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North Attleboro High Review

June 6, 2017

Respect – Collaboration - Hard Work- Accountability – Independence

Save the Date:

June 8 Class Speeches

June 9 Class Elections

June 19-23 Final Exams, Half Day schedule, (see below)

June 23 Last Day of School

General Announcements:

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Guidance Department: FROM THE GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT….

PSAT’s FOR SOPHOMORES AND JUNIORS

Saturday, October 14, 2017

(Register in the guidance office-more information to follow)

ACT Test Dates

Test Date Registration Deadline Late Registration Deadline

September 9, 2017 August 4, 2017 August 5-18, 2017

October 28, 2017 September 22, 2017 September 23-October 6, 2017

December 9, 2017 November 3, 2017 November 4-17, 2017

SAT Test Dates

In 2018, there will no longer be a January test date. This date is instead being replaced by an earlier August test date (starting in 2017) which will only be available in the U.S. Additionally, from the 2017-18 testing year onward, the international November and June test dates will offer only SAT Subject Tests.

Test Date Normal Deadline Late Registration* Online Score Release

August 26, 2017 July 28, 2017 August 15, 2017 September 14, 2017

October 7, 2017 September 8, 2017 September 27, 2017 October 27, 2017

November 4, 2017 October 5, 2017 October 25, 2017 November 23, 2017

December 2, 2017 November 2, 2017 November 21, 2017 December 21, 2017

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Graduation

Graduate, Will Hope, performs with the Concert Band for the final time.

Graduate, Olivia Ross, walks Honorary Diploma recipient Charlie Legg up to the stage.

Members of the class of 2017 celebrate as they are officially declared graduates!

Salutatorian Victor Cai gives his speech titled, "To Be."

Mr. Legg receives his diploma from School Committee Chairman, James McKenna.

Vocalists wow the crowd with the Star Spangled Banner!

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NAHS Senior Class Destinations

Next year the Senior class of 2017 is

all over the map—literally. In 2017-

2018 our students will be as close as

North Attleborough and as far as

Florence, Italy and Madrid, Spain.

They will be in California, Colorado, and Arizona, all six New England states and everywhere in between. Our

scholars will be attending the Art Institute of Chicago, Berklee College of Music, and Massachusetts Maritime

Academy as well as MIT, Harvard, and Yale. They will have majors such as actuarial science, professional

golf management, and fashion merchandising. Many of our students have chosen to attend UMass Amherst in

a wide variety of majors that the university offers and some will be studying criminal forensics and computer

science at BCC. To see where the students will be and what they will be doing next year—stop in and view

our Senior Destination map—you may wish you were going with them!

Rocketeer Update: Golf Finals Congratulations to freshman, Jillian Barend, who qualified for the MIAA

Golf State Finals last week! She finished 11th out of 70 golfers and will tee

off again at finals on Wednesday, June 14th at Heritage Golf Club in Charlton,

MA. Jill is the first female golfer from NAHS to make it to state finals! Best

of luck, Jill!

Scholar Athlete Award

Senior Nicholas Rajotte was honored as a recipient of the National

Football Foundation Scholar Athlete Award. Nick was among 33

student-athletes honored at the Boston Newton Marriott for

their high achievement on the field and in the classroom. He will

continue his football and academic careers at Springfield

College. Below he is pictured with members of the football coaching

staff. Congratulations, Nick!

Mr. Ken Nally, Mr. Jack Johnson, Head Coach Don Johnson, Nicholas Rajotte and Mr. Derek Herber

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Fisher Kelly Banquet

On May 25th, senior athletes, parents, coaches, and staff attended the 96th

annual Fisher- Kelly Banquet held at the Attleboro Elks. This banquet

recognized our seniors for their athleticism, leadership, academic

achievement, and sportsmanship throughout their four years at NAHS.

In the Classroom:

Five students from Ms. Shockro's Spanish classes participated in the Massachusetts Foreign Language

Association's 2017 Poster Contest. This year's theme was "Languages Transform Individuals into

Communities." Judges were impressed by the student's creative and artistic responses to the theme

which emphasized the important role of languages in our diverse world. Congratulations to freshmen

participants Dilara Cetiner, Kaylee Malkowski and Sarah Marrow. Special congratulations to

sophomores Amrita Adak and Anna Kuzmicheva for their honorable mentions in this state contest.

Bravo!

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NAHS STUDENTS EXCEL ON NATIONAL SPANISH EXAMS

In April over 157,000 students nationwide participated in the National Spanish Exams. Among those students

were one hundred and fifteen Spanish 3 Honors, Spanish 4 Honors, and Spanish 5 Advanced Placement students

from Ms. Hanley and Ms. McGrail’s classes. The National Spanish Exams are the most widely used assessment

of Spanish mastery in the nation and have been administered across the United States for the last sixty years.

This year North students excelled with forty-two students earning national medals and an additional forty-five

students earning Honorable Mentions. Below are the award winners. Felicitaciones to all those who

participated!

Scoring in the 95th to 100th percentile in the nation and earning a Gold Medal – Lillie Ahearn, Harrison Boudreau, Ashley Harrop and Shurobhi Nandi.

Scoring in the 85th to 94th percentile and earning a Silver Medal – Isaac Abitabilo, Nina Beauvais, Madison Breton, Haley Degon, Victoria Longa, Casey Magas, Alaina Mello, Julia Noreck, Alexander Rinaldi, Julia Tolfa, Shruti Varshney and Molly Rice.

Scoring in the 75th to 84th percentile and earning a Bronze Medal – Morgan Ashworth, John Bradley, Samuel Bullock, Erin Buron, Victor Cai, Abigail Calistra, Emily Chiasson, Julia Consentino, Kaylee Drew, Kendall Hauerwas, Celine Ibrahim, Leah Jette, Lana Lozinski, Annie Maloney, Gina Manganaro, Kevin Martinez, Brooke Milosh, Maya Mottinger, Christopher Mullaney, Katherine Ovoian, Chad Peterson, Mackenzie Rosenberg, Ojas Rozario, Meghan Slaney, Lauren Stochl and Veda Wetherbee.

Scoring in the 50th to 74th percentile and earning an Honorable Mention - Kevin Aguilar, Allison Baiungo, Katherine Barker, Mitchell Barker, Catherine Brennan, Sophia Clarkin, Marcus Costa, Keigan Cullen, Julia Dakin, Jacquelyn Dirschel, Megan Flaherty, Max Fontes, Derek Gaudino, Katelyn Hewett, Cole Jarchow, Paul Lubelczyk, Danielle MacDonald, Prem Malkan, Andrew Masek, Julia Mello, Amanda Mignacca, Nicholas Morse, Katherine Munley, Tara Nair, Daniel O’Rourke, Kasey Papineau, Michael Perera, Jameson Pommenville, Benjamin Riseman, Emerson Riseman, Spencer Robertson, Caroline Rowe, Kayla Roy, Bilal Salha, Rana Samrout, Julia Santos, Kyle Schriever, Derek Shanks, Azka Siddiq, Elizabeth Smahi, Michael Tobey, Amit Tobias, Brieann Wescott, Andrew Wissler and Anthony Zammiello.

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Physics

On May 9th, Paul Hickey, a representative for the Toshiba

America Foundation, visited North Attleboro High School to

award a grant to fund two new elective physics courses,

“Fundamentals of Electricity” and “Electronics with Arduino

Boards”. Science curriculum leader, Geoff Burgess and physics

teacher, Matt Salmond, collaborated to apply for this competitive

grant. The new course offerings will expand educational opportunities to North Attleboro High School

students.

Fundamentals of Electricity topics include basic electrical competencies including simple DC circuits,

Ohms Law, AC/DC, motors, power generation and transmission, and even some basic home wiring.

Electronics with Arduino Boards will use an Arduino microcontroller platform to explore both the

hardware and software components to developing electronics. Students will be guided through

building a series of circuits that start with writing code to

blink an LED in particular patterns, and will culminate with

building a robotic rubber band launcher and creating their

own circuit that accomplishes a specific task.

AP Biology

Mrs. Rice’s AP Biology class was awarded

a technology grant by the NAHS Alumni

Association. These funds were used to

purchase Carbon Dioxide sensors. Here,

students use the sensors to measure cellular

respiration in germinated peas.

Paul Hickey (Toshiba) and Matthew Salmond (Physics Teacher)

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Clubs and Activities:

Special Olympics

On Thursday, May 18th, 19 athletes from NAHS competed in the Special Olympics day games at

Attleboro High School. Best Pals joined the athletes for the day and supported them during their

events. Staff and students at NAHS put on a fantastic send off for the athletes and their best pals

including the marching band! It was a great day for all!

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Destination Imagination

Destination Imagination team members Adam Mirza, Lillie Ahearn,

Wendy Wang, and Will Pierce attended the Destination Imagination

Global Competition at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The

North Attleboro Team placed 12th in the world! Congratulations to our

students and Mrs. Shelly Ross, the team’s coordinator!

Music Department

May was an extremely busy month in the Music Department. Students were actively involved in the Fine Arts

Festival, the Beach Party 5k, Chamber Recitals, and the end of the year Banquet. All of these events were

extremely successful! The performances at the Fine Arts Festival included all ensembles in the music

department and portrayed a variety of musical genres. Closing out that weekend was our Third Annual Beach

Party 5K! Students not only volunteered throughout the course, but also provided entertainment and

encouragement in various locations

for the runners and walkers. A few

days later, these same students

participated in the Chamber Recitals

and provided wonderful music!

Concluding our music events for the

month was our Banquet where

students watched a slideshow of the last four years, and various awards were given out.

Keep North Attleborough Beautiful

For the 5th consecutive year the players and coaches of the NAHS baseball program participated on Saturday

May 6th in the Keep North Attleborough Beautiful's

(KNAB) Townwide Cleanup Day. This year, approximately

30 players and coaches targeted several specific areas of town

and picked-up many trashbags full of all types of refuse as

well as a grill and other furniture. This year's

participants performed this community-service project in a

steady downpour! The members of the baseball program are

committed to the idea that we are all part of something bigger than ourselves and that this is a wonderful

opportunity for us to give back to the community that supports us.

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Boosters and More:

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