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IV, No. I
Oyster River High
Sch~ol
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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 Iowa and Rhode Island. She has four children and has Five new people joined worked in Boston; Wisconthe Oyster River staff and Ghan s We~t ~fric~; a:cu Hy th is year including and rrost recently in Sana guidance counselor, libersworth High School. rarian, secretary, janitor Mrs. Broderick likes and a special education the CRHS library and finds teacher. Mrs. Phyllis R. rv\lcKay her job quite "exciting.H is the new counselor. She She has been rrnst impressed friendliness of decided to work hete be- with . the cause of the "challeging , the people . at CRHS. Mrs. Ei 1een Mul 1 ins college counseling" that is needed. from 01arleston, S.C., is the new secratary in the Mrs. MacKay has been a rrn in off ice. A · newlywed, high school counselor for Mrs. Mullins rrnved to this The test was devel11 years, rrnst recently at area when. her husband was oped by Seacoast EducaScmersworth High School. tion Services (SES), a transferred to the PortsShe has ·an M¥i. from Plycooperative of several mouth Naval Shipyard. Mrs. mouth State College. Seacoast school district Mrs. MacKay is now MuH ins th inks the school is very nice, as are the teachers and adrniniworking with Mrs. Michel le kids. She is awed, though, st~ators. Certain items Reardon, an Oyster River by the srra.llness of fhe were ~lso developed in career education teacher school, having attended a consultation with and counselor. They will be much larger high school. McGraw-H il 1 , Inc., Pubcouns e 1 ing .). groups of s tuMr. Dick Coty, for1 ishers. dents who have specialized merly an insurance agent, The test was rm.de up problems (students of diby the cooperative for vorced parents, for ex- . has joined the janitorial staff. A native of Weaeconanic reasons, acample). cording to Mr. Daley • . Each Mrs. M:icKay really therf ield, Conn., Mr. Coty the rrorning shift district pays for the en i oys working at. O.R. She . works from 7:00 to 3:3'0 p.m. administration of the test likes the closeness between Mr. Coty I ikes his job and chips _ in to SES for the the faculty and the stuand really enjoys the kids. development' of the test. dents, the amount of power Coty has a wife Last year the test was the students have, and Mr. Barbara, and two chil~ren given to fifth and eighth student involvement in · goTan, 18, and Ronnie, 15. grade students ih the area, vernment and sports at the Special Education in CX:tober. The results of school. Teacher Jay Roy was hired these tests were returned With the retirement of to fill a new position in recently and a rra.nagement . ·Mrs. Jeannette Winslow in the reasource room. Mr. Roy plan wi 11 be deve)Qped to the 1 ibrary, · Mrs. Barbara attended Fitchburg (Mas~.) use the results in changing Broderick was hired to fill State Co.liege and is curthe program to fit the the head librarian spot. rently in a rra.sters program students needs, Mr. Daley Mrs. Broderick atsaid. tended the university of (cont ' d on pg • 2 )