JUNE 2021

Semester 2 Exams

It's hard to believe that this week closes out the last instructional days for seniors.  Our senior exam week will take place June 1st through June 4th, with June 7th and June 8th as exam make-up days.  Seniors will be remain at home this week for their virtual exams, while grades 9-11 students will be reporting for in-person learning.  

Our grades 9-11 exam week will take place June 16th through June 21st, with June 22nd and 23rd as an exam make-up days.  Grades 9-11 will remain at home this week for their virtual exams.  All students in Ms. Weeks, Ms. Lightfritz and Mr. Cronin’s classes will report in-person during both exam weeks.  Please click here for our Semester 2 Exam Schedule (you will see the senior exam schedule on the first page, please scroll to the second page for the exam schedule for grades 9-11).   

Please understand that it is important that students take their exams at the scheduled time.  If, for some reason, a student misses an exam, permission to make-up the exam will require administrator approval.  Decisions will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.  If  a student needs to make-up the exam, they will be expected to email Mr. Mac, Ms. Spas or Mr. Auth for approval prior to the exam make-up date.

EVENTS!

We previously shared with you our End-of-Year Events Calendar.   Since then, we had a successful NHS Ceremony and Underclassmen Awards Night.  Let's keep hoping for beautiful weather.  It has been nice celebrating our students outdoors on our football field.  We made a slight adjustment to Senior Week:  In order to accomodate the Elementary Parades, Caps & Gowns will now be distributed on Tuesday, the 8th instead of Wednesday, the 9th.  Please click here for our end-of-year events calendar.

Please understand that all attendees must RSVP to all events in advance.  This is due to capacity and assigned seating needs for COVID safety purposes.

Senior Prom Update

Good news!  Senior Prom is sold out.  Everyone who signed up to bring a guest (either a Chariho guest or out-of-district guest) was able to do so.  Let's hope for beautiful weather for the night of our Senior Prom, which will be held on June 10th at 6:00pm at the Nordic Lodge.  Arrival for all students is at 5:30pm.  

Seal of Biliteracy 

The Chariho World Language Department is proud to announce that 30 Chariho Seniors will receive the Seal of Biliteracy this year.  The Seal of Biliteracy shows that in addition to being proficeint in English, that they are proficient in Chinese, French, Italian or Spanish.  Diplomas and transcripts of these students will indicate that they achieved this recognition.  Congratulations to the Seal of Biliteracy recipients and class of 2021!

2021 Virtual Art Show

The Chariho Art Department would like to welcome you to our 2021 virtual art show. 

Browse the self-paced galleries filled with amazing student work. Complete our scavenger hunt and enter to win a basket of art supplies!  View the art show here:  bit.ly/charihoartshow2021 

From the Clinic

Please click this link for important updates from our school nurse, Christen Clarke.

Save This Future Date!

COME JOIN best-selling author, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee), to discuss her book, Hearts Unbroken; a great book to read during summer!  This is a virtual hour event that will take place on October 7, 2021 at 4pm on Zoom.

This event is hosted by the Diversity Book Club and sponsored by the Community 2000 Grant.  Please view the event flyer, and address any questions to Nicole Weeks: nicole.weeks@chariho.k12.ri.us

Updates from World Language

2021 Dragon Challenge: Students in Chinese classes designed and constructed three Chinese dragons for the 2021 Dragon Challenge. Students practiced dragon movements for the dragon parade on the high school campus. On the day of the parade, each dragon crew passed out goodies to spectators. A fun time was had by all.

Sister School Update: No. 1 High School Liuyang, China: Students in Chinese classes participated in a sister school virtual lesson with students from China.  During this time, students from both schools watched the movie, The Farewell, and discussed cultural differences between China and the United States.

A Message from Health Careers...

The Health Careers I classes and Mrs. Dion would like to thank our Community of Healthcare Professionals for generously donating their time to us so that we could complete continue our exploration of the careers in the Health Care industry.  Due to COVID restrictions, our Explorer Program with South County Health has been temporarily suspended and our community stepped up and saved the day.   If you are a healthcare worker in any branch of the industry that would be willing to allow my class to interview you, I would really appreciate your support of our program.  You can contact me at martha.dion@chariho.k12.ri.us.  Thanks again to those that have provided us amazing opportunities to learn.  

Alexis Haggerty, a senior Health Careers student, utilized PBL (project based learning) in developing "Fiddle boxes" for a local nursing home.  After her time in clinical rotations (hours that students must acquire to apply for their state CNA license) in a local nursing home, she noticed that the residents who would normally be engaged in activities communally, were unable to have this stimulation throughout the CoVid pandemic.  Once she completed research it was clear that a lack of cognitive stimulation in nursing homes is threatening the quality of life and well-being of their residents. Project-based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge PBL consists of carefully designed problems that challenge students to use: • Critical thinking • Self-directed leaning Strategies.  PBL allows the learner to acquire an integrated, knowledge-based structure around real-world problems – problems the learner will face in future work, profession, community, and personal life.

Skills USA state champions:

SkillsUSA empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. They improve the quality of our nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of SkillsUSA Framework skills that include personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics. Their vision is to produce the most highly skilled workforce in the world, providing every member the opportunity for career success.  We are happy to share that we had 5 Gold Medalists in the State Competition!  These students will then compete in the National "virtual" competition in June.

From our Student Assistance Counselor:

Youth Driven is a traffic safety and leadership program and is open for students who are currently in grades 9 - 11.  Students from all over RI make up the membership.  To become a member, students attend the 4 day summit held at Rhode Isalnd College.  Registration closes on June 1st.   To register, students go on their website at the following link: https://www.youthdriven.org/summit

CHS Community Cookbook

The Class of 2021 would like to thank the teachers, students and parents that contributed recipes to the CHS Cookbook. Unfortunately, there were not enough submissions to publish and sell a community cookbook. However, the Class of 2024 has decided to take it over will ask for new submission next year! All those who contributed recipes to the Class of 2021 will have their recipes published in the Class of 2024 sponsored CHS Community Cookbook.