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Adventures in Animal Science

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Recently the Suffield High School Agriscience Department welcomed some baby piglets! The production animal science classes had the opportunity to monitor and care for two sows (female pigs) that were due to have piglets. The pigs are owned by Brittani Burke, who is a senior in the agriscience program and raises cows, sheep and pigs at her farm. The piglets were born and the students have been able to assist with their postnatal care and have learned more about the swine industry through this hands-on experience.

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ShopRite Kindness Awards

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Each month Suffield High School chooses a student to receive the ShopRite Kindness Award. This award is given to a student who has shown kindness in one way or another. The student chosen has demonstrated one or more of the following characteristics: exemplary citizenship, civic awareness, responsibility, leadership, commitment to others and helping others. In addition to the honorary recognition, ShopRite will donate $50 to the charity of the student’s choice. Cami and Cassie Bosco

Congratulations to Cami and Cassie Bosco who were chosen to receive the ShopRite Kindness Award for November.

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Peru Field Trip

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In February, thirteen SHS students traversed the entire country of Peru having the opportunity to explore many aspects and settings of Peruvian life: the urban setting in Lima, ancient civilizations and communities in Cuzco, and the various island locations around Puno.

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The Sound of Silence

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This year’s public production of the customary spring musical at Suffield High School was cancelled at almost the last minute by the Town’s bold, understandable response to the national emergency – among other closings, the COVID-19 pandemic had silenced The Sound of Music.

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Aces High Rides High Again

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Aces High, Team 176, the Suffield/Windsor Locks team in the FIRST Robotics Competition, attended its first meet in Waterbury on the first weekend of March and things just couldn’t seem to go wrong. This was a New England regional qualifying meet that Aces High hoped would start them on the road to the World Championship in Detroit in late April.

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Superintendent’s Update

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It is hard to believe that we have passed our 100th day of the school year. I am tremendously appreciative of the hard work of our Board of Education, administration, faculty and staff for their efforts in meeting the diverse needs of our students and the many goals we have established for this year.

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Walk to the Hart of Climate Change

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Sustainable Suffield, a teacher- and student-led grassroots organization dedicated to bringing attention to our role in solving the world’s most challenging climate-related issues, and Suffield High School are proud to announce Walk to the Hart of Climate Change, a three-day event featuring National Geographic Explorer Dr. John Francis and organized by 2018 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow and National Geographic Certified Educator Justin Kaput.

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SMS Excelled with Peter Pan

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On the fourth weekend of February the walls of Suffield Middle School’s Sisson Auditorium bulged with delighted applause and laughter as a great bunch of enthusiastic students presented Peter Pan, Jr.

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Aces High Strives for the Prize

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Aces High, Team 176, our local team in the FIRST Robotics Competition, has been a great competitor ever since they were organized at Windsor Locks High School in 1995. Suffield joined in 1998, and the team won the National Championship in Florida the following year. Last year Aces High became Connecticut champion again and finished second in New England. In the 2019 world championship in Detroit, they performed well and reached the quarter-finals but lost the third match in that two-out-of-three elimination. These achievements are shared, because the carefully designed FIRST program has individual teams competing in three-team alliances, a teaching strategy that encourages cooperation and what FIRST likes to call “gracious professionalism.”

Every year a new game is announced, so each team has to design and build a new robot with capabilities matched to new challenges.