By Bill Toscano At Mettawee Community School, Brooke DeBonis is ready to get started in her new role as principal. “I am really looking forward to the opportunity to be a leader,” said DeBonis, who opened the school year Wednesday, Aug. 29, replacing Nancy Marks, the only principal the two-decade old school ever had. “We [...]
Tag Archives: Sixth Grade
State test results mixed for grades 3-8
Granville school officials are getting their first look at the 2011-2012 statewide English language arts and mathematics tests, and an initial examination indicates decidedly mixed results. These are the tests taken by all students in grades three to eight. They are scored on a scale of one to four, and one of the main things [...]
Granville Youth Soccer
Granville Youth Soccer kicked off its 19th season this past Saturday. Due to the condition of the Little League fields, the program has moved to the Granville Carnival Grounds. Players are needed at all levels, from first through sixth grade. Any player who has not signed up and would like to play should contact Art [...]
Last week of school
“School’s out for summer, school’s out forever” – well, not quite. The Granville School District will have students in session for a few more days at Graduation for the class of 2011 nears. At the Mary J. Tanner Primary School work on the second grade mural project finishes up tomorrow with a visiting artist and [...]
Penny Wars
Apathy is one vocabulary word Olivia Ruby hasn’t learned this year. Ruby, a student in Michael Thorton’s third grade class at Whitehall Elementary school, was instrumental in starting a fundraising effort that rose $2400 for victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan. Students at the school spent the week before spring break collecting [...]
Whitehall “Shadowing” program set
By Bill Toscano It’s an easy downhill walk from Whitehall Elementary School to Whitehall Central School, but for sixth-graders leaving sixth grade for seventh in the other building, it can seem like scaling a cliff. That’s why, after the winter break, each of the 58 sixth-graders will get a chance to spend a full [...]
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