Newport High School Newsletter

Upcoming Events

Feb. 2 – 9 a.m. – Deliberative Session – NMHS Gym

Feb. 2 – 7 p.m. – High School Winter Formal – NMHS Gym

Feb. 6 – 6 p.m. – PTSO Meeting – Media Center

Feb. 11 – 6 p.m. – World Language Trip Meeting – Lou Thompson Room

Feb. 25 – March 1 – Winter Break

March 12 – 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Budget Ballot Vote – Newport Opera House

Engineering students are demonstrating what they have learned this semester by taking finals last week. It has been a lot of fun and I hope your son or daughter enjoyed the class! Contact info: Ross Hudson,[email protected].

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English 10 Honors students presented projects that further analyzed the characters and themes of Lord of the Flies. They created thoughtful projects that consisted of character contrast collages, survival handbooks and musical soundtracks to depict the experiences of the characters on the island. Contact info: Paula Fish,[email protected].

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Class of 2019

Cap and gown fittings for seniors will be held on Friday, February 8 at 9:00 AM in the Lou Thompson Room. Attendance is mandatory.

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Students in the Foods 2 class made breakfast for the CTE directors’ meeting hosted by SRVRTC on Friday morning and bee school on Saturday morning. This was their final cooking project. They will also make lunch for the CTE directors with help from the middle school Foods class. Foods 2 and teacher’s assistants from middle school Foods will make corn chowder, salad and dinner rolls. Contact info: Jamie Huddles ton, [email protected].

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The English department will offer a short introductory course on the Holocaust designed for middle school students next quarter. The focus of the quarter class will be on rescue and survivor stories. Some seventh-grade students will be given the opportunity to learn about this topic and create projects that show their learning as they explore the question, how does humanity show heroism and kindness even in the darkest of times?

Mrs. Caravaggio has taught a high school course on the Holocaust and other genocides for 10 years and currently serves as a fellow at Keene State’s Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is an Alfred C. Lerner fellow at Columbia University as a result of her work with the organization Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

This next semester marks a shift of focus for the former Senior Honors English Seminar students. The students who selected to remain in the course will now focus on the Advanced Placement curriculum as they begin to prepare for the AP test in May. There will be an increased focus on literary analysis as they read many works and genres from different time periods and cultures.

Contact info: Michele Caravaggio, [email protected]

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Tiger Cafe is held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:20-4 p.m. in the media center.  It is a great way to stay on top of your homework for Quarter 3! Homework help and computers are available and a snack if you’re hungry. 

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Empty Bowls Project

The district-wide K-12 student art show at the Library Arts Center opens on March 29 from 4-6 p.m. The theme this year is “Kindness Matters.” The art department will hold a fundraiser for the Newport food pantry by selling student-decorated ceramic bowls and having an ice cream social during the art opening at which people may purchase a bowl of ice cream and keep the bowl.

Another follow-up event for a community soup dinner is being planned with the Library Arts Center, so stay tuned.

If any community member would like to help make bowls for students, faculty, and staff to decorate for the project, please come to the art room any Monday or Tuesday after school. You can also help glaze bowls once they are fired.

High school students may clock community service hours for this project. Every student in grades K-12 and all faculty and staff members are encouraged to make a bowl for donation to the Empty Bowl Project to help stop hunger in our community.

The Library Arts Center district-wide student show opens to the public at The Library Arts Center March 29 to April 17.

Contact info: Debbie Skinner, [email protected].

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Media Center Recommended Databases and Websites

Another recommended website for student and parent use which is free and may be accessed from any computer is Serrate online. Serrate is a challenging, educational geography game with more than 100 different exercises. Using Serrate, you can learn about countries, states, capitals, cities, oceans, rivers, lakes and flags using outline map exercises. It also offers a collection of engaging science quizzes and games too. It’s fun and educational.

To access use the URL:http://online.seterra.com/

If there are any problems or questions, please email me at: [email protected] or call the Media Center during the day at 865-9684.

NMHS Media Center Recommended Book of the Week

Olivia Twist by Lorie Landon

“Olivia Twist is an innovative re imagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come.

When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.

Jack Macaroon rose from his place in London’s East End to become the adopted “nephew” of a society matron. Little does society know that Macaroon is a false name for a boy once known among London gangs as the Artful Dodger, and that he and his “aunt” are robbing them blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia Brownlow in places he least expects, his curiosity is piqued. Why is a society girl helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves? Even more intriguing, why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew? Jack finds himself wondering if going legit and risking it all might be worth it for love. ”

https://ambulancewoman/Olivia-Twist-Blink-Lorie-Landon/DP/031076341X/ref=cir_1_1?s=…

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Girls on the Run returns to Newport for the spring season on March 18. This is an after-school running program for girls in Grades 3, 4, and 5. Registration from February 1-14.

There is a middle school program called Heart and Sole for grades 6-8 if people are interested in volunteering as coaches one or two days a week after school.

Registration link: https://www.girlsontherunnh.org/Program-Registration

Middle School

Ms. Burroughs’ social studies class finished their Latin America study with a poster presentation about a Latin American country and yarn designs of South America. It was a wonderful unit with lots of learning about culture, geography, human environment and population. Contact info: Stacey Burroughs, [email protected]