All 10th and 11th Grade Students will participate in state testing this year. On April 9th, 10th grade students will take the PSAT and 11th grade students will take the SAT. This is a Federal and State requirement and will impact our school accountability rating. Teachers have been working hard in math and ELA to best prepare our students and we have used past assessments such as STAR and PSAT 9 and 10 to analyze individual growth needs. Thank you!

In addition, all 11th grade students will take the NGSA State Science Test on May 14th

• Grade 10- PSAT (Half Day) Bus run 12:30 PM

• Grade 11- SAT (Full Day)

• Grade 12- Senior Project Practice Run (half day) (Bus run 12:30 PM)

• Grade 9- Freshman Leadership Academy (Half Day) Main gym and SHS Cafe (Bus run 12:30 PM)

Below are some important reminders for testing

• All testers should bring a fully charged chromebook and a charger

• All students should bring a set of headphones/earbuds. We have headphones for students who may not have them. Bluetooth headsets are not allowed

• Students should arrive at school on time, well-rested, and should also eat a good breakfast

• Students will be given short breaks throughout the day however, the test will take about four hours to complete

• Students should not bring backpacks, cell phones, personal electronic devices, or smart watches into the testing classroom

• STUDENTS SHOULD TRY THEIR BEST!

The Scituate HS Band performing at the Coast Guard Academy! Performance, clinic and masterclasses at n Saturday, March 16.

Advanced art students recently utilized old vinyl records as an art medium. Generously donated by English teacher Keith Sanzen, these discarded materials found new life in the hands of the students. The class was excited and motivated, as they eagerly transformed the once-forgotten records into unique works of art. Artwork by: Gianna Ricciardi, Robin Bragger and Ava Gregory.

Working With Children students prepared an Irish dirt cake for middle and high school students in our life skills programs!

This week students completed their phone benches. This is an exercise that requires students to use their knowledge of computer aided design, tolerances-and-fits, design variables, and a laser cutter. In the end, they made a customized bench wooden kit that holds their phone in landscape mode for easy viewing. In the picture below, Emmett Demeis showing pride in his work.

Students continue to cycle through self-paced learning stations. The stations that were active this week were computer-controlled milling, MIG welding, oxy-acetylene welding, and sheet metal fabrication. In the photos below we see Nick Lupino calibrating the milling machine, Joel Casale gas welding an inside corner of a joint, Bryant Machowski riveting a sheet metal bumper together, and Cole Couillard carefully holding his posture as he MIG welds.

Technology Student Association: The TSA competition for which Computer Science and Engineering students have prepared these many months is coming up this Saturday, March 23rd. The bus will leave at 8 o'clock for North Kingstown High School and return at 4 o'clock. The dress code is business casual with a blue collared shirt, if possible. The permission slip can be found here and is also on your student's Google Classroom.

Congratulations to Simona Mancini for winning the state-level NAWIC architectural competition! She was tasked to design a seven-story combination gymnastics training center, mall, apartment building, and parking garage. She added many flourishes, some subtle, like fireproof insulation, and others more bombastic, such as a rooftop garden and common courtyard. Some images of her work can be found below. Her submission now gets forwarded for consideration on the New England regional level, and good luck to her for that!

Calculus students collaborating on their mid-unit assessment. Topics included are antiderivatives, indefinite integration, Riemann sums and definite integrals.

US History II students researching and planning their arguments for an assignment based on President Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to end the war as quickly as possible.

The Scituate High School Drama Club performed in the Rhode Island Drama Festival. Mackenzie Borden won the "Terry Murray award for Acting." The entire cast won the "Franco Coli Award for Ensemble Excellence" and the play got an overall rating of "Excellent." Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Barnes for their hard work and dedication and congrats to our students!

Senior Project Presentations are being held on Thursday, May 23rd from 3:00-7:15. A light dinner will be served at the break. If you are interested in judging please contact jill.morton@scituateschoolsri.net. It is always a great night for our seniors!

FRANCE 2025

Tour Price Increasing 4/1

Hello Future Travelers,

Thank you for your interest in our 2025 trip to France! There are still spaces left on the trip and our tour price will be increasing on 4/1. If you are still interested, this is your last chance to reserve your spot before the price goes up.

Additionally, the $200 Discount has been extended until March 14th!

You can enroll online at www.eftours.com/2716338KF

Or call 1-800-665-5364 and reference our trip number 2716338KF

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Students in grades 8-11 will have a two-week window to select courses for next school year. All students attended an assembly last week and should review the links below to begin the course selection process. Once the two-week window closes, Mr. Casey, Ms. Faccio, and Mrs. Trainor will sit with every student to review choices and ensure that students are on track to meet our graduation requirements.

Below is the newly released senior memo which contains all end of year dates and details for our graduating seniors. Please be sure that families of Scituate seniors review the memo carefully! As a reminder, we have a "rain" date for graduation. Please reserve June 7th AND June 8th.

We can't wait to continue to celebrate these amazing seniors! Go Spartans!

SURVEY WORKS! THE SURVEY CLOSES MARCH 31ST AND WE NEED YOUR VOICE!

Dear Scituate Spartan Community,

At Scituate High School we strive for excellence and your voice is important! We need to know all of the amazing areas that we are doing well in and where we need to improve. Each year, the RI Department of Education asks families and students to complete an anonymous survey. The data from this survey will be reported on our yearly school accountability rating for all to see. This year, we hope to get as close to 100% as possible! Let's show the state that the Scituate Spartans are the best! The SurveyWorks Stakeholder Survey Initiative is an effort to gather information that will help improve the quality of schools across Rhode Island. The surveys capture and assess information that helps educators understand and act upon what students, teachers, support professionals, administrators, and parents say about the climate, culture, and learning environments in their schools. The survey window will close on March 31, 2024. (Click link below) Thank you for your support, partnership, and commitment to Scituate High School!

Please note that when completing questions that are on a 1 through 5 scale, RIDE considers 1, 2, & 3 a "negative rating" while 4 &5 are "positive." In other words, 3 is not neutral.

All students should have completed the surveyworks survey in Advisory last week.

Faculty, parents, and students may be interested in donating items to our yard sale fund raiser or students may be interested in getting some community service hours by helping put on the yard sale.

The event will take place at 706 Hartford Pike (historic grange building and SPS headquarters) on 13/14 April.

Contact sdkornatz@gmail.com With any questions.

While we understand there are a lot of illness going around Scituate and RI right now, we want to encourage our students to come to school everyday if you are not sick. Currently, 17.4% of Scituate High School are deemed "chronically absent" which is determined as 18% of the school year. We currently rank 96th of all schools in RI for chronic absenteeism. Please come to school if you are not sick... we need you!!

Below are interactive leaderboards and resources for absenteeism from the Commissioner and the Governor.

Linked below is a live spreadsheet with all SHS events from now through the end of the school year. Please check this spreadsheet weekly as we will continue to update it on a weekly basis. Thank you!

Yearbook NEWS

Yearbooks are on sale until April 1st

www.jostens.com

Please send everything in one email

Sharon.terceira@scituateschoolsri.net

3/26-28 TBD Chorus Festival Ponoganset HS

4/10-11 TBD Band Festival E. Providence HS

5/1/24 BROADWAY Trip

5/22 Pops Concert

5/27 Memorial Day Parade

5/29 Music Awards Night

6/7 Graduation

Johnson & Wales University invites you to join us at our annual Student Research, Design & Innovation Symposium.

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024, 1:00 to 3:00 PM.

Location: John J. Bowen Center for Science & Innovation

75 Chestnut Street, Providence, RI

Drop in and view over 100+ undergraduate and graduate students' exemplary work. Student representation from our colleges of Arts & Sciences, Business, Engineering & Design, Food Innovation & Technology, Health & Wellness, and Hospitality Management will present their research, prototypes, industry-specific projects, and interdisciplinary work.

This event is a great opportunity to experience what JWU students learn, create, and innovate in our classrooms and beyond as they grow to become future professionals. We hope you will join us and help build up our network of connections with local Rhode Island educational institutions.

Want to learn more? Visit our webpage.

We hope to see you there!

The Jonn P.B.R. Memorial Foundation has set up a scholarship for graduating seniors. Any senior with a direct relation to a veteran of OIF/OEF timeframe is encouraged to apply. The graduating senior can fill out the Google Form and attach the necessary documents or print out the PDF file and physically attach and mail the application to the listed address.

The final date we are accepting applications is May 1st, 2024, so there is plenty of time for students to apply. This scholarship can be used for students attending college, vocational, or technical schools in the coming fall. The recipients of the scholarships will be invited to our annual Bike Run in August.

We look forward to accepting the applications and wish the graduating class of 2024 much success! Please reach out with any questions!

Scholarship Application Link

SCITUATE SPARTANS 2024

Spring Athletic Registration

Students, Parents, Guardians,

The Spring Season is about to get underway. All sports have a start date of Monday

March 18th, 2024. Baseball and Softball pitchers and catchers will begin on March

11th, 2024. In order to participate, ALL students MUST have a current physical, MUST

be registered on the school Website, and MUST be in good academic standing from the

2nd quarter of this school year.

Website Registration

● Please navigate to https://scituate-ar.rschooltoday.com/ and proceed by creating

an account (First time users) or logging in (returning users). ALL ATHLETES MUST

BE REGISTERED PRIOR TO THE FIRST PRACTICE/TRY OUT

Academic Standing

● All students must have passed with a GPA greater than 1.7 or failed fewer than 2

courses.

Boys Baseball Coach Hanson steelers21@cox.net

Girls softball Coach Geisser sgeisser@gmail.com

Girls Track Coach Haney haneyneit@hotmail.com

Boys Track Coach Kelly matthew.kelly@scituateschoolsri.net

Boys Tennis Coach Ceprano peter.ceprano@scituateschoolsri.net

Boys Volleyball Coach Short Diane.Garceau.Short@gmail.com

Boys Lacrosse Coach Lageux glagueux@verizon.net

Girls Lacrosse Coach Remka jena.remka@scituateschoolsri.net

Unified Basketball Coach Martin emmam1234567@gmail.com

Coach Barton nicole.barton@scituateschoolsri.net

Golf Coach Brown timothy.brown@scituateschoolsri.net

Unified Basketball played their first game against Smithfield this week. It was a close game, and everyone played well!

Huge shout-out to Sophomore Grant Bailey for earning All Division First Team. Keep up the hard work!!!

Behavior Expectations for Fans

Behavior Expectations of Student Groups

• Always provide positive support for your team. Never ridicule or degrade the opposing team or players.

• Conduct yourself in an exemplary manner. Remember that you represent your school both at home and away.

• Assist cheerleaders with yells, chants, etc. Always be a working part of pep assemblies with preparation, organization

and involvement.

• Treat opposing players, coaches, spectators and support groups with respect and enthusiasm. Applaud good

performances on both teams. Doing this will show that you understand and can recognize good performance,

regardless of team affiliation.

• Always display proper sportsmanship toward officials and value their contributions to the game. Respect the

judgments made during a contest. All calls are impartial and should be accepted by all parties.

• Use only positive cheers, signs and chants during a contest. This will show that you understand proper sportsmanship

while giving your organization and school a good reputation.

Behavior Expectations of Spectators

• Always support your team and the efforts of all participants involved.

• Do not intimidate or ridicule a player, coach, or official before, during or after a contest.

• Always praise athletes for their actions during a game; never degrade a participant for their efforts. Athletics are a

learning experience for students, and mistakes will be made.

• A ticket is a privilege to observe the contest, not a license to verbally assault others or be generally obnoxious.

• Learn the rules of the game so that you may understand and appreciate why certain situations take place.

• Always respect the integrity and judgment of officials. They are present to regulate the flow and enforce the rules of

the game. An official should never be degraded or ridiculed for a call they make.

• Show respect for the opposing players, coaches, spectators and support groups. Treat them as guests to your school.

• Use only cheers that support and uplift the teams involved.

• Recognize and show appreciation for an outstanding play by either team.

• Refrain from the use of any controlled substance (alcohol, drugs, etc.) before, during and after the game, on or near

the site of the event (i.e. tailgating).

• Be a positive role model at events through your own actions and by censuring those around you whose behavior is

unbecoming.

The Scituate School Department does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, religion, national origin, color, creed, political affiliation or disability in any of its educational programs and activities, and in employment and application for employment, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and other federal and state laws that prohibit discrimination. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Equal Employment Officer, P.O. Box 188, North Scituate, Rhode Island 02857, Telephone: (401) 647-4100; Email: EEO@ScituateSchoolsRI.net. You may also direct inquiries directly to: Office for Civil Rights (Boston Office), U.S. Department of Education, 8th Floor, 5 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-3921, Telephone: (617) 289-0111; Facsimile: (617) 289-0150; Email: OCR.Boston@ed.gov. If you require an accommodation to attend a meeting or program at a school, call the Equal Employment Officer at least two business days in advance of the meeting or program.