Good Evening, Parents, Guardians and CHS Community,
We are really looking forward to having students back in the building on Monday. We hope these next eight days of classes remain in person as long as the numbers stay low. Please remember we are operating back on the In-School schedule with 90 minute classes on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with Wednesday being an early release for students at 12:00 noon with buses departing then. To see the schedule, here is a link: 2020-2021 School Year Schedule. Typically these are the weeks of our holiday celebrations with the students, but we are forced to reduce those due to the pandemic. We continue operating differently, but our co-curricular clubs and organizations are still meeting, some virtually and some live. We are also having athletics tryouts starting this week as we continue to strive for some normalcy. Please reinforce with your children that we are carefully following the health experts’ recommendations on wearing masks, physical distancing, and using good hygiene all the time. Thanks for your help on that. This is particularly important as we return back to CHS after two weeks of Remote Learning. Finally, a number of families have reached out requesting their children stay Remote during these last eight days before break. Please reach out to your child’s counselor for assistance with that. Have a great week everyone! Bill Lonergan, Principal
Updates:
Rescheduling our Power Outage: We have been notified that the planned outage will take place over Holiday Break, so we will not be shifting our CHS schedules for this purpose. Good news on that!
CHS Winter Concert: The CHS Winter Choral Concert (originally scheduled for Dec 17) has been postponed to TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22! It will begin at 7pm and will be recorded/streamed just like the October concert. We will send more information on that as we get closer. We are doing our best to bring you our very talented students’ performances. Please understand, everything is VERY fluid and changes might occur!
COVID Update Regarding Masks: We continue to be concerned with the rising COVID cases in NH and are following the Governor’s recent mandate for wearing masks in public spaces. Even though schools had been exempted, it is now being recommended through NH DHHS for students and staff to wear masks at all times in the school buildings. Monday, when we return to school, we do expect students and staff to follow this expectation. The only exceptions will be while eating lunch or taking a mask break outside and keeping physically distant from one another. We appreciate your support as we keep students and staff safe.
From the Counseling Office:
The counselors are currently meeting with sophomores to discuss career options and course selection for the upcoming school year.
PSAT 9, PSAT/NMSQT scores are available and an email was sent to parents and students with directions about accessing scores. Counselors will be meeting with advisories on December 17 and 18 to discuss score interpretation.
Counselors will be hosting PARENT INFORMATION sessions from 4:30-5:00pm after the holiday break. The Google Meet links are below.
Jan 6th- Anxiety meet.google.com/hxi-deri-kmy
Jan 13th- Depression/Motivation meet.google.com/kzd-kizy-wzo
Jan 20th- Peer Issues meet.google.com/tyw-czdg-asb
Jan 27th- Substance use and engaging in sex meet.google.com/kss-uatw-acf
Feb 3rd- Time-management/motivation, closing session meet.google.com/kvd-vawt-hpz
Juniors - Beginning January 11th, counselors will begin meeting individually with juniors for post-high school planning and senior year course selection.
Junior Parent College Information Night - Virtual via Google Meet, Tues, Feb 16 at 6:30pm (Meet link TBD)
8th Grade Parent Night - Virtual via Google Meet, Tues, Feb 9 at 6:30pm (Meet link TBD). Counselors will meet with 8th graders (at LMS via Google Meet) on Thurs, Feb 11th to assist with course selection. Any staff member who would like to speak at 8th grade parent night should contact Jodi.
CHS Yearbooks: If you have not ordered your yearbook by this time, you can still do so. Even in this unique time we are busy making sure we create an amazing yearbook to remember the 2020-2021 school year. You can order one today at Jostens.com
Schedule for Dec 14-18:
December 14, Monday - Athletic Tryouts Begin, Contact AD Knight for additional information.
December 14, Monday (2:40-3:30) - Faculty Meeting- Phil Martin Auditorium
December 16, Wednesday ( 3:30-4:30) - Grading & Reporting Committee Meeting
December 16, Wednesday (9:30-10:30) - Chat Team Meeting
December 16, Wednesday ( 3:00-4:30) - PERC Meeting
December 17, Thursday (1:00-3:00) - Administrative Team Meeting
December 17, Thursday (2:30-3:30) - Safety Committee Meeting
Athletics Updates: Please sign up using our FamilyId link below. The schedule moving forward will look as follows: Please reach out to AD Knight or his assistant for questions.
12/14 - Winter SportsTryouts
1/11 - Games begin
Please cut and paste the following link into your browser for signing up for winter athletics: https://www.familyid.com/campbell-high-school-athletic-department
CHS Parent Teacher Organization: The next PTO meeting is Tues, January 12th at 7pm via Google Meet. Please keep in mind to look for information on the fundraisers at Rocco’s and for the membership forms from your children. Here is the code: meet.google.com/bce-pcjc-ahj
CHS Athletics Boosters Organization: The next meeting is Mon, Jan 4. Here’s the link: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://netapp.zoom.us/j/99850143485?pwd%3DUHpIQ1k5RHU2VzUxUEovRkFWSkJhQT09&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1603202386680000&usg=AOvVaw3lhXl_QoBR1R5uPuxuywjc. Also the Booster Club has a homepage at the following location: https://campbell-high-school-athletic-booster-club.square.site/#erjyZf
CHS Friends of Performing Arts: FOPA will be meeting as follows: 2/16, 3/16, 4/20, 5/18. Their next meeting virtually will be January 19th @ 7:00. I've included the Zoom link: https://windhamsd.zoom.us/j/9094352136?pwd=RDJra01saG0rM1FJbE5ucjRmSnEvQT09
Recognition & Appreciation:
We want to recognize our CHS 2020/2021 All State Athletes for the fall season, Congratulations to the following: Girls Soccer: 1st Team - Karleigh Schultz & Morgan Wagner, 2nd Team - Alex Wallenmaier & Honorable Mention - Hanna Keane. Boys Soccer: 1st Team - Michael DiCarli , 2nd Team - Jackson Noury & 3rd Team - Ryan Latsha. Football: 1st Team - Josh Lavoie O Line, Drew Adamakos Defense & Kyle Wark Punter, Honorable Mention: Hunter Caron, Will McPherson, Nate Perry & Brady Robicheau. Cross Country: Megan Whitnell - Top Ten. Volleyball (NHVCA): All-State Chloe Steiniger & Tori Allen. Golf: 3rd Team - Sean Ryan
We had two colleagues recognize CHS Paraeducator, Drew Gora who volunteered to drive all resource materials to one teacher’s house in Amherst making it easier for the teacher to teach from home during quarantine and another recognizing his work with students and collaborating with teachers across CHS!
We received numerous emails from several parents regarding the communication from all corners of CHS keeping them informed of school-wide as well as classwork specific news. These have been really complimentary as well on the good work our staff has been doing teaching remotely these past two weeks. Thank you for that.