The Latin Results Are In!

On Wednesday March 16, 2011 thirty-two North Middlesex students participated in the National Latin Exam.  The NLE is coordinated through a joint effort by the American Classical League (http://www.aclclassics.org/) and the National Junior Classical League (http://www.njcl.org/).  More than 149,000 Latin students from all fifty states and thirteen foreign countries participated in this year's exam. 

The hard work by our Latin students and and their Latin Teacher Ms. Julia Brown has resulted in an accomplishment that we can be truly proud of.   Twenty-six of the North Middlesex NLE participants earned an honor based on their performance!

The following students earned a Gold Medal/ Purple Ribbon and the Summa Cum Laude honor: Sarah Carter,  David Flournoy, Andrew Jena, Amelia MacCoy, Jess Sampson, Janna Schiavo, Ian Taylor, Samantha Libonate (Purple Ribbon) and Christopher Gibbons (Purple Ribbon).

Ten students earned Silver Medals and the Maxima Cum Laude honor: Madeline Balassie, Eammon Gosselin, Victoria Gray, Audrey Lambert, Brandon Lambert, Ashley Lucente, Lynn McEnaney, Kellan Morgan, Sara Ritchie and Therese Ritchie.

Five students earned the Magna Cum Laude honor: Katherine Alfond, Paige Clarke, Stephanie Gonnella, Daniel Greig and Vincent Marinilli.

And two students earned the Cum Laude honor: Andrea Fanciullo and Gina Zuccaro.

Congratulations to our students and Ms. Brown for their achievement!  NMRHS community members can learn more about the National Latin Exan at http://www.nle.org/

Faculty Awards

The NMRHS school community would like to recognize two of our faculty for some recent achievements. 

First, Mr. Ray Kane (World Languages Department) has received the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 2011 Service-Learning Teacher Leader Award.  On May 3, 2011 Mr. Kane and students Gwen Morgan (grade 12) and Casey Libonate (grade 11) will be guest presenters at the DESE Service-Learning Conference.  At this event titled “Healthy Schools, Healthy Communities” Mr. Kane, Miss Morgan and Miss Libonate will lead their workshop Keys to Successful Service Learning: Team Building, Evaluation and Reflection.    This workshop is designed to explore the three foundations of effective service-learning implementation; reflection, evaluation and team building. Participants will interact in order to learn new skills in team building so as to be able to use them within their respective programs.  Mr. Kane will also be co-presenting with Ms. Meryl Higgins (Sepcial Education Department) a workshop titled Service Learning and Special Needs: Empowering ALL Students.  See more about the DESE state-wide conference and their recognition of the NM Community Garden at http://www.doe.mass.edu/csl/news11/Invitation.pdf

Also from the NM World Languages Department, Ms. Sharon Logiudice was recently awarded a scholarship to the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for Teachers, Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Iberia, 711-1614 CE.    Ms. Logiudice will spend a month this summer in Spain exploring “… a deeper and broader cultural history of Islamic Iberia”.  Seminar participants will spend two weeks at the University of Virginia’s Study Center in Valencia, Spain.  The remainder of their study will occur in Córdoba, Granada, Seville and Toledo.  Ms. Logiudice is one of only sixteen nation-wide recipients of this presitious grant!  Learn more about this exciting seminar at http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/islamiciberia/

Congratulations to both Mr. Kane and Ms. Logiudice.  We are all very proud of you!

2011 Leadership Day

The North Middlesex Regional High School student council presented its annual Leadership Day on Tuesday, March 29^th.  Students, who were nominated by their advisors, teachers, or coaches, spent the day participating in workshops relating to teamwork, enthusiasm, communication, success, how to handle failure, and conflict resolution.  Keynote speaker for the event, Mr. Ed Hayward, discussed topics such as setting short term goals, long term goals, and planning for the future.  Guest speaker Mr. Ray Kane spoke about the importance of teamwork and how reaching goals that were thought to be impossible, became attainable through teamwork.   The hard and insightful work of these students will definitely have a positive impact on the NM school culture.  Great job everyone! 

Submitted by Student Council Advisors Susan Hamel and Lisa Beauregard

MCAS: English Language Arts - CHECK!

The NMRHS Administration would like to thank all of our students and faculty for their cooperation with the administration of the MCAS ELA tests over the past two weeks.  Testing approximately 270 students over three scheduled testing days and three additional make-up days requires significant investment and assistance.  We could not have accomplished this task without a team effort!  The MCAS ELA subject tests are now checked off of our checklist and for this we thank you.

Despite the relief of putting the ELA tests behind us, we are not out of the woods yet.  The MCAS Mathematics subject tests are scheduled for May 17th and 18th.  And, the MCAS STE - Biology Test will take place June 1st and 2nd.  As we get closer to these dates, we will post the daily testing schedule and make-up testing arrangements on this site.

Thank you again North Middlesex and let's look forward to May!