MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
4/24/24
The boys tennis team lost an exceptionally close match to Bourne 2 to 3 yesterday. Noah Holland had a marathon match that came down to a 6 to 4 victory in the third set. Noah serve was on and he did a great job making adjustments throughout the match. On the doubles court, Nathan Trott and Ryan Geniuch dominated all aspects of the game. They did a great job putting the ball away at the net and using great angles so their opponents never had a chance to return the ball.
The boys team plays at Case on Thursday.
Have you ever wanted to help make a difference in schools. Would you like to improve the educational experience of all students in Massachusetts. Then the State Student Advisory council is for you! Please see Ms Wilder in Guidance by Friday April 26th for more information!
The Environmental Club will meet thursday after school in Mr. Pike’s room.
Any junior or senior interested in working as an intern at a courthouse over the summer, please come to Guidance for more information. The hourly rate of pay is $17 per hour.
Reminders for Juniors: Anyone who has not paid their $45 class dues must do so asap! Prom Permission Slips are due to Mrs. DeSimone no later than Wednesday 4/25.
Volunteers are needed for the Opening Day for baseball/softball this Sunday, April 28th. Here is a great opportunity to get those community service hours for our seniors, but anyone who is interested in helping out, please see Mrs. MacMillan in Guidance. Volunteers are also needed at First Parish Church Joy Yard Sale on Saturday, May 4th to help carry items bought to cars of the elderly. See Mrs. MacMillan for more information.
There will be a brief Student Council meeting on Monday April 29th at powerblock and afterschool. You only need to attend one!
The ESports team won its first playoff game! Elie Laguerre, Kyle Copley, and Avery Urzua delivered a sound thrashing to their opponents, Uxbridge High School’s Spartans. They face their next game in the elimination bracket tomorrow after school upstairs in the Cyber Cafe.
4/24 Today’s hot breakfast is waffles and tots. Other choices include a variety of pastries, soft pretzels, uncrustables, assorted breakfast sandwiches, smoothies, yogurt parfaits and the “pick 2” snack rack.
For lunch, the hotline is serving chicken parmesan over rotini pasta with garlic bread . Pizza crunchers are at the pizza station and Buffalo chicken crunch wraps are on the grill. Freshly made grab and go’s include chicken caesar salads and wraps, Chicken bacon ranch wraps and salads, vegetarian mediterranean wraps, bagels w/ yogurt, tuna subs, ham subs and uncrustables.
Reduce food waste by only taking what you can eat and placing uneaten packaged food in the share bins for other students to enjoy.
Thursday, April 27:
Today is Thankful Thursday! Most people with autism are just like you when it comes to wanting friends. Some kids find it hard, while others don’t. One hurdle is that many people with autism struggle to make direct eye contact when having a conversation. Eye contact could be making them uncomfortable or making it hard to focus on the other person’s words. This lack of eye contact has people missing important facial expressions. Facial expressions say just as much as words! It doesn’t help that reading facial expressions and body language doesn’t usually come naturally to people with ASD. Your patience and understanding when chatting with a person with autism is kind and can help that person to practice their social skills. Today’s notable neurodivergent is environmental
activist Greta Thunberg. At just 15 years old, Greta became famous for challenging Swedish Parliament to take action against the climate crisis. Take the challenge today and include someone that you normally wouldn’t. See you tomorrow as we start the weekend early with a Sensory-Friendly Pajama Friday!
Friday, April 28:
Happy Sensory-Friendly Friday! This is NAME. Imagine for a minute that the loud cheering of a
basketball game is ten times the regular volume. Would you cover your ears? Imagine that all your clothes have itchy tags! What about the bright lights of a school dance seeming 100 times brighter to you and only you? This would make enjoying yourself in many situations really hard. Many people with autism have sensory challenges. This increases the perception of
volume, touch, brightness, etc. of things by huge amounts. This often results in people covering their ears, wearing headphones or leaving a situation when the volume becomes unbearable to them. It would be like someone throwing you in an almost frozen lake and then not understanding when you are too cold and want to come out. Today’s notable neurodivergent is Temple Grandin. Because of her experience with sensory challenges, Dr. Grandin is more in-tuned and understanding of the experiences of different animals. This has helped her to make big changes in how to make farm animals in the agricultural industry more comfortable and taken care of. What makes you feel more comfortable and taken care of?
Your challenge today is to notice what habits you have that calm you down. Thank you for being so open and awesome in learning about Autism with us this week. I will leave you with a quote to think about this morning: “Autism is not a choice, acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.”