Minisink Valley Central School District -

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! Join us and wear gold/yellow attire on Monday, Sept. 30 to help bring awareness to the need for new treatments and hopeful cures for pediatric cancer, the leading cause of death by disease for children under the age of 14. Please join the efforts of the high school's Youth Against Cancer Club to create awareness! Call for photos: Share your student's gold/yellow attire for a planned photo gallery by emailing to communications@minisink.com by 3 p.m. on Monday. Sept. 30

Middle School Grade 7 and 8 families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!

Use this handy QR code to download the district's new app!

Remember, breakfast and lunch are free to all students this year! Encourage your student to try BOTH our breakfast and lunch offerings!

Elementary School families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there! 6 to 6:30 p..m.: Kindergarten/Transitional Kindergarten 6:35 to 7:05 p.m.: First-grade 7:10 to 7:40 p.m.: Second-grade

Nicole Lee’s sixth-grade science students have quickly jumped into the world of science! In their recent density layers lab, students compared different substances density and made our own density jars! Plus, students also participated in some “getting to know you” activities via a Science Motivates board, where students picked a word and placed it on a paper heart with their name. Their selected word is intended to motivate them to do well in school this upcoming year. Their Skittles activity invited students to pick one candy color which represents a fact about them, such as the color orange (which could be someone’s favorite food or color). They used jumbo-sized Post-it notes and put their name on any of the character categories that reflects them.

Take a peek at the Elementary School’s recent bus drill and ask your student about what took place! Bus drills are important for student safety because they help students learn how to respond to emergencies and keep themselves safe. Students are reminded about important evacuation procedures and related emergency equipment, boarding and exiting procedures, seat belt safety and more. Equally important is each bus driver’s intent to impress upon students the importance of staying calm and listening to directions and helping others when indicated. We have the best transportation team in the business and thank them for the ongoing efforts to provide safe transportation to and from school!

Intermediate School families....Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there! 6 to 6:35 p.m.: Third-grade 6:40 to 7:15 p.m.: Fifth-grade 7:20 to 7:55 p.m.: Fourth-grade

Kristine Ostensen’s eighth-grade science students had some sweet fun in their recent triple beam balance lab using candy! Students needed to find the mass of each individual candy using the triple beam balance (TBB). They added up their masses and compared it to the total measured mass of all the candy. When their work was done, what else could they do but eat the candy?

As part of the Intermediate School's ongoing character education curriculum, all students attended DASA assemblies today, Sept. 13. Ask your student about this! DASA was enacted in July 2010 to promote a safe and supportive learning environment in all public and charter schools, free from harassment and discrimination for students. Under DASA, no student shall be subjected to harassment or discrimination by employees or students on school property, or at a school function, based on their actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or other related categories.

Thanks to the help of the Minisink Kiwanis and The Otisville Presbyterian Church, Otisville Elementary has reached its goal of collecting 1000 pounds of recyclable plastic and will be rewarded for its efforts by receiving a TREX bench for the school community via the NexTrex Community Recycling Program! The items were collected in the building from students and faculty in addition to from the Minisink Kiwanis and the Otisville Presbyterian church. Thank you to teacher aide Shannon Barbone and art teacher Kara Welsh more making many trips to Hannaford in Middletown this past summer to deliver the recycled plastic material for recycling. The school will still be recycling any plastic collected on the campus!

Reminder: The registration deadline is tomorrow, Sept. 13, for for the Oct. 26 PSAT/NMSQT (Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test), which will be administered at the high school. ● Online registration and payment is due by 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13. The cost of the PSAT/NMSQT is $30.. ● Online registration and payment must be completed using Total Registration at:www.TotalRegistration.net/PSAT/335208

We will never forget. “No Day Shall Erase You From the Memory of Time” ---- from "Book IX of The Aeneid" by Roman poet Virgil, which is inscribed on the wall of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.

Save the date and consider being a sponsor! The Otisville PTO will hold its first ever golf outing on Monday, Oct. 7! To register, visit: https://otisville-pto-golf-outing.square.site.

Yesterday’s Girls Varsity Soccer game against Valley Central was a rematch of last year’s Section IX Championship Girls Soccer game which Valley Central won, 1-0. But the game was much more than a rematch. The Girls Varsity Team honored former Minisink Valley Athletic Trainer Sharon Delmonico, who was Valley Central’s athletic trainer and who recently passed away from breast cancer after a six-year battle. Ms. Delmonico was Minisink Valley’s athletic trainer for seven years before moving onto Valley Central. See and read more on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MinisinkValleyCSD

Middle School Grade 6 families... Reminder: Tonight is your student's Open House! We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to Senior Brianna Foote, who qualified to compete at the upcoming NYS competition following the team's first dual meet against Our Lady of Lourdes High School last Thursday! Good luck to her and the rest of the team as they continue their season!

The High School received its “School of Excellence” Award from the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) for the 2023-24 school year during today's annual NYSPHSAA mandated workshop! READ MORE: https://www.minisink.com/article/1715864

Cheers to the boys and girls Cross Country teams, who ran great races at the Sept. 7 Warwick Valley "WaveMania!" Take a peek! •The freshman boys team placed second overall with Landon Straw winning the race and Santiago Martinez coming in third. •In the boys varsity race, Ryan Capo and Carter Rossi both finished in the Top 20, with the team overall came in 9th place. •In the Girl's varsity race, Kat Jones finished in the Top 20, with Kaleigh Murphy and Trinity Capo having great races.

We will never forget. The district/high school hosted Sept. 11 remembrance services yesterday, Sept. 8. Thank you to Alexis DeBeauvernet, who sang the National Anthem; Drew Jashembowski; who played taps on the trumpet; Assemblyman Karl Brabenec; Orange County Legislator District 2 Janet Sutherland; Wawayanda Town Supervisor Denise Quinn; and our American Legion, VFW and firefighter colleagues.