Dec 29, 2020
All schools will continue operating as normal following the cases.
MATTAPOISETT The Old Rochester Regional School District announced two new covid cases at the Old Rochester Regional High School and Junior High on Dec. 29.
Contact tracing for the cases is ongoing. Close contacts will be notified by their respective Boards of Health and are expected to quarantine.
The positive individuals were last in the school building on Dec. 18 in the High School case and Dec. 17 in the Junior High case. No further information is known about the individuals.
All schools will continue operating as normal following the cases.
These are the 69th and 70th cases in the district since its Sept. reopening.
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Board games, toys and stuffed animals were donated by community members to the Stuff-A-Cruiser event. Andrea Muniz
A load of toys are hauled by Andrea Moniz (right), Cameran Weaver (center) and Grace Ticewick (left) from the cruiser to the Old Rochester building. Photo by: Aidan Pollard
After the toys are all hauled into the building, the club cleans up the donation table. Photo by: Aidan Pollard
The Community Service Learning club poses with management for Turk’s and their donation worth around $450. Andrea Muniz
Officers McGraw (left) and Flynn (center left) pose with Weaver (center right) and Maria Psichopaidas (right). Courtesy: Andrea Muniz
Aidan Pollard Dec 15, 2020
Old Rochester Regional High School students were able to convince the ORR School Committee to let their dual enrollment classes count toward grade point averages at a Dec. 9 meeting.
Dual enrollment classes count toward a student’s transcript, but are take at community colleges rather than with teachers from ORR.
Before the motion passed, the courses counted neither toward students’ GPAs nor class rank.
Students, supported by Principal Michael Devoll, said that wasn’t fair when dual enrollment can be just as rigorous as an Advanced Placement course. Those classes count toward both GPAs and class rank.
Dec 15, 2020
Two new cases of covid-19 at the Old Rochester Regional High School and one at Sippican School have been reported, the Old Rochester Regional School District said in a Dec. 15 press release.
In its press releases, the district didn’t say whether the individuals were students, staff or faculty members.
Both schools will operate on their normal schedules on Dec. 16 after a determination that it was okay to do so by each town’s Board of Health.
The two positive cases at ORRHS have not been in the building since Dec. 11, and the positive individual at Sippican School has not been in since Dec. 8.