Elm Street is a middle school in Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua, New Hampshire

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located on 117 Elm Street. The school goes from the sixth grade to the eighth grade. The current principal is Colette Valade. The vice principals are Dyann Levesque (A-L) and Michael Frederickson (M-Z). The school has the mandatory subjects of Art, Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, and Social Studies. Elective choices are Technology Education or Family and Consumer Science and Band, Chorus, or General Music. Seventh graders also have the core subject of literacy, and eighth graders can take the language class of French or Spanish unless their previous teachers think they should be in reading. School starts at 7:50 AM ET and ends at 2:48 PM.

Teams

All three grades are divided into individual teams. The sixth grade has five teams with three teachers per team. Both the seventh and eighth grade have four teams with four teachers per team. The week before February Break the school holds a fun and competitive event called the Winter Carnival. Each grade competes in six events that involve little to no athleticism. The Winter Carnival teams in each grade are as follows:

Sixth Grade	Seventh Grade	Eighth Grade
Team 6-1, Red	Team 7-1, Red and Green	Team 8-1, Orange and Purple
Team 6-2, White	Team 7-2, White and Yellow	Team 8-2, Blue and Red
There is no team 6-3	Team 7-3 Blue and Orange	Team 8-3, Green and Yellow
Team 6-4, Purple	Team 7-4, Black and Purple	Team 8-4, Black and White
Team 6-5, Green	Team 7-5, n/a	Team 8-5, n/a
Team 6-6, Yellow	Team 7-6, n/a	Team 8-6, n/a

Electives

In sixth and seventh grade students have the choice between Technology Education and Family and Consumer Science. Eighth grade does not have Family and Consumer Science as a class, and students are randomly placed in either Technology Education or Design Technology. In Technology Education students learn how to use tools and work with groups to make different projects, such as mousetrap cars and wooden shelves. While in Family and Consumer Science students learn how to cook different meals and take care of the families and houses if ever needed to. In Design Technology students use computers to make different things like claymations and soda can labels.

In eighth grade students have the choice of taking either French 1 or Spanish 1. In these classes they learn all the basic vocabulary and grammar of the language in order to move on to French 2 and Spanish 2 in high school. If students choose not to take a language, or if their seventh grade teachers believe they aren't ready for one, they take reading. In reading, students learn all the things they need to help enhance their reading skills to be able to take a language in ninth grade.

Class schedule

Elm Street runs from 8:00 to 2:43. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays classes are 49 minutes long. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, when the school day begins with an advisory period, classes are 46 minutes long. Here is the eighth grade schedule for each period:| Advisory
| 1:24-1:54

Lunches	may	vary
Period	Mon, Wed, Fri	Tue, Thu
Homeroom	7:50-8:00	8:05-8:10
Period 1	8:00-8:52
Period 2	8:53-9:34
Period 3	9:44-10:34
Period 4	10:54-11:44
Period 5	11:46-12:35
Period 6	12:36-1:23
Period 7	2:00-2:43
Advisory	1:24-1:54
Detention/Make-Up	2:43-3:33	2:43-3:33