The Let's Play Program is ready for its April meeting! Our monthly two year old program will meet on Wednesday, April 16th at CES. Space is limited! Contact Patti Ferretti to reserve your spot. Her contact info is included below!
On Wednesday, April 9th, the Camden Central School District and Ready 4 Kindergarten held the April meeting of the “Look at Me, I’m Three!” program at Camden Elementary School. Along with their families, 31 children who will be of eligible age to attend Pre-K in Fall 2025 attended. The program is a monthly Pre-K preparation program designed to help students socialize, build relationships with staff, and get acclimated to the school setting ahead of time.
The program began with a mindfulness activity to get our young learners relaxed and focused for story time. Story time for the night included Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm, by Joy Cowley. The book is a silly story about how a cow, pig, and duck didn’t like baths, so they ran away to the city. They realized they were much happier than they realized at the farm.
Following the story, the children completed a themed craft with cow, pig, and duck puppets and a paper bathtub so they can retell the story at home. The evening wrapped up with some dancing to a few children’s favorites by Dr. Jean and Laurie Berkner!
Easter is coming up, and McConnellsville students are going to make another holiday special for their adopted US Army platoon with another care package! During their recess time, students spent time decorating easter eggs to include in it!
This week is National Assistant Principals' Week, as recognized each year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals! We'd like to take a moment to recognize our great team members for their dedication to our students and staff!
Dr. Bill Snyder, Camden High School Assistant Principal
Mrs. Sarah Roth-Trnchik, Camden Middle School Assistant Principal
Mrs. Amanda Mitchell, Camden Elementary School Assistant Principal
Mrs. Rebecca Ciotti, Camden High School Dean of Students
Our 2025 District Art Show is May 14th at 6-8pm at Camden High School! All are welcome to attend!
There will also be our annual silent auction, with proceeds benefit the Art Scholarship Fund. We hope to see you there!
Introducing your 2024-25 CNY Mathletics League Division B Champions: The Camden Blue Devils!
https://www.camdenschools.org/article/2133615
We send our heartfelt condolences to our friends and neighbors in the Central Square Central School District as they grieve the loss of student Aunamarie Mahnken.
In her memory, we encourage our Camden CSD staff and students to show their support for her family, friends, and classmates by wearing purple on Monday, April 7th.
The CHS Business and Marketing Honor Society Class of 2025 will be holding a Pet Food and Toy Drive to benefit the Rome Humane Society.
They will be collecting items from Tuesday April 1 - Tuesday April 15. Please bring in items to donate and place them in the boxes located in the Main Foyer and Gym Foyer as well as rooms 104 and 231.
Wishlist items include: scoopable litter, cat food, dog food, treats, toys, garbage bags, and peanut butter. Thank you!
Wonder what's inside the StarLab Mobile Planetarium? We joined some of our first graders for their afternoon session with guest instructor Richard Adler yesterday!
Students learned about how the relative position of earth and the sun influences the amount of daylight and our seasons, and about the properties of planets in our solar system. They also learned that some other planets have moons that aren't spherical, and that Neptune has large storms that last long periods of time and can be the size of our entire planet.
Blue Devils JV Softball opened up its 2025 regular season against Cicero North-Syracuse yesterday!
📷: Alana Golden
These Blue Devils are state competition ready, and coming soon to a (Salt) City near you!
Camden Middle School Science Olympiad makes its first appearance at the state level this weekend, with a limited number of events set for Friday, and a full schedule on Saturday at East Syracuse-Minoa High School!
The Middle and High School Odyssey of the Mind teams will be on the other side of town at the New York State Fairgrounds for the 2025 New York State Odyssey of the Mind Association Championships on Saturday. If you're attending, check the schedule linked below for more information. Camden's entries will perform their long-term problem portion in the Horticulture building, while their short-term (spontaneous) problem will be at Solvay High School.
https://www.nyodyssey.org/schedule-state-finals
Wherever you're going, go blue!
The StarLab Mobile Planetarium is back at Camden Elementary School! This unique mobile structure brings the wonder of the stars to students. Our third grade students took their turn yesterday, and today, first grade students are participating. We will check back in with some scenes from our afternoon first grade classes shortly!
The Planetarium is provided through an arrangement with Madison-Oneida BOCES Staff and Curriculum Development in collaboration with Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES.
11 Blue Devil varsity teams have completed the requirements for the NYSPHSAA Winter Scholar-Athlete Team Award for the 2024-25 season! This award rewards academic consistency across a team's roster while completing a varsity sport season. To receive Scholar-Athlete team recognition with a certificate, the average GPA of the top 75% of the roster must be greater than or equal to 90.00.
More to come.....
April's elementary character trait of the month is PERSEVERANCE! The McVille Student Council will be making daily announcements to help students learn about this important trait.
The students in Mrs. Currie and Mrs. Poore's ELA classes have been reading and analyzing poems. They organized an Elite Eight bracket in honor of March Madness! Students were able to vote daily to determine an overall favorite! Emily Dickinson's "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" was awarded the top spot and received a blue ribbon! Thank you Baloo Team members for your participation! And the fun continues, as April is National Poetry Month!
Many of our CMS students love talking about extreme sports such as skateboarding, motocross, and parkour. We think they'll love these new selections from the library! 🛹
A Statement from the Camden Central School District Board of Education:
“The Camden Central School District and Dr. Ravo Root, III., have reached an agreement regarding his retirement from service as the District’s Superintendent, effective immediately. The District appreciates Dr. Root’s service, and welcomes Mr. Evangelist as Interim Superintendent for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year.”
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Owens at CES have had their fourth graders exploring energy lately! As part of their lessons, they learned how cars and the human body expend energy in very similar ways.
Fittingly, some very special toy vehicles were brought out to tie the lesson together: Hess Trucks! Who remembers playing with those as a kid?
On Thursday, you might have noticed that staff and students at McConnellsville Elementary School were wearing matching T-Shirts. The shirts were given out in recognition of McConnellsville's achievement of becoming a Capturing Kids' Hearts National Showcase School last year.
Thanks to the McConnellsville PTO for their support in obtaining these for our students!
Tuesday, 4/1 - Today's JV/V Softball scrimmages vs ESM have been canceled.
The Varsity Baseball Scrimmage vs Central Square has been postponed to Thursday, 4/3 at 4:30 PM at Camden Middle School.
Coaches will communicate practice plans.