The High School’s Career Achievement Program (CAP) students provide weekly assistance to teachers and educators in various buildings throughout the Slate Hill campus. It’s a great inter-school collaboration! Students recently helped ES reading teacher Valerie Zubikowski prepare for her lesson by gathering, organizing and cutting letter sounds cards. Using these letter sound cards, students will be practicing being able to fluently say the sounds of letters to help build their phonics skills!
Letter sound cards are a tool used to help students learn the relationship between letters and the sounds they make. They can be used to help children learn to automatically associate letters with sounds; to review letters and sounds to help students become more fluent; support phonological awareness by helping students sound out letters and combinations of letters; and support spelling through the review spelling sounds!
DON’T LET THIS TROPHY LEAVE THE DISTRICT!
We invite you to be part of the Orange County “Cool School Challenge! ” Join the team representing Minisink Valley and participating in the Nov. 9 Polar Bear Challenge at the Rez in Highland Mills! We want to retain our title as the “Cool School Challenge” winner!
The “Cool School Challenge” is a friendly competition between local schools as part of the 2024 Orange County Polar Plunge. Students, staff and community members are encouraged to create a team of “Plungers” to support the good work of Special Olympics New York. Because of your efforts, Minisink Valley won the 2023 Cool School Challenge, and we're proudly displaying this trophy in Central Office!
Director of PPS Jeff Finton is overseeing Minisink Valley’s efforts to create a team. Join Minisink Valley’s team by clicking on the QR code in this flyer or email Mr. Finton at jfinton@minisink.com If. If you know of community members, families or students or student clubs who’d like to represent Minisink Valley, please share this flyer.
We hope you can join our team!
Cheers to the Cross-Country boys freshman team, which took second-place honors (out of 24 teams) at the Sept. 21 Suffern Invitational held at Bear Mountain! There were 244 freshman at this event, with “Top 25” performances coming from Santiago Martinez (7th), Landon Straw (11th), Matthew Milby (18th) and Rylan Young (23rd). The varsity boys team also fared well, placing 7th out of 23 teams, with “Top 25” performances by Ryan Capo (8th) and Carter Rossi (12th) who were among 178 varsity runners in the event. There were extremely solid efforts by all members of the Varsity and Junior Varsity boys and girls teams!
CAN YOU HELP? Senior Vanessa Tepper has been nominated by the New York Giants as a finalist for USA Football’s “Heart of Giant Award," presented by Hospital for Special Surgery and the New York Giants!
This prestigious award recognizes tri-state area high school student-athletes, team mascots, team managers and other designated team members who have an unparalleled work ethic and passion for the game. Team members with a “Heart of a Giant” also demonstrate five main characteristics on and off the field: Commitment, character, teamwork, dedication and will!
Vanessa is in a race to be one of the six finalists who will receive a $1,000 equipment grant for the Varsity Flag Football team! The grand prize winner will receive an additional $9,000 equipment grant for their team! BUT, YOU MUST VOTE!
PLEASE SHARE! Voting runs through Oct. 6. VOTE TODAY by clicking onto www. https://usafootball.com/heart-of-a-giant
(Be sure to scroll all the way down this page to find Vanessa and you can vote more than once!)
As part of the High School's ongoing character education curriculum, all students have attended DASA and Title IX assemblies.
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.
Title IX is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities.
These conversations are important and will continue through the school year. Students were also provided with information as well as resources on how and where they can go to get help if needed. Please ask your student about these important topics!
REMINDER: The Executive PTO's annual apparel sale is taking place now through Sept. 30. There's something for everyone in every school building. Looking for gift ideas? You'll find great school swag! Please share!
To order: https://bsnteamsports.com/shop/saLRszxGDf
or use the QR code below👇👇👇
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
Well-done to the Varsity Cross Country team, which ran against Beacon yesterday, Sept. 17! The Top 3 finishers in the girls and boys in the 5k (3.1miles) race were Minisink Valley runners!
GIRLS
1. Kaleigh Murphy, 24:07
2. Trinity Capo, 24:26
3. Julia Kronimus, 24:55
BOYS
1. Ryan Capo, 18:33
2. Carter Rossi, 18:34
3. Brian Capper, 18:43
Use this handy QR code to download the district's new app!
Jenna Conklin’s Chemistry students are increasing their measurement skills via their lab work!
During their recent measurement skill lab, students were tasked with measuring 100 mL of water in each of the provided glassware (a graduated cylinder, a beaker, and an erlenmeyer flask). They then used weight by difference to determine which piece of glassware is the most accurate when it comes to measuring chemicals in a lab. They did this by using the percent error formula, commonly used to show simply how accurate a measurement is to an accepted value.
Class of 2025 families: A reminder to order your senior's keepsake and the official Class of 2025 shirt! Shirts are only $16 each! Deadline is Sept. 28 at 11:59 p.m. Don't miss out!
Order via this link: https://mvseniors2025.itemorder.com/
The High School's yearbook staff is already off and running, brainstorming ideas for the book's theme and design elements. It's never too early to order your copy of the 2025 edition of Valé at www.yearbookforever.com.
Take a look at the behind-the scenes of how how high school underclassmen yearbook photos are taken!
High School families: Remind your student to attend the Club Fair tomorrow, Sept. 13 during his/her lunch period! The high school offers a tremendous number of diverse clubs!
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.
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
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.
