SANBORN REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

POINTS OF P.R.I.D.E.

A weekly newsletter that promotes our core values of

P ersonalization, R isk-Taking, I ntegrity, D iscovery, and E mpowerment

As she puts it herself, freshman year Kailee was a turtle hiding in her shell. Now, as a SRHS senior, she is large and in charge, competing nationally in speaking for the FFA, being a leader at the Seacoast School of Technology, and working on publishing multiple articles and even her own book. Yet more, she rounds all this off nicely with a handful of awards, titles, and recognitions to boot.

Did I mention she loves the FFA? Kailee LOVES the FFA! And if you weren’t sure, that is the Future Farmers of America, where she serves on the National Leadership Team and spends much of her time and energy working to spread the word about agriculture in America. This has been her rocket ship, and she has taken off since becoming a member.

As her classroom teacher, I so appreciate how genuine and enthusiastic she is to learn. If you know her, you know that smile she gets on her face when talking about something that excites her. It’s a pleasure to have her in class, and my colleagues have similarly positive things to say.

Business and Technology teacher, Jeff Adams, says, “She is a hard working student, very trustworthy, and great to have in class. She loves FFA!” Head of Counseling, Heidi Leavitt, says, “Kailee is always looking for ways to expand her knowledge. She constantly seeks experiences and opportunities to try new things even if it forces her to step out of her comfort zone. She is innovative and creative in her thinking, she knows what she wants, and she does not let anything get in the way of achieving it.”

Looking to the future, if her dream comes true in ten years she’ll have graduated veterinary school from the University of North Carolina and will be running her own practice with her friend. She loves it down south, so we’ll be lucky to get her back if she returns.

This young woman is on the charge, and I can’t wait to see what she does after Sanborn. Good luck, Kailee, and keep on smiling!

Sanborn Regional High School will be sending 1 Sophomore to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) State Summit this year from May 29-31 at Saint Anselm's College in Manchester. This summit is a leadership development training for students where they will develop leadership skills, meet state leaders, make new friends from all over the state, experience life on a university campus, and discover how personal, group, and societal leadership lead to social change. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Sophomore chosen and will help open them up to more college and career options and scholarships.

 

Any Sophomore interested in this program should attend the informational meeting being held on October 29th during FLT. Sophomores can sign up for FLT with Ms. Arena that day through Enriching Students. There is an application packet that will need to be filled out (including an essay prompt) and be returned to Ms. Arena by November 12th. There is also an interview process included this year and interviews will take place the afternoon of November 14th.

 

If you are interested in this opportunity, please plan on attending the informational meeting on 10/29. If you have questions or concerns feel free to reach out to Ms. Arena ([email protected]) or your school counselor.

Which Colleges are visiting Sanborn in the Cafe at Lunch?

Oct 23 Savannah College of Art and Design 1st lunch 

Oct 25 University of Maine, Orono  Both lunches

Oct 25 Eckerd College (FL) 1st lunch

On December 13th, Sanborn Youth in Action and SoROCK are partnering to host a youth lead art gala at Sanborn Regional High School. It is a night celebrating community, compassion, and strength in hopes of increasing prevention and decreasing the stigma of mental illness. We recognize that art can be a powerful tool to start meaningful conversation. The students of Youth in Action hope that this event will be a way to bring awareness to mental illness and the importance of ending the stigma. We hope that you will consider creating a piece of art that answers the question "What does mental health look like to you?" (for younger students- "What do feelings look like to you?") with a focus on the themes of hope, recovery, community, or support. This event is open to the community and all ages- with prize/judging categories of elementary, middle school, high school and adults. If you are interested in submitting original work please register using the button below:

The Sanborn Girls Basketball Program will host their 2nd Annual Blue/Gray Night on November 22, 2019. The event will start at 5:30PM at the Sanborn Regional High School and will involve all levels of female student athletes in the Sanborn Basketball Program. The night will be open to the community and will be a family friendly event that will have raise money for the Girls basketball program and collect food donations as part of the Girls Varsity Basketball Team Hoops for Help Food Drive. All of the food donations will be collected and brought to the Holy Angels Food Pantry in Plaistow, NH. This pantry serves the areas of Fremont, Kingston and Newton as well as other surrounding areas. 

The event will feature a full inter-program scrimmage with each level taking the court for a quarter and competing against each other for bragging rights. Each quarter will feature players from grades 3rd through 12th grade. Players can still sign up to play until October 15 at www.tinyurl.com/bluegray2019 The score will keep building all night and we will see whether the Blue side or the Gray side will take home the win. This event is our season kick off which is a fundraiser coached by rec coaches and the official season will start on November 19th for the High School. 

Admission for this event will be 3 dollars a person with 5 and under free. Admission is only a $1 a person if they bring a food donation. There will also be concessions, fan contests between quarters and Sanborn basketball merchandise for purchase at the game and on our online store. We hope that the families of our players and the members of the community will come out and fill our gym for what should be a great night of fun. 

If you have any questions or would like to be one of our sponsors for the night, please e-mail Girls Varsity Coach Brian Gray at [email protected]. 

We need your feedback! The Sanborn Regional School District Music Department is undertaking a strategic planning process in order to identify goals and focus areas for the next several years. We need your input. 

Thank you for taking the time to respond to our questions.  The survey will remain open until October 31, 2019.

We are asking for your support for our 2019 back to school Un-Fundraiser. Simply put, an Un-Fundraiser is a way to donate money without having to sell or buy anything. Isn’t that the best?? 100% of your tax-deductible donation goes directly to the SRHS PTO, and then it goes right to our kids, which is the best place to put it! Where does this money go you might ask? 

Each year, our PTO supports the following kinds of activities:

 

• Starter cash for the in-coming freshmen student activities account

• Classroom grants, up to $250 per teacher, to fund innovative programming

• Scholarships to Sanborn Seniors

• Funds to support class activities such as the Senior Cruise in Boston.

• Senior Success Day

• Teachers’ meals for the open houses & Teacher Appreciation Week

• Strategies for College Presentation for parents

We hope you were able to appreciate the sarcasm and humor in this form of request and we thank you for your time and monetary donation.

As we wrap up our fall season your Sanborn Athletic Boosters want to thank you all your support to make all we do for our athletes possible.  

Our last home football game is Saturday November 2 vs Conval, please come and cheer on our players!

Fall sports awards are Monday November 4.

We are working behind the scenes to gear up for winter sports, we will be moving concessions from outdoors to indoors!

Sign up genius will be loaded for upcoming games, please join us for a few hours if you can.

We appreciate all the volunteer’s we have had this fall season and look forward to seeing new faces! We really do appreciate you!

Athletic Booster Club website link: https://www.sanbornathleticboosterclub.com/

Sign Up Genius for concessions link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0b4eaca728a0fb6-volunteer1

We have had so much going on this week! We kicked off Red Ribbon and Kindness weeks by sponsoring

mental health speaker Ivy Watts who presented to all the High School students in both the Sanborn and

Timberlane districts and also to the community on Monday evening. Her message was important and

well received! It is so important that we continue to talk about mental health and reduce the stigma!

We hope that the community presentation will be available soon on video. If you would like the link

please email [email protected]

This week our Sanborn Youth In Action group was very busy making kindness-grams! A kindness-gram

included a mental health awareness sticker designed by one of our members along with a “build bridges

of kindness” bracelet and some candy with a special message of kindness or encouragement chosen or

written by the sender. The group did this as a fundraiser for prevention and will be available during

lunch’s again through the coming week. Staff and students have enjoyed sending messages and many

days have been brightened!

This years Red Ribbon week theme is “Send a Message” and Mrs. Feeney our amazing Student

Assistance Counselor and Youth In Action co-facilitator, is collecting letters from students to their future

selves to be delivered date of their choosing.

This morning the middle school welcomed the theater group the Improbable Players to approach the

subject of substance use, how it starts and how to resist. Counselors were available to students after all

presentations this week.

SoRock is still seeking funding and welcomes your involvement! If you would like to help or attend our

next meeting please email [email protected] for more information