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Voorhees High School
Principal's Newsletter-September 2016
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We are now roughly a month into the school year and Voorhees has already received acknowledgements for the efforts of our staff and students. Newsweek Magazine ranks North Hunterdon-Voorhees 233rd out of the top 500 hundred schools in the nation. In addition, Voorhees once again ranks in the top 100 schools in New Jersey at 53rd, according to New Jersey Monthly.
In our effort to create more ways to help our students, last Spring we created the Community Health and Wellness Education Series offering three separate seminars in the evening for parents, students and community members. This Fall, we will once again offer three more. Please see the flyer inside this newsletter for information regarding the topics, times and locations. We sincerely hope that you can join us, for these are three issues that need critical attention.
Keeping our students healthy and safe always supports their performance in the classroom.
Have a wonderful school year!
Ron Peterson
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Important dates to remember:
September
- 22 - Health & Wellness - Heroin Epidemic Part 2, 7:00 - 8:30pm, VHS cafeteria
- 24 - Practice SAT/ACT 8:00am - 12:00pm
- 27 - Blood Drive 7:45-3:15 (Back Gym)
- 28 - College Fair 6:00pm at NHHS
- 29 - Mini College Fair, 10:45 - 11:30am, VHS Back Gym (click here for list of colleges attending)
October
- 01 - Winter Athletic Registration Begins
- 03 - School Closed (Rosh Hashanah)
- 3-7 - Week of Respect
- 07 - Key Club Tricky Tray 5:30pm-8:30pm
- 10 - School Closed (Staff In-Service)
- 12 - School Closed (Yom Kippur)
- 15 - Homecoming Dance
- 17 - Health & Wellness - Technology
7:00pm - 8:30pm, NHHS theater
- 17-21 - School Violence Awareness Week
- 19 - PSAT Test (Grades 9,10,11)
- 20-23 - Fall Play
- 27 - College Fair #2, VHS (Back Gym)
7:00pm-8:30pm
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Congratulations to the 80 students from Voorhees who earned AP Scholar Awards based on their scores on advanced placement exams taken near the end of last school year! Nice job!
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4th Annual Zombie 5K Run/1 Mile Walk
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RUN FOR YOUR
LIVES!
Are you registered yet?... Sunday, September 25th,
at the Spruce Run Recreation Area,event opens at 9:00 am; race begins at 11 am.
Click here to register.
Fee for pre-registration is $20, day of race is $25. Student registration fee is always $20. $5 discount for VHS students and elementary students in VHS sending districts (The coupon code is “vikes” for VHS students and “futurevikes” for students in the Voorhees sending districts). $5 discount also available for runners referred by our lead sponsor, St. Luke’s Orthopaedic Specialists.
Click here for more information on the Ed. Foundation
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As we recognize School Violence Awareness Week from October 17-21, we want to share with you the
Standard Response Protocol
. This Protocol is followed by all school districts in Hunterdon County and consists of four major actions: Lockdown, Lockout, Evacuate and Shelter In Place. During our mandatory monthly security drills, we practice these actions so that our students and staff will know what to do in a real emergency. All first responders have also been trained in this Protocol so if we call a Lockout, police, fire, EMS, rescue squads know what that means. This Protocol was designed by the I Love U Guys Foundation and more information can be found on their website:
http://www.iloveuguys.org/
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Voorhees Recognizes National POW/MIA Day
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On Friday, September 16, 2016, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Voorhees High School honored prisoners of war (POW) and those soldiers missing in action (MIA) with the raising of a new POW/MIA flag in front of the school. The flag was donated to the high school by Rolling Thunder, Inc. National.
National POW/MIA Recognition Day is held each year on the third Friday of September so that people pause to remember the sacrifices and service of those who were prisoners of war, as well as those who are missing in action, and their families. To learn more, please visit http://www.pow-miafamilies.org/events/recognition-day/.
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Sponsored By:
Voorhees High School Key Club and the
Woman’s Club of Clinton
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Friday, October 7, 2016
At Voorhees High School Cafeteria
Doors Open at 6:30 p.m.
Children are admitted FREE OF CHARGE!
We will have a wide variety of gift baskets with unique and functional items. As well as gift certificates, kid’s items, DOOR PRIZES, special “GOLD” ticket items, Basket of Cheer and much more!!
Proceeds benefit local charities and scholarship programs. for info call #735-9511
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National Honor Society
SAT/ACT Practice Test
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Voorhees High School, 256 County Road 513, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826. Tel: (908) 638-2199
www.nhvweb.net/vhs
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