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Month: April 2019

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Five varsity teams named NYSPHSAA Team-Scholar Award recipients

Congratulations to the five Minisink Valley High School winter sports teams who have recently been named by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) as Team-Scholar Award recipients.   To receive this state recognition, a varsity team must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 90 percent. Teams are: Girls Basketball …

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Minisink Valley High School’s first Career Fair a huge success and reinforces valuable community and civic connections

Important community and civic connections were reinforced at Minisink Valley High School’s first Career Fair on April 9, where more than 50 professionals spoke to students about the variety of career paths available to them. The fields they represented were wide ranging and included: accounting, auto body, aviation, the building trades, broadcasting, business management, child …

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Ten students selected for OCMEA’s All-County Junior High Festival ensembles

Congratulations to the following students for being selected to the Orange County Musical Educators Association (OCMEA) Junior High All-County Festival ensembles: Kelsi Berghahn, Molly Dubner, Sydney DuPlessis, Riley Grainger, Jonathan Samse, Nathan Samse, Elizabeth Skalski, Sophia Solimando, Hannah Veety and Sarah Zahaykevich. Students in grades 7, 8 and 9 are eligible to audition for Junior High-All County. …

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Minisink Valley Elementary first-grade students get a taste of Albanian music, dance and culture in music class

Ongoing collaborative teacher-parent efforts are one of many keys to student success at Minisink Valley schools and take place in many ways. Recently, Lisa Junçaj, mother of John Junçaj — a student in Maureen Cardinale’s Minisink Valley’s first-grade class, visited music teacher Cliff Loretto’s music class to teach students about Albanian folk music, dance and culture. It …

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Public budget development meeting: Thursday, April 11

Officials of the Minisink Valley School District will hold a 2019-20 budget development session on Thursday, April 11, at 7 p.m., in the middle school auditorium. At the meeting, district officials will update the community on the latest state aid projections, budget development and factors contributing to budget challenges for 2019-20. As always, the budget development …

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Guest readers reinforce the importance of reading during ‘Great Otisville Read-a-Loud’

Otisville Elementary’s recent “Great Otisville Read-A-Loud” was an outstanding opportunity to reinforce the importance of reading, with students being treated to guest readers visiting the school to read them some of their favorite books. The many guest readers included State Assemblywoman Eileen Gunther, representatives from Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus’ office, Minisink Valley Superintendent Brian …

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High school technical drawing class has an ‘aggravating’ twist to give students further design and technology expertise

Technical Drawing is nearing its first year being a part of the high school’s robust and varied curriculum, offering students an opportunity to dive deeper into various design programs and technologies tied to this sector of the engineering world. “Students can often become frustrated or ‘aggravated’ with having to learn new processes and redo design …

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Eighth-grade ‘Hooverville’ offers meaningful connections to history and opportunities for intra-school connections

Making meaningful connections to history through unique class projects and sharing that knowledge with other students reinforces class and life lessons.  Lauren Keppler’s eighth-grade social studies honors class had a recent taste of doing just that when they experienced the challenges of the Great Depression and created their own “Hooverville.” A Hooverville was a shanty …

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Otisville Elementary Drama Program presents ‘Lion King Jr. ‘ on April 4 and 5

Things will definitely get wild when the Otisville Elementary Drama Program presents “The Lion King Jr.” on April 4 and 5 at 7 p.m. at the school. Fans of Disney’s The Lion King know the plot well! Join Mufasa (Hunter Gomez), his majordomo Zazu (Kaley Czajkowski) and his young cub Simba, (Rogan Lynch/Nathan Butts) as they face the challenges of …

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An important message from Christian Ranaudo, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, on the status of NYS ELA assessments

Today, we were prepared to administer the second day of the 2019 New York State English Language Arts Assessment to students.  New York State has contracted with the Questar Corporation to deliver these assessments in a computer-based format. Yesterday, the middle school, intermediate school and Otisville Elementary experienced minimal issues with the testing process. Today, …

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