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Reading season
Students pessimistic, teachers hopeful as NHS prepares shift to block scheduling By CAROLINE KRAWCZYNSKI CORRESPONDENT
With a new year come new changes, especially in Newington High School. Beginning the 2013-14 school year, NHS will be lengthening classes from 45 to 90 minutes, two Volume 53, No. 24
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days a week. School officials’ decision to implement block scheduling comes in the wake of recent changes to state mandates, requiring students to graduate with 24 credits, up from the 21 needed now. The Class of 2017 will be the first affected by this change. The typical week will feature three “A” days when all eight classes take place. In between the second and third “A” day there will be “O” and “E” days, alternating odd and even class periods. Although staff members
See NHS, Page 11
Last Saturday, the Lucy Robbins Welles Library held its Summer Reading Kick-off, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, together with Touch-A-Truck (sponsored by the Newington Parks and Recreation Department). The first 200 children to sign up received a free stuffed animal. The young and young at heart enjoyed a day of fun and sun. Some of the activities that were available for the participants were: planting in the library garden, putting together a wooden craft, (provided by Home Depot), face painting, planting sunflower seeds, getting temporary tattoos and dancing as DJ Bob played music. There was even a young children’s section with a sand table, bubble table and Lego Brick building. The kids were able to run under the fire truck’s sprinkler and climb on the trucks.