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February 15, 2024
Child Check Clinic Ages 3 & 4
The ConVal School District Special Education Dept. will be holding a Preschool Child Check Clinic for 3 and 4 year old children living in the towns of Antrim, Bennington, Dublin, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Peterborough, Sharon and Temple on March 14th, 2024 at Antrim Elementary School with appointments between 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Snow date is March 21st, 2024 (same time range).
The purpose of the clinic is to identify 3-4 year old children who may need further evaluation/consideration for special education services. Parents who have concerns about their child's development in the areas of speech, language, cognitive, motor, social, play skills, vision, or hearing should call 924-7503 X2032 to register for the clinic. Pre-registration is required. Child must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
Each year, New Hampshire public and charter schools are required by state law (RSA 193-C) and federal accountability laws (Every Student Succeeds Act) to assess students using a standardized assessment. We utilize several assessments in order to comply with these requirements. The U.S. Department of Education is requiring states to administer a state assessment for all third and fourth grade students. Students will take the NHSAS in their classroom between May 9th and May 24th.
Statewide assessments are an important part of a student’s core educational program:
Provide an evaluation of student mastery of grade-level content and skills in the academic areas of reading, writing, and math
Serve as one tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school and be college- and career-ready
Help inform future instruction in the classroom
Along with student work on classroom assignments, projects, essays, and local formative and summative assessments, statewide summative assessment results provide teachers and parents with important information about where students are on their path toward academic success.
Exemption
Parents are allowed to exempt their child from participation in the statewide assessments (permitted in NH RSA 193-C:6). Parents must complete and submit an exemption form that is provided by the school or district. Please contact the school to receive a copy of the exemption form. Please understand that if you choose to exempt your child from the assessment, no scores or summary of individual student performance, based on the statewide assessment, will be provided for your child.
Note: Federal law requires 95 percent of students (and 95 percent of all students within subgroups) to participate in the annual statewide assessment. If a school has less than 95 percent participation, the number of students under 95 percent will be calculated as zeros in the school’s achievement and growth indicators. While the zeros will be included in the calculation, no one particular student will be identified with those zeros.
Results
Student results for the NHSAS are generally available immediately upon the student completing the test. The school will send a student’s Individual Score Report (ISR) home before the end of the school year. If you prefer to see the results once your child has completed the NHSAS, please contact your child’s teacher.
Average Testing Times Grades 3-4
English Language Arts/Reading: 2 hours, 15 minutes
English Language Arts/Writing: 2 hours
Mathematics: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Please reach out to me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Rachel Lunan-Hill
100s and 100s of Things!
Our week in kindergarten and first grade has been busy! This week, the boys and girls continued to work hard on their math and literacy centers. This week, we celebrated Valentine’s Day! Students celebrated by making 2 crafts, having a special afternoon snack, and giving out their Valentine’s!
We can make and understand numbers in the the teens. This week students worked hard to show numbers greater than 10 in different ways. They worked with tens rods to show the tens and ones in a number.
