School nurse Gretchen Shippee explains the COVID-19 daily check-in procedure and mask requirements that will be in effect at ConVal Regional High School during the green phase of the 2021-2022 District Reopening and Recovery Plan.
Click the "Play" button below to view the video.
Home Screening Procedure
The video references the home screening procedure that needs to be followed during the green phase.
Before leaving home, the student's temperature needs to be taken. If the temperature is 100.0˚F or higher, students need to stay home.
The following questions need to be answered: Are you experiencing any of the following symptoms?
Fever and chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headaches
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
If the answer is YES to any of the above questions, students need to stay home, and parents/guardians need to contact the school nurse to report their child’s symptoms.
In addition to the screening for symptoms, students need to answer the following two questions about close contact and international travel.
Have you had close contact with someone who is suspected or confirmed to have had COVID-19 in the past 10 days?
Have you, during the previous 10 days, traveled internationally or by cruise ship?
If the answer is YES to either of the above questions, parents/guardians need to contact the school nurse to report their child’s close contact or international travel.
Last April, ConVal High School began using a ConvenientMD screening tool to expedite the process of entering the building. We are returning to this practice now in the fall while in the green phase.
On their smartphones, students should log onto covid.convenientmd.com/conval and fill out the brief self-assessment screening tool each morning. The user ID is the portion of the student email before the @cvsd.me.
Once the user ID is entered, the student can begin to answer the questions. Based on the answers, a page will populate that says a student is cleared or not cleared for the day. This is the page that the student will show the screener when they enter the building each morning. Each day the page is stamped with the date and time.
If you have any further questions, please contact school nurse Gretchen Shippee at gshippee@conval.edu. If a student has a question regarding the screening assessment, please know that principal Heather McKillop will be outside of the main entrance, starting on Tuesday, and will be happy to help any student with this process.
On August 26, several dozen families attended the Meet & Greet with members of the ConVal Administrative Team and School Counseling Department. The event was held outside the ConVal McGuire Gymnasium.
Principal Heather McKillop started the evening by introducing herself and the members of the administrative team: Assistant Principals Steve Bartsch and Carol Young, Director of School Counseling Terri Drogue, Director of the Region 14 Applied Technology Center Jen Kiley, Athletic Director John Reitnauer, and Special Education Administrator Deb Riley.
Terri Drogue then took to the podium to introduce the members of the School Counseling Department: School Counselors Rebecca Dunn (supporting students with last names starting A-F), Rachel Berten (G-N), and Amanda Haley (O-Z); Student Support Counselors Todd Bennett and Nikki Pike; 504 Interventionist Michael Hightower; and Extended Learning Opportunity Coordinator Kristin Knarr.
After the introductions, parents and students enjoyed the opportunity to engage in informal meetings with individual counselors and administrators.
ConVal High School students and families are invited to come to the school next week for an opportunity to meet and get to know the assistant principals and counseling team.
The event will take place outdoors on Thursday, August 26, beginning at 6 p.m.
Students who will attend ConVal High School this fall will find a brand-new learning opportunity at the Region 14 Applied Technology Center (ATC): the building of a street-legal electrical car.
The car is based on a kit provided by the California-based company SwitchLab. In the photo above, ATC teacher Gil Morris is trying out the completed Switch car that he and others had built in training, before rolling out the project to students.
SwitchLab is an all-inclusive, turn-key program with different vehicle options. The kit includes the chassis, AC, DC, or permanent magnet drive system, battery, all required wiring, lights, seats, seat belts, and windscreen. To explore a YouTube playlist of SwitchLab videos where you can see the finished cars in action, please click here.
Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is pleased to announce that a solar array will soon begin to be installed on the roof of ConVal Regional High School, at no cost to the ConVal School District.
ConVal has contracted with Revision Energy to install a 247-kilowatt rooftop solar array on the high school roof. The 555-panel system will be financed at no cost to the district by Revision Energy’s mission-aligned impact investors through a Power Purchase Agreement.
Revision will take the responsibility for the design, permitting, construction utility interconnection, operation, and maintenance of the solar array. ConVal will, in turn, purchase energy produced by the panels from Revision at a discounted rate of 8.8 cents per kilowatt-hour in the first year of the contract. The rate will increase by 2 percent yearly. The district currently pays 16 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity.
Under the agreement, the district has the option after year five — and each year thereafter — to purchase the panels from Revision for the market rate at the time of purchase. If the district does not purchase the array, the panels will remain atop the high school for 25 years and will be removed at no cost to the district. If the district purchases the panels, it would no longer pay for the energy generated by the array.
“This is a great opportunity to have a significant clean energy source powering the high school well into the future,” Superintendent Saunders said. “This program gives the district significant flexibility in how it approaches its energy needs, and we’re excited about finding a cost-effective way to decrease our impact on the environment.”
While the panels will not fulfill 100% of the high school’s electricity needs, they are expected to result in some cost savings on energy. If the district purchases the array, it may save an estimated $825,000 on energy costs over 25 years, and an estimated $2 million over the array’s 40-year lifespan.
In the final days of ConVal High School's Summer Boost Program, students presented their completed projects in the Geometry in Construction (GIC) course.
Geometry in Construction was a co-taught class that allowed students to become proficient in both the geometry and construction trades competencies through hands-on activities.
Examples included creating a set of stairs to teach rise and run, constructing balsa wood houses to learn about the importance of correctly following blueprints, ratios, and cost/waste analysis, and the construction of a full-sized dog house.
Region 14 ATC Teachers Sadie Cahoon, Sarah Grossi, Abraham Ewing, and Karen Fabianski attended the New Hampshire Career and Technical Education (CTE) Learning Series that was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Portsmouth, NH, in early August.
There were over 200 educators, presenters, and exhibitors/sponsors in attendance, including Region 14 ATC Director Jennifer Kiley and Conval Principal Heather McKillop. In the spirit of "moving forward together," the series had breakout sessions, presentations, support for CTE professionals, career cluster PLCs, and problem-of-practice breakouts.
Sarah Grossi and Abraham Ewing co-presented on the topic of "Differentiation for CTE classrooms."The session was filled to capacity.
Principal McKillop noted afterward that "Sarah Grossi and Abraham Ewing did a wonderful job presenting on how to differentiate in CTE classrooms."
"They used their respective content areas and instructional practices to demonstrate ways to differentiate to help meet all students' needs and to increase student engagement. They brought many student projects to share and did a phenomenal job of showing how different CTE areas could infuse similar projects in various areas."
"I was very proud of Sarah and Abraham and the passion that shined through for finding ways to help all students find a pathway forward," McKillop concluded.
Please see Principal Heather McKillop's "Midsummer Message" by clicking on the play button below.
Key topics of the video presentation are the changes to the administrative team at ConVal Regional High School, updates on the School Counseling Department, a review of communication protocols, and a look ahead at upcoming events.
School nurse Gretchen Shippee explains the COVID-19 daily check-in procedure and mask requirements that will be in effect at ConVal Regional High School during the green phase of the 2021-2022 District Reopening and Recovery Plan.
Click the "Play" button below to view the video.
Home Screening Procedure
The video references the home screening procedure that needs to be followed during the green phase.
Before leaving home, the student's temperature needs to be taken. If the temperature is 100.0˚F or higher, students need to stay home.
The following questions need to be answered: Are you experiencing any of the following symptoms?
Fever and chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headaches
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
If the answer is YES to any of the above questions, students need to stay home, and parents/guardians need to contact the school nurse to report their child’s symptoms.
In addition to the screening for symptoms, students need to answer the following two questions about close contact and international travel.
Have you had close contact with someone who is suspected or confirmed to have had COVID-19 in the past 10 days?
Have you, during the previous 10 days, traveled internationally or by cruise ship?
If the answer is YES to either of the above questions, parents/guardians need to contact the school nurse to report their child’s close contact or international travel.
Last April, ConVal High School began using a ConvenientMD screening tool to expedite the process of entering the building. We are returning to this practice now in the fall while in the green phase.
On their smartphones, students should log onto covid.convenientmd.com/conval and fill out the brief self-assessment screening tool each morning. The user ID is the portion of the student email before the @cvsd.me.
Once the user ID is entered, the student can begin to answer the questions. Based on the answers, a page will populate that says a student is cleared or not cleared for the day. This is the page that the student will show the screener when they enter the building each morning. Each day the page is stamped with the date and time.
If you have any further questions, please contact school nurse Gretchen Shippee at gshippee@conval.edu. If a student has a question regarding the screening assessment, please know that principal Heather McKillop will be outside of the main entrance, starting on Tuesday, and will be happy to help any student with this process.
School nurse Gretchen Shippee explains the COVID-19 daily check-in procedure and mask requirements that will be in effect at ConVal Regional High School during the green phase of the 2021-2022 District Reopening and Recovery Plan.
On August 26, several dozen families attended the Meet & Greet with members of the ConVal Administrative Team and School Counseling Department. The event was held outside the ConVal McGuire Gymnasium.
ConVal High School students and families are invited to come to the school next week for an opportunity to meet and get to know the assistant principals and counseling team.
Students who will attend ConVal High School this fall will find a brand-new learning opportunity at the Region 14 Applied Technology Center (ATC): the building of a street-legal electrical car.
Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is pleased to announce that a solar array will soon begin to be installed on the roof of ConVal Regional High School, at no cost to the ConVal School District.
In the final days of ConVal High School’s Summer Boost Program, students presented their completed projects in the Geometry in Construction (GIC) course.
Geometry in Construction was a co-taught class that allowed students to become proficient in both the geometry and construction trades competencies through hands-on activities.
Region 14 ATC Teachers Sadie Cahoon, Sarah Grossi, Abraham Ewing, and Karen Fabianski attended the New Hampshire Career and Technical Education (CTE) Learning Series that was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Portsmouth,