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.
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.
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!
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.
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,
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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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 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,
