Recognized by publisher Jostens as a National Yearbook Program of Excellence, the ConVal Yearbook Club is currently hard at work refining design concepts, collecting photographs, generating text, and editing pages for the 2025 edition of the ConVal Yearbook.

From now until the end of September, the Yearbook is offered at its lowest price of the year by clicking this link.

If you are interested in placing a yearbook recognition ad for your student, there are different sizes and layout options available; for details, please click this link.

If you own a business and are interested in placing an ad, please click here. Yearbooks are being kept and looked at for years, including archival copies at the ConVal and Peterborough Town Libraries, so your investment is good for the long term.

For any general questions about the yearbook, or to find out how your student can participate in helping create the yearbook, please contact the Yearbook Club advisor Karrie Mitschmyer at kmitschmyer@conval.edu.

Are you looking for some ConVal wear to show off your school spirit? The ConVal School Store has the answer for you: visit the Fall Sales Event online! The sale features all kinds of school pride items and apparel, including old school t-shirts, long-sleeved T-shirts, Jerzees jogger pants, Gildan heavy-blend hoodies, even backpacks and fleece-nylon blankets. The sale will end on Sunday, September 15, 2024. All online purchases will be bagged and delivered to ConVal High School for pickup.

ConVal High School art teacher Karrie Mitschmyer recently was honored with the High School Division Award by the New Hampshire Art Educators Association (NHAEA) for the 2024-25 school year. The award designates her as a premier art educator in the state. 

Mitschmyer has been teaching art at ConVal High School for the past nine years. In that time, she has developed a comprehensive education for students by applying her diverse artistic skill set to the curriculum. Under her leadership, which included serving as the Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts Department, students have been able to learn about ceramics, 2D studio art, and 3D studio art. In addition, Mitschmyer is the advisor of the ConVal Yearbook Club where students and teachers collaborate to produce the annual ConVal yearbook. She also acts as a volunteer advisor for Extended Learning Opportunities, assisting students who seek to develop personalized plans of study in line with their artistic talents and passions. Outside the classroom, she serves as the Chair of the Children and the Arts Committee that organizes the annual Children and the Arts Festival in May.

In their letter accompanying the award, the NHAEA Committee emphasized Mitschmyer’s dedication, community engagement, and creative programming and noted especially her “creativity and enthusiasm in working with students, colleagues, and community members that enriches art education in our state.”

Congratulations, Mitschy, on this prestigious award!

On the first day of school on August 28, Principal Heather McKillop welcomed students to ConVal High School. Many of the students arrived by bus or were dropped off by their parents in the dropoff loop, while older students drove themselves. All of them received an enthusiastic "Welcome back!" from McKillop, School Resource Office Justin Hyland, and Special Education Administrator Deb Riley on the apron, as well as school counselors, staff members, teachers, and administrators in the link and throughout the building.

When students arrived for New Student Day in the morning of August 27, they were greeted by administrators, teachers, and peer mentors who helped them pick up their class schedules in the Link. The students proceeded to the Lucy Hurlin Theatre where they listened to opening remarks by Principal Heather McKillop, the Assistant Principals Rick Simoneau and Erik Thibault, Applied Technology Center Director Jen Kiley, Special Education Administrator Deb Riley, School Counseling Director Terri Drogue, Director for Athletics and Co-Curriculars Larry Pimental, and School Resource Officer Justin Hyland. The newly incoming students then had the opportunity to meet individually with their school counselors Rebecca Dunn, Amanda Haley, and Nikki Pike before going on a mini-schedule run-through of their class locations with their peer mentors. The day ended with an ice cream social and a reflection activity in the Cafeteria. Welcome new students, we look forward to having you as part of the ConVal Regional High School community!

As part of its renewed emphasis on clarifying student expectations for the coming school year, ConVal High School is bringing back the practice of "two feet in the door before class begins" which had been an integral part of the school's culture for many years. Rather than have a drawn-out presentation on the reinstated guidelines, faculty members came together to perform a humorous skit, with art teacher Carolann Tebbetts playing the role of the student, Carol Young acting as the teacher, Gretchen Lima performing the role of "the Door," Sam Winslow as "the Hallway," and Liz Moore as the narrator. The intent of "two feet in the door" is to reduce the amount of class tardies and to have students in their seats, ready to learn, at the beginning of each block.

We look forward to welcoming incoming grade 9 students and transfer students of all grade levels on Tuesday, August 27. Please see the schedule for the half-day below:

8:00-8:15 - Registration and Greeting

8:15-8:30 - Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30-9:05 - Meet Your Peer Mentor & School Counselor

9:05-10:30 - Travel to Each Class & Meet Your Teachers

10:30-11:10 - Closing remarks/photo/ice cream for students

11:10 - Dismissal

11:15 - Board Buses

School buses will operate on a modified schedule on August 27. To see the times and locations of the bus stops, click here.

ConVal High School held an informal Meet & Greet on the Apron in the early evening of August 22. This was an opportunity for parents and students to get acquainted with the high school administrative team — Principal Heather McKillop, Assistant Principals Rick Simoneau and Erik Thibeau, Region 14 Applied Technology Director Jen Kiley, Special Education Director Deb Riley, and Director of Athletics and Cocurriculars Larry Pimental. Also on hand to meet parents and students were the Director of School Counseling Terri Drogue, School Counselors Amanda Haley, Rebecca Dunn, and Nikki Pike as well as Student Support Counselors Beth Lent and Todd Bennett. To learn more about the ConVal High School administrative team, please click here. For an overview of the many services provided by the School Counseling Department, please click here.