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We have turned the corner of MCAS season. All sophomores took the “Next-Generation” MCAS testing, on Chromebooks, starting with the English Language Arts (ELA) portion, on March 26 and 28. This was the first...
ARHS French teacher Oumy Cisse and choral director Todd Fruth recently learned they had won the Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation of Western Massachusetts. According to...
Mental wellness is a topic that’s worthy of most teenagers’ attention. On Wednesday March 13, students in grades 9-12 were lucky enough to attend two assemblies that featured a panel of mental health professionals...
The Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee approved two new and exciting Advanced Placement (AP) classes that will be offered beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. The first new course, AP World History, will be taught...
All Amherst schools were audited by Julia Garofalo and Stéphane Pierre-Louis of Kessler McGuinness & Associates (KMA) in December of 2018 to find out whether they are truly accessible to people with disabilities. The...
All those hours of practicing sometimes do pay off. ARHS students Isabelle Bouvier, Amanda Dee, Celia Douville Beaudoin, Angela Oldham Barca, and Sarah VanHorn were honored on March 9 at the All-State Music Festival,...
Career Day, an annual event held in ARHS advisories since 2016, took place this year on Thursday February 28. Tenth and eleventh graders attended the sessions. On this special day, parents and community members...
When Amanda Lewis, who runs the ARHS Writing Center, and Ella Stocker, school librarian, noticed that students frequently come to them with the same sorts of questions, they decided to create a series of...
Taking action toward conservation and increasing environmental awareness is what the Environmental Action Club is all about. And this club practices the three Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Not only that, but according to...
If you asked any student at ARHS if they are stressed, almost everyone would say that some kind of pressure has weighed down on them in the last few months, be it academic or...
