Personalization, Risk-Taking, Integrity, Discovery, and Empowerment

I first met Joe at the Ellis School when he moved to Fremont from Lynn Massachusetts, I was his middle school counselor. Joe quickly acclimated to Fremont, making lifelong friends and earning the respect of the staff at Ellis School. I would often joke that I would follow this class up to high school, when I actually did I was thrilled to learn that I would be working with Joe again! I have always found Joe to be kind, intelligent, polite and respectful. Art teacher Ms. Vitolo shares, “Joe is a pretty funny guy. He can also be polite and helpful. I enjoyed teaching him Ceramics and seeing him in FLT’s. I wish him well in his future ventures”.

Joe is a natural athlete having played football starting in 3rd grade and through his sophomore year of high school. Joe’s favorite classes at Sanborn have been art classes and woodworking, Joe took both Woodworking I and II. I am so proud that Joe will graduate as a NH Scholar, he worked hard and took challenging classes to accomplish this. Joe has been working for several years at Fremont House of pizza making deliveries. Joe is interested in learning more about becoming an electrician after he graduates from high school. I have no doubt he will be successful in whatever he chooses.

Best of luck Joe, you will be missed.

In October, 2020, we surveyed families to select an in-person or remote learning model for their students until January 2021. As promised, we are now planning for January and need to know if students will be attending school remotely or in-person starting on January 11th, 2021.

Every family is asked to let the district know if they wish their child to stay in their current instructional model, or swap to a different one (e.g. move to or from remote, or stay as they are) by completing the survey using the button below. This form needs to be completed by 9 AM on Monday, December 7, 2020.

In this video update, Mr. Stack talks about how the school handles a COVID-positive case, and what the process of "contact tracing" looks like.

The Key Club has been working on some amazing things this holiday season. Our club has been doing as much as we can around the school and in the community during these crazy times.

A major focus at the beginning of the year was End 68 Hours. Each week baskets are put together to give to people in need to end the 68 hours of hunger that can occur without school meals over the weekend.

For Veteran’s Day, members wrote 44 letters to our veterans at New Hampshire Veterans Home. The letters were thoughtful and showed much appreciation for their service to our country.

Kindness Day was November 13th this year and Key Club organized a Spread Kindness Campaign. There were over 150 nice messages sent to people around the school.

Before Thanksgiving the Key Club got enough donations from the students to put together 23 baskets of food for the community. Thanksgiving meals, non-perishables, and toiletries were donated to the towns of Kingston, Newton and Fremont.

A new on-going project this year is virtual reading videos. Key Club members record themselves reading a book for the elementary school students to listen to. Coming up in December there will be blankets to be made by students to donate, the Key Club members will also be volunteering at the Kingston Rec Tree Ceremony on Saturday the 12th. The Key Club has been working hard for our town and school communities.

Stay tuned for more Key Club Point from Key Club next month!

As a result of our abrupt closure the week of 11/30, school picture day for remote students has been postponed. The new date is January 13. Appointments are necessary. Click the bottom below to sign up for an appointment.

Your child’s ASVAB CEP scores will be released to the military unless you choose not to have their scores released by completing this form

You may also opt your child out of the testing all together by completing this form

You may also opt your child out of the testing all together by completing this form

UNH is planning a virtual event for junior and senior high school students to teach them what it is like to pursue a STEM based degree in college. The plan is to host a panel, over Zoom, of UNH students studying various engineering, math, and science disciplines, and allow students attending the panel the opportunity to ask questions. We hope to provide high school aspiring STEM majors the opportunity to learn what it's like to pursue this degree and hopefully inspire others to do the same. We are answering questions students send prior to the meeting but also opening up the room for live questions.

The event will be on Wednesday, December 9th at 7:00pm

If you have any students interested please sign up using this form:

Anyone who would like to help is asked to choose a gift from the list, purchase and return the item unwrapped with the ID# on each gift to the main office of any one of the schools no later than Wednesday, December 18th.

We thank you in advance for your generosity. The community response to "Giving Trees" of the past has been AMAZING, and we are sure Christmas mornings for the families that we sponsor are so much brighter because of it.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to any of the school nurses.

(If you select a gift and are unable to find the item or fulfill your commitment, please delete your name from that item so that we can be sure that everyone's wish is filled.)

Cindy Cole, RN Juliann Herrick, RN & Camille Mawhinney, RN

Sanborn's School Nurses

With Halloween  behind us the Holidays are quickly heading our way requiring much preparation.

 This year Sanborn School District will be hosting a giving tree . All children living in the household of those who choose to participate are eligible to receive gifts through the giving tree. If your family is in need this year and you are interested in receiving gifts please let us know the name, age, gender and a few gift requests for each child living in your home. The names of those participating are completely confidential.

Each gift request should follow the guidelines of something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read. We request a $25 limit per gift. You can e-mail your list to the school nurse, send a list into the nurse’s office via a sealed envelope with your student or call us with your list. The nurses across the district are organizing this together this year so if you have students in multiple buildings you can send your list with all of your children to any one of us.

Please feel free to call or email with any questions. We need to have all gift requests in by Nov 23rd. For planning purposes, if you want to receive gifts from the giving tree we would appreciate a quick note as soon as possible just to let us know so we can keep an eye out for incoming lists.

If you want to purchase gifts for the families within our community that have needs this year through the giving tree watch your e-mail the first week of Dec as we will be sending out a district wide Sign up Genius.

Thanks,

The Sanborn School Nurses

High School Nurse     Camille Mawhinney RN   cmawhinney@sau17.net

Middle School Nurse   Tracey Gilmartin RN    tgilmartin@sau17.net

Memorial School Nurse  Cindy Cole RN        ccole@sau17.net

Bakie School Nurse    Julianne Herrick RN    jherrick@sau17.net

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 *Fundraising

If we all help a little it will be amazing how much we can accomplish as an organization.

We typically meet the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom

(check the Points of P.R.I.D.E. Newsletter or our FB page for any changes)

Thank you for taking the time to complete the membership form and become part of the SRHS PTO. Check us out on Facebook at Sanborn Regional High Scholl PTO.

If you have any questions or information you would like to share with our organization, please contact Alicia D’Antonio at tishiebell@yahoo.com.

Interested parties should email Timothy.Lena@timberlane.net for registration and zoom link info.  

You can find the petition here. Please print it and sign, then email the signed document to sorocknhcc@gmail.com. This can be returned with as little as one signature. We will combine all documents and turn in together. 

As part of our #BeSafewithSoRock campaign, by year end 50 free home safety kits will be distributed to families free of charge. Kits will include locking medicine box, reusable personal hand sanitizer with hotline numbers for mental health and substance use disorders , How to Teen Proof Your Home, trigger lock, NH COVID-19 Family Resource Guide, resource magnet with hotline numbers for mental health and substance use disorders, as well as safe medication disposal pouches.  These should be available by the end of the month.

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!