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.
Attention Camden Alumni!!!
Camden Middle School is getting ready to kick off its "One School, One Book" initiative, and is looking for your help on a little video project to help set the tone!
See the graphic below and contact Mrs. Kate Donaleski (KDonaleski@CamdenCSD.org) if you can help!
Before..... and after!!! On Friday, Camden Elementary School held a Poetry Celebration to wrap up its PARP (Pick A Reading Partner/Parents As Reading Partners) month!
As part of that event, we revealed who our masked poetry readers were from our month-long video series! Let's see if you guessed correctly!
Unicorn: Taylor Mulvaney
Gorilla: Michelle Williams
Grumpy Cat: Craig Ferretti
Polar Bear: Nicole Poulin
Turkey: Erin Yager
Deer: Kayla Davis
Thanks to our readers for being great sports! Your efforts have helped our students engage with poetry over the past month, and build valuable student confidence in their literacy skills!
Many CMS students love reading about their favorite sports team or player. Here is our newest selection of reading material on those subjects for grades 5-8! 🏈 ⚽️🏟️
As promised, more pictures from last week's Discovery Expo at Camden Elementary! We truly have so many talented and thoughtful students in the CES Cougar family!
