Good Evening, Parents & Guardians, Students, CHS Staff and CHS Community,
My normal communication follows this message. Today was a really challenging day here at CHS. With the very specific and violent threats coming from outside CHS that were quickly communicated through several of our students at the start of the school day, we chose to evacuate CHS and contact the Litchfield PD. Given the nature and severity of those threats, we then moved to Talent Hall at Darrah Pond to ensure students and staff were safe. If you read Supt. Jette’s email from earlier this afternoon, you are aware of what worked well, and where we encountered challenges. The end result is that we successfully reunited all of our students safely with parents, and we ensured our staff were safely reentering CHS by approximately noontime. We then returned to CHS and safely provided an opportunity for students to return to CHS to gather their belongings between 1:30 and 2:30. What I think is most important is to recognize that all of our staff, our students, our parents, the SAU, Police, Fire, School Board members, and other community members did an excellent job collaborating with one another to come to this positive outcome-all of our students and staff ended up efficiently and safely back with their families this afternoon. We also decided to cancel all after school activities, essentially two basketball games and other practices, and communicate that out to student-athletes. We debriefed quickly with our CHS staff at Darrah Pond before returning to CHS, and we will be meeting again on Monday right after school to discuss any additional concerns. We are meeting with our District-wide and community Emergency Operation Team to review and address concerns later on Monday afternoon. I am mostly appreciative of the outstanding work done by our entire CHS staff (administration, professional staff, paraeducators, and office staff) managing some very unfamiliar circumstances today, calmly, professionally, and with total concern for ensuring students were safely reunited with their families.
As for my normal Weekly Update note, we are now in the fast paced run to the Holiday Break. The generosity of the Litchfield community came through with significant contributions for our Make-A-Difference Food Drive across the three Litchfield schools with nearly 4,000 items donated. Thanks for your help with this. On December 10 we held a meeting for students interested in the St. Paul’s School Advanced Summer Program. About 25 students expressed an interest in applying. This week coming up is our Annual Holiday Celebration for the students and staff. Monday is Pajama Day, Tuesday is North Pole Day with juniors and seniors dressed in winter garb and freshmen and sophomores dressed in their summer attire, Wednesday is Blizzard Day with all dressed in white, and Thursday is Ugly Holiday Sweater Day. We will also have a revised celebration for our Campbell community. Next week is a short week and the daily schedule is posted below. Finally, I’d like to welcome our new Bookkeeper and Administrative Assistant Anastasia Morgan to the CHS Main Office staff. I hope you all have an opportunity to enjoy some time with family and friends! Warmly, Bill Lonergan, CHS Principal
From the Superintendent:
If you are looking for updated COVID statistics for CHS, LMS, or GMS, please use the following link to that information. Data across these first three months can be found on the right side of the page: https://www.litchfieldsd.org/CoronavirusInformation.aspx. The tabs at the bottom of the worksheet allow you to look at the data for each school for that month.
Be well, Mike Jette, Superintendent of Schools
From Student Council: Next week Campbell High School will be having our annual 4 Days of Holidays. There will be spirit days that include Monday (Cozy Up Day), Tuesday (North Pole vs. South Pole day), Wednesday (Blizzard Day), and Thursday (Ugly Sweater Day). We also sent out an email to everyone about submitting pictures of your child for a slideshow that will be shown during our Holiday Assembly. If you would like to send these pictures you can send them to [email protected]. Also, we will be hosting our annual tree lighting, and are still open to receiving names for that. Questions can be answered through the email we sent at the start of the week, or with the email that was provided. Happy Holidays!"
News from Counseling: The FAFSA is open and accessible to all families of the Class of 2022. Go to www.fafsa.gov to begin the process of filing for financial aid. All families should complete the FAFSA regardless of income. For any questions, please connect with your school counselor. Seniors have been visiting the Counseling Den regularly with college application questions!!
Alumni Panel: Our annual Alumni Panel will be held on Wednesday, December 22, 2021 during H block in the Phil Martin Auditorium: All Seniors and Juniors are welcome to attend!!! Please see Ms. Nelson in Counseling with questions!
Scholarships are regularly being updated in Naviance for seniors. Any questions, please have them stop by and see us!
PSAT scores are available on www.collegeboard.com Students who don’t have an account need to set one up to gain access to their scores. Please have your students stop by the Counseling Den to get help!
Athletics: We will be selling season tickets along with gameday tickets at each basketball event. Price will be…
$30 Adult Gold Pass - Access to all basketball games
$20 Adult Pass - Access to boys OR girls basketball games (only one gender).
$10 Student Gold Pass - Access to all basketball games
$3 - Adult daily ticket
$1 - Student daily ticket
Upcoming Events
12/20 - Girls Basketball vs. Belmont JV/V 4:30/6pm
12/20 - Boys Basketball @ Belmont JV/V 4:30/6pm
12/21 - Girls Basketball @ Kearsarge JV/V 4:30/6pm
12/21 - Boys Basketball vs. Kearsarge JV/V 4:30/6pm
12/22 - Boys Ice Hockey vs. Monadnock 3:30pm
12/22 - Wrestling vs. Winnisquam and Mascoma 6pm
Notifications:
Math & Computer Tutoring Saturday Mornings: Math and computer tutoring for students is now available on Saturday mornings from 8-10 AM with Mr. Conley. We will not be providing this opportunity 12/18 however. Please have your child see him in room 223 for details or show up on Saturday morning for help. Keep in mind we will not be providing this over the holiday break.
21-22 CHS Yearbook Info: For Seniors, it is that time of year to get your baby photo submitted for the Cougar Cubs section. Upload your photos using the following Google Form: https://forms.gle/99C4qZtBACzQ4N6W6 or bring in a photo to the office to be scanned.
Senior Parents, it is also a great time to order the yearbook or celebrate your students accomplishments by creating a yearbook ad.! Both can be ordered online at Jostens.com
Next Week’s Events:
Date Group Time Where
December 20 Science Nat. Hon. Soc mtg 2:30 Room 244
December 21 Key Club mtg 2:30 Room 214
December 23 Debate Club 2:30 Room 236
December 24 - Jan2 OFF-Holiday Break
Appreciation & Recognition from the Administration
Congratulations to all of the members of the Science National Honor Society who were inducted recently. Here are the newly inducted members: Alexandra Biron, Adin Brown, Lucas Chew, Phoebe Drouin, Sean Follis, Matthew Franck, Justin Haley, and Ava Houle. Returning members include: Lily Adamakos, Faith Avitabile (treasurer), Nicholas Carignan (historian), Corinne Chew (secretary), Lauren Dionne, Matthew Grieco (president) and Kiley York. Nice job by Joanne Ray, NSHS Advisor coordinating.
Congratulations to all of our music students on their Holiday Concerts last week. Between the chorus, the concert band and the jazz band, our students did a terrific job with their musical performances. Thanks to all of you for your hard work!
This past Wednesday the Campbell Student Council went caroling over at the Canberra Community. The students and the local residents all had fun sharing the holiday spirit. This annual event truly brings out the best in our students and our community.
Between CHS and GMS, nearly 4000 items were donated to the Litchfield Food Pantry as a result of the Student Council’s Annual Make-A-Difference Food Drive. We are really grateful for all the hard work by students and families at the three schools for this event. Particular appreciation goes to the CHS Student Council for coordinating and spurring the drive. Great job to all for your generosity!
Kudos to PE/Health teacher Shannon Szepan and Athletic Director Josh Knight for their presentation about our PE and Health programs to the School Board in early December.
Thanks to CHS school nurse Donna Boucher for her willingness to assist down at LMS to provide services to Litchfield students. We appreciate Donna’s flexibility and collaboration to ensure students in both schools are appropriately cared for.
CHS Athletics Boosters Organization: The next Boosters meeting is Monday, January 3 at 7:00 pm. in the Learning Commons. Campbell Athletics Store: To purchase CHS gear for your student or family members, please check out our website! https://sideline.bsnsports.com/schools/new_hampshire/litchfield/campbell-high-school
CHS Parent Teacher Organization: The next meeting is on Tues, Jan. 11 in the CHS Learning Commons at 6:30.
CHS Friends of Performing Arts (FOPA): Just a quick update regarding the next FoPA meeting. We will not be having a meeting in December, our next meeting is Tuesday, January 18 at 6:30 in the Learning Commons. FoPA is hoping to open an online sweatshirt order after the Holiday Break. The link will be going out to the music department students. For those who would like to order, they can contact either Claire Chew, Jim Norton for the link.
From Food Services: The following forms are to apply for Free and Reduced Lunches in the Litchfield School District. If you have received F & R Lunches in the past, please fill out these forms as we do receive federal money based on these applications. If you have questions about this, please contact Lauren Crowley our Food Services Director at [email protected].
Instructions for F&R Lunch Forms: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=03435c136c&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-f:1707633520426960275&th=17b2bba3af994593&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_ks4uf1xn1
Household Application: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=03435c136c&attid=0.3&permmsgid=msg-f:1707633520426960275&th=17b2bba3af994593&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_ks4ufcio2
FAQ’s: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=03435c136c&attid=0.3&permmsgid=msg-f:1707633520426960275&th=17b2bba3af994593&view=att&disp=safe&realattid=f_ks4ufcio2
Employment in the Litchfield School District: We are still looking for custodial staff and paraeducators. Please check out the following link if you or anyone you know might be interested in job opportunities here: https://sau27.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx