We want to thank parents and students for the great turnout to our redesigned Open House earlier this month! Thank you for your patience as we attempt to make Open House more student-centered and parent-friendly. Feedback from faculty, parents and students provided us with insight into how we can simplify the schedule while retaining the flexibility to explore, connect and learn for parents and students. Our goal is to make Open House an event that, at once, creates parent awareness and provides students the opportunity to learn about courses and programs they want to build into their future schedules.
Class Advisors: Mrs. Ross and Miss Dipollino
We are so proud of the many ways our Student Body represented Charger Pride during Spirit Week! Students, faculty and administration collaborated to create an inclusive event that bonded grade levels and fostered school pride. Highlighting the week were the spirit theme days and our pep rally, where the entire student body competed in numerous activities culminating in the traditional tug-of-war. Congratulations to the Senior Class on their well-earned victory. They have had a positive and transformative effect on our school culture during their high school experience! We truly value their leadership!
In this month's issue of our blog we have updates from each of our classes, a message from SEAC, a summary of the recent CharihOlympics event, and information from the Chariho Task Force. At Open House, we encouraged parents to consider how you could become "Patrons" of the clubs, activities, sports and organizations in which your child participates. Chariho Athletic Boosters is an example of how parents can invest and participate in our school community. We would love to create "Parent Patron" groups that help fund and coordinate events and organizations in the Humanities & STEM, NHS or Interact Club (which is our service-learning club). If your child is invested in any organization, activity or club and you want to participate, please contact us through comments below or directly so that we can connect you to our school community.
At the very bottom of this blog you will see a comments tab where we welcome any comments and are very much interested in your suggestions for how we can better improve Open House for next year.
Craig MacKenzie Andrea J. Spas Susan J. Votto
Principal Assistant Principal Director of CTC
Twitter: @dflamturnover Twitter: @Andrea_Spas Twitter: @CHARIHOtech
Principal Assistant Principal Director of CTC
Twitter: @dflamturnover Twitter: @Andrea_Spas Twitter: @CHARIHOtech
Class of 2017: SENIOR CLASS
All senior year information can be found on the Lean, Mean ‘ 17 Canvas Page.
Dues Program:
Senior year dues is an OPTIONAL program to help budget for senior year activities. Seniors will be able to pay $20 a month for the months of September, October, January, February, March, and April. Payments will be collected ONLY on the 15th of the month during all lunches. This opportunity will give seniors $120 toward their end-of-the year activities. Any amount owed over $120 will be paid at the time tickets are sold. If a student missed starting this program, they can “catch up” beginning in January. **Class Advisors will keep an Excel spreadsheet of all payments collected.**
Cap and Gowns will be purchased during November (at student’s own expense) to be collected by Josten's. More information will be forthcoming.
Senior Year Fundraisers (APPROVED by Administration)
October 3-14: Class of 2017 Class Sweatshirt Sales
December 12-13: Basket Raffles during Parent-Teacher Conferences (split with all four grades) - more information later
December 16: Dress Down Day for Faculty ($3 per sticker)
January 27: Winter Ball (split with Juniors)
Senior Hoodies: Order forms are available on the Lean, Mean ’17 Canvas page and outside the main office. Orders with payment are due by FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14.
Any questions, please contact the senior class advisors: Mrs. Ross and Miss Dipollino
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| America Day of Spirit Week (Senior Class)
Class of 2018: JUNIOR CLASS
Class Advisors: Mrs. Daglieri (Briggs) and Mrs. Faragalli (Barlow)
All junior year information can be found on the Class of 2018 Canvas Page.
Junior Year Fundraisers: (APPROVED by Administration)
Junior Prom: Friday, May 12 at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick (price of tickets TBD)
Fundraisers with Dates TBD:
Class of 2019: SOPHOMORE CLASS
Class Advisors: Melissa Ritacco and Rachael Franklin
Sophomore Class Council Results are in - congrats to the following:
The Class of 2019 is hosting Bingo Night on Thursday, November 10th from 6:00-8:00 pm in the High School Cafeteria. Each adminission gets a coupon for a free baked good! Prizes will be awarded. All are welcome; hope to see you there!
Please stay up-to-date with upcoming events by becoming an observer on the Class of 2019 Canvas Page Please let us know if you have any questions or fundraising ideas! Thank you, Melisa Ritacco and Rachael Franklin
Class of 2019 Class Advisors
Below are a few pictures from our most recent fundraisers and Spirit Week:
Class of 2020: FRESHMEN CLASS
Class Advisors: Mrs. Bassett, Ms. Curran and Mrs. delaCruz
All freshmen year information can be found on the Freshmen 2020 Canvas Page.
Thank you: A big thank you to everyone who purchased a freshman color wars t-shirt for Spirit Week. In the spirit of commemorating the first of your 4 awesome years here at Chariho High School, we invite you to secure one of the 22 shirts we have left for $8 (our cost). See one of your advisors for more details.
Freshman Fundraisers to date (Approved by administration):
Any questions, please contact the freshman class advisors: Mrs. Bassett, Ms. Curran or Mrs. delaCruz (Twitter: @delacruzin18)
From the Chariho SEAC:
The Chariho Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC) would like to invite parents and staff members to our next meeting on November 3rd at 6:00pm in the Chariho Middle School Library. Topics on our agenda include vacant leadership positions, a report from Director of Special Education, Jennifer Durkin, and a presentation on student's mental health and well-being by Brenda Medina. We hope you can attend. Sara Algieri Chairperson, Chariho SEAC From Chariho Athletics: A winter sports meeting will be held on Monday, November 7th for any student interested in trying out for a winter sport. The meeting will be held at 7:00pm in the Middle School Auditorium. High School Winter Sports include: girls basketball, boys basketball, wrestling, girls indoor track, boys indoor track, and cheerleading. Middle school sports include: girls basketball, boys basketball, and wrestling.  Mike Shiels Athletic Director
CharihOlympics at CHS:
A Learning Experience and a Great Time
Students in Mr. Cronin’s classroom have read a variety of texts about the Summer Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Special Olympics. Students learned about the history of the games, the most recent Olympic events, and learned specifically about individual athletes.
As a result of their learning, students in Mr. Cronin's classroom were particularly interested in how Paralympics and Special Olympics were designed as modified sports events. Students wanted to bring these events to Chariho and invented new, modified sporting activities so that everyone could be included and participate. These events were then taught to students from other classrooms and 3-days of CharihOlympics took place in late September!
The following are comments from students and teachers about the events:
"The students invented their own games to become more aware of Summer Olympics, Paralympics, and Special Olympic athletes.”... “The blindfolds made us use our other senses to play. The scooters helped us use our leg muscles. Tire Bowling was a lot more challenging than regular bowling.”
"I like the challenge of making up a new game. This was all part of CharihOlympics. Three games were created by three separate teams." "My group created the game Tire Bowling...it was interesting to go outside the box and invent a game that has never been created before." “I was glad to see the creativity, collaboration and enthusiasm. I also like seeing the problems and challenges that students had to solve...I hope to do this again.”
A Message from the Chariho Task Force:
Teens and Stress
Teenagers,
like adults, may experience stress every day; and can benefit from learning
stress management skills. Most teens experience more stress when they perceive
a situation as dangerous, difficult, or painful and they do not have the
resources to cope. Some sources of stress for teens might include:
·
school demands and
frustrations
·
negative thoughts and
feelings about themselves
·
changes in their bodies
·
problems with friends
and/or peers at school
·
unsafe living
environment/neighborhood
·
separation or divorce of
parents
·
chronic illness or
severe problems in the family
·
death of a loved one
·
moving or changing
schools
·
taking on too many
activities or having too high expectations
·
family financial
problems
Some
teens become overloaded with stress. When it happens, inadequately managed
stress can lead to anxiety, withdrawal, aggression, physical illness, or poor
coping skills such as drug and/or alcohol use. At the Chariho Task Force, we work together to find effective strategies to
prevent the use of or abuse of substances in our youth. To do this, we collaborate with the school district, local government
officials, health care providers and law enforcement organizations, to develop
and sustain substance abuse and violence prevention activities throughout the school
year. In our work with the high school, we work with all students and in
particular, high risk students, to provide effective education, support and
alternative programming. Our main
goal is to create substance free communities in Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton & the Narragansett
Tribe by enhancing collaboration, changing social norms and implementing and
enforcing policy change through
advocacy, education, parental programs and youth leadership opportunities. We
do this through maintaining a presence in the high school and making ourselves
available for individual counseling for at risk kids, as well as coordinating Health classroom presentations and school
wide assemblies and events.
October 24th through
October 28th is Red Ribbon Week (a national campaign meant to
serves as a catalyst to mobilize communities to educate youth and encourage
participation in drug prevention activities.) Here
is an outline of activities at Chariho for the week!
Following are some of the ongoing programs that all students are encouraged to be involved with:
Varsity
Athletes Above Substance Abuse (VAASA)
Student athletes
commit to being substance free and lead
prevention workshops at the middle school.
Peer
Mentors
Student leaders
who commit to being substance free
are mentors to middle school students.
Students
Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
Students organize school wide events
to promote healthy
coping skills and being substance free. All students are welcome, meetings are held after school on every other Tuesdays.
Alateen
Support group for students who have family members struggling with addiction.
Support
Groups
Build healthy coping skills to reduce anxiety, stress and substance abuse prevention
Sometimes even with all of our
efforts, students make unhealthy choices; following are some tips on talking
with your children about substance abuse:
Please reach out to Kate Tokarski, LICSW with any concerns
you may have for your student. For more information, you can get to the Chariho
High School Parent Outreach page here.
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