Congratulations to Kendrick Edwards who is a recipient of the 2025 DAR Good Citizens Award by the Mary Varnum Platts-Peterborough Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Edwards was nominated and voted on by the faculty and staff at ConVal High School, where a presentation ceremony was held in his honor with Judith Goff, the DAR Chapter Chairperson.

For more than 80 years, the DAR Good Citizen Program has recognized high school seniors who exhibit dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities.

Award winners receive a certificate, a Good Citizen pin, and a scholarship. They also receive an invitation to Concord for a tour of the state Capital and an invitation to the statewide awards luncheon ceremony afterward.

The 12 students who constitute ConVal High School's Hope Squad met for the first time with their advisors Alyssa Hamilton, Leslie Holcombe, and Deb RIley for a training session on how to recognize signs of distress in their peers and how to effectively offer support by connecting them with the help and resources they need.

The ConVal Hope Squad is a group of students, chosen by their peers, who will meet regularly with trained advisors with the goal of reducing the stigma that surrounds mental illness and shifting the school’s culture toward greater understanding and compassion for students who are struggling.

Hope Squad is listed on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s Best Practices Registry, which confirms that the program has been reviewed by experts and meets the latest standards for preventing suicide, while also proving effective in addressing the factors that increase the risk of youth suicide.

Today, students in Josie Leonard’s 3rd block Western Heritage class and in Alyssa Hamilton's 4th block Creative Writing Workshop channeled their inner anthropologists and creative writers by examining various objects abandoned by an unknown individual going on an overnight trip.

In Leonard’s class, groups of students were challenged to infer where a person was going and what their personality was like, based on the objects they had left behind.

Once students had investigated all of the objects, the students created a Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) paragraph about who they thought the artifacts belonged to and what the objects said about the life the person lived using evidence from the bags.

In Hamilton’s class, students worked in groups to examine the contents of the same bags. They used their inference skills about the various items to write a creative narrative about a character and their individual journey.

This joint assignment between a Social Studies and an English class served as an example of cross-disciplinary collaboration to demonstrate how the same evidence can be used as inspiration for different methods of inquiry and forms of expression.

Congratulations to Sarah Grossi who has been named a Fellow by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). The fellowship trains a cadre of leaders to position ACTE as a leader in developing an educated, prepared, adaptable and competitive workforce by providing CTE educators with opportunities to participate in the development and implementation of laws, regulations and other public policies at the local, state and federal levels.

Grossi is the Careers in Education instructor at the Region 14 ATC at ConVal High School, an Early Childhood Education adjunct professor at Lakes Region Community College in Laconia, and a CAST National faculty member.

Grossi’s undergraduate degrees are in art, early childhood development, and K-8 education. She holds a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a reading concentration from Keene State College and a graduate certificate in behavior management from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Grossi is an Educators Rising teacher leader, ACTE New & Related Services Division Awards Chair, and ACTE New & Related Services CTE Scholars Lead. Sarah was named a New Hampshire Teacher of the Year 2020 finalist.

The Cougar Unified Basketball team played against the Broncos of Alvirne High School in the ConVal gym this afternoon.

This was the ConVal team's Senior Game, which honored senior players and partners, and provided an opportunity to have a commemorative photo taken with their parents before the game.

The game itself was action-packed and featured great playmaking on both sides, with the Cougars eventually winning with a score of 52-44.

Members of the junior class gathered in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre today to begin the course selection process for the 2025-2026 school year.

The course selection process is explained on the School Counseling page here; specific course selection resources can be accessed here.

If you have any questions, please contact your designated school counselor by calling the main school number (603) 924-3869 and then choosing from among the following:

• Dunn (last names A-F): ext. 3050
• Pike (last names G-N): ext. 3206
• Haley (last names O-Z): ext. 3204

Parents of rising 9th graders are invited to a presentation on course selections by the School Counseling Department on Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 5:30 pm, in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre. The presentation will precede the Spring Open House at ConVal High School, which will start at 6:30 pm that day.

On their first day of the new semester, students enrolled in Physics gathered in the library for some improvised experiments.

They used a variety of improvised ramps and spherical objects to study some of the variables that affect motion, speed, and acceleration.

Their teacher, Carol Young, used this icebreaker activity to see how students approach a scientific question and what their level of prior knowledge is, before engaging in actual lessons about the laws of gravity and motion.

The World Language Department would like to announce and congratulate the January 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: Marcus Jordan and Caitlyn Fowle. For Spanish: Jenna Bergeron and Benjamin Michaud.

Congratulations, all!