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• Windham students get different sort of math lesson

  BY DARRELL HALEN Learning about geometry can involve more than just classroom lectures and textbooks. Flying kites can help, too. Glenn Davison, a kite flyer, maker, lecturer and workshop leader from Chelmsford, Mass., spoke to two honors geometry classes Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 5:28 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, kites, math

• Eight injured in Windham school bus crash

  BY DERRICK PERKINS A driver who police say was distracted plowed his pickup truck into the rear of a school bus as it was letting off a student last week. Eight people were sent to local hospitals with non-lifethreatening injuries. Carrying nine Windham Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:51 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, accident, school bus

• Windham High ready to open

  BY DERRICK PERKINS With less than a month to go before doors open to students, Principal Richard Manley believes the bulk of the work to ready the new high school for the start of classes has been finished. Educators are going over their lesson plans, Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:50 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, windham high school, school

• Group seeks funds for wind turbines, solar panels for high school

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Given the green-light from school officials, a group of local residents hopes to give students a hands-on opportunity to work with renewable energy sources at the new high school. Formed by the School Board in 2008, the Windham Initiative Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:23 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, windham high school, renewable energy

• Scholarships awarded to two Windham seniors

  Brian Broom-Peltz and Sarah Scannell were recognized by the Friends of the Library of Windham (FLOW) at the annual strawberry festival and book fair, and were awarded this year’s FLOW scholarships. Brian Broom-Peltz is the son of Claude Peltz and Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:07 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, scholarship

• Windham students serenade area seniors

  BY DARRELL HALEN As a group of second- graders enthusiastically sang the song, “We Appreciate You,” they pointed to the senior citizens sitting in the audience. On Thursday, May 21, some second-grade students from Golden Brook School, along Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:01 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, seniors

• Windham School officials: Computers are students’ best bet for future

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Concerns raised by some residents have education officials defending a proposal to put laptops in the hands of students in Windham’s new high school. Longtime resident Tom Case said he worried that students would be unable to Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:13 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, students, education, school

• Coke and a smile – Teacher amasses refreshing collection

  BY DARRELL HALEN When Greg Samsel and his family discovered a large Coca-Cola sign while cleaning his uncle’s attic, the Windham boy knew where it belonged – in his fifth-grade classroom. The red sign is now part of a large collection of Coca-Cola Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:25 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, students, teachers, collecting

• Work ahead – Memorial School needs improvement, says state

  BY DARRELL HALEN Pelham Memorial School has been designated as a school in need of improvement after it did not achieve adequate yearly progress in student proficiency in reading for the second year in a row. Now, educators are developing strategies to Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:23 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, Pelham, students

• School Board: Blue and gold stays

  BY DARRELL HALEN They came wearing green T-shirts. One wore a wildcat mascot costume. They presented petitions signed by nearly 800 people. But despite the strong public display by students and parents calling for a “new and fair” vote to Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:13 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, students, petition

• Rocky start – An 8-1 loss puts Windham in a tough tourney spot

  BY RYAN O'CONNOR Pitcher Colin Begin fanned the first three batters in the game and then homered to straight-away center to lead off the second inning. But on Monday, June 25, personal and team success proved short-lived for Windham’s 11- and Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:56 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, sports, students, Concord, baseball

• Reading mixes with technology – Students create podcasts of book reviews

  BY DARRELL HALEN Madison Enos, a sixth-grader, has completed a book review of “Magyk,” a book by Angie Sage, that she enjoyed reading. Her short summary of the book – and thoughts on it – will be available to be heard on the Internet. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 06, 2007 1:34 PM by Salem Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, students, books, technology, podcast

• Middle school, Middle Ages – Windham students celebrate medieval times

  BY DARRELL HALEN When Michael Masone was caught using bad table manners, a wizard cast a spell on him and transformed him into a frog. Michael, dressed as a medieval tax collector, wore an inflatable frog around his waist. It was all part of the fun of Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:12 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Windham, schools, students