This week, the Spanish club and Inclusivity club will be creating an ofrenda in Señorita Marple’s room (119) for Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a holiday that is celebrated in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries.

An ofrenda is an altar that has photos of deceased loved ones on it so that they can come back from October 31st to November 2nd. Ofrendas can also be decorated with skulls, candles, and marigolds, which you will see represented on our ofrenda.

All are welcome to come down to room 119 through November 2nd to take a look at what students have created!

ConVal cross-country runners had a great showing at the NHIAA divisional state championships at Derryfield Park in Manchester on Saturday.

Senior William Simard led the way, winning the Division II Individual State Championship with a time of 16:49, qualifying for the Meet of Champions.

Simard was not alone in qualifying for the Meet of Champions for the Cougars: junior Whitney Adair and senior Josh Decker also qualified.

The 2024 NHIAA Cross Country Meet of Champions will be held on Saturday, November 2, 2024 at Alvirne High School in Hudson.

On Saturday, October 26, members of the ConVal Band traveled to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a unique performance opportunity.

The students rehearsed and performed with the nationally recognized and award-winning UMass Marching Band and other participating high schools throughout the United States during the football halftime show. Over 2,000 students collaborated to produce the performance on the field.

Each fall, dozens of high school bands join the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band, the Power and Class of New England, for a day of rehearsal and a thrilling halftime performance. Not only is this great fun for all participants, it offers high school musicians a glimpse of what it is like performing in front of a college audience.

Students who have their picture taken for the first time because they were absent on the original picture day:

• Access the Barksdale site by clicking: www.pictureportal.org.
• Click on Photo Events on the left menu. Find the event (October 28), then click the View (first icon) to download the Flyer or to resend the email for your web banner link
• If you do not have your login information, on the login screen you can click Forgot Password to have your password reset and emailed to you.

Students who want to have their picture retaken:

• Bring their original picture package to exchange for the retake image on October 28.
• When an order is placed online, the parent/guardian will receive a camera pass via email. This can either be printed or texted to the student and brought to picture day. The photographer will photograph the printed camera pass along with the student.
• If a student is not able to print their camera pass, Barksdale will match the student to their order manually in the production process.

Parents/guardians may order from the flyer up until 24 hours after picture day. After 24 hours, the online ordering access may close. This will allow our imaging team to "Pull" all orders submitted and match them with the students photographed.

When pictures are returned to school, all students who purchased pictures will receive their prepaid package. Any student that was photographed but did not order a package, will receive a "Proof" (PX) of their picture that was taken on picture day.

For all further details, please contact Barksdale directly at (800) 220-7667.

ConVal High School’s chapter of the National Honor Society, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, will host the school’s annual blood drive on Friday, November 1, 2024. 

The event requires preregistration and is not open to the general public but instead is being organized for students and staff only.

If you are 16 years or older, you can donate to help save lives. Stop by the National Honor Society table outside the cafeteria during lunches on Friday, October 25, or Monday, October 28, or see Mrs. Rushford any time to register.

On Monday, October 21, the Austrian exchange students arrived at ConVal for the first time.

For the next two weeks, 26 ConVal families will be involved in hosting 26 Austrian students and their four teacher chaperones. Students are matched with a host family and will have multiple opportunities to attend high school classes.

In this introductory meeting in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre, students met the members of the ConVal administrative team and SRO Justin Hyland. At the end of this first get-together, the Austrian students were asked to teach each of the administrators a word or phrase in German. Principal McKillop's phrase was: "Wir freuen uns, hier zu sein" ("We are excited to be here").

The ConVal-Akademisches Gymnasium exchange between ConVal High School and the Akademisches Gymnasium in Salzburg, Austria, is now in its 28th year. During this time, the two high schools have grown closer. All involved refer to the exchange as their “family away from home.”

On Saturday, October 19, ConVal Junior Ben Michaud presented at Peek into Peterborough as part of a panel on Workforce Housing. The Peterborough Community Theatre showed a short film — “What is Workforce Housing?” — that Michaud had directed. The film featured students of the ConVal Theatre Department doing a live adaptation of a comic book from New Hampshire Housing Authority about the importance, and the scarcity, of workforce housing in New Hampshire.

Twenty-eight juniors and seniors participated in an information session and campus tour at Southern New Hampshire University on Thursday, October 17.

For more than half of the students, this was their first time visiting a college, according to the exit tickets that they filled out at the end of the visit. Some of the new buildings and programs at SNHU — including Aeronautical Engineering — were particularly interesting to students.

Southern New Hampshire University is a private university located between Manchester and Hooksett. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, along with national accreditation for some hospitality, health, education, and business degrees.