Updates from Principal Langille
Dear KRHS Family!
Happy November! This is a short month and a lot packed into it. You will find information about parent/teacher/student conferences. No, that is not a typo; we want students involved in this year’s conferences. Districtwide, students will be participating in the traditional parent/teacher conferences.
November 10th at 7pm, 11th at 2pm, and the 12th at 7pm will be the three opportunities to see our students perform Mamma Mia! Tickets are on sale here! I hope you all can make it out to see our musical performance that includes the work of over 40 students. Special appearance by the girls’ varsity soccer team. Watching the set be built by our tech crew and members of our shop classes has me excited to see the show. I even have stolen a few peeks of some scenes/numbers, and this show will definitely be a crowd pleaser. Please come out to the show for at least one showing.
The month of November and most attributed to the holiday, Thanksgiving, is a month of “Thanks.” I want to share how thankful I am to be here in the Kearsarge Community. Our family and our community partnerships continue to always amaze me. We had two different community organizations help us to host two different amazing and life changing concerts/workshops for our music students. Thank you Summer Music Associates and Center for the Arts! We had parent volunteers, thank you Montagna family for helping make sure our HoCo dance was well decorated. Most recently, I witnessed soccer parents help our students figure out what it means to tailgate at an away playoff game! While the boys’ didn’t take home the win, we had the most fans there to help keep spirits up. The plethora of food that the soccer parents pulled together in under 48 hours was inspiring. Many thanks to our families for making KRHS a warm, welcoming, and fun place to be!
May your Thanksgiving and month of November be a wonderful, blessed, and blissful month. Go spread the Cougar Love and Support!
Kind regards,
Charles Langille Jr., KRHS Principal
Important Dates For November & December
November 9: Math Meet
December 7: 6:30pm Snow Date-Band Concert
December 14: Math Meet
December 15: 6:30pm School Board Meeting
December 23-30: Holiday Recess
January 2: School Resumes (Blue Day)
School News and Announcements
Our eleventh annual Veterans Day Breakfast will take place in person again on the campus of Kearsarge Regional High School! Our Veterans Day Breakfast is open to all veterans and active service members, as well as their spouses, and honored guests on Thursday November 10th in the high school cafeteria from 9 am - 10 am with a brief ceremony honoring the service of those veterans and their families. The Veterans Day Breakfast will feature a delicious banquet of items provided by our amazing students and staff of the Kearsarge Culinary Arts Program as well as select pieces of patriotic music performed by the select band and select choir. Kearsarge Regional High School looks forward to opening its doors again to such valued members of our community who have sacrificed time away from friends and family to serve their nation.
Parent-teacher conferences will include student participation this year and be held either in person or through zoom, your choice, on November 21st and 22nd from 12:00 - 3:00, and also from 3:30 - 6:30 on November 21st. Review the documents a the end of the newsletter for more information and sign up using this link: https://kearsarge.ptcwizard.com/parent/
Remember, you can also monitor your child's progress using the parent portal feature available through PowerSchool.
Yearbooks can now be ordered for $55. You may order in Room 17 with cash or check made out to KRHS or online at www.jostens.com.
Please send in a written note, or email HSAttendance @kearsarge.org with an explanation for you child's absence. Written/emailed notes must be on file to excuse any absence(s).
All senior portraits are due no later than November 18th to Mrs. Valerio (NValerio@kearsarge.org). There is a google classroom for seniors to join where content can be added for the yearbook
Don't forget about your 20-hours of community service needed for graduation!
November 11, 2022: Progress Report #1 - Progress reports are typed and submitted in Google Classroom to your Project Advisor. Progress reports should reflect progress toward answering your Essential Question.
December 2, 2022: Bibliography/Research Update - Running Bibliography (Works Cited/References). Students are expected to maintain a running bibliography throughout the project. Any website, book, person or experience that they access for their project will need to be recorded. This can be done using MLA or APA styles guides. A final Bibliography will be submitted with the completion of your project
This fall, Project CLIMB members have engaged in two overnight trips, one along the shores of the Connecticut River and one on the slopes of Mt Moosilauke. In November, CLIMB members will be headed to the Dartmouth Outing Club Cabin at Moose Mountain. Eighth graders from KRMS will join high schoolers on this trip as an introduction to the program!
Click Here to Access the Project CLIMB Website
November 14: Wrestling & Swimming
November 21: Alpine Skiing & Girls & Boys Basketball
November 28: Girls & Boys Ice Hockey & Indoor Track
December 5: Nordic Skiing
Please visit the athletic page at https://www.kearsarge.org/high-school/krhs-athletics for more information and updates.
Department News and Announcements
Students in GIS Mapping have been collecting data on the KRHS campus to understand the history of land use and events over the past 200 years here. Students have identified a rich history of maple sugaring that has preserved many old maple trees on our property, even when much of the land was cleared for sheep, horse, and cow pasture land.
The Sugaring Class at KRHS has begun hanging the mainline for Kearsarge's very first plumbed tubing operation. Sugaring has a long history on this land, both here at KRHS with a Sugaring Club that ran for many years, and with the old homesteads that used to farm this land and collect, boil, and produce maple sugars.
This year KRHS advisories participated in a card making event. Cards to show care and respect were made and will be sent to US Military, Veterans and Service Families to show. KRHS will be sending 395 cards this year! For more information about this program visit https://militaryholidaycardchallenge.com/
Parent Teacher Conference Information