SANBORN REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
POINTS OF P.R.I.D.E.
A weekly newsletter that promotes our core values of
P
ersonalization,
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isk-Taking,
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ntegrity,
D
iscovery, and
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mpowerment
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Sanborn Regional High School
17 Danville Road
Kingston, New Hampshire 03848
(603) 642-3341
Proud recipient of the 2018
NH Excellence in Education Award
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Senior Spotlight: Huntter Richard
An Article by Staff Members Amanda Bradley and Kathy Giovando
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We’ve known Huntter since his freshman year. He has come a long way since then. Where he used to make impulsive decisions, he is now more thoughtful, aware, and responsible. His confidence has grown, he’s learned a lot, and he’s on the verge of becoming a leader. It’s been great to watch him grow and become the person we knew he could be.
When asked about Huntter, Mrs. Wheeler said, “Hunter is bright, curious, and although often quite stubborn, very insightful. He has a huge kind heart. I will miss him when he graduates.” Also, Huntter worked very hard all four years to finally be able to beat Mrs. Wheeler at arm wrestling his senior year.
Outside of school, Huntter enjoys hunting and fishing. Although, Ms. G would like to point out that she is the only person from Home Base to catch a fish, ever.
After graduation, Huntter hopes to become an electrical lineman. He hopes to attend school in either Georgia or Lowell, MA.
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Senior Spotlight: Keith Hicks
An Article by Staff Members Amanda Bradley and Kathy Giovando
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We’ve both known Keith since his freshman year. He’s always been witty, clever, and easy-going. We’ve enjoyed having him in class and in Home Base these past few years. He’s so easy to work with, he asks great questions, and he catches on to new concepts with ease. Keith is also a bit of math wizard. He can do a lot of calculations in his head, and he’s great at thinking logically and problem solving.
When asked about Keith, Mr. Withee said “he’s down to earth and always up for an insightful conversation. He contributes a lot to help make Home Base even better and he’s always willing to lend a helping hand.”
Outside of school, Keith works as a busser at The CR in Hampton, which is a “really nice restaurant." Keith enjoys cooking and might want to incorporate that into his future plans. In the meantime, we’ll continue to enjoy whatever he cooks up for us in Home Base.
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SRHS To Run Safety Drill October 23 For Staff/Students
An Important Message From Superintendent Ambrose
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Dear Sanborn Community,
Safety of students and staff is of utmost importance to the Sanborn Regional School District, and while tragic and highly covered by the media, school violence is actually quite rare.
We at Sanborn are acutely aware of the heartbreaking nature of such situations and are committed to equipping our schools with the best practices to keep everyone safe. The Sanborn administrative team has recently been working with various national, state, and local law enforcement agencies to review and revise our plans to safely respond to a variety of situations that endanger the safety of our students. The way that we have trained for dangerous intruders and situations, including natural and man-made disasters, is not changing, it is evolving. The Sanborn Regional School District is implementing these best practices and has been working in collaboration with our local law enforcement partners to implement the ALICE method.
ALICE empowers everyone to use his or her best judgment on each unique situation. ALICE stands for Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate.
In this system, everyone is a first responder. While we do not expect a 2nd grader to confront an unknown adult, they will be taught how to inform others of what makes their school unsafe, and to get away from that threat as quickly as possible. As appropriate to his/her age, an 11th grader will be empowered to lead her classmates to safety in an active shooter situation. While school personnel will normally lead the response, we want everyone prepared to take appropriate action.
Through our partnership with local law enforcement officials, all staff are now trained in the updated procedures incorporating the elements of the ALICE principles. Our teachers have been sharing the concepts in age appropriate ways with our students in class and have been preparing for a drill
Wednesday, October 23rd. Individual accommodations for students can be made upon request.
The Sanborn Regional School District in our continued partnership with the Kingston, Fremont and Newton Police Departments has created a video that gives an overview of ALICE:
https://bit.ly/2U99r1g
We encourage you to watch this overview of the training points that were shared with students and to ask questions of your child’s administrators and law enforcement personnel. You can find more information about ALICE at this website:
www.alicetraining.com
We will continue to provide updates on our safety training as warranted. Feel free to reach out to my office or your child’s school administrator for more information.
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College Visits in the Cafe
A Message From the School Counseling Office
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Which Colleges are visiting Sanborn in the Cafe at Lunch?
Oct 23 Savannah College of Art and Design 1st lunch
Oct 25 University of Maine, Orono Both lunches
Oct 25 Eckerd College (FL) 1st lunch
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Mental Health Speaker Coming to Sanborn: Sponsored by SoROCK
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On Monday, October 21st we will kick off Red Ribbon Week with guest speaker Ivy Watts, a former top NCAA student athlete who seemed to have it all together on the outside but on the inside struggled daily with anxiety, self-worth and depression. Ivy will share her story and talk to our students about the importance of health and mental wellness, reducing the stigma around mental illness and reaching out to others when we need support. Some students from Sanborn had a chance to see Ivy speak last year at a conference and have asked if she could come and share her message with all their peers!
On Monday night, there will be a free community presentation sponsored by SoROCK held at the Timberlane Performing Arts Center- Hope to see some of you there!
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Informational Night for New April 2020 France Trip
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Madame Hambucken is running a trip to France in April 2020 that is open to any interested Sanborn students. There will be an informational meeting for parents and interested students in room 105 on Thursday, October 24, at 6:00PM. Please email Madame with questions at
dhambucken@sau17.net.
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Science Teachers Train With New Equipment From Lowe's Grant
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On Wednesday October 16, 2019 Sanborn Regional High School science teachers were trained on the new equipment funded by Lowe’s Small Toolbox for Education grant provided by Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. Sebastian Kraves co-founder of miniPCR graciously demonstrated both the miniPCR and blueGel electrophoresis. The science department solved the case of the missing baker! The pictures show the science teachers pipetting DNA in the blueGels. The video is a time-lapse of the DNA running on the blueGel. Thanks again to Sebastian Kraves of miniPCR and Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation. To learn more about miniPCR check out this video below:
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Student Council to Run Trick or Canning
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Junior Class Hosts Spooky Halloween Movie Night
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Convenient MD Offers Free Flu Shots
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Youth in Action and SoROCK Art Gala
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On December 13th, Sanborn Youth in Action and SoROCK are partnering to host a youth lead art gala at Sanborn Regional High School. It is a night celebrating community, compassion, and strength in hopes of increasing prevention and decreasing the stigma of mental illness. We recognize that art can be a powerful tool to start meaningful conversation. The students of Youth in Action hope that this event will be a way to bring awareness to mental illness and the importance of ending the stigma. We hope that you will consider creating a piece of art that answers the question "What does mental health look like to you?" (for younger students- "What do feelings look like to you?") with a focus on the themes of hope, recovery, community, or support. This event is open to the community and all ages- with prize/judging categories of elementary, middle school, high school and adults. If you are interested in submitting original work please register using the button below:
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2nd Annual Blue and Gray Night
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The Sanborn Girls Basketball Program will host their 2nd Annual Blue/Gray Night on November 22, 2019. The event will start at 5:30PM at the Sanborn Regional High School and will involve all levels of female student athletes in the Sanborn Basketball Program. The night will be open to the community and will be a family friendly event that will have raise money for the Girls basketball program and collect food donations as part of the Girls Varsity Basketball Team Hoops for Help Food Drive. All of the food donations will be collected and brought to the Holy Angels Food Pantry in Plaistow, NH. This pantry serves the areas of Fremont, Kingston and Newton as well as other surrounding areas.
The event will feature a full inter-program scrimmage with each level taking the court for a quarter and competing against each other for bragging rights. Each quarter will feature players from grades 3rd through 12th grade. Players can still sign up to play until October 15 at
www.tinyurl.com/bluegray2019 The score will keep building all night and we will see whether the Blue side or the Gray side will take home the win. This event is our season kick off which is a fundraiser coached by rec coaches and the official season will start on November 19th for the High School.
Admission for this event will be 3 dollars a person with 5 and under free. Admission is only a $1 a person if they bring a food donation. There will also be concessions, fan contests between quarters and Sanborn basketball merchandise for purchase at the game and on our online store. We hope that the families of our players and the members of the community will come out and fill our gym for what should be a great night of fun.
If you have any questions or would like to be one of our sponsors for the night, please e-mail Girls Varsity Coach Brian Gray at bgray@sau17.net.
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The Music Program Needs Your Feedback!
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We need your feedback! The Sanborn Regional School District Music Department is undertaking a strategic planning process in order to identify goals and focus areas for the next several years. We need your input.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to our questions. The survey will remain open until October 31, 2019.
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Sanborn Spooky Week: A Student Council Initiative
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Student Council to Run Kindness Matters Week
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10/21 Monday: Everyone Has a Name: Everyone is encouraged to wear a name tag with their name. They will be asked to wear their name all day. We will make it a point to greet everyone by their name, especially those who we do not usually address.
10/22 Tuesday: Mix It Up Day: Students will be encouraged to eat with someone new at lunch and make sure noone is eating by themselves. Students will get a have a scavenger hunt card from their teacher before lunch, and when a student gets a signature in all spaces, they can trade for a prize at the Student Council table.
10/23 Wednesday: Random Acts of Kindness: Students and Staff will be asked to complete random acts of kindness all day. A banner will be set up in the lobby where students and staff may use post it notes to give shout outs to someone who completed a RAK acctivity for them during the day. At the end of the day, a random sticky note will be pulled and they will win a prize.
10/24 Thursday: Favorite T-shirt Day: Students and teachers will be encouraged to wear a t-shirt that expresses a subject they have a passion about. Example: favorite movie, band, team, sport, activism.. Students will be encouraged to find new friends with the same interests as themselves and form a group at lunch. The group will take a selfie and post to IG #SanbornKindness19
10/25 Friday: Sanborn Pride Day: Wear your Sanborn colors and or Sanborn apparel to support our school. The most popular #SanbornKindness19 post will win a prize from coffee shop/school store.
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The mission of the Sanborn Regional High School Parent Teacher Organization is to enhance and support the Sanborn Regional High School learning community of students, staff, and families of Fremont, Kingston, and Newton.
This is accomplished through the following endeavors: Community Outreach, Teacher Involvement, Educational Programs, Civic Cooperation, Volunteer Programs, and Fundraising.
When we all help a little it is amazing how much we accomplish as an organization.
Our next meeting will be on
Wednesday, October 16th at 6pm in the Conference Room (Room 102) at the school. We normally meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 6pm.
If you have any questions or information you would like to share with our organization, please contact Barbara Munroe, PTO President, at bemunroe1@gmail.com.
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SRHS PTO Launches its Back to School "Un-Fundraiser"
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We are asking for your support for our 2019 back to school Un-Fundraiser. Simply put, an Un-Fundraiser is a way to donate money without having to sell or buy anything. Isn’t that the best?? 100% of your tax-deductible donation goes directly to the SRHS PTO, and then it goes right to our kids, which is the best place to put it! Where does this money go you might ask?
Each year, our PTO supports the following kinds of activities:
• Starter cash for the in-coming freshmen student activities account
• Classroom grants, up to $250 per teacher, to fund innovative programming
• Scholarships to Sanborn Seniors
• Funds to support class activities such as the Senior Cruise in Boston.
• Senior Success Day
• Teachers’ meals for the open houses & Teacher Appreciation Week
• Strategies for College Presentation for parents
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We hope you were able to appreciate the sarcasm and humor in this form of request and we thank you for your time and monetary donation.
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As we wrap up our fall season your Sanborn Athletic Boosters want to thank you all your support to make all we do for our athletes possible.
Our last home football game is Saturday November 2 vs Conval, please come and cheer on our players!
Fall sports awards are Monday November 4.
We are working behind the scenes to gear up for winter sports, we will be moving concessions from outdoors to indoors!
Sign up genius will be loaded for upcoming games, please join us for a few hours if you can.
We appreciate all the volunteer’s we have had this fall season and look forward to seeing new faces! We really do appreciate you!
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Seniors: Take Note of the Yearbook Photo Deadlines!
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Sanborn To Host College Bound Event For Students on 11/13
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Plaistow Area Commerce Exchange Comedy Night Fundraiser
Proceeds Benefit a Scholarship for a Graduating Sanborn Senior
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Choose Love Movement Comes to Sanborn Regional Schools
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Concert to Benefit Hockey Program
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An Update From Southern Rockingham Coalition for Youth (SoROCK)
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YOUTH IN ACTION- SAVE THE DATE!
COMMUNITY WIDE, ALL AGES ART SHOW WILL BE ON DECEMBER 13th! “HEALING THROUGH THE ARTS” is aimed at reducing the stigma of mental health and substance use disorders. Our hope is to engage all local school art departments in the project along with the community. Many of our members are upperclassmen this year so we’re hoping to add more underclassmen interested in making a difference! If your student (in any grade) is interested in helping to support and inform their peers by addressing current issues related to mental health, vaping/alcohol and drug use, self-esteem , friendships/relationships and more, please encourage them reach out to SoRock in room 111 for more information or sign up for Mrs. Feeney during FLT on C days! Next Meeting will be Wednesday 9/25!
**Important Note** SoRock has reached the end of our current funding as of September 30th . We may receive a very short extension and we did NOT get the new federal funding we were hoping for.
We will require NEW funding ASAP in order to continue to serve our communities in the capacity we currently do, without funding we will not have staff (including myself). If you are interested in helping to support the coalition in any way, please reach out to sorocknhcc@gmail.com.
For more information about SoRock click here.
Charlotte Scott, Coordinator SoRock Coalition for Healthy Youth
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An Important Message From School Administrators:
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PTO Clothing & Shoe Donation Bins
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When you drop your unwanted clothing and shoes off in these bins, the SRHS PTO gets paid based on the weight of the clothing! This is a really easy way to help our school. All PTO proceeds go directly back to programming and scholarships that directly benefit our students.
NOTE: Shoes must go in a separate bin.
Did you know? From April of 2015 - May 2017, this fundraiser has helped us raise nearly $2400.00 for the PTO. Help us double that number by sharing this opportunity with your friends, your family, and your neighbors!
* Not Sponsored by the Sanborn Regional School District
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Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter. Click on a picture to send one of us an email.
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Bob Dawson
Assistant Principal
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Steve Krzyzanowski
Assistant Principal
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Heidi Leavitt
Counseling Director
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Vicki Parady-Guay
Athletic Director
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