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Additional event information is available via this interactive Trumba calendar. Click here for the official SAU 39 school year calendar. Additional event information is available via this interactive Trumba calendar.

Come see the Performing Arts Department’s final concert of the year! This event is free and open to the public.

The Souhegan Cooperative School District is accepting applications for Community Member Representatives for Souhegan High School Community Council.

Community Council is comprised of elected students, community members, school board, and faculty/staff of Souhegan High School. It is tasked with considering and ruling on proposals regarding student life, school initiatives, disciplinary procedure, grading procedure, and any other matter of importance to the school community. Community Council operates as a link between students, the community, the school board, and the faculty and staff of the school.

Community Council meets as a body at Souhegan High School every Monday at 3:00pm for about 45 minutes. On the first Monday of the month, Community Council meets in the evening starting at 5:00pm.

The time period for reaching out to the community asking for interested candidates has changed to the Spring so new members are aligned with the start of Community Council leadership. Also, as an effort to work together as a committee, the community members will serve two year terms. For this process, we are looking for two community members from Amherst and one community member from Mont Vernon.

If you are interested in serving on Community Council, please submit a letter of intent to:

Chelsea Borden (Executive Assistant) cborden@sau39.org

or by mail: 1 School Street, Amherst, NH, 03031

Letters are due no later than June 1, 2024

All are welcome to attend Amherst's Memorial Day Parade on Friday, May 24 starting at 5:30PM!

Students in grade 11 will be taking the NHSAS Science exam, our state accountability measure, on Friday, May 17th from 8:30 am to 9:45 am.

In addition to being our required state test, NHSAS Science is an important assessment that provides real-time information on students’ performance as related to grade-level expectations in science. We receive test results the afternoon of the test and teachers are able to use this information to target instruction through the end of the school year and beyond.

This information provides students, teachers, and administration:

• A measure of student mastery of content and skills in various scientific disciplines

• A tool for measuring the degree to which students are meeting high school expectations and are college- and career-ready

• Information to guide future instruction in the classroom

As a school, we are required to have a 95% participation rate. Any missed assessments below the 95% district and school participation requirement will be counted as zero scores for state accountability. Zero entered as student scores will significantly impact our school and district-level test results and our teachers’ ability to gain accurate data. This 90-minute assessment provides the school with valuable information regarding our students and the curriculum.

Thank you for your continued support of science education at Souhegan High School.

Right before April break, all seventeen freshmen advisories competed in the Freshmen Olympics, sponsored by Freshmen Leadership. Freshmen Olympics was a series of four events spread out over two weeks, which required advisories to collaborate in a number of ways. As a group, advisories had to answer trivia questions from five categories, complete a balloon relay race, construct a representative visual with the same required materials, and accurately toss cheeseballs on their advisor’s shower caped head. All four events brought a lot of laughs and stories that were shared all over the building. The winner, in epic come-from-behind fashion, was Betsy Wallisch’s advisory. Since this is Betsy’s final year of teaching, it is only appropriate that she go out on top! Thanks to the admin and all the additional staff who helped with preparing and judging these events!

Three student films from Souhegan have been chosen to be shown at the NH Student Film Festival! The public is welcome to attend. The films being featured are: The End by Catie Schriever, My First Love by Ryan Dupuis, and Missing in the Woods by Colin Atkinson, Noah Daily, and Peyton Remick. Congratulations!

The next Saber Spotlight will be held on Monday, 5/13.

Click here to view slides from the April 29 Saber Spotlight that was reviewed in advisory!

Student Services is publishing newsletters on a monthly basis for 2023–2024. Highlights for May include updating post grad plans, recommendation letters, PSAT 10 resources, and signups for SAT weekend tests. Please see the May Student Services newsletter here.

Senior Project Presentations Days are happening this month! Every senior has been made aware of their presentation date and time, available on this spreadsheet (organized by day and time). We are excited about these two days and welcome community involvement. If you are a parent of a senior please encourage your friends, neighbors and relatives to come and enjoy your child's presentation. If you are a community member please feel free to drop in and watch our Souhegan seniors in action. We have a great lineup of presentations, and are looking forward to a wonderful two days!

In an effort to tie up some loose ends before graduation, we encourage students to stop by the Info Center and make sure they know what is currently on their library account. While students may need some texts through finals, we encourage graduating students to return any library materials or instructional texts they no longer are using as soon as possible, and pay for any lost materials. Library accounts need to be clear before students can receive their caps and gowns. Lost or damaged materials can be paid for via cash, check (made out to “SHS Student Activities Fund” and dropped off at the Info Center), or credit card. To pay via credit card, please use the following link https://www.myschoolbucks.com/ver2/prdembd?ref=ZZH4SNSQO2083HC_ZZ5SP2OL0AQTSH8 to pay with MySchoolBucks, specifying the name of the student when paying.

Thank you for your continued partnership and support!

The cost is $30 for a law sign and $75 for a banner. Click here for more details!

Enter to win reserved graduation seats and parking at this year's graduation ceremony!

Click here to view available community service opportunities!

Meet the wonderful and talented staff members of SHS!

Sarah Barbato

What is your role at Souhegan?

Social Studies Teacher

How long have you been with Souhegan?

19 years

What do you love about your job?

Lots of things; but I really love all of those moments when students make connections between their classes, the books they read, and to their lives beyond school, it makes it all worth it.

What do you like to do outside of work?

I like to spend time with my family, read, travel, craft, and be on the water.

If you were given one wish what would it be?

For understanding; for each other, for differences, for change.

Do you have a favorite quote or mantra?

How you do anything is how you do everything.

This week at council we continued discussing the Rank by Request Proposal. Our next meeting will be Monday, 5/13 at 5:00 in room 126/127 where we will continue discussion on the proposal and elect our executive positions of Clerk, Student Activities Committee Coordinator and Vice Coordinator and Treasurer.

Souhegan Interact is hosting a gift card drive with the International Institute of New England in order to help refugees and immigrants that are in our community. The International Institute of New England works to create opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement and pathways to citizenship. They also have programs to help parents, adults and kids in many different aspects, from after school care to having volunteers who are willing to drive people to their appointments. Something as simple as a gift card can make it possible for groceries to cost a little less or to buy their kids some new clothes. Thank you so much for being willing to give! Gift cards can be brought into student services and given to Lynda or Michelle!

Check out the May 1 edition of the Performing Arts Newsletter!

On Saturday, May 4, the Crew Team participated in their first race of the Spring Crew Season! They raced 10 events and sent out 11 boats having an A and B racing in the Men's Varsity Double event. Every boat medaled! 7 first places, 3 second places, and 1 third place.

Bald Eagle Sprints

In the order the boats went out in:

Men's Second Varsity Four: 2nd

Women's Novice Four: 2nd

Men's First Varsity Four: 1st

Men's Novice Four: 1st

Men's Second Varsity Quad: 1st

Women's Varsity Double: 1st

Men's Novice Quad: 1st

Men's First Varsity Quad: 1st

Women's Novice Quad: 2nd

Men's Varsity Double: 1st and 3rd

Meels McAulty competed in her first show (she was in Germany the first show) and had a WONDERFUL first show! She placed 1st in Dressage, 6th in her English equitation class, and 2nd in trail!

Merrie Frances had a 9th in her jumping class, 5ht in her trail class and a 6th in her equitation class!

Brooke Bawell had a 4th in her dressage test and 3rd in trail!

Callie Tower could not compete this meet but was there to support and cheer on her fellow team mates!

- Coach Binstead

Website: https://www.sau39.org/shs
Location: 412 Boston Post Road, Amherst, NH, USA
Phone: (603) 673-9940
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Twitter: @SouheganHS