The Newfield Wolverine Newfield High SchooL’s Official Newspaper Special Issue Edition
A Message From Mr. Graviano By: Veronica Hall
Community In Times Of Coronavirus
(Sept-Nov 2020)
In this Issue: ↳COVID-19 Updates ↳Editor’s Note: What You
Need To Know This Holiday Season in positions of power to ensure everyone’s safety. Thankfully, Newfield High School finds that leadership ↳National Elections 2020: through Principal Graviano. As we go into the second Our Insider Look quarter of the school year, there are still many questions ↳GO & Class Elections about the way the months ahead of us will pan out, especially with the upcoming flu season. And while our ↳Upcoming Events school administration cannot have all of the answers right ↳Newfield’s September now, Graviano still has some wisdom to offer our Student of the Month: Peter community. He states the following: Marjowski “When it comes to the struggles we’re all dealing with ↳Dr. Wolverine given the pandemic, it’s important to remember that we’re ↳A Student’s Voice & Thank all in this together. We have to be here for each other. If students are struggling, whether hybrid or virtual, they You Teachers need to communicate! Speak to a parent, speak to a teacher ↳Music Department Insiders … come to me! We will take steps together to maximize & Fall Cabaret an opportunity to learn. It’s not perfect, but it’s all we can do … work together and support each other.” ↳School & Professional While that might seem a bit clichѐ to some, it is easy to forget we still have whatever support system we Sports have gathered through our respective years at Newfield, even in a virtual school setting. ↳Art Corner: The New Normal & Introducing Alex Marshall, Amidst the chaos of virtual learning and a grading period finishing, there is another big event that prompts Graviano’s statement to be currently necessary. As of November 9th, seniors in both high schools in the Our New Comic Strip Artist district have been permitted to go back to school four days a week, given they have not already switched ↳Literature & Creative back to the full-virtual model. To all that may have been concerned about this seemingly unprompted Writing Corner change, particularly given Newfield’s number of cases in comparison to the rest of the school district, Principal Graviano ensures that there are enough seniors who have switched to the virtual model that the ↳Life Hacks decision could be made safely with appropriate 6-foot distancing, and it’s likely this four-day-a-week ↳Quarantine Fashion & announcement caused an even sharper drop in seniors attending school via the hybrid model, though he adds Lifestyle that some classes have had to be moved to make it happen. If the merging of groups one and two is what makes this decision a concern, Graviano also confirms that the handful of cases we have seen in the past few ↳Weird Science: The Halo weeks are not linked to each other, and they all came from outside of the school. Effect, Expecting A Vaccine, Fast Lane It is still unknown what coronavirus-related policy changes could come following this, assuming it goes ↳Meet Our Staff & Join Us! according to plan. No matter what, Principal Graviano assures that all decisions being made regarding
In times like these, it is important to have good people
keeping Newfield open long-term, during what scientists predict could be another wave, are being made with much deliberation and according to the state’s COVID-19 guidelines. In the end, the school’s top priority is keeping students, staff, and their families safe.