Please join the ConVal Drama department for a workshop and audition for the winter play, The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe.
We will be meeting in the LHT this coming Monday, December 2, from 2:30 pm to late bus, and Tuesday, December 3, from 4-6 pm. You are invited to attend both workshops and audition days, though not required. If you cannot make these times, please email Jason Lambert at jlambert@conval.edu to see if an audition time can be scheduled.
There will be callbacks, Thursday, December 5, 3:00-4:00 pm. The cast list will be posted online by 9 pm, Sunday, December 8, and on the Drama Board before Block 1, Monday, December 9.
Parts of the play are available to read. See Jason Lambert or Jason Lambert’s desk in room 216.
Please wear comfortable clothing and in layers, in case we go outside. And please come ready to have fun, move, play games, improvise, kick a soccer ball, tell a joke, sing, and read short excerpts from the play.
If you are interested in skiing Crotched Mountain this season, consider the Crotched Mountain Ski Club!
For as little as $129 — rentals and lessons are extra —, students can ski on five Mondays starting in January, then earn a Peak Pass for the rest of the season, which is a season pass to 14 Peak resorts. If Fridays are better, the cost is $149 since they are open later.
Note: This club was created for high school students, but any student between the ages of 5-17 may join. No transportation or chaperoning is provided at this time.
On Thursday, ConVal High School welcomed 20 sophomores from Mascenic High School who toured CTE programs with their high school principal, John Barth, and school counseling director, Brent Clanin.
The group was greeted by ATC Director Jen Kiley who explained the CTE program to the students and noted that students can earn up to 70 total credits in the running start dual credit program.
Student guides took these prospective students to Digital Photo and Graphic Communications classes, the woodshop/manufacturing area, as well as the basic engineering design and advanced engineering program centers.
Mascenic is now a part of ConVal's ATC Region 14. The school was previously aligned with Milford High School's Applied Technology Center.
We have combined the Athletic Store and the School Store into one store for the holidays!
This flash store will only be open for a short ordering period. To take advantage of these special offers, please follow this link and be sure to get your order in before the closing date of November 13, 2019.
Orders will be produced together at the end of the sale and will be ready about 3 weeks later.
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Students in Frau Hodgdon's German class gave presentations about a treat that enjoys universal appeal — "Schokolade," or chocolate.
Students researched where and how the ingredients for commercial chocolate are grown, how chocolate is produced from roasted and ground cacao seeds, how it is flavored, how much it is sweetened, and how it is prepared in the form of a paste or solid block.
All of the student presentations were delivered in German and contained several science facts, including the moisture content and melting points of different varieties of chocolate and how the alkaloids theobromine and caffeine contained in chocolate can have stimulating effects.
Our Town, Thornton Wilder's quintessential play about life in a small New England town, will be performed in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School November 14-16.
Wilder wrote the play about "Grover's Corners" — which many believe to be Peterborough — while he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, so there is a special local connection.
Playwright Sarah DeLappe is the author of The Wolves, a play that chronicles the complicated lives of a girls’ high school soccer team. The Wolves had a critically acclaimed run at the Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater and will be performed at ConVal later in the year.
DeLappe is a current MacDowell Colony Fellow and on Monday, students had an opportunity to sit down with DeLappe in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre during TASC. The discussion session included ConVal theatre teacher Jason Lambert and Ann Hayashi, the Assistant to the Resident Director at the MacDowell Colony.
DeLappe explained what inspired her play, the process that guided her writing, and how she approaches writing in general.
"There are two types of writers," DeLappe explained. "'Hawk writers' and 'mole writers.' Hawk writers see the work from an overview perspective and then work their way down to the actual sentence level."
"Mole writers, on the other hand, start deep in the ground, work sentence by sentence, and thus work their up. In the end, they both meet at the surface." "I consider myself a mole writer," DeLappe added.
After the meeting, Mr. Lambert thanked everyone who participated and had made this unique opportunity possible: "This was a special one."
Under the guidance of Eric Rollnick, and with instruments on loan from the Mango Groove Steel Drum Band, ConVal band students started to learn the intricacies of steel drum music in a one-day workshop.
Without ever having played steel drums, the band members picked up three different songs within less than two hours and performed for their fellow students in the cafeteria during all three lunches.
From an instrumental point of view, a steel drum is actually not a drum but a tuned gong that is made from the bottom end and partial sidewall of a metal barrel.
The end surface is hammered into a concave shape, and several areas are outlined by acoustically important chiseled grooves. The drum is then heated and tempered. So-called "bosses," or domes, are hammered into the outlined areas.
The depth, curvature, and size of each boss determine its pitch. Drums are commonly made in four sizes, from bass to treble, called boom, cellopan, guitar pan, and ping pong. The drums are struck with rubber-tipped hammers.
Steel drums originated in the West Indies and are played in ensembles, or steel bands, of about 4 to up to 100 performers.
Mango Groove is an authentic 5-piece steel drum band in New Hampshire that specializes in the authentic Caribbean and American musical styles that encompass Soul-Calypso (Soca), reggae, Motown, jazz, pop, Afro-Cuban, and Latin genres. Rollnick and his band have been playing since 1994 and was voted "New Hampshire's Best Steel Band" by New Hampshire Magazine.
Senior Angela Molloy proudly displays her newest works that she developed as part of her class in Digital Photography II with Mr. Levesque.
In her photographic studies, Molloy delves into the effects that various light sources have in accentuating discrete aspects of otherwise similar still life pictures. She also explores the variability of moods that can be created by the alternate use of color and black-and-white photography.
Please join the ConVal Drama department for a workshop and audition for the winter play, The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe.
We will be meeting in the LHT this coming Monday, December 2, from 2:30 pm to late bus, and Tuesday, December 3, from 4-6 pm. You are invited to attend both workshops and audition days,
If you are interested in skiing Crotched Mountain this season, consider the Crotched Mountain Ski Club!
For as little as $129 — rentals and lessons are extra —, students can ski on five Mondays starting in January, then earn a Peak Pass for the rest of the season, which is a season pass to 14 Peak resorts.
On Thursday, ConVal High School welcomed 20 sophomores from Mascenic High School who toured CTE programs with their high school principal, John Barth, and school counseling director, Brent Clanin.
The group was greeted by ATC Director Jen Kiley who explained the CTE program to the students and noted that students can earn up to 70 total credits in the running start dual credit program.
We have combined the Athletic Store and the School Store into one store for the holidays!
This flash store will only be open for a short ordering period. To take advantage of these special offers, please follow this link and be sure to get your order in before the closing date of November 13,
Students in Frau Hodgdon’s German class gave presentations about a treat that enjoys universal appeal — “Schokolade,” or chocolate.
Students researched where and how the ingredients for commercial chocolate are grown, how chocolate is produced from roasted and ground cacao seeds, how it is flavored, how much it is sweetened, and how it is prepared in the form of a paste or solid block.
Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s quintessential play about life in a small New England town, will be performed in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School November 14-16.
Wilder wrote the play about “Grover’s Corners” — which many believe to be Peterborough — while he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony,
Playwright Sarah DeLappe is the author of The Wolves, a play that chronicles the complicated lives of a girls’ high school soccer team. The Wolves had a critically acclaimed run at the Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater and will be performed at ConVal later in the year.
DeLappe is a current MacDowell Colony Fellow and on Monday,
Under the guidance of Eric Rollnick, and with instruments on loan from the Mango Groove Steel Drum Band, ConVal band students started to learn the intricacies of steel drum music in a one-day workshop.
Without ever having played steel drums, the band members picked up three different songs within less than two hours and performed for their fellow students in the cafeteria during all three lunches.
Senior Angela Molloy proudly displays her newest works that she developed as part of her class in Digital Photography II with Mr. Levesque.
In her photographic studies, Molloy delves into the effects that various light sources have in accentuating discrete aspects of otherwise similar still life pictures. She also explores the variability of moods that can be created by the alternate use of color and black-and-white photography.