Schools
Have you made plans yet for the April school vacation? The Minnesingers have — they are headed to Croatia to perform five concerts.
For the past 10 years art teacher Janice Frame has met with students after school on Tuesday afternoon in the school library. She and the students meet to review poems, short stories and artwork for the Martha’s Vineyard high school student literary magazine Seabreezes. Ms. Frame, along with English teacher Bill McCarthy, acts as an advisor for the magazine.
When high school freshman Mason Jeffers was given a slip of paper at the beginning of the school year notifying him that he had been nominated by his class to be part of Peer Outreach, he was surprised. Mason, along with 39 other students across all grades levels, was identified by a schoolwide survey as a person his fellow students would feel comfortable going to with a problem. “It made me proud that out of my whole grade I was one of the top 10 people who they trust,” he said.
Regional high school sophomore Eli Hanschka won a second place award at the South Shore Regional Science Fair on Saturday, earning him a spot in the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair.
Following a site inspection the Oak Bluffs board of health did not renew a certificate for the Martha’s Vineyard High School’s culinary arts program, but school officials said the program has continued to operate with the approval of the board of health.
School principal Stephen Nixon told the Gazette Thursday that the board of health came in during the school year to do a regular site inspection at the culinary arts kitchen (which is separate from the school cafeteria), and felt the kitchen was not in compliance.
The graduation rate at Martha’s Vineyard High School remains above the state average, though the 2012 drop-out rate increased over the previous year.
Just over 94 per cent of students graduated in 2012, according to data from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Out of 153 students in the class, 2.6 per cent dropped out. Just over one per cent of students received a GED.