Congratulations to the 2012 Spelling
Bee Winner, Halle Jones. On Monday, January 30th, she correctly spelled "simulcast" to advance
to the NH State Spelling Bee in March.
Welcome to St. Joseph
Regional Junior HS!
Why STJ? "...the person you'll ultimately be." Glorious St.
Joseph, model of all those who are devoted
to labor, obtain for me the grace to work in a spirit of penance; to work
conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my own interests; to work with
gratitude and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop, by means of
labor, the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation and
patience, without ever recoiling before weariness or difficulties; to work,
above all, with purity of intention, and with detachment from self, having
always the end of life on this earth before my eyes and the account
which I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain
complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all for
Mary, all after your example, O Patriarch Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in
life and in death. Amen.
Accredited by the New
England Association of Schools & Colleges
The Catholic Junior High School of Manchester,
New Hampshire, and Home of: The 2011 Clem Lemire Hockey Champions,
The 2010 CYO Basketball Champions, The 2010 Manchester Regional Spelling
Bee Champion, A Finalist in the 2010 NH State GeoBee, The NH Academic Challenge
Champion for 3 out of the past 4 Years
Our Mission: St. Joseph Regional Junior High
School, The Home of the Bears, offers a Catholic education with
C.A.R.E.: Catholic identity, Academic excellence,
Respect for self and others, in an Environment of caring.
The Importance of the Junior High
School: "...the person you'll ultimately be."
from "Inside the Teenage Brain" by Judith Newman, From November
28, 2010, Parade
"At birth, our brains have an operating system loaded and primed
for growth. In a baby, each neuron (a cell that transmits electric signals) has
around 2500 synapses; that increases over the next three years or so to around
15,000. These synapses are the wiring that allows our brains to send and receive
information. Until recently, scientists thought this huge surge in brain
wiring happened only once, when kids are young. Wrong. A study of 145 kids and
adolescents scanned every two years at the NIH has shown that there's another
huge surge right before adolescence, followed by a process of 'pruning' those
connections in a kind of use-it-or-lose-it strategy. In other words, says Jess
Shatkin, assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and pediatrics
at the NYU Child Study Center..., 'If you're a chess player or an athlete, the
areas of the brain responsible for those skills will continue to develop --
while other skills will fade away.' The skills you practice as a child and
pre-teen become much sharper in the teenage years; and those practiced
reluctantly, if at all, will diminish on your brain's hard-disk drive. 'The
brain is very efficient, allowing you to become more adept at the life skills
you're going to use -- which is why these are the years to set good work habits
in place,' notes Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute
and author of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child
Needs. Adds Shatkin, 'This synaptic pruning in a sense makes you become
the person you'll ultimately be.' "
Welcome to St. Joseph
Regional Junior HS! 
Why STJ? "...the person you'll ultimately be."