SHS Weekly News March 11, 2019
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Congratulations to Senior Student Lauryn Hall
A new generation of future educators were recognized and celebrated by Rhode Island and local officials at the State House, where Scituate High School senior Lauryn Hall was chosen to receive a scholarship that will help her pursue a career in education.
Mary Ann Snider, the Rhode Island Department of Education - RIDE’s Deputy Commissioner, presented the scholarship to Hall during a ceremony at the State House on March 6, where Snider received the 12th-annual Paul W. Crowley Award. The Crowley Award includes a $1,000 scholarship in Crowley’s name for a student planning to work toward a career in the educational field, and is given each year by the Rhode Island School Superintendents Association.
Snider, set to retire after more than 30 years in the education field come June, said it was during a visit to a pre-engineering course at SHS she decided Hall would be the worthy scholarship recipient. There are many students, she told the crowd at the State House, that make “you understand immediately how bright they are, how passionate they are. The way she talked about the work she was doing and about her plans for the future were just resonating with me.”
Snider said she knows individuals like Hall will keep important educational work moving forward, and called educators some of the “most hopeful” people on the planet.
Hall, who plans to pursue a career in math or history education, said she was blessed to receive the scholarship. Hall grew up seeing first-hand how hard educators work, including her father who has worked as a teacher for about 30 years, collectively, in Chariho and Scituate.
The SHS senior said she’s had a lifelong love of learning, working with others and teaching people, including the younger children in her family - whether that mean teaching the youngsters how plants grow, or about the alphabet. Hall said she is “so grateful for the opportunities” Scituate and Rhode Island as a whole have provided her in education and support. “I’ve always known it’s something that I would find so much joy in,” Hall said of teaching. She said with an ear-to-ear smile, “I think that’s what I was born to do.”
2018 AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award
Congratulations! Scituate High School has earned the College Board's AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for attaining female student representation in AP Computer Science A for 2018. Among the more than 18,000 secondary schools worldwide that offer AP courses, Scituate is one of only 685 that have achieved this important result.
HOSA State Competition
On Friday, March 8th, HOSA members participated in the Rhode Island Spring Leadership Conference at the Johnson and Wales Bowen Center. Students competed in events that they have been preparing for all year and in the afternoon were able to visit the JWU Cadaver Lab and participate in a workshop with an occupational therapist. During the last part of the conference, students attended the medal ceremony. The following Scituate students received medals and now have the opportunity to attend the International Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Gold Medal Winners:
Community Awareness: Maud Highfield, Alexis Surtel, Valerie Zammarelli
Silver Medal Winners:
Health Education: Siena Caledonia and Hope Demers
Health Career Display: Izzy Sousa and Sophia Ranone
Speaking Skills: Isabella Luchka
Behavioral Health: Sydney Austin
Bronze Medal Winners:
Health Education: Madison Geisser, Julia Olson, Sophie Pedro, and Hannah Ward
Health Career Display: Jenna Petrarca and Abigail Herbert
Human Growth and Development: Megan Botelho
Recognition Event:
HOSA Happenings, Scituate High School will be recognized in this event at the International Level
Save the Date
Former Scituate High School Principal David Light is known as a man who impacted the lives of students and created an environment within the school that made the SHS community a family of its own - so when it came time to dedicate Scituate High’s new library media center, school officials said it made sense to do so in Light’s name.
On Thursday, March 21 at 4:30 p.m., a dedication ceremony will be held at the new media center of SHS at 94 Trimtown Rd., where members of the community will pay homage to Light’s tenure at the school and celebrate the new space, where a nearly $99,260 grant from The Champlin Foundation helped redesign the center.
The media center has transformed from when Light served as assistant principal from 1978 to 1985, and then took over as principal from 1985 until retiring in 2008. The renovated space now includes mobile furnishings, new technology materials, a new computer lab and a teacher workroom with screencasting capabilities and an additional laptop cart available for use. The new conference room in the center includes screencasting capabilities as well, allowing students to collaborate when working with Google G Suite for Education, use cast video clips and allow teachers and parents to review student work during meetings. The remodeled center was opened and ready for the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year.
Speaking of Light, who served SHS for 30 years, Principal Michael Hassell said Light’s impact on the SHS community is still evident today.
He said, “Mr. Light impacted so many students that passed through the halls of Scituate High School. He was a strong leader that made every decision with the best interest of kids in mind. He began to develop the family atmosphere among students and faculty that still makes Scituate High School special to this day. He advocated for student collaboration and student voice - this is why the new space will be a perfect fit to honor his time serving our community.”
Unified Basketball Night Game
Wear your t-shirt to the SHS vs SHS game on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 6:00 PM at Scituate High School
From the Senior Class
High School "Pops Concert" Tuesday
Special guests: 8th grade chorus on first half and 8th grade band on second half
Scituate High School Drama Club Wins State Competition!
Great work Drama Club and Mr. and Mrs. Barnes!
School Counseling
Attention Seniors
Attention 10th and 11th Grade
Event List Now Through End-of-Year!
Special Education Local Advisory Committee
SPECIAL EDUCATION
LOCAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Wednesday, March 13, 2018
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Northwest Special Education Region
23A Theodore Foster Drive
No. Scituate, RI 02857
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IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND CALL 647-4106
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Spartan Athletics
Winter Awards Night - Monday @ 6:30 PM
All-Star Football
On March 10th three of our football players competed in a Rhode Island All-Star Game combine!
Sean Ward
Collin Couillard
Dylan Palmieri
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Non-Discrimination
The Scituate School Department does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, national origin, color, creed, political affiliation or disability in any of its educational programs and activities, and in employment and application for employment, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and other federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Equal Employment Officer, P.O. Box 188, North Scituate, Rhode Island 02857, Telephone: (401) 647-4100; Email: EEO@ScituateSchoolsRI.net. You may also direct inquiries directly to: Office for Civil Rights (Boston Office), U.S. Department of Education, 8th Floor, 5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-3921, Telephone: (617) 289-0111; Facsimile: (617) 289-0150; Email: OCR.Boston@ed.gov. If you require an accommodation to attend a meeting or program at a school, call the Equal Employment Officer at least two business days in advance of the meeting or program.