Minisink Valley Central School District
Cultural awareness — the understanding of dynamic values and beliefs of different cultures — remains an important instructional component at Minisink Valley, with faculty and staff creating unique and diversified opportunities throughout the year. Most recently, faculty and staff presented lessons, created displays and held events celebrating the Lunar New Year, also known at the …
Registration is taking place for Minisink Valley’s Girls “March Madness” Basketball Clinic for girls in Grades 4 to 8, which will run March 4 and 11 in the High School Gym. The clinics will be directed by coaches James Golden and Bruce Guyette with assistance from players in the Minisink Valley Girls Basketball program. The …
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As part of the Intermediate School’s recent Kindness Week work, the school’s “Kindness Ambassadors” visited Elementary School K-2 classrooms and presented kindness lessons to Elementary School students as part of the Great Kindness Challenge (GKC). This is another great example of creative intra-school cooperation, this time focusing on character education, with older students serving as …
The Minisink Valley Board of Education will meet on Thursday, Feb. 2 for two meetings in the middle school auditorium: 5:30 p.m.: Finance Committee meeting 6:30 p.m.: Regular meeting The meeting agendas are available for viewing via: BoardDocs. The community is welcome and invited to attend.
Eighth-grader Sara Pauls won the 107-pound weight class in the first ever NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Invitational, held Jan. 27 at the SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse. “This is an absolutely amazing accomplishment,” said Varsity Wrestling Coach Kevin Gallagher. “Sara worked hard and competed fiercely against some tough competition. She was confident, resilient …
Parents, friends and members of the school community are invited to attend the High School’s “Pops Concert” on Monday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m.in the High School Auditorium.
The high school’s Key Club will be hosting a district-wide Family Movie Night featuring “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” on Friday, Feb. 3 at the high school, with doors opening at 7 p.m. All families are invited! Proceeds will be donated to Erika’s Lighthouse, the non- profit organization working to raise awareness about adolescent …
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We invite you to attend the District-Wide Band Concert, featuring performances from bands in each of our schools, on the new date of Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Middle School’s gym. Performing ensembles are: The Otisville Concert Band The Intermediate Fifth-Grade Band The Eighth-Grade Band The Middle School Jazz Band The High …
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Good luck and best wishes to the four members of the Varsity Wrestling team who have been invited to participate in the inaugural NYSPHSAA Girls Wrestling Invitational in Syracuse, which takes place on Friday, Jan. 27 at the SRC Arena at Onondaga Community College. Sophomore Patricia Deslandes will compete in the 235-pound weight class; freshman …
Minisink Valley school community: We’re reaching out to share information about electronic cigarettes/vaping and their associated potential health effects. Vaping continues to be a problem all school districts encounter and you’ve likely read recent news reports about a New Rochelle High School nurse who used Narcan to save a student who vaped what the student …