SOMERSWORTH HIGH SCHOOL
SAU #56
School Highlights
Somersworth High School faculty, last spring, voted 64 -2 to accept PBIS at our school. Our entire faculty was trained in a workshop on ways to reinforce positive behaviors in our school. Our Universal Team and many of our students went to a 2 day workshop at Waterville Valley. All expenses were paid by a grant from the University of New Hampshire. Somersworth High School and SAU56 schools major focus this year is literacy. To support this initiative our librarians and teachers are supporting/encouraging teachers to bring their classes to the library from Oct. 14 — 20 for Teen Read Week. Somersworth I-High School will be participating in NH’s Big Read, Fahrenheit 451, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007 from 2:30 — 3:30PM in our Library. Danika Ham, a senior, has been selected as Gatorade Track Athlete of the year (NH) 2007. Senior Miranda Margowsky; National Merit Commended Scholar (2007) Interact Club worked on flower beds throughout our city. Rachel’s Challenge — The National Assembly that celebrates the life of Rachel, who was the first victim at Columbine High School — was presented to all students and staff Middle school and High school students signed a banner which was hanging on the wall in our cafeteria. All students and staff pledged to be accepting of all other students. The high school is working to complete competencies for all courses by the beginning of the 2008 school year. The school has developed a common format template, based on the CACES model, which will be used for writing course competencies, and includes terminology from the various frameworks, standards and grade span expectations.
The Somersworth High School community, working in cooperation with APEX II, a statewide dropout prevention program, and the New Hampshire Department of Education, are implementing a positive behavior interventions and supports system designed to minimize problem behavior and increase graduation rates. The overall goal of the program is to create a safer and more positive school community. The Building Trades program at Somersworth Career Technical Center is completing our 23rd house. This one will be going to a New Hampshire family who lost their home in the Mother’s Day flooding. More houses are scheduled to he built this year for transport to the Louisiana gulf coast. Again the students and volunteers will participate in the entire process from building through delivery. Houses are sponsored by There Is No Place like Home, our local flood relief organization.