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Oyster River High
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Accountability test to be given . t() ORHS juniors by Robert Heilbronner The Oyster · River Junior Class wi 11 be taking the writing sample section of the state rtandated accountability tests today periods two and three. The writing sample is on 1y one sect ion of a three-part test for juniors. The Math and Lang-
Students not to be greeted by teachers ~ by Catie Knight The Oyster River High School Climate Cmmittee recently decided not to reccnmend a forrn:il greeter system, but approved a student tutoring and month 1y as s emb l i es • Several weeks ago one qr two teachers volunteered to greet the students at the front door in the rror ning. Languag~ Teacher called the Susan Smith system '_'artificial," but suggested - that teachers should stand outside their classroo.~s. Guidance Counselor Phyllis_ l'v1acKay said "Sane students were suspicious of ~he 'Whole idea." The comnittee approved tutoring by ~S students or University of Ne\.\!Hamps h i r e s t ud en t s . Assemblies already scheduled to be held every month should be continued throughout the year "to teach students how to act at a public concert, other -than a rock concert," said Paul Gasowsk i. . Mr. Gasowski is in favor of 50 minute pep rallies, rather than 10 minute rallies. Presently two have already been planned. Tentatively the first will be on Nov. 12. The Pontine Movanent Theatre will be here, the second, in December, will be on Visual Ccmnun ica ti on.
uage Arts sect ion will be given the week of Nov em, · ber 30. Scoring of the test will be in Exeter on Nov. 16. Not · only will the results of each school be released, but also individual scores will · be rep~rted. Students will have a . choice - of three tooics to write about. The test is for program evaluation not for individual diagnosis, according to ~S Principal Ger a 1d A. Dal e y • In 1978 the state decided that all school districts had· to administer such a test, conforming to a six-point prograrn. choo1s must: - -Set goa 1s for al I students. - Find ways to show these goals have been met. - Give the tests. - Assess the results ,.. Report the results to the ccnmun it y. - Develop programs to re~ch unmet goals.
Ten ~ew st~ff members joined CRHS this year. Shown here in the guidance office are: (in · rear) _Perry Pitt; (on couch) Nancy Hayes, Barbara Broderick, Susan Kaufrmn, Jay Roy;·. (fore) Richard Coty and Phyllis M:i.cKay. 1
ORHS welcomes five to faculty and staff
by Ted Weesner Five new people joined the Oyster River staff and a:cu Hy th is year including a guidance counselor, librarian, secretary, janitor and a special education teacher. Mrs. Phyllis R. rv\lcKay is the new counselor. She decided to work hete because of the "challeging college counseling" that is needed. Mrs. MacKay has been a high school counselor for The test was devel11 years, rrnst recently at oped by Seacoast EducaScmersworth High School. tion Services (SES), a She has ·an M¥i. from Plycooperative of several mouth State College. Seacoast school district Mrs. MacKay is now teachers and adrniniworking with Mrs. Michel le st~ators. Certain items Reardon, an Oyster River were ~lso developed in career education teacher consultation with and counselor. They will be McGraw-H il 1 , Inc., Pubcouns e 1 ing .). groups of s tu1 ishers. dents who have specialized The test was rm.de up problems (students of diby the cooperative for vorced parents, for ex- . econanic reasons, acample). cording to Mr. Daley • . Each Mrs. M:icKay really district pays for the en i oys working at. O.R. She . administration of the test likes the closeness between and chips _ in to SES for the the faculty and the studevelopment' of the test. dents, the amount of power Last year the test was the students have, and given to fifth and eighth student involvement in · gograde students ih the area, vernment and sports at the in CX:tober. The results of school. these tests were returned With the retirement of recently and a rra.nagement . ·Mrs. Jeannette Winslow in plan wi 11 be deve)Qped to the 1 ibrary, · Mrs. Barbara use the results in changing Broderick was hired to fill the program to fit the the head librarian spot. students needs, Mr. Daley Mrs. Broderick atsaid. tended the university of
Iowa and Rhode Island. She has four children and has worked in Boston; WisconGhan s We~t ~fric~; and rrost recently in Sanersworth High School. Mrs. Broderick likes the CRHS library and finds her job quite "exciting.H She has been rrnst impressed with . the friendliness of , the people . at CRHS. Mrs. Ei 1een Mul 1 ins from 01arleston, S.C., is the new secratary in the rrn in off ice. A · newlywed, Mrs. Mullins rrnved to this area when. her husband was transferred to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Mrs. MuH ins th inks the school is very nice, as are the kids. She is awed, though, by the srra.llness of fhe school, having attended a much larger high school. Mr. Dick Coty, formerly an insurance agent, has joined the janitorial staff. A native of Weatherf ield, Conn., Mr. Coty the rrorning shift works from 7:00 to 3:3'0 p.m. Mr. Coty I ikes his job and really enjoys the kids. Mr. Coty has a wife Barbara, and two chil~ren Tan, 18, and Ronnie, 15. Special Education Teacher Jay Roy was hired to fill a new position in the reasource room. Mr. Roy attended Fitchburg (Mas~.) State Co.liege and is currently in a rra.sters program (cont ' d on pg • 2 )