie Trowbridge served once more as the Master of Ceremony. Storytellers included Jud Hale, Zoë Wroten-Heinzmann, John Kerrick, Linda Greenwood, Lila Trowbridge, Clay Hollister, Daisy Young, Ben Putnam, Michelle Tourgee, and Bill Edson.
During the intermission, there was a special film premiere, a short documentary by Carter Hammond featuring community members, faculty, alumni, students, and parents expressing their thoughts on why the center is necessary and what it could offer for our community.
The Black Fly Story Hour is an homage to NPR’s Moth Radio Hour.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Digital Photography teacher Lance Levesque demonstrates how Google Sites can be used to create a digital portfolio of student work. Google Sites is a structured wiki- and Web page-creation tool offered that is part of the G-Suite for Education.
Mr. Levesque's Photo II students create individual websites with different pages that contain their artist statement, their photographic specialty (e.g. landscapes, portraits, etc.), themes, and installations. Students design their website to be both informative and visually attractive so that their online presence best reflects their artistic sensibilities and digital photography skills.
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ConVal Kindergarten Registration and Screening
Child MUST be 5 years old before September 30, 2019
Kindergarten Registration and Screening Southern Tier
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 8am-3pm at Peterborough Elementary School
For children residing in Dublin, Greenfield, Peterborough, Sharon and Temple
***SNOW DATE is Thursday, March 21,
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[post_content] => by ConVal School Board Member Janine Lesser
On March 12th, voters in the nine communities of the ConVal School District will vote on a warrant with several important articles. The nine communities are justly proud of the education that they have been able to provide for families who live in the ConVal district.
The administration and school board work hard to look to the future and ensure we are preparing our students to work and thrive, and keep New Hampshire growing and healthy—a state where they will be proud to live and raise their own families.
What does it take to ensure these opportunities continue?
A good and fair budget, for one, that carefully manages resources raised by taxation against the diverse needs of nine towns; fair and supportive teacher contracts, for another; and most importantly, a belief that we are making an investment in our communities, our families, our children, together.
The administration and school board regularly struggle with the complexity of running the district. We want to make sure that your questions are answered.
The Budget and Property Committee developed a comprehensive explanation of how the budget is developed, how the budget translates to your tax bill or the district methodology (this is important since Article #4 proposes to amend the Articles of Agreement to apply a new apportionment formula), and lists the part of the overall school district budget for which your town is responsible. It also reviews the warrant articles and explains the school board’s position on those articles.
A School Budget Primer: Understanding School Budget Preparation, Methodology, and the Important Role of the Taxpayer was distributed at the Deliberative Session on February 6th, and can be found on the ConVal website by searching for “School Board Primer”, or clicking the 2019 Warrant banner at the top of the screen to see the actual handouts from the meeting.
If you have additional questions, please contact your school board representative whose contact information is available at the website as well.
Please vote “yes” on the operating budget, and “yes” on the proposed teacher contract.
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by ConVal School Board Member Janine Lesser
On March 12th, voters in the nine communities of the ConVal School District will vote on a warrant with several important articles. The nine communities are justly proud of the education that they have been able to provide for families who live in the ConVal district.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers has announced the 2019 winners of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. With 5 Gold Key Awards, 16 Silver Key Awards, and 20 Honorable Mentions in several different categories — from ceramics, glass, and jewelry to drawing, sculpture, poetry, and photography —, ConVal High School students figured prominently among this year's recognized artists.
The winners are:
GOLD KEY
Emma Carpenter (Photography)
Jaclyn Clark (Sculpture)
Augustus George (Film and Animation)
Sarah Kingsbury-Evans (Ceramics and Glass)
Riley Momenee (Sculpture)
SILVER KEY
Emma Anderson (Photography)
Anna Bartsch (3 silver keys) (Photography)
Emmanuel Bowman (2 silver keys) (Sculpture)
Jaclyn Clark (Drawing and Illustration)
Julia Donovan (Photography)
Laquea Hall (Photography)
Shayna Hanley (Photography)
Anna McGuiness (Ceramics and Glass)
Kayla Rautiola (Photography)
Amber Ruston (Photography)
Madeline Shippee (Photography)
Rachel Sturges (Poetry)
Jarrett Wohle (Jewelry)
HONORABLE MENTION
Maggie Baribault (Photography)
Michael Boisvert (Photography)
Emma Carpenter (Photography)
Jaclyn Clark (Drawing and Illustration)
Alessia Coburn (Photography)
Anna Corts (Photography)
Iciar De Zunzunegui (Photography)
Augustus George (Ceramics and Glass)
Kylie Johnson (Ceramics and Glass)
Sarah Kingsbury-Evans (Drawing and Illustration)
Austin Knight (Photography)
Fletcher Maggs (Photography)
August Marshall (Photography)
Emalee Naylor (Photography)
Lillian Stapelfeld (Painting)
Emma Stevenson (Photography)
Christian Williams (Photography)
Kendra Wing (Photography)
Jarrett Wohle (2 honorable mentions) (Jewelry)
A special event on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm will honor the Scholastic Art and Writing Award winners and display their work in a gallery showing.
Each year, Scholastic Arts partners with more than 100 visual arts and literary arts organizations across the country to bring the Awards to local communities. Teens in grades 7 through 12 apply in 29 categories of art and writing.
Submissions are juried by luminaries in the visual and literary arts, some of whom are past award recipients. Panelists look for works that best exemplify originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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67 Cinderellas
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Happy Ground Hog Day February 2nd. While celebrating the harbinger of spring, Ms. Sutton's class did some investigation about the groundhog and discovered that it is one of the only true hibernators in New Hampshire. Not even the black bear is a true hibernator, but a snooze waker. As a snooze waker, the black bear occasionally wakes up to walk around its den or to feed its young. Groundhogs can actually slow down their body functions to truly sleep through the cold months. This year the groundhog did rouse himself long enough to not see his shadow, predicting an early spring for us all.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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GES 3rd graders visited with local hiker Sara Spittel and learned about her upcoming Appalachian Trail hike
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Students in Andy Bills' Graphic Design class recently took a field trip to the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester.
The purpose of the trip was to study art history through objects of art in their historical development and the contexts of genre, design, format, and style. Students learned how to detect visual styles of both representation and abstraction, how styles expressed artistic sensibilities, and how they changed over time.
"By studying art history, graphic design students are better able to connect design problems with stylistic solutions that best illustrate their concepts," Bills noted.
Students were particularly fascinated by a work titled "Gautama 2017," a woolen rug designed by Faig Ahmed. It is one of the new acquisitions at the Currier. Ahmed designed the rug on a computer and traditional weavers from Azerbaijan produced it, using techniques that go back thousands of years. The flowing, trompe l'oeil paint components of the work are actually made out of woven wool.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Students from Mr. Rothhaus' class visited and read to RiverMead residents. Each fourth-grade class visits once every three months.
Students from Mr. Rothhaus’ class visited and read to RiverMead residents. Each fourth-grade class visits once every three months.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => In a letter dated February 4, Nancye L. Hart and Charlotte Waddell of the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) informed ConVal's Region 14 Applied Technology Center that its technology and engineering education program had been selected as the recipient of a 2019 Program Excellence Award.
"Having passed the review process," the letter by Hart and Waddell states in part, "your school’s technology and engineering education program is truly exemplary among other programs in your state, at your school’s level. You know more than anyone the tremendous amount of work and dedication that is required to design, maintain, and improve quality programs like yours."
"Primarily, your students are the ones who will have richer lives for having participated in your program," the statement continued. "Not many endeavors are more important than helping students become technologically literate and learn more about the world around them. Thank you for investing in your students!"
Mrs. Fabianski will receive the official recognition at the Program Excellence General Session of the 2019 ITEEA Annual Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Please see the letter in its entirety by clicking here.
Congratulations, students and Mrs. Fabianski!
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“Having passed the review process,” the letter by Hart and Waddell states in part,
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Kindergarten students playing Letter Sound Twister in the Love of Learning Lab on Fun Friday!
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[post_content] => Many residents of the ConVal School District have a solid understanding of the school budget process and have kept up with the changes that were implemented during the past few years regarding the ConVal budget.
But the ConVal School Board also recognizes that there are residents who are new to the district and want to gain a better understanding of how the annual district budget is proposed and finalized before it comes before the voters for annual approval. The following documents are intended to offer a closer perspective on how the budget was established for the 2019-2020 school year.
The first document consists of a slideshow that can be read online. The presentation contains five subsections:
Overview: a brief summary of our district school budget.
School district budget process: a detailed description of how the Con Val school budget is created.
The 2018-19 budget: an explanation about recent increases in the "local education" portion of 2018 property tax bills in the district.
District tax assessment methodology: a discussion about how each town contributes to district costs.
Proposed warrant articles: what taxpayers can expect to see on the March 2019 ballot.
For those who want to explore the budget process in even greater detail, the Schoolboard offers a second document, the 2019-2020 School Budget Primer, for even more information about the ConVal School District budget.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => On Saturday, February 3, 2019 ConVal’s Ocean Bowl Team took third place in the 2019 Nor’easter Bowl that was held at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine.
The competition consists of five round-robin competition matches to start the day. The second half of the day is a single elimination tournament where the winning teams continue to advance and compete. The Conval Ocean Bowl team made it the semi-finals, where they lost to York who ended up coming in second place.
The team members included: Savannah Kersbergen (Captain), Ryan Beal, Bronwyn Tyler-Wall, Isabel Dreher, Avery Pope, and Sandra MacKay coached by Griffen Fletcher (math/physics teacher) and Anna Muncy (science teacher).
The team had a few obstacles to overcome, but they immediately focused and gave it their full effort. The team won two round-robins and lost two round-robins. When it became single elimination, they played well and defeat the number one seed (Falmouth A) to advance to the semi-finals.
This year, the Nor’Easter Bowl’s committee dedicated the Team Sportsmanship Award to Conval’s very own Jon Manley. Jon Manley was a previous coach for the Conval Ocean Bowl team taking the first teams to the Nor’easter Bowl and NOSB Finals. Jon Manley coached the team when Mr. Fletcher was a student on the team, inspiring Mr. Fletcher to carry on ConVal's and Mr. Manley’s legacy.
The Nor’easter Bowl is an annual, regional competition of the National Ocean Bowl (NOSB). It was created by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. First place continues to the National Ocean Science Bowl Competition held in Washington D.C. this year.
The 2019 competition is sponsored by its co-sponsors, the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, University of New Hampshire/NH Sea Grant, and the Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association. It is additionally sponsored by NOAA, Deerbrook Charitable Trust, American Honda Foundation, NASA, Eastman Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Shell, Schwab Charitable Fund, Conservation Fund, The Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation, Sharon & Wayne Sterberger, BOEM, IEEE Ocean Engineering Society, Marine Technology Society, National Marine Educators Association, and Leave Only Bubbles Marine Sciences Curriculum Supplies. There are numerous other funding sources, institutions providing volunteers, and institutions providing field trip prizes.
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The competition consists of five round-robin competition matches to start the day. The second half of the day is a single elimination tournament where the winning teams continue to advance and compete.
Looking for the 2019 warrant and for 2019-2020 budget information? Please click here.
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[post_content] => At AES, we have all school assemblies twice a month with different grade levels leading the assembly. This past week, third grade led assembly. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to experience performing and speaking in front of an audience as well as school community building. Pictured above are third graders drumming for assembly.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => National School Counseling Week, sponsored by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA), will be celebrated from February 4-8, 2019, to focus public attention on the unique contribution of professional school counselors within U.S. school systems and how students are different as a result of what school counselors do. National School Counseling Week highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career.
ConVal school counselors are actively engaged in:
helping students examine their abilities, strengths, interests and talents
working in a partnership with parents as they encounter the challenges of raising children in today’s world
focusing on positive ways to enhance students’ social/personal, educational and career development; and
working with teachers and other educators to provide an educational system where students can realize their potential and set healthy, realistic and optimistic aspirations for themselves.
Professional school counselors are certified, experienced educators with a master’s degree in counseling. The combination of their training and experience makes them an integral part of the total educational program.
The school counselors’ mission is to provide all students with a comprehensive school counseling program that promotes student achievement through maximum growth in academic, career, and personal/social domains.
School counselors believe all students can achieve and reach post-secondary success. The school counseling program is planned, managed, delivered and evaluated by a team of certified professional school counselors using evidence-based practices.
School counselors:
believe the Implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program is the best way to meet the developmental needs of all students.
serve as advocates for all students.
cultivate opportunities for self-directed growth in academic, personal/social and career areas.
collect and analyze data in relationship to student achievement to implement change and guide program management.
believe in, and implement with fidelity, ASCA Ethical Standards.
The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) is a worldwide nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va. Founded in 1952, ASCA supports school counselors’ efforts to help students focus on academic, personal/social and career development so they not only achieve success in school but are prepared to lead fulfilling lives as responsible members of society. The association, which is the school counseling division of the American Counseling Association, provides professional development, publications and other resources, research and advocacy to more professional school counselors around the globe. More general information can also be found on ASCA’s website, www.schoolcounselor.org.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The New Hampshire School Library Media Association has just announced that ConVal librarians Rachael Bowman and Ashley Jones and the ConVal Library Learning Commons have been named as the recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Library Program of the Year Award.
The Awards Committee announcement read in part: "This award recognizes library programs of exceptionally high quality. Our awards committee was truly impressed with the Learning Commons that is thriving in your school."
ConVal High School will be recognized for this award at the 26th Annual NH Excellence in Education Awards Celebration, also known as the “ED”ies, on Saturday, June 8, 2019.
Congratulations, Mrs. Bowman and Ms. Jones!
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The Awards Committee announcement read in part: “This award recognizes library programs of exceptionally high quality.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Antrim 4th graders have been working on a State Symbols project with Jeannie Connolly, our Arts Enrichment Coordinator. The 4th graders consulted text and internet sources to become experts with their chosen state symbol, wrote a paragraph and drew an illustration, and then put together their books with Jeannie, Mrs. Storro, and family helpers. Some of the state symbols included the ladybug (state insect), skiing (state sport), granite (state rock), and the State House, which we will be visiting on Friday, February 15th!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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2nd graders are learning about bees with John Benjamin from the Harris Center.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) Test will be offered on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, from 7:30 – 11:00 am at ConVal. Please sign up for the test in the Counseling Office.
The ASVAB is a career planning and exploration program that combines a multiple-aptitude test with an interest self-assessment and a wide range of career exploration tools. It is offered free to any interested senior or junior at ConVal.
The ASVAB is an excellent assessment for any student who is still unsure about their future career path, and, for those interested in a career in the armed forces, it is good practice for the “real” ASVAB.
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The ASVAB is a career planning and exploration program that combines a multiple-aptitude test with an interest self-assessment and a wide range of career exploration tools.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Every March, all voters in the district are provided with the opportunity to vote on the budget for the following school year.
In addition, there are some items that frequently appear and require voter approval, including acceptance of the auditor reports, appropriation of funds for the various district trust funds, and School Board member salaries.
The ballots may also include some additional warrant articles that require voter approval. Warrant articles can be initiated either by the School Board or by voter petition.
Since the 2019 district ballots will include all of the above, the School Board will use this forum to provide all interested parties (voters, parents and students, teachers and district staff) with additional information.
To learn more, please click on any of the links below:
2019-2020 Operating Budget
Every March, all voters in the district are provided with the opportunity to vote on the budget for the following school year.
In addition, there are some items that frequently appear and require voter approval, including acceptance of the auditor reports, appropriation of funds for the various district trust funds, and School Board member salaries.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Do you wonder why your child’s math homework looks so different from what you brought home in elementary school?
Then join us for an interactive and fun evening! Learn from the FES staff how the focus has shifted in mathematics instruction and why we do what we do. Play some of the same math games your children play. Leave with concrete understanding and hands-on activities to help your child succeed in math!
Free childcare will be provided for those who need it. Children will watch a G-rated movie and will be provided with pizza and water during the parent evening.
Please call the office (603) 547-2976 if you are interested in joining us for the evening.
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3rd graders have been researching birds. They have created bird books with Jeannie Connolly and bird models with Andy Shultz.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => School Calendar Input Needed
I cannot believe we are half way through the school year. With January almost behind us, we will begin developing next year’s calendar. In developing the calendar, it is essential that we have your input. Please spend a couple of minutes filling out a survey by clicking here. The survey will take approximately 5 minutes and will be opened until Friday, February 1st. Your input will be used to design the 2019-2020 school-year calendar. While the calendar is shaped by collective agreements and Department of Education regulations, there is still room for some flexibility.
Outstanding Performance Award
Do you know an Outstanding Educator in the ConVal School District? Perhaps it’s the extra time spent with students to ensure they develop a deep understanding of the material, maybe it’s the educator’s creativity or caring that sparks the joy of learning in a student, or maybe it’s the educator going the extra mile every day. Whatever your reason may be, the Contoocook Valley School District is now accepting nominations for teachers, para-professionals, and special service professionals for the 2019 “Outstanding Performance Awards.” The following positions are eligible for “Outstanding Performance” Awards:
Teacher Library Media Specialist
Speech Pathologist Physical Therapist
School Psychologist Paraprofessional
School Counselor Occupational Therapist
Social Worker School Nurse
Anyone interested in nominating an educator should send an email to the relevant school principal, or to the Superintendent by March 31st, 2019. You may nominate up to 5 individuals.
Kimberly Saunders, Superintendent: ksaunders@conval.edu
Antrim Elementary School: Stephanie Syre-Hager, ssyre-hager@conval.edu
Pierce School (Bennington): Kathy Morrocco, kmorrocco@conval.edu
Great Brook School, Jim Elder: jelder@conval.edu
Hancock Elementary School: Amy Janoch, ajanoch@conval.edu
Dublin Consolidated School: Nicole Pease, npease@conval.edu
Francestown Elementary School: Kat Foecking, kfoecking@conval.edu
South Meadow Middle School: Anne O'Bryant aobryant@conval.edu
Greenfield Elementary School: Colleen Roy, croy@conval.edu
ConVal High School: Gib West, gwest@conval.edu
Peterborough Elementary School: Larry Pimental, lpimental@conval.edu
Temple Elementary School: Fabi Woods, fwoods@conval.eduSuperintendent Brown Bag Lunch
Once a month, I host a Superintendent Brown Bag Lunch. This month it will be on Thursday, January 31st from 11:30-12:30, and in February it will be on Thursday the 21st. The Brown Bag Lunch is held at 106 Hancock Road. Please bring your lunch and join me for an informal conversation about your questions and thoughts regarding the ConVal School District.
Best,
Kimberly
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I cannot believe we are half way through the school year. With January almost behind us, we will begin developing next year’s calendar. In developing the calendar, it is essential that we have your input. Please spend a couple of minutes filling out a survey by clicking here.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Students participated in the 3rd Annual Environmental Art Contest, sponsored by NH Plastic Pollution Alliance, Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation and Surfrider Foundation, New Hampshire Chapter! This contest was designed to encourage children to think about how issues such as plastic pollution impact the environment around them and what they can do to decrease this pollution on in everyday life. Here is the winning artwork, created by Chloe Bosk.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Congratulations to the both SMS White Basketball teams for making the 2019 Tri-County League D-3 Basketball playoffs. The SMS boys team finished 7th in the regular season standings and the SMS girls finished 8th in the regular season standings. The quarter final playoffs start Monday, January 28th.#8 SMS Girls will play away versus #1 Bow at 3:30 at the Bow Middle School. The bus will depart SMS at 2:00 from the back of the school.#7 SMS Boys will play away versus #2 Nashua Catholic at 5:00 the Nashua Catholic Middle School. The bus will depart SMS at 3:15 from the back of the school. All players will come to the gym right after school and wait for the bus. The Tri-County League charges admission for all playoff games. $2.00 for students and seniors, $3.00 for adults.If either or both teams win the ¼ final game they play away again on January 30.Go PUMAS!!!!Thanks,silNashua Catholic: Address: 6 Bartlett Ave, Nashua, NH 03064
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District: Bow School DistrictPhone: (603) 225-3212
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The quarter final playoffs start Monday, January 28th.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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On Saturday, January 19, ConVal hosted the VEX Robotics Tournament. The competition was fought among dozens of teams from New Hampshire and Vermont.
In the VEX Competitions, which are presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) concepts are put to the test on the playing field as robots compete in autonomous and joystick-driven modes. VEX tournaments are held at the regional, state, and national levels, and local champions go on to compete against the best in the world at VEX Worlds each April.
ConVal’s VEX Robotics team Apollo #1824 consists of Max Heck, Rowan Inglis, Brigham Boice, Abby Watson, Adam St Amand, Avery Crowley, and Jack Koester.
On Saturday, January 19, ConVal hosted the VEX Robotics Tournament. The competition was fought among dozens of teams from New Hampshire and Vermont.
In the VEX Competitions, which are presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, teams of students are tasked with designing and building a robot to play against other teams in a game-based engineering challenge.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Every day is a special day at the Pierce Elementary School but today was extra special.
Author, Michael Daley, a presenter from CLiF (Children’s Literacy Foundation) came to our school and read some of his books.
Students were captivated by Mr. Daley’s storytelling. One story, Pinch and Dash Make Soup was particularly entertaining. Using simple props, a wooden spoon, and imaginary salt and pepper shakers along with sound effects, captured the audience’s imagination.
Our RiverMead reading partners joined us for this special event too. They enjoyed enjoyed every minute. After storytelling, our RiverMead reading partners had refreshments and read with students. This day was meaningful to all involved.
Inspired by Michael Daley, one of our first grade readers was brave enough to read a story to her entire class taking huge step toward reading independence! A proud moment!
Thank you to Michael Daley and our to RiverMead friends!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Here are some updates from the ConVal School Counseling Office:
ALL STUDENTSSecond Semester Begins January 28, 2019
Students should see their counselor well in advance to ensure their schedule is set for second semester. The last day to add new classes for the semester is February 1.
Registration Process Begins February 5, 2019
Students will begin the process of selecting courses for the 2019-2020 school year. The process will begin with small group meetings with the school counselors, who will review the course offerings and the course registration sheet. From there, individual appointments will be scheduled to review student’s course selections. Students will receive a pass in their 1st block class the day of their appointment and are strongly encouraged to keep this meeting.
The 2019-2020 Program of Studies will be available on the website starting January 28, 2019. Students and parents are strongly encouraged to read the Program of Studies to help in making decisions about courses.
We will once again be using the PowerSchool portal for course registration. Students and parents are invited to request classes together online prior to the student’s appointment. However, students will meet individually with their school counselor to ensure the selections are appropriate and that all requirements are met. The portal will open February 8th.
Students and parents who need their account information should contact their school counselor.
JUNIORS AND SENIORSASVAB Testing February 6, 2019 7:30 – 11 am
The ASVAB is a multiple-aptitude battery that measures developed abilities and helps predict future academic and occupational success in the military. It is administered annually to more than one million military applicants, high school, and post-secondary students. The ASVAB is required of all military entrants.
The ASVAB also has a dynamic career assessment tool that is useful to all students regardless of military interest.
Any interested juniors and seniors should sign up in advance in the Counseling Office. Deadline for sign ups is January 30.
JUNIORSCollege Overview Night for Juniors and their Parents February 12, 2019 6:30 pm
NHHEAF will be here to review the college search process. For a detailed agenda, go to this website: http://www.nhheaf.org/pdfs/ handouts/Junior_Overview.pdf. All Juniors and their parents are invited to attend.
SAT Testing for All Juniors March 27, 2019 7:30 – 1:30 pm
All juniors are required to take the SAT as part of the New Hampshire DOE state-wide assessment. More info to follow!
SENIORS
Scholarships in Naviance
Seniors – there are more and more scholarships coming into Naviance. Please log in to see what is available and apply!
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Make-up exams will be held by arrangement with individual teachers.
Buses will leave school at 11:20 am on a modified late bus schedule. Students who are not part of co-curricular activities or athletics are expected to leave campus at that time. There will be a regular bus run at 2:20 pm but late buses will not run on exam days.
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Block 1 Exams 7:45-9:15 Break 9:15-9:45
Block 2 Exams 9:45-11:15
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Block 3 Exams 7:45-9:15 Break 9:15-9:45
Block 4 Exams 9:45-11:15
Friday, January 25, 2019
Make-up exams will be held by arrangement with individual teachers.
Buses will leave school at 11:20 am on a modified late bus schedule.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => ConVal High School is proud to be partnering with Nashua Community College to offer Health Care Courses on the ConVal High School campus. This spring, NCC is offering Biology in Focus I for both interested ConVal students and adult learners.
This 16-week course awards 4 college credits for all enrollees. ConVal students are invited to register for this credit-bearing course for FREE. Adult learners can register for a fee. This course will run based on minimum enrollment.
Please see the attached flyer for more information and how to register. Any questions, please contact your school counselor or NCC directly at 578-8919. The registration deadline is swiftly approaching!
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => The Contoocook Valley (Con Val) School Board approved a $48,128,007 proposed operating budget for the 2019-2020 school year. This will be put forth for voter approval in March.
We are recommending adoption of this budget by the public. This budget represents a "maintenance of efforts" approach in order to meet obligations to our students and staff; no significant new programs have been added. The 1.8% increase in this proposed budget (compared to the current year) is primarily due to contracted services; health care, retirement and transportation.
Unfortunately, if the proposed budget is not accepted by simple taxpayer majority then the District and School Board must cut almost $1.25 million from it to implement the $46,878,781 default budget. This default budget will result in significant cuts in student programming, a loss of 6.5 positions from the high school and middle school as well as a freeze to important facility improvements.
The Con Val School Board has already approved the following programmatic cuts in order to help meet the default budget:
Cornucopia program-teaches our first and second grade students about gardening, nutrition and cycles in nature; an engaging and hands-on approach to science.
New Hampshire Dance Institute (NHDI)- a week of creative movement, music and dance for all of our elementary students culminating in an all school dance performance; and participation by our middle schools in a dance program that culminates in a program at Keene State College. This is a unique program with enthusiastic participation.
Fresh fruits and vegetable program at the elementary schools-originally provided by federal grant, the District now pays to continue this program which supplies fresh produce as snacks throughout the week. This is successful with high participation and very low waste. And, we are nutritionally supporting the youngest pupils in our district.
Fees for both Advanced Placement (AP) testing and Running Start classes-both programs offer incredible opportunity to our high school students.
Girls and boys ice hockey, golf, spirit team and freshman boys basketball
Summer programming at both middle schools and the high school-these programs offer both academic as well as enrichment opportunities to our students.
Quest-a week-long summer adventure camp supporting and challenging our middle school students.
5th block at the high school- an important time for high school students to receive additional supports.
District arts integration and enrichment-special art opportunities on top of traditional programming.
These losses will undoubtedly be unpopular throughout the Con Val community, as they are at both the SAU and Board level. They come as a result of new statutory requirements limiting the development of the default budget as well as a lack of places in the budget to trim. Everything that could be cut, that would not significantly affect the education our district children, has already happened in previous years. Currently, there are no items that can be cut without creating a deficit in our schools. As a result, the Con Val School Board highly recommends adoption of the proposed operating budget.
For further understanding of school budget development and taxpayer contributions, please visit our website http://schoolboard.convalsd.net/. We are in the process of posting detailed articles which further explain this process and how our budget is where it is today.
As always, we welcome public attendance at all of our meetings. And, we invite taxpayers to attend District Meeting Part I, Deliberative Session on February 6th, 2019 in the high school gymnasium.
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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The students had the opportunity to interact with industry representatives from NH Ball Bearings, American Steel, and Hitchiner, as well as NH Department of Education Commissioner, Frank Edelblut, and learn about scholarship opportunities for the 130-hour course that leads to industry certification.
MAxT Makerspace is located at 49 Vose Farm Road in Peterborough. MAxT provides resources for creative people in the Monadnock region: shared equipment, studio space, education, and coworking. For more details, see http://www.maxtmakerspace.org/.
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3rd & 4th Grade Lego Club. 1st and 2nd Grade Club is coming soon! These unique designs are completely up to the designers imagination. No Lego kits were used.
Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => Students in the Applied Technology Center's Manufacturing CTE program had the opportunity to tour the facilities and interact with the employees at New Hampshire Ball Bearings (NHBB) in Peterborough and Millipore Sigma in Jaffrey.
NHBB is is a leading manufacturer of precision bearings and complex bearing assemblies for the aerospace, defense, medical, dental, and high technology markets.
Millipore Sigma provides scientists and engineers worldwide with best-in-class lab materials, technologies and services and has a portfolio of over 300,000 products.
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[post_content] => When ConVal held its Celebration of Learning on Thursday, there were many interesting examples of student work on display. One of them was titled "Newpast: Peterborough 1886." According to its creator Brigham Boice, a sophomore, Newpast is a video game in which you can view the town of Peterborough in 1886 in an interactive, computer-based setting, allowing you to meet people from that time period and learn about the buildings and design of the town.What inspired you to create Newpast?I was inspired by my love of history, art, and technology to create Newpast. I have always had a desire to learn about the history of Peterborough since my fourth-grade school year when I created a class presentation covering the history of trains in downtown Peterborough. This led me to create pencil and ink drawings depicting downtown Peterborough in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. These are now available to view at the Trumpet Art Gallery in town. In my 6th grade year my father introduced me to the Unity 3D gaming engine, and he suggested I use it to create something that I was interested in. That is where the first idea for Newpast came from.What program/s are you using to create these immersive VR scenarios?I use a free gaming engine called Unity 3D and Visual Studio. Both are free and open to anyone who wants to use them. The program allows me to do as little detail in my game or as much as I like. For instance, to build the Peterborough Town House as it looked in 1886 I wanted to be sure and add as much detail as possible. Using Unity, I was able to add one brick at a time, which resulted in the finished product looking as realistic as possible. Other things like railroad tracks and the train cars I am continually working on to give it as authentic a look as possible. I also added a new feature which allows the user to view buildings in the game and view a picture of what the buildings looks like today, and their placement in the town. How did you learn to use these programs?My knowledge of the Unity engine was developed through YouTube instructional videos and by working together with my father who is also a programmer. It amazed me how many people created videos on how to use the Unity engine, it was very helpful, and had me programming the basics very quickly. My father also had worked with the Unity engine for his job, and we are able to discuss and work through problems I have when using the engine, he helps when I have hard programming questions. Once I had used the programming engine for two years my father and I attended a weeklong Unity 3D conference in Los Angeles, California. The conference was a week filled with mini sessions and lectures on how to fully use Unity and an introduction of some new features.Where did you get the historically accurate photos that helped create the immersive VR scenarios?To find all the picture and historical information about the time, I studied multiple books and images of Peterborough. I have been able, through used book and antique stores, to amass a collection of books and pictures and postcards on Peterborough. I have also spent time at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture. At the Monadnock Center, I worked with Michelle Stahl and her staff to research photos I needed and was able to view files and archived photos to help me correctly design the town. I also used a book called “Peterborough In Pictures” which was published in 1976 by the Peterborough Bicentennial Committee. This book contained the pictures and information on the “Apostolic Twelve” as they were called. This was a group of men who lived in Peterborough around the time of 1876. They were asked by a local photographer named Ollis to show up in their everyday working clothes for the photos and he choose people from all different professions. The idea was to give an idea of the type of person who lived in Peterborough. I have incorporated the portraits into my game and the user can roam around the town and have a chance to meet each of them and learn a little about them.How long did it take you to create the VR scenarios about Peterborough?It has taken me about 270 hours and counting to create Peterborough for Newpast: Peterborough 1886. Although this doesn’t count the three years beforehand that I spent learning Unity and C#.What are your future plans using VR? Do you aspire to be a game designer?Some of my future plans using the Unity 3D engine would be to create more simulations like Peterborough 1886 or maybe historic battle simulations. For more games like Peterborough 1886, I might do other towns within the New England region, or even cities like Nashua or Boston. For battle simulations I might do the Battle of Bunker Hill or Saratoga. The concept I would like to develop is that learning about the past and history is interesting and by having interactive games people of all ages can learn about how we used to live. Especially for students who like to learn through an interactive source, these games could bring the towns of the American Revolution or the Battle of Gettysburg alive for them.I will be attending another Unity Conference this October in Los Angeles, CA to future my knowledge of the Unity Engine, learn about new software releases for the game, and to help promote my game and ideas to get feedback from other programmers.
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4th graders also put their problem solving & communication skills to the test with a game of Twangled in PE this week.
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[post_content] => A large number of visitors, including Schoolboard members and SAU administrators, attended the Celebration of Learning at ConVal Regional High School on January 10. For many, it was a family event with younger brothers and sisters visiting the high school and checking out their older siblings' work.
There was a wide array of student work on display, from audio files of speeches given in English classes to 3D printing jobs for an art class and an engineering class. Science class demonstrations and real-world research projects ("What temperature differences exist in ConVal classrooms?") were displayed, as were QR-code triggered audio reflections by students and video demonstrations of proper workout techniques in Health and Wellness classes.
Graphic Communication students showed off their poster artwork in the newly refurbished ATC space while a monitor in the main hallway displayed portrait photographs created by students in the Photo/Video I class. Social studies research on proving the law of supply and demand led visitors seamlessly to project displays in World Languages.
An exhibit of student internship and extended learning opportunity (ELO) reports gave evidence of student learning that takes place both inside and outside the walls of ConVal High School.
In all, there were 46 different stations for visitors to explore during a two-hour period. Thank you to everyone who attended the event!
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4th graders served over 75 people. A delicious, filling meal was enjoyed by all.
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We invited the Conval High School National Honor Society students to read a story and provide a connected activity; thirty-five high school students joined us. 35! It was awesome. Each classroom had 2, 3, or more high school students sharing their love of reading and sharing stories with our students. A huge thank you to Conval High School, and PES reading teacher Adine Aldrich for making this happen.
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also made traps with different materials. Hopefully we will catch a leprechaun!
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uring Kindness week, the students made their own clay hearts. We then came together as a class to figure out a way to attach all of our hearts together into one large heart. We did this project to celebrate being kind to one another and and to understand the importance of working together as a class!
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All speakers had to make a claim or rebuttal argument, provide evidence for their position, and explain their reasoning. Teams were allowed to ask clarifying questions and, for prescribed periods of time, could conference with their teammates and teachers.
Throughout, the debate was passionate but civil. In the end, students got to score who had prepared and presented the better arguments for their position.
Judging from the success of this first debate, there will be other opportunities for students to hone their debating and public speaking skills.
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GES students are getting ready for their Big Top Adventure on Friday 3/8 at 6:30pm! Come enjoy the show!
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[post_title] => Drumming at AES Art Day
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The SMS 8th Grade Students completed some impressive diagrams depicting Poe literature.
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[qms_post_excerpt] => Read More: Summer Food Service Program July-August
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[post_content] => ConVal High School is excited to welcome the Class of 2023!
The first step in the transition from middle school to high school will begin with an informational night for parents/guardians on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 6:30 pm at ConVal High School. This program is for parents and guardians only, as the students will have their own meetings with us at their school.
On February 11, the high school counselors will begin working with the Great Brook and South Meadow eighth graders on selecting courses for next year. Independent school students are invited to the high school on Friday, February 15 at 9:30 am for an information session. Please RSVP to Kim Chandler at kchandler@conval.edu.
We are eager to meet our new Freshman class and to work with them on choosing their classes.
Families outside of the ConVal School District can obtain a registration packet by emailing Registrar Stacy Whitaker at swhitaker@conval.edu or calling 924-4120.
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As part of the 4th grade visit the the Capitol City, they visited the Concord Coach #80 at Concord Group Insurance. This coach is 169 years old, and survived three fires. It was very interesting to learn the history and engineering of stagecoaches, and to discuss what it would be like to be a passenger.
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AES 4th graders and family chaperones went on our annual field trip to Concord on Friday, February 15th. At the State House, we enjoyed meeting two of our town's representatives, and learning about the history of the murals in the Senate Chambers, and much more!
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[post_content] => ConVal Regional High School students have begun their extended learning opportunity (ELO) in phaze welding at the MAxT makerspace on Vose Farm Road.
The Phaze Welding Technology Center provides a one-of-a-kind training program at MAxT which prepares students to become American Welding Society (AWS) Certified welders.
AWS provides the only certification that allows them to work as a welder anywhere in North America, opening up opportunities for higher wages and career advancement.
Led by instructor Dan Guillou, the certificate program is 130 hours, taken at the pace of the student, where they learn how to do basic metal inert gas (MIG), flux core and stick welds.
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Ms. Ambrosini's 2nd grade class celebrated the 100th day of school by attempting a variety of activities: students worked together to complete 100 piece puzzles, attempted to stack 100 plastic cups, predicted how high 100 drops of water would fill a flask, contemplated and wrote about what they will be doing when they are 100 years old, and Raced to 100 rolling dice.
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South Meadow Drama Club presents:
67 Cinderellas
Dates: 3/15/19 and 3/16/19
Start Time: 7:00pm
Where: SMS Gym. Please park in the back and enter building through the Gym entrances.
Cost of admission
Students $8
Adults $10
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GES 3rd graders visited with local hiker Sara Spittel and learned about her upcoming Appalachian Trail hike
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At AES, we have all school assemblies twice a month with different grade levels leading the assembly. This past week, third grade led assembly. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to experience performing and speaking in front of an audience as well as school community building. Pictured above are third graders drumming for assembly.
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Antrim 4th graders have been working on a State Symbols project with Jeannie Connolly, our Arts Enrichment Coordinator. The 4th graders consulted text and internet sources to become experts with their chosen state symbol, wrote a paragraph and drew an illustration, and then put together their books with Jeannie, Mrs. Storro, and family helpers. Some of the state symbols included the ladybug (state insect), skiing (state sport), granite (state rock), and the State House, which we will be visiting on Friday, February 15th!
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2nd graders are learning about bees with John Benjamin from the Harris Center.
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Community volunteer Mr. Tenney came to help AES fourth grade students learn to play Cribbage after school. Thanks to Muzart teacher Mrs. Storro for dreaming up the idea of introducing this wonderful mathematical game to our school. What a nice way to spend the afternoon during the cold weather months.
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When it's pouring rain outside, recess fun moves inside!
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[post_title] => AES Student Discovers New Hampshire in the Snow
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3rd & 4th Grade Lego Club. 1st and 2nd Grade Club is coming soon! These unique designs are completely up to the designers imagination. No Lego kits were used.
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Safety is a primary concern at AES. Our students receive safety instruction in all areas of AES, including the playground.
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What inspired you to create Newpast?
I was inspired by my love of history, art, and technology to create Newpast. I have always had a desire to learn about the history of Peterborough since my fourth-grade school year when I created a class presentation covering the history of trains in downtown Peterborough. This led me to create pencil and ink drawings depicting downtown Peterborough in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. These are now available to view at the Trumpet Art Gallery in town. In my 6th grade year my father introduced me to the Unity 3D gaming engine, and he suggested I use it to create something that I was interested in. That is where the first idea for Newpast came from.
What program/s are you using to create these immersive VR scenarios?
I use a free gaming engine called Unity 3D and Visual Studio. Both are free and open to anyone who wants to use them. The program allows me to do as little detail in my game or as much as I like. For instance, to build the Peterborough Town House as it looked in 1886 I wanted to be sure and add as much detail as possible. Using Unity, I was able to add one brick at a time, which resulted in the finished product looking as realistic as possible. Other things like railroad tracks and the train cars I am continually working on to give it as authentic a look as possible. I also added a new feature which allows the user to view buildings in the game and view a picture of what the buildings looks like today, and their placement in the town.
How did you learn to use these programs?
My knowledge of the Unity engine was developed through YouTube instructional videos and by working together with my father who is also a programmer. It amazed me how many people created videos on how to use the Unity engine, it was very helpful, and had me programming the basics very quickly. My father also had worked with the Unity engine for his job, and we are able to discuss and work through problems I have when using the engine, he helps when I have hard programming questions. Once I had used the programming engine for two years my father and I attended a weeklong Unity 3D conference in Los Angeles, California. The conference was a week filled with mini sessions and lectures on how to fully use Unity and an introduction of some new features.
Where did you get the historically accurate photos that helped create the immersive VR scenarios?
To find all the picture and historical information about the time, I studied multiple books and images of Peterborough. I have been able, through used book and antique stores, to amass a collection of books and pictures and postcards on Peterborough. I have also spent time at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture. At the Monadnock Center, I worked with Michelle Stahl and her staff to research photos I needed and was able to view files and archived photos to help me correctly design the town. I also used a book called “Peterborough In Pictures” which was published in 1976 by the Peterborough Bicentennial Committee. This book contained the pictures and information on the “Apostolic Twelve” as they were called. This was a group of men who lived in Peterborough around the time of 1876. They were asked by a local photographer named Ollis to show up in their everyday working clothes for the photos and he choose people from all different professions. The idea was to give an idea of the type of person who lived in Peterborough. I have incorporated the portraits into my game and the user can roam around the town and have a chance to meet each of them and learn a little about them.
How long did it take you to create the VR scenarios about Peterborough?
It has taken me about 270 hours and counting to create Peterborough for Newpast: Peterborough 1886. Although this doesn’t count the three years beforehand that I spent learning Unity and C#.
What are your future plans using VR? Do you aspire to be a game designer?
Some of my future plans using the Unity 3D engine would be to create more simulations like Peterborough 1886 or maybe historic battle simulations. For more games like Peterborough 1886, I might do other towns within the New England region, or even cities like Nashua or Boston. For battle simulations I might do the Battle of Bunker Hill or Saratoga. The concept I would like to develop is that learning about the past and history is interesting and by having interactive games people of all ages can learn about how we used to live. Especially for students who like to learn through an interactive source, these games could bring the towns of the American Revolution or the Battle of Gettysburg alive for them.
I will be attending another Unity Conference this October in Los Angeles, CA to future my knowledge of the Unity Engine, learn about new software releases for the game, and to help promote my game and ideas to get feedback from other programmers.
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4th graders also put their problem solving & communication skills to the test with a game of Twangled in PE this week.
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