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 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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
