Lurgio News for May 14, 2021

 

LURGIO NEWS May 14, 2021

Dear Lurgio Families,

It’s hard to believe the end of the school year is just around the corner. Our students have spent part of this week working diligently on their NH-SAS testing in Math, Reading, and Writing. We are excited for the special events and celebrations that mark the end of another successful school year. You can find information about these events each week in the Lurgio News, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled for ixmportant details during the coming weeks.

Be well,

Ed

May 19 (Wed)	NH-SAS Testing (Grade 8 Science)
May 21 (Fri)	Lurgio Tie Dye Event
May 24 (Mon) - May 27 (Thurs)	Mt. Cardigan Experience Trips (Grade 8)
May 31 (Mon)	Memorial Day (NO SCHOOL)
June 4 (Fri)	8th Grade Block Party (see New News item below)
June 8 (Tues)	8th Grade Awards Night (more info to come!)

New News

8th Grade Block Party

Attention 8th Grade Students! Please save the date for our end-of-year outdoor celebration on Friday, June 4 from 6:00PM-9:00PM. Planning for this special event is currently underway and we will share more information with 8th grade families in the coming weeks.

Notes from the Nurse

1) If your student is attending Cardigan and uses an inhaler or Epi pen, please have them place it in their day pack for the trip.

2) If your student is planning on getting the COVID 19 vaccine, please send/email   the completed vaccination record after the second dose.  If your student is an 8th grader and the doses are given over the summer, please provide a copy to the BHS nurses office:    mastrodicasar@sau25.net (Rene) or gunningm@sau25.net (Maura)

3) Please have your student bring a water bottle to school with the warmer weather.

Thanks so much!  

Reminders

 

8th Grade - Bedford High School Fall Sports Information

Please CLICK HERE for Summer/Tryout Information as well as Fall Sport Sign Ups!!! If you are on the fence between sports, please sign up for all that you are interested in. Any questions, please reach out to the athletic department at 603-310-9010 or email at parkerc@sau25.net

NH Department of Education - ReKINDling Curiosity Camp Opportunity

The New Hampshire Department of Education is partnering with New Hampshire camps and school-age summer programs across the state to offer students the unique opportunity to move beyond COVID-19 and be a kid again. Students of all ages, backgrounds and abilities benefit from exposure to short-term summer enrichment programs, including in the areas of challenge, friend-making, positivity, and emotional safety. These are all things that New Hampshire camps and school-age programs do best. Visit http://rekindlingcuriosityeducation.nh.gov for more details.

Grades K-6 Masks & Recess

Beginning Monday, May 10th masks at recess will be OPTIONAL.

Rationale:

- State & County numbers are trending down and Bedford numbers are stable

- Recess is outdoors and allows for ample physical distancing

- All students self-screen prior to attending school and are therefore asymptomatic

- All employees who want to be vaccinated have had the opportunity to do so

- Per DHHS recommendations, we will continue to REQUIRE masks in the buildings.

- Team sports will continue to follow NHIAA protocols.

Base Camp at Lurgio

WHO - Any students new to the district, upcoming 7th graders, remote students, nervous for the transition to RAL or 8th grade.

WHAT - Sign up to get more comfortable with Lurgio! We will be doing tours of the school, a school wide scavenger hunt, learning how to read our schedule, learn about clubs and activities and get to know other students!

WHERE - Lurgio Middle School

WHEN - Please keep an eye on your email for more information and links for registration after vacation. Lurgio Base Camp will be held on August 16 and 17 (9:00am-2:00pm).

CONTACT - Annalisa Sink (sinka@bedfordnhk12.net) and Linnea Hilchey (hilcheyl@bedfordnhk12.net

Health Office Reminder

As a reminder, symptoms of Covid-19 include the following:

-Fever or chills

-Cough,shortness of breath

-Sore throat, nasal congestion or runny nose

-Fatigue

-Muscle or body aches

-Headache

-New loss of taste or smell

-Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea

If your student experiences any of these symptoms due to a chronic health condition (including seasonal allergies) or side effects from medication they are prescribed, please provide an MD note stating such so your student is not excluded from school or asked to be tested unnecessarily fo COVID

Please have your student drop notes off at the nurse’s office, email them to chesssie@sau25.net or fax them to 472-5090.

Service Project by a RAL Student

Please help support one of our 7th grade students who is required to do a community service project for her black belt. We have a bin by the main office to collect winter gear (boots, gloves, snow pants, hats, coats, etc.). The bin will be here for two weeks.  Time to clean your closets!  Summer is coming!

Bedford in Bloom Virtual 5K

Student athletes at Bedford High School (Life of a Bulldog) and Lurgio Middle School (Life of a Lion) have teamed up to bring you a Virtual 5K known as Bedford in Bloom. Proceeds from this race benefit the Student Conservation Association. See THIS FLYER for more details and to see how you can register!

 

Updated Travel Guidelines Reminders

We wanted to update you all regarding the new travel guidelines that have been released from NH DHHS.  Any travel increases a person’s risk of getting infected and spreading Covid.  DHHS continues to discourage travel, and encourages post travel testing.  Here is the detailed information regarding DHHS travel guidance and here is the full NH COVID-19 Travel Guidance. Below are the highlights:

-Domestic travel within the US no longer requires quarantine upon return to NH (this includes domestic travel to US territories)

-Even though a person may not be required to quarantine after Domestic travel, the CDC does suggest that people seek testing 3-5 days after travel for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection;  testing is recommended and helpful to identify positive cases- testing by  PCR is recommended. Your child may attend school while awaiting their PCR test for domestic travel if asymptomatic.

-International travel continues to require a 10 day quarantine, or a 7 day quarantine with a PCR test on day 6-7 with a negative test result. 

-Travel on a cruise ship also requires a 10 day quarantine, or a 7 day quarantine with a PCR test on day 6-7 with a negative test result. 

-Everyone who chooses to travel, regardless of vaccination status or prior immunity, should wear a well fitted, multi-layer face mask, physically distance (i.e. maintain at least 6 feet from other people), avoid large groups and gatherings, frequently sanitize hands, and self monitor for symptoms.

-If  your child is symptomatic after travel your child should isolate and get tested, and parents inform the school nurse.

Spring Sport Schedule

Please see our Weekly Athletic Schedule for updated information about practices and games for our spring teams. In the event of inclement weather, a call will be made by 1:00PM on the day of the event. The weekly schedule will be updated, coaches will communicate with families, 

In Writing Summer - 8th Grade Students

Eighth graders intending to take In Writing Enrichment or In Writing Hybrid Enrichment at BHS this summer need to register and pay for the course through the Summer Opportunities Website. Course dates, times, and fees are listed on the website and the registration form is linked on the left side of the site. If you have questions, please email Tara Cloutier, the BHS Summer School Coordinator, at cloutiert@sau25.ne

Lurgio Yearbook Now on Sale!

The 2020-2021 Lurgio Yearbook is on sale!! Online sales will be open until Thursday, May 20th. To Order Visit: http://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A01102488. Questions? Contact Donna Dennis dennisd@sau25.net or Jennifer Manley manleyj@sau25.net.

 

Weekly Features

Enrichment Corner

Are you looking for a challenge? Do you have an interest or hobby you would like to explore in more depth? Let Ms. Rockwell, our enrichment coordinator, help! Check out her website below for more information about the enrichment opportunities offered at Lurgio. Just click on the “enrichment opportunities” tab and fill out the application to get started. 

Note: If you are interested in exploring some things on your own, check out the “resources” tab on the website.

All information can be found at the Lurgio Enrichment Corner

 

Guidance Corner

Weekend Lunch Bags

The Food Pantry at Bedford Presbyterian Church provides our school with free weekend lunch bags for students who are facing hunger or food insecurity. Please contact our Guidance Secretary, Lisa Mullen, for this confidential aid.

Library Corner

Happy Spring!  We are looking for your ideas and feedback.  What new books would you like to see available in the library?  Share your ideas here on this google form. This form is also available on the library website!

 

Tech Corner

As students begin to come back to school daily, it is important they remember to charge their chromebooks nightly and bring them to school daily!!  Please remember there are no loaners for students to use if they forget their chromebook at home.

Students are reminded to come to the Tech Corner in the back of the Media Center if they are having issues with their chromebooks when they are in school. Any technical issues that occur for remote students or those students who are quarantined, we ask you to fill out the BSD Help Desk Ticket.

Book Buzz

Wonderful to have Booked for Breakfast in person Thursdays in the Media Center 8:00-8:30 in addition to our remote offerings. Thanks to a generous donation by PTG, all RAL students are invited to meet award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen via Zoom next week. She will meet with Stacey Baker's homeroom who all read Wild Bird on 5/18, and then meet with 7th grade on 5/20 and 8th grade on 5/21.

We are excited to recommend the following books this week:

First up is Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen:

Holly has run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what at first felt like an escape soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. But how long can this go on? It’s getting harder to avoid the truth—Holly is now homeless. Runaway is a remarkably uplifting portrait of a girl still young and stubborn and naive enough to believe there’s a better place for her in the world.

Next up is Swear to Howdy by Wendelin Van Draanen:

A funny friendship turns serious in this haunting book about secrets, lies, and what it means to be a true friend. Joey Banks is a walking adventure. He’s funny, daring, mischievous—and frequently in trouble. Or he would be if anyone found out about half the stuff he’s done. Luckily, Rusty Cooper knows how to keep a secret. Joey is the best friend Rusty’s ever had, and he’s not going to mess with that. But then comes a secret that is at once too terrible to tell and too terrible to keep. A secret so big it threatens to eat them alive. What would a true friend do now?

8th grader Aidan shared Randall Munroe's book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Real World Problems:

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in “What If?,” Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

Looking for a riveting, action packed book of survival? Try Dusti Bowling's The Canyons Edge:

“Hatchet” meets “Long Way Down” in this heartfelt and gripping novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong. One year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon deep in the Arizona desert, hoping it will help them find peace. Nora longs for things to go back to normal, like they were when her mother was still alive, while her father keeps them isolated in fear of other people. But when they reach the bottom of the canyon, the unthinkable happens: A flash flood rips across their path, sweeping away Nora's father and all of their supplies. Suddenly, Nora finds herself lost and alone in the desert, facing dehydration, venomous scorpions, deadly snakes, and, worst of all, the Beast who has terrorized her dreams for the past year. If Nora is going to save herself and her father, she must conquer her fears, defeat the Beast, and find the courage to live her new life.

Ever think about living off the grid? Imagine just that and then finding out you have to move to Connecticut. Check out Cathy Carr's book, 365 Days to Alaska.

Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes through the mail, and plays dominoes with her family in their two-room cabin. She doesn’t mind not having electricity or running water—instead, she’s got tall trees, fresh streams, and endless sky. But then her parents divorce, and Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs to live with a grandmother they’ve never met. Rigel hates it in Connecticut. It’s noisy, and crowded, and there’s no real nature. Her only hope is a secret pact that she made with her father: If she can stick it out in Connecticut for one year, he’ll bring her back home. At first, surviving the year feels impossible. Middle school is nothing like the wilderness, and she doesn’t connect with anyone . . . until she befriends a crow living behind her school. And if this wild creature has made a life for itself in the suburbs, then, just maybe, Rigel can too. 365 Days to Alaska is a wise and funny debut novel about finding beauty, hope, and connection in the world no matter where you are—even Connecticut.

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