May 12, 2023

Dear Brunswick High School Community,

Brunswick High School’s 2022-2023 Final Exams will take place June 9 – June 15 (daily schedule below). Exams will be administered to all students in grades 9-11. During finals week, teachers will provide a final exam (essay, multiple choice, etc.) or final experience (project, performance, etc.). The specific assessment format will be determined by the classroom teacher. Final course grades along with other data will help guidance counselors and administrators identify students who could benefit from additional time over the summer to complete and pass their course(s). Here are some additional important details about final exam week:

1. Prior to exam day, teachers will review with each class all material that will be assessed on the final exam.

2. Teachers will provide a final exam review sheet for each course.

3. Teachers will review with their class how the final exam impacts the final course grade.

4. Students are required to attend school only when they have an exam.

5. Bus transportation will be provided in the morning and at 11:30 a.m. when students are dismissed each day. A student may leave prior to 11:30 a.m. dismissal with parent permission. Please have your student drop off a parental note at the main office in the morning. The afternoon bus will depart at 2:15.

6. The cafeteria and library will be open for quiet study and for students awaiting dismissal.

7. Region 10 classes will not take place during final exams.

8. Snacks are available during break time and a bag lunch upon dismissal.

9. Ms. Vogel and Ms. Kunhardt will lead stress management activities like playdough, games, coloring and walks with Elmer (our therapy dog) in the cafeteria.

10. The final exam/experience will take place during the period scheduled for that class. If a student has an excused absence for the appointed exam period, please contact the teacher via phone or e-mail to reschedule.

Daily Schedule

Friday, June 9:

Black 1/2 8:00 – 9:35

Break time 9:35 – 9:55

Black 3/4 10:00 – 11:30

Monday, June 12:

Orange 1/2 8:00 – 9:35

Break time 9:35 – 9:55

Orange 3/4 10:00 – 11:30

Tuesday, June 13:

Black 5/6 8:00 – 9:35

Break time 9:35 – 9:55

Black 7/8 10:00 – 11:30

Wednesday, June 14:

Orange 5/6 8:00 – 9:35

Break time 9:35 – 9:55

Orange 7/8 10:00 – 11:30

Thursday, June 15:

Make-up Exam Day

Please contact the main office with questions regarding the daily schedule. All other questions should be directed to your student’s teacher or guidance counselor.

Sincerely,

Troy P. Henninger

Honor Roll

Grade 9

Finley Alsobrook, Hazel Bachman, Miles Barnes, Kayden Beaulieu, Phoebe

Benham, Shivesh Bhandari, Nicholas Bickford, Nataleigh Cantrell, Brooke

Chaput, Caleb Connor, Ella Doane, Rowan Dostie-Gray, Isabella Farkas-

Izgordu, Caitlin Fields, Sophia Frizzle, Logan Gray, Sage Green, Ava Harwood,

Senia Heikkinen-Penney, Benjamin Hogan, Cameron Kaiser, Ezra Karwacky,

Solveig Ledwick, Anthony Lewis, Levi Lewis, Rachael Mapletoft, Jackson

Martin, Ryan McPherson, Edgar Meardon, Nicholas Morouse, Lacey Palese,

Ethan Patterson, Kassidy Perry, John Poulton, Leah Pressley, Elsa Reynolds,

Harlow Rose, Sara Saavedra Estrada, Autumn Sanford, Rosul Shandi, Beatrice

Silverman, Noah Similien, Allan Swain, Rudy Wasielewski, Jansen Weaver,

Eben White, Addison Wight.

High Honor Roll

Grade 9

Zelda Anesko, Sinead Bowdish, Robert Bowen, Emily Bruce, Rin Burnham,

Caleb Chang, Remy Cook, Gillian Countway, Acacia Fenty, Amelia Gaffney, Liz

Green, Riley Hall, Jackson Hamilton, Nora Harrison, Madilynn Hewson, Eloise

Johnson, Eva Kousky, Preston Larrabee, Anna Leslie, Nieve Logan, William

Maher, Adeline Mangalam, Brooklyn Mansir, Sebastian Martini, Quinn

McCormack, Brody McInerney, Eleanor Meserve, Elliot Morgan, Hailie Morton,

Despina Pashos, Natalie Perham, Sydney Perham, Nathaniel Rathbone,

Divinity Rivera, James Salko, Indigo Selinger, Gage Senecal, Brendan Shaw,

Reva Shende, Payton Spraggins, Jack Stanchfield, Molly Tefft, Ella Temple,

Elliot Tower, Marco Venegas, Faith Wallace, Finn White, Ellison Wilby, Kaleb

Wyman.

Honor Roll

Grade 10

Jay Ackley, Lilianna Bates, Cameron Beal, Makenzie Beal, Henry Blood, Brooke

Bryant, Lillian Butterfield, Taylor Casey, Sam Cashman, Sylus Caswell, Ava

Charboneau, Jacob Colaluca, Ava Coley, Sadie Correa, Brianna Dodge, Eleanor

Duchette, Gabriel Eaton, Beatrice Elmore, Ellie Fairbanks, Lacey Fournier,

Isabella Garside, Asher Gillespie, Luca Grady, Olivia Haralson, Evangeline

Harvie, Evelina Hatrick, Felicity Jackson, Annabelle Kates, Brendan Ledwick,

Isabel Leitzell, Dylan Lemieux, Alison Lemons, Evan Levasseur, Sensia Ley,

Wyeth Mackey, Trevor Marquis, Brady Marzakis, Rosa MacCausland, Olivia

Mehrer, Liam Moncrief, Ty Patalano, Kaliste Radomski, Justin Richards, Liam

Scholl, Dasia Shepherd, Gabriel Shoemaker, Avery Tatham, Alexis Thiboutot,

Joseph Vela, Jaiden Warner, Christopher Watkinson, Ava Wolverton, Harrison

Yee, Khatera Zafarkhan, Najeeba Zafarkhan.

High Honor Roll

Grade 10

Molly Bennett, Trevor Campbell, Alexei Douhovnikoff, Kyra Fortier, Joshua

Foye, Trevor Gerrish, Eleanor Gilman, Judah Greenwald, Ruby Hill, Jonathan

Koehler, Maya Koerber-Marx, Olivia Patient, Freida Pelletier Camacho,

Kaitlynn Robinson, Caitlin Seitz, Maxwell Stadnicki, Shadow Stroffman, Ilsa

Tucker, Camille Tuite, Marshall Wall, Simone Wiley.

Honor Roll

Grade 11

Charles Austin, Marguerite Benham, Seamus Bowdish, James Bowen, Rylan

Bubar, Sam Caswell, Madeline Chaput, Peter Colapietro, Jack Costello, Patrick

Crimmins, Jason Cruea, Sophia Gaffney, Noah Gaghan, Isabelle Gagnon, Tannar

Gagnon, Emily Goddard , Latrell Hatcher, Wesley Haynes, Delilah Hebert, Maia

Higgins, Liam Joyce, Abram Keleher, Abby Lee, Sadie Levy, Amelia Martin,

Tiegan McAllaster, Daniel Miguel, Lucas Orthober, Rafe Pearson, Ethan

Pinette, Katelyn Pratt, Isabella Purnell-Amaez, Kendal Quintana, Logan

Rossignol, Kaden Schneider, Danielle Schroeder, Alexa Scott, Jacob

Scrapchansky, Chase Senecal, Lea Sharon, Abrielle St. Pierre, Charles Tafel,

Jacquelyn Taylor, Lorelei Turgeon, Levi Whitney, Marissa Zavitz.

High Honor Roll

Grade 11

Celeste Braillard, Elias Cheseldine, Lucas Coffill, Garrett Countway, Isabel

Dauphinais, Emily Doring, Sydney Drake, Madelyn Duchette, Hazel Goodwin,

Benjamin Klingle, Iain MacKillop, Rotondwa Mathivha, Jonas McGrath,

Cordelia Meserve, Jaden Nicita, Maia Pietraho, Emilie Poulin, Samantha

Rudgers, Jayla Schmidt, Cecelia Slocum, Allie Tatham, Collin Thompson, Leo

Venegas, Emily Wallace, Nathaniel Wayne, Madeline Werner, Bertram

Wickwire, Emma Yankowsky.

Honor Roll

Grade 12

Adam Baker, Leila Bannon, Brianna Bergeron, Lydia Blood, Celia Boyd,

Eleanor Burnham, Kipp Butts, Isabella Corsaro, Jack Culbertson, William

Dolley, Logan Doucette, Nicholas Ewert, Shannon Flanagan, Paige Fraser,

Jackson Fredericks, Kallie Gagne, Elise Gillis, Lyndsey Gross, Shamir

Khatiwada, Christopher Kousky, Fletcher Krauss, Kyle LaDuke, Braden

LaForge, Hannah Lay, Hunter Lewis, Miles Logan, Hailie Lord, Jada

MacKinnon, Helen Maher, Finntan Mangalam, Olivia Marcotte, Anna Matthews,

Thomas McCormack, Brady McQuaid, Kathleen Mears, Isaac Melvin, Sophia

Morin, Tyler Neal, Tej Patel, Luke Patterson, Zachary Stern-Hayes, Elyse

Sullivan, Ashton Thiboutot, Abigail Valliere, Luke Vazdauskas, Helen Walter,

Morgan Washburn.

High Honor Roll

Grade 12

Lilijana Allen, Jack Banks, Gavin Barbour, Margaret Bateman, Laura

Butterfield, Sarah Capen, Kelsie Carlton, Parker Churney, Jordyn Cummings,

Chelsea Dodge, Amelia Donsbach, Kaelin Gerwig, Khava Gillespie, Ella

Gustafson, Sadie Higgins, Raimundo Joao Nanga, Calvin Kolster, Jacob Lind,

Ibrahim Mwamba, Sarah Palmer, Emily Powers, Sara Schmidt, Jared Similien,

Spencer Stadnicki, Simon Stevens, Kaeli Storer, Gabriella Swain, Logan

Whelan, Hannah Wilkoff, Zoe Wilson.

This year, we chose a theme to focus on: The Way You Speak To Yourself Matters! We are encouraging students to reflect on how they speak to themselves and reframe their thoughts.

Self-talk can be tough–we are often our toughest critic. Far too often, we hear students talking about themselves in negative and hurtful ways. “I suck at this–I’m just bad at everything I do” or “I’m always in such a bad mood, things never get better.” As adults, when we hear negative self-talk, we can encourage students to think and speak to themselves differently. When helping teens reframe negative thinking and self-talk, we don’t want to minimize and invalidate their feelings. For example: if you hear your teen say something like “I suck at this–I’m bad at everything” you could respond with “It sounds like you’re having a hard time with this and are really frustrated. And I also know that you don’t suck at everything and there are lots of things you're good at.” In all likelihood, your student knows that they don’t “suck at everything” but when things are hard, they can slip into negative all or nothing thoughts. It’s important that we help them reflect and reframe–the more we do this, the more they will do it themself! We should also model this ourselves. Another practice to help improve your teens' positive self-talk is to encourage them to find validation from themself instead of others–this is a great practice for little ones as well! When something good happens, before you say how proud/excited/happy you are–ask how they are feeling about it. This gives them the opportunity to express their own pride and joy first. Then let them know how you’re feeling.

On Friday May 19th the BHS social workers will have a table during lunch with resource cards, mental health awareness stickers, a few activities about positive self talk! We are also asking that everyone wear green on the 19th as well! Please remind your student to wear green and pop by our table on Friday during lunch!

If you are concerned about your student, please reach out to their school counselor: Mary Moore (R10, OCLC, ESOL), Diane Cook (A-F), Scott Bradley (G-N), Christina Ring (O-Z). You can also reach out to Meredith Vogel (general education social worker) or Mary Kunhardt (special education social worker).

What? Let's end our year of supporting students in Brunswick with one last community effort! We have a district-wide need for :

• New or gently used sneakers from little kids size 12 through adult
• New socks of every kid and adult size
• Cleats!! This is a new item TEAN is collecting, in response to a constant need. We mostly need new or used soccer cleats for kids size 1 through adult, but welcome cleats for lacrosse, football, softball, baseball, and other sports that need cleats.

When? The drive takes place from May 22nd-29th

How? Kate Furbish School, Harriet Beecher Stowe School, Brunswick Junior High and Brunswick High will have drop off bins in the lobby, which will be accessible during school hours. Also, donors can drop off items anytime in the bin behind Hawthorne School, at 46 Federal Street. The bin is accessed via Green St and is in the back parking lot.

Thank you for helping Brunswick students have a great spring and summer!

Questions can go to TEAN at emergencyactionnetwork@gmail.com

May is here and that means the start of all the senior celebrations! A committee of parents, with faculty and student guidance, has planned the SENIOR CARNIVAL for the evening of Tuesday, May 23 following Senior Awards Night. Now we need volunteers, supplies, and financial donations to make this event a success. Please visit the "Parents of the BHS Class of 2023" Facebook group or contact the family of a senior for links to the fundraising and volunteer signup pages. Thank you in advance for your support!!

The aquatic ecosystems that we have constructed were designed and developed by Levi Wilson

- a junior and Luca Grady - a sophomore. These two students have been doing an amazing job

at observing and analyzing the necessary conditions needed for these varied freshwater fish to

flourish and grow. As part of an extension project, these students will hopefully participate in

lessons next year - creating living seawalls as part of a collaborative experience with the Living

Seawalls research project led by researchers from the Sydney Institute of Marine Science in

Australia. Living Seawalls offer solutions to marine habitat loss associated with urbanization of

coastlines.

Thank you to Ms. Manousos, Mr. Thomas, Ms. Shipp, and Mr. McCullough for your encouragement in this epic project and for helping to create an environment for our students to explore.

Mr. Clark’s Rights & Responsibilities of Citizenship and Mr. Lynch’s AP Government & Politics classes took a field trip to the State House as guests of Brunswick/Harpswell Representatives Arford, Ankeles, and Golek, and of Senator Daughtry. They were recognized by the House and had an opportunity to speak with Governor Janet Mills. The Dragons left their mark in the capital and were able to write their names in a closed off part of the dome dating back to the 1800s.

BHS Seniors, Ryan Couture, Adam Baker and Brady McQuaid, in Woodworking class created rustic cupcake stands for the Senior Prom to go along with the forest theme! Thank you Ryan, Adam, and Brady!

We had a great group of students set up a fantastic Prom this past Saturday!

Students explored the campus of each college with their tour

guides and learned about academic programs and supports, campus activities, housing and much more.

May 3

May 11th

Over 84 Colleges and Programs Represented.

Some seats still available. Sign up in the Counseling Office

See Mrs. Moore if you have any questions.

Late Registration deadline

May 23 (late fee applies)

Click the photo to register!

SAT Practice and Preparation

From free practice tests to a checklist of what to bring on test day -

Follow this link:

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/practice-preparation

The Counseling Office is here to provide academic, social and emotional support to students, and to support our parents and guardians as well. Counselors schedule appointments, but students feel free to make your own appointment or stop by the Counseling Office when you have a study hall or FLEX. Parents – you are also welcome to reach out to your student’s counselor in an email or phone with any questions or concerns and to set up an in person meeting.

Counselor Mary Moore (students at Region #10/OCLC) 844-2357 7:30-3:30 email mmoore@brunswicksd.org

Counselor Diane Cook (students A-F) 844-2358 7:30-3:30 email dcook@brunswicksd.org

Counselor Scott Bradley (Students G-N) 844-2355 7:30-3:30 email sbradley@brunswicksd.org

Counselor Christina Ring (Students O-Z) 844-2353 7:30-3:30 email cring@brunswicksd.org

Troy Henninger, Principal

Tim Gagnon, Assistant Principal

Katelin Urgese, Dean of Student Engagement

Aaron Watson, Athletic Director

Mary Moore, Guidance Director