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Friday notes is a weekly update from Superintendent Gary E. Maestas on the happenings within the Plymouth Public Schools.
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Plymouth Public Schools School Committee Meetings:
The next Plymouth School Committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 6th, 2010 at Plymouth Community Intermediate School. The meeting starts at 7:00 P.M.
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Weekly Quote:
"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends."
Courtland Milloy
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Blake Planetarium News
Blake Planetarium Presents...
"Come Stargaze With Us!"
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
7:00 - 8:00 pm
See the moons of Jupiter
Learn the major Fall/Winter Constellations
Experience Galaxies and Nebulae
Join us for stargazing and telescope viewing after a "Primer for Stargazing" in the planetarium theatre.
Admission Donation: $5.00
Call 508-830-4470 or Email mares@plymouth.k12.ma.us for Information and Reservations.
Those with reservations are recommended to arrive by 6:45 pm.
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Plymouth South Middle School News
PSMS THIRD FLOOR GEO FAIR WINNERS
Winners of the third floor Geo Fair competition were recently announced. The following students are pictured below along with the title of their project. They joined our second floor winners this past Saturday, November 20th at the Regional Geo Fair Competition at Bridgewater State University. Congratulations!
Patrick Mand "Aquatic Invasive Species"
Caitlin Sullivan "Charles River"
Morgan Wood & Maddy DiMaria "Guinea Worm"
Zach Deane & Andrew Fernandes "Hoover Dam"
Josh Williamson & jake Jobe "Loch Ness"
Nicole Newman & Colleen Hall "Planetoids-Earth's Water Source?"
Davante Ramos & Danny Ferguson "Top 10 Water Parks"
Emily Curran "Victoria Falls"
Vanessa Kanter, Patience Machaby & Alexandria DeBella "Water Parks"
PSMS winners from the SEMAGNET Geography Fair held Saturday, November 20th at Bridgewater State University:
Best Use of Theme- "Wells and Clean Water in Africa" by Madison Cyr and Veronica Holmes
Most Creative Presentation- "Water Parks" by Alexandria DiBella, Vanessa Kantor, and Patience Machaby
Most Creative Presentation- "Top10 Water Parks" by Devante Ramos and Danny Ferguson
Best Original Use of Theme- "Planetoids- Earth's Water Source?" by Nicole Neuman and Colleen Hall
Best Original Use of Theme- "Water Parks" by Alexandria DiBella, Vanessa Kantor, and Patience Machaby
Best Visual Display- "California Aquaducts" by Andrew Shortall, Tom Gallerini, and Richard Gast
Congratulations to all!
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Step Up for Veterans is a Great Success!
On Veteran's Day, the First Annual Step Up for Veterans was held at Plymouth South High School. The event, sponsored by Plymouth Public Schools, raised $1575 for local veterans in need. Groups from Nathaniel Morton Elementary and PCIS, along with community members, walked around the track or the gym and collected donations for each lap. Students from North High School volunteered handing out flags and collecting the donations. The funds will be used by the Plymouth Veterans Services Office to assist veterans with living expenses.
Betty Ragazzini sports American flags and plays patriotic music as she walks in support of veterans at Plymouth South High School on Veterans Day. Ragazzini's son, Cpl. James Ragan, has already served one tour in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps. He deploys to Afghanistan in the spring.
Austin Cooney, Patrick Cooney and Michael Cappola wave American flags as they Step Up for Veterans at Plymouth South High School Thursday.(pictures courtesy of Old Colony Memorial)
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PCIS News
The 1,000 page Club!
Forty-five students from the Gemini Blue Team at PCIS reached membership in the 1,000 Page Club and were presented with certificates at an awards celebration held after school Nov. 18. Principal Brian Palladino and Gemini Housemaster Erica Lewis were on hand to recognize their achievement.
Students receiving awards included Jessie Hodgson, Shanon Larson, Jonathan Hansen, Audrey Chapman, Noah Smith, Jake Willis, Capri Pimental, Stephanie Souza, Kourtni Cole, Kyle Gatslick, Amanda Iamele, Jake Crowley, Lauren Clancy, Maeve O'Rouke, Tommy Belcher, Cole Nelson, Dan Jackson, Victoria Nelson, Olyvia Obrien, Liam Dowling, Kerri Bono, Brooke Gellar, Andie Hilton, Ryan Hurley, Annie Hughes, Jess Picket, Madison Kelly, Dennis Fox, Jacqui Holmes, Sabrina Morritt, Jack Maloney, Abbi Lee, Darian Cleaves, Jordan Callahan, Pat Markey, Jason Sullivan, Cam Smith, Eric Mearls, Mackenzie Callahan, Nicole Lewis, Hali Baggett, Emma Ciaranca, Dawson Harlow, Karen Marquis and Andrew Menice. Together these students read 69,284 pages during first term.
Principal Palladino asked each student to recommend a book to him. Students chose books from The Twilight Series, Nicholas Sparks novels, Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper and Charlie St. Cloud.
Congratulations to those students who achieved such a great milestone!
(picture courtesy of Old Colony Memorial)
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Plymouth North High School News
Three seniors at Plymouth North High School have been named Commended Students in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program: Kevin Dory, Douglas Maccaferri and Eric Souther.
Commended students are recognized for the exceptional academic promise demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the qualifying test used for program entry.
Congratulations to these worthy students!
Kevin Dory, left, and Douglas Maccaferri have been named Commended Students in the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program.
- This week is "Spirit Week" at NORTH: Activities include hallway decorating, the wearing of class colors, and culminates with a school-wide rally on WEDNESDAY.
- The Field Hockey Team raised $713 for Breast Cancer during the fall season.
- The annual NORTH/South "Powder Puff Football Game" ended in an 18-18 tie.
- The following students were awarded various book awards during a fall assembly at NORTH:
Ø Brown Book Award: Erica Prince Ø Dartmouth Book Award: Allison Breis Ø Harvard Book Award: Cara Goodman Ø Smith Book Award: Gretchen Roth Ø Wellesley Book Award: Florence Goncalves
- The Drama Club performed the play "Sticks and Stones" over the past weekend. Reviews by all were outstanding!
- The winter athletic season begins the Monday after Thanksgiving, November 29th. All potential student-athletes and their families are reminded to have completed paperwork submitted before tryouts.
- A Blood Drive at NORTH recently collected forty-seven pints of blood!
- A representation of staff from NORTH attended professional development in New Hampshire last weekend. Sponsored by The Center for Secondary School Reform, the conference was entitled "The New England Regional Show Case for Personalization and Performance." It provided professional development in the areas of competency-based assessments, Advisory, and senior projects.
- A representative group of student-athlete leaders attended the annual MIAA Sportsmanship Summit at Gillette Stadium. The conference promotes traits of leadership, sportsmanship, and fairness amongst student-athletes.
- Mr. Hales had a visitor to his US Conflicts since 1950 class. Mr. Owen Hyams, Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1822 came to speak to students about his experience in Vietnam. Students were engaged as they learned some very important, interesting and personal information from a veteran about the Vietnam War.
- The Tracy Chevrolet Driven Student Program will be hosting a pizza party for all students in the English Language Learner Program in room 206 during Period E on Tuesday, November 23rd. This special event is to honor the students' hard work and excellent grades in term on.
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Plymouth South Vocational Technical High School News
Vocational Education students have teamed up with Habitat for Hummanity to build a Playhouse that will be raffled off to raise money towards Habitat's new home construction project in Plymouth.
Members of South's Plumbing, Electrical and Carpentry programs began construction this week. The playhouse is being constructed throughout November and December inside Independence Mall for all to see.
We are proud to team up with HFH as this will be an extremely rewarding experience for our students.
Special thanks to Assistant Superintendent Chris Campbell for setting this opportunity up for our students.
Students from both the Plymouth South and North High School Vocational Marketing Programs participated in the Thanksgiving Celebration this past weekend.
Students volunteered their time to complete over 1000 surveys that will help America's Hometown Committee prepare for future Thanksgiving Celebration events.
Plymouth South High School News
The following 11th grade students in Metalfab/Welding
passed the following American Welding Society Welding Certifications:
Joshua DeSantis - AWS D1.1 Structural Steel and AWS D9.1 Sheet metal
Timothy Hunt - AWS D1.2 Structural Aluminum and AWS D9.1 Sheetmetal Alum
Matthew Flynn - AWS D1.2 Structural Aluminum and AWS Sheetmetal D9.1
Michael Smith - AWS D9.1 Aluminum
Plymouth South High School has launched their first ever ONLINE student newspaper. Go online to search the latest school news on
www.PlymouthSouth.com....pictures from spirit week, school uniform story, fashion talent show, and much more!
Last week was the 13th annual Fashion/Talent Show at PSHS. Congratulations to all students and staff in the marketing department. As usual it was a fabulous night and it was the largest number of students in school history presenting. Great job to all participants!
Spirit Week continued this week with Hall Decorations on Monday night and the pep rally on Wednesday. The spirit throughout the building this week has been fabulous. Great work by student council!
The National Honor Society Induction is taking place earlier next year. Application packets are out to all qualified students and they are due back to Mrs. Luddy or Mr. Walker by Tuesday, November 30th at 12:30 p.m. The induction for those selected students is Monday, December 13th.
Our honors breakfast for the first quarter is rapidly approaching. December 7th at 7:30 a.m. is the breakfast for grades 9/10 and December 8th at 8:15 a.m. for grades 11/12. Letters will be mailed home shortly.
The Thanksgiving Day football game is Thursday at 10:00 a.m. at Plymouth South High School. Tickets will be $7.00 at the door on game day. We also encourage people attending the game to bring a canned good. We are hosting a canned food drive for our local shelter on game day.
Winter sports begin the Monday after Thanksgiving Break. Please make sure all appropriate paperwork has been submitted to your coach!
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The Marching Band played at the Thanksgiving Football Game!
The marching band did an excellent job playing at the Thanksgiving Football Game. The game was held at Plymouth South HIgh School @10am. Halftime was around 11am which is when the band played. Congratulations to the football teams and the marching band!
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Plymouth Schools Health News
Flu Vaccine Clinics for Students a Success!
FluMist nasal vaccine was administered to 475 students in our two middle and high schools on 11/9 and 11/16. The clinics ran very smoothly thanks to the Nurse Educators, Health Aides, and Administration. Thanks to all for your commitment to keeping our students healthy!
Crisis Team Members CPR Certification Renewal - The Nurse Educators will be running CPR and AED certification renewal courses at Cold Spring Elementary School on 12/2 and 12/9 for all Crisis Team members in the district. Renewal is required every two years. Contact your principal/ administration to schedule your course - don't miss this opportunity!
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Gary E. Maestas, Ed.D Superintendent
Plymouth Public Schools
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