MHS Mission & Expectations

The mission of Manchester High School is to create an environment for all students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to become successful, contributing members of society.

At Manchester High School, MHS means:

Mastering

High

Standards

We are committed to the following beliefs:

• Students of all backgrounds, races, creeds, and orientations deserve a variety of educational challenges that support social, emotional, physical, intellectual, and civic development.
• Meaningful learning is realized through instruction and assessment that require all students to synthesize and evaluate knowledge. 
• Our school community develops and monitors high expectations of learning using research and data.
• Curriculum, learning, and assessment are purposefully connected to the world beyond the classroom.
• The home, community, student, and school share the responsibility of empowering students to become confident, independent, life-long learners.

Academic Expectations

for All Students of Manchester High School

All students will:

Read a variety of literary, informational, and persuasive texts with understanding and meaningfully analyze, interpret and evaluate them.

Produce written materials which develop thoughts, share information, influence and persuade, and create and entertain.

Comprehend verbal and nonverbal presentations at the literal, inferential and evaluative levels and speak using appropriate conventions, forms of expression, and tools.

Comprehend and authentically demonstrate number sense, probability and statistics, geometry and algebra.

Understand and apply basic concepts, principles and theories of biology, chemistry, physics, and earth and space sciences and their interrelationships.

Identify and apply a wide range of technologies to conduct research, communicate information and ideas, create original works, organize data, and solve problems.

Apply prior knowledge, abstract thinking, curiosity, imagination and creativity to solve problems.

Social Expectations

The Mission Statement of MHS states that the school supports the social development of students.

Students will demonstrate respect for self and others regardless of race, ethnicity, class or orientation.

Students will demonstrate a sense of ethics and take responsibility for their commitments and actions.

Civic Expectations

The Mission Statement of MHS states that the school supports the civic development of students.

Students should demonstrate active participation and positive contributions to the community.

Rev. 1.1 Adopted April 2006