Fourteen ConVal educators recently invested four days in learning and practicing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for engaging in conversations about teaching and learning.
Working with QED Foundation consultants Kari Thierer and Kim Carter, teachers and leaders each received and provided constructive feedback on their own teaching and learning practices.
They brought intention, purpose, and insight to discussions about how questions of equity impact teaching, learning and leadership in the ConVal district, and wrapped up their four days’ worth of work with plans to share their knowledge and skills with their colleagues and students, bringing action to their commitments to ensure that every student receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential.
ConVal Drama presents Annie, Jr. on Thursday, August 1st at 6 pm, and Friday, August 2nd at 2 pm and 6 pm in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School, Peterborough. Tickets are available at our.show/cvhs/annie and at the door - $8 for adults, and $5 for students and seniors.
Annie Jr. is presented in association with ConVal Summer Academy and features the sixth annual collaboration between ConVal High School, Great Brook Middle School, and South Meadow Middle School. Students coming into 5th-12th grades participated in a four-week course to put together this 60-minute version of the Broadway production.
Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin, Annie Jr. features everyone’s favorite little redhead in her very first adventure.
With equal
measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts
despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to
find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an
orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss
Hannigan's evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire
Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt
named Sandy. Take some time out of your summer to consider a brighter
“Tomorrow” with the hope of “Easy Street” to escape your “Hard Knock Life”,
“Maybe” in “NYC”?
Students performing in “Annie Jr.” are: Chloe Griggs, Jai Petrain, and Priscilla St. Pierre of Antrim; Haley Serafine of Francestown; Abbey Shumway, Abby Theberge and Parker Theberge of Hancock; Miriam Meltzer of Lyndeborough; Miranda Craig, Alissa Cutting, Shayna Hanley, Cheyenne Heinselman, Desirae Ladebauche, Mackenzie Mullins, Sean Roberts, and Emma Rodenhiser of Peterborough; Katherine Craig of Sharon; and Alyssa Stoddard of Weare.
Lucas Blanchette, Ryan Jackson, Petra McLay, and Angel St. Pierre of Antrim; Mary Quintanilha of Bennington; and Josh Ellis and Miranda Ellis of Peterborough are designing and implementing all technical elements.
New Student Day will be held at ConVal Regional High School on Tuesday, August 27, 2019, starting at 8:00 am.
August 27, 2019 is a day set aside just for all students who are new to ConVal — freshmen and all upperclass students transferring from other school districts.
New students are invited to come and spend the day with fellow students and faculty and become familiar with ConVal High School. They will follow their course schedule, meet their teachers, get to know other students, work with their school counselor, and become familiar with the layout of the school.
Freshmen Agenda
8:00 Registration 8:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks (all new students) 8:45 Peer Mentor and School Counselor Time 9:20 Mini-schedule Walkthrough 11:00 Time with Peer Mentors 11:45 BBQ Lunch 12:30 Dismissal
Upperclass transfer students will end their program at 10:30.
Busses will run on a modified route; please see the bus schedule here.
For more information contact:
Kim Varney Chandler, M.A. Director of School Counseling ConVal Regional High School 184 Hancock Road Peterborough, NH 03458
The ImPACT Baseline Test is required of all students wishing to participate in a sports program that is offered by ConVal Athletics.
Baseline tests are taken when the athletes are healthy. In the event that there is a concussion or other head injury, the students' baseline scores can help doctors get them back to normal quicker.
Fall 2019 ImPact Testing Dates - CVHS Room #650
Thursday, August 8 @ 4 PM: Bass Fishing & Cross Country Friday, August 9 from 10 AM – 2 PM: Varsity/JV/Middle School Football Monday, August 12 from 10 AM – 2 PM: Volleyball & Golf Tuesday, August 13 from 10 AM – 2 PM: Spirit & Field Hockey Wednesday, August 14 from 10 AM – 2 PM: Boys/Girls Soccer
All sports make-up dates: Thursday, August 15 from 10 AM – 2 PM: All Sports Make-Up Friday, August 16 from 10 AM – 2 PM: All Sports Make-Up
Nashua Community College will offer a course in early childhood education and nutrition at ConVal High School, starting August 26.
The course will provide an in-depth study of the planning for and evaluation of safe, healthy, nutritional early childhood environments. It reviews the relevant policies, regulations and quality guidelines that support healthy, safe environments for the young child, birth through age eight. Requirements include a minimum of four hours of observation and six hours of participatory advocacy work.
Focus topics will include: planning, creating and evaluating play in learning environments and curriculum; and family needs, related community resources issues, trends, and advocacy needs.
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 district-wide Administrative Council Leadership Team (ACLT) met for an extended retreat that focused on instructional leadership. The meeting took place in the ConVal High School Library Learning Commons.
Part of the larger group was the ConVal High School administrative team which consists of Principal Michelle Voto, Dean of Students Steve Bartsch, Director of School Counseling Kim Chandler, Director of the Applied Technology Center Jen Kiley, Athletic Director John Reitnauer, Special Education Administrator Michael Lucow, and teacher administrators May Goldthwaite-Gagne, Greg Morris, and Carol Young.
The group focused on teacher supports, reviewed research and developed action items to impact instruction and engage students. Specifically, they concentrated on the ways in which teacher can more effectively address the physical, social, emotional, and aesthetic aims that are associated with educating the whole student.
The following week, many of the same group of educators are scheduled to work with QED Foundation consultants Kari Thierer and Kim Carter to learn how to give and receive constructive feedback on their own teaching and learning practices.
Humor can be studied in earnest, especially when analyzed in such terms as incongruity, surprise, revelation, repetition, inversion, superiority, or exaggeration. Jason Lambert's Summer Academy enrichment course "Comedy Workshop" examines the art and science of comedy, both in live performance and across broadcast media.
Today's lesson was devoted to improv comedy, in which all of what is performed is created spontaneously by the performers, sometimes based on suggestions by the audience or in response to props. In its purest form, the dialogue, action, story, and characters in improv comedy are created collaboratively by the players as the improvisation unfolds in present time.
For inspiration, students studied short samples taken from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", an improv-based television show with Drew Carey, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, and Laura Hall.
The ConVal Summer Academy offers a unique course — Jewelry Making and Metalsmithing. With the help of art teacher Karry Mitschmyer, who demonstrates different techniques, students create rings, pendants, earrings, and more.
A sketchbook practice is utilized to plan and modify work as the class progresses. Functional design is the foundation for this class and students develop their ideas using mixed materials, from metal to glass and fiber.
The course fulfills the 1/2 credit ConVal High School graduation requirement for Art.
On July 11th and 12th, ConVal hosted a professional development workshop dedicated to science instruction, from the elementary level through high school. Sixteen teachers participated and all grade levels were represented.
NGSX is an innovative PD environment which demonstrates different learning pathways. Pathways involve face-to-face work in a study group and a multi-faceted web-based environment that supports the use of high leverage tools, tasks, and resources central to understanding classroom changes needed to support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the K-12 Framework.
Fourteen ConVal educators recently invested four days in learning and practicing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for engaging in conversations about teaching and learning.
Working with QED Foundation consultants Kari Thierer and Kim Carter, teachers and leaders each received and provided constructive feedback on their own teaching and learning practices.
They brought intention, purpose, and insight to discussions about how questions of equity impact teaching, learning and leadership in the ConVal district, and wrapped up their four days’ worth of work with plans to share their knowledge and skills with their colleagues and students, bringing action to their commitments to ensure that every student receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential.
Fourteen ConVal educators recently invested four days in learning and practicing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for engaging in conversations about teaching and learning.
Working with QED Foundation consultants Kari Thierer and Kim Carter, teachers and leaders each received and provided constructive feedback on their own teaching and learning practices.
ConVal Drama presents Annie, Jr. on Thursday, August 1st at 6 pm, and Friday, August 2nd at 2 pm and 6 pm in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School, Peterborough. Tickets are available at our.show/cvhs/annie and at the door – $8 for adults, and $5 for students and seniors.
New Student Day will be held at ConVal Regional High School on Tuesday, August 27, 2019, starting at 8:00 am.
August 27, 2019 is a day set aside just for all students who are new to ConVal — freshmen and all upperclass students transferring from other school districts.
New students are invited to come and spend the day with fellow students and faculty and become familiar with ConVal High School.
The ImPACT Baseline Test is required of all students wishing to participate in a sports program that is offered by ConVal Athletics.
Baseline tests are taken when the athletes are healthy. In the event that there is a concussion or other head injury, the students’ baseline scores can help doctors get them back to normal quicker.
Nashua Community College will offer a course in early childhood education and nutrition at ConVal High School, starting August 26.
The course will provide an in-depth study of the planning for and evaluation of safe, healthy, nutritional early childhood environments. It reviews the relevant policies, regulations and quality guidelines that support healthy, safe environments for the young child,
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.
The district-wide Administrative Council Leadership Team (ACLT) met for an extended retreat that focused on instructional leadership. The meeting took place in the ConVal High School Library Learning Commons.
Part of the larger group was the ConVal High School administrative team which consists of Principal Michelle Voto, Dean of Students Steve Bartsch, Director of School Counseling Kim Chandler,
Humor can be studied in earnest, especially when analyzed in such terms as incongruity, surprise, revelation, repetition, inversion, superiority, or exaggeration. Jason Lambert’s Summer Academy enrichment course “Comedy Workshop” examines the art and science of comedy, both in live performance and across broadcast media.
Today’s lesson was devoted to improv comedy, in which all of what is performed is created spontaneously by the performers,
The ConVal Summer Academy offers a unique course — Jewelry Making and Metalsmithing. With the help of art teacher Karry Mitschmyer, who demonstrates different techniques, students create rings, pendants, earrings, and more.
A sketchbook practice is utilized to plan and modify work as the class progresses. Functional design is the foundation for this class and students develop their ideas using mixed materials,
On July 11th and 12th, ConVal hosted a professional development workshop dedicated to science instruction, from the elementary level through high school. Sixteen teachers participated and all grade levels were represented.
NGSX is an innovative PD environment which demonstrates different learning pathways. Pathways involve face-to-face work in a study group and a multi-faceted web-based environment that supports the use of high leverage tools,
