LHS welcomes new teachers, staff for 20-21 school year

Making the jump from being surrounded by adorable kindergarteners to hundreds of teenagers would be a daunting task for anyone. With that said, Mrs. Broadhurst is ready to take on this very challenge in her new position as administrative assistant in Main Guidance. Broadhurst is no stranger to the Londonderry School District. She started as a substitute teacher, then later started a position wor...

House Four, as well as the rest of the Londonderry High School staff, faculty and students, is glad to be welcoming Mrs. Sarah Doherty into our school as a guidance counselor. Mrs. Doherty says she is excited to have a fresh start in a new school.   Although this is Mrs. Doherty’s first year counseling at LHS, she has plenty of experience being a guidance counselor at another high school. �...

One the newest teachers at LHS is not quite so new. Recognized by students who had her at the middle school, French teacher Mrs. Courtemanche joins the LHS faculty. Mrs. Courtemanche worked at Londonderry Middle School in the foreign language department, but decided to move up to the high school over the previous summer. “I am very happy to see my students whom I followed up from the middle school,”...

Lancer Nation is excited to welcome speech language pathologist Mrs. Loeffler to the community.  With this year being her first teaching, Mrs. Loeffler is looking forward to working with the Londonderry student body. “I wanted to come to LHS because I was looking to expand my experiences to young adults,” Loeffler said. “I have been working with older adults for the last seven years.” M...

The beginning to LHS’s new Community Counselor Kate Martin’s career is just starting. She has graciously chosen to start her first year of counseling with Lancer Nation and we are excited to welcome her! Although Ms. Martin was a Social Worker at  Nashua High School North while getting her Masters in Social Work, LHS is her first official job as a counselor and she is so excited to share this ...

Flying in all the way from Dayton, Ohio, new physics teacher Mr. Miller lands in LHS’s classrooms after a year outside of the classroom. Though Mr. Miller is new to LHS, this is not his first year teaching. He originally taught for 13 years at Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) in his home state of Ohio. His move to New Hampshire was just over a year ago when his wife landed a job at UMass Lowell. ...

It seems that 2020 has brought a lot of surprises to the school year, but one of the happy surprises seems to be the new foreign language teacher, Mrs. Carolyn Morse, who has salsa danced into our lives.  With all of the stress of starting this new hybrid model, being a new teacher to the district definitely wouldn’t help. Even so, Mrs. Morse has been able to take on both challenges in stride...

Although this year is not shaping up to be a normal one, Londonderry High School is pleased to welcome Tafadzwa Musekiwa to Lancer Nation as House One's new guidance counselor. This is Musekiwa’s first year as an official school counselor. He interned at Nashua High School, Pennichuck Middle School, and Southside Middle School before interning at Londonderry High School and making the decision to...

The start of every school year brings several new ideas and people to Londonderry High School. This year, one of these people is Julie Nelson, the latest addition to the science department and Lancer Nation. Nelson currently teaches biology at LHS, but her first career was as a registered dental hygienist. She then transitioned to teaching dental sciences, anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and...

2020 has proven to be a year of many twists and turns, forcing even the most experienced teachers to change up their teaching styles.  Despite this year being her first teaching, math teacher Anna Corrao is ready to take on the challenge. Corrao has been a New Hampshire resident her entire life, as she grew up in Bedford. It was through the University of New Hampshire that she began her jou...