The last day of first semester classes will be on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. The final exam days are scheduled as follows:

Wed, January 22, 2025

• Block 1 Exams 7:45-9:15 am

• Break 9:15-9:30 am

• Block 2 Exams 9:30-11:00 am

• Lunch Distribution 11:00-11:15 am

Thursday, January 23, 2025

• Block 3 Exams 7:45-9:15 am

• Break 9:15-9:30 am

• Block 4 Exams 9:30-11:00 am

• Lunch Distribution 11:00-11:15 am

Bus Transportation

On Wednesday and Thursday, buses will leave school at 11:15 am on a modified bus schedule; for details, click here. Students are expected to leave campus at that time unless otherwise engaged in school-related work. There will be a regular bus run at 2:20 pm, but late buses will not run from the high school on exam days.

On Friday, January 24, 2025, make-up exams will be held by arrangement with individual teachers. Students are expected to leave campus as soon as they have finished their makeup. There will be no bus service to and from ConVal High School on Friday.

The second semester will still start on Monday, January 27, 2025.

The cat dissection enables students to pull together the knowledge they gained during the fall semester. In Anatomy & Physiology 1, students study the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. They apply what they learned during these units to better understand how the four systems interact in the cat and compare that to the same interactions in the human body.

At the end of the dissection, they demonstrate the knowledge and skills they gained by creating a photographic guide to the cat's anatomy as well as taking a practical exam in which they identify over 45 different muscles, bones, and nerves.

In this photo, Carol Young explains to the students how to distinguish between the different muscles of the chest and how to go about revealing the muscles that lie beneath the pectoralis major and minor.

ConVal Maintenance Technician Zach Halvonik works on leveling the new cabinets for band equipment. The band room was completely renovated this past summer. The renovation included new LED lights, new acoustic ceiling tile, new carpet tile specifically engineered for band room flooring as well as a fresh coat of paint. The new cabinets will provide desperately needed appropriate storage for all expensive instruments and equipment.

Students in Mr. Sudell's Manufacturing II class have started a weeks-long WBL (work-based learning) project with the professionals at American Steel Fabricators in Greenfield.

The students are working to create a sundial, which will reside at ConVal. In the picture, ConVal alum Caden Robinson is showing the WBL students how to use the plasma table.

Among many other services, American Steel specializes in decorative metals.

The World Language Department would like to announce and congratulate the December World Language Students of ​the Month.

The following students demonstrate ​the keys to being successful language learners. 

They have a positive attitude, willingness to take academic risks, perseverance, and curiosity, and they stand out as successful collaborators.

For German: Ava Cronin and Audrey Young. For Spanish: Ethan Danforth and Kaylee Lagasse.

Congratulations, all!

On Wednesday, the ConVal Music Department presented its annual Winter Concert.

The Chamber Choir, Trouble Clefs, Select Choir, and Concert Choir performed a wide-ranging repertoire of vocal pieces, from carols in Czech and Spanish to a Gordon Lightfoot song.

The Concert Band played favorites like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "White Christmas." The combined ensembles brought out ConVal alumni and audience members who participated in the concluding number "A Christmas Festival."

Congratulations to seniors Abby Rodenhiser and Owen Kaltsas who were recognized by the Region 14 Applied Technology Center as our Students of the Month for November and December.

Abby was nominated by her Business teacher, Mr. Smith, for going above and beyond in class and being helpful with her peers. Owen was nominated by his Digital Photo & Video teacher, Mr. Levesque, for his work as a teaching assistant and for being an inspiration to his classmates.

Both students receive a $150 award, courtesy of the Peterborough Kiwanis Club, $50 of which goes to a nonprofit of each student's choice. Please join us in congratulating Abby and Owen!

Chris Heider and Nancy Gagnon, who jointly advise Youth & Government, met in the library with students for "Bill Creation Day."

During this activity, each student conducted research and created one or more bills that address issues in the state of New Hampshire. One of the draft bills, for example, centered on the use of ear buds in both ears while driving, analogous to New Hampshire's hands-free driving law, House Bill 1360, which prohibits the use of handheld electronic devices while driving or stopped in traffic. After the bills have been written, they are debated internally on their merits and further refined before students head to their statewide spring meeting in Concord. 

Youth & Government is a national program that involves teens nationwide in state-organized, model-government and leadership programs.