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FRIDAY FOCUS
Monomoy Regional High School's Weekly Newsletter
Published: June 10th, 2022
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School Meals Next Year 2022-2023
However, you can still apply for free or reduced school meals for 2022-2023. You can find a copy of this application on our website here. The process is simple and can be done online.
Families that do not qualify for Free or Reduced Meal Benefits may want to budget money to deposit into their child's account (MySchoolBucks.com).
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you.
Garth Petracca, Director of Food Services
gpetracca@monomoy.edu
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SHARK SHOUTOUTS
Shark Shoutout to all the staff that helped with MCAS season! We could not do it without you! -Ms. Hall and Ms. Ginnetty
Graduation Ceremony 2022
- Check out the Graduation 2022 page on the website for more resources: https://www.monomoy.edu/Domain/1878.
Audiobook SYNC has begun!
Every Thursday until August 17, AudioFile Magazine is giving away a thematic pair of audiobooks to everyone who signs up for the program. Visit the 2022 SYNC Audiobooks page on the library website to find out how to participate.
This week's theme is "Theater Tickets.” This thematic pair includes Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella. This LA Theaterworks production dramatizes the story of an experiment to measure the effects of love on the teenage brain. Christopher L. Bennett’s graphic novel Tangent Knights 1:A Caprice of Fate is dramatized by a group of actors lead by Richard Rohan as the narrator.
Both books have a 35,999 day check out, but they do need to be checked out by June 15th.
The Gift of Thrift
We had a soft opening of "The Gift of Thrift", a place for any student to share, take, swap, and enjoy......to be continued next school year.
The Class of 2025 is hosting a "Spring Into Summer" dance for grades 9-11 on Friday, June 17 from 7-9 PM!
- Tickets will be sold Thursday, June 9 through Wednesday, June 15 outside the cafeteria during Jawsome. No tickets will be sold at the door.
- Tickets are $15 each - cash or check made out to MRSD accepted.
- Tropical/summer attire dress code. School dress code applies.
- Due to capacity restrictions, there will be no outside guests permitted.
See you there!
MRHS Staff Gathering
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Career Fair
On Thursday June 9, all students had the opportunity to attend a Career Fair in the gymnasium which included professionals from 20 different occupations. Students were able to circulate among the presenters to learn more about each career including required training and future outlook.
Thanks to our community members Dr. Moody and Mrs. Jussell for sponsoring this event!
Step Up Day for the Rising 8th Graders - June 14th, 2022
We look forward to meeting all the incoming students!
Congrats to all our seniors!
Junior Book Awards - June 16th, 2022
By Invitation Only
June 16, 2022 at 8:00 AM
PBS Documentary/"Hiding In Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness" a film by Ken Burns
"Mental illness is one of the most significant health crises in the world—as pervasive as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease—but it often exists in secret and is endured in isolation. It’s the place where sadness leaves off, and depression begins; where nervousness becomes anxiety; excitement becomes mania, and habit becomes addiction. It’s the place where simply living becomes painful.
It affects all ages, in families both rich and poor, healthy and dysfunctional. Trauma can be the trigger—from personal crises such as divorce and neglect to environmental disasters, racial injustice, and pandemics. Over time, the symptoms can progress, and lead to increasingly extreme behaviors—like eating disorders, self-harm, and thoughts of suicide.
The issues surrounding mental illness are extraordinarily complex. The risk factors are daunting, the economics bewildering, and the politics contentious. But the most important step—and often the most difficult one—is to start talking about it. Hiding in Plain Sight will bring that conversation into homes, schools, the workplace, and community organizations across the country.
The two-part, four-hour film follows the journeys of more than 20 young Americans from all over the country and all walks of life, who have struggled with thoughts and feelings that have troubled—and, at times—overwhelmed them. They share what they have learned about themselves, their families, and the world in which they live. Through first-person accounts, the film presents an unstinting look at both the seemingly insurmountable obstacles faced by those who live with mental disorders and the hope that many have found after that storm. In the process, they will directly confront the issues of stigma, discrimination, awareness, and silence, and, in doing so, support the ongoing shift in the public perception of mental illness today.
Executive produced by Ken Burns, co-directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, produced by Julie Coffman, and written by David Blistein, Hiding in Plain Sight, the first film of Our Mental Health Crisis, premieres June 27-28, 2022. (4 hours)" from Ken Burns.com
https://kenburns.com/films/hiding-in-plain-sight-youth-mental-illness/
https://www.pbs.org/show/hiding-plain-sight-youth-mental-illness/
Congratulations to all of our graduates! We are so proud of you!
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Wishing you health and safety,
The School Counseling Team
Caitlyn Hall, 8th Grade Counselor
Lindsay Ginnetty, A-F
Sean Burke, G-N
Jon Bennett, Instructional Leader, O-Z
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MRHS Spring Sports Awards Night
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CQX Open House - Saturday, June 11th
Harwich-Dennis Rotary Mini-Golf Family Event - Saturday, June 18th
Contact Us!
Email: mrhs@monomoy.edu
Website: https://www.monomoy.edu/Page/15
Location: 75 Oak Street, Harwich, MA, USA
Phone: 508-430-7200
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