Mass STEM Hub winners Bryan Leyton and Jayden Rivera with Mr. Dembkowski display their accomplishments.
Category: Accomplished Students
Robot Parade
2nd Grade Students designed a Thanksgiving Day Robot Parade at Bridge Street School.
Jackson Street – A Day in the Life of Kindergarten
Kindergarten Snapshot Wondering what happens all day in kindergarten? KJM Video & R. Herskovitz Consulting spent time with the kindergarten classrooms at Jackson Street School to document the rich learning and activities that happen there. The crew spent a whole day following the teachers and students in classrooms and on the playground. They were able...
JFK’s Scrabble Club makes the News
Students at Northampton join community members at the Lily Library for Scrabble games–this time, Connecting Point featured an article about them. Evan, mentioned in the news clip, and JFK teammates, Gordon and Robbie just competed in the two-day North American School Scrabble Championship in Philadelphia at the end of April. Teacher, Ben Greenwood, was asked...
Room 305 Has a Podcast
Mr. Dion’s 5th grade class has started a podcast! The first few episodes are up and more are coming. For their first round of episodes, each student will share their persuasive writing and try to convince you that the stance they have taken is the right one. They take on topics such as skateboarding on...
Mrs. Cora’s Class Podcast!
The students of Mrs. Cora’s 3rd grade class have started a podcast! They are excited to share with you what they have learned about Native Peoples of the Northeast. They describe what they have learned about several different tribes that were present in what is now Massachusetts. New episodes are being release all the time....
Honorable Mention at New England NASA Globe Symposium
Two student representatives from Mrs. Simmons class presented the class cloud data at the NE/Mid-Atlantic GLOBE Student Research Symposium in Buffalo, New York on May 5th. Having spent a month studying the clouds seen outside Ryan Road classroom, students recorded this data using a Google Form Ms. Mariani-Prall set up for them on ipads. Students researched...
Boston Globe Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards
This fall, grade 8 students worked with Dr. Graham and Ms. Schofield on creative writing pieces to be submitted to the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards contest, hosted regionally by the Boston Globe. JFK students did a remarkable job with this activity and on Monday, 3/5, students awarded Gold, Silver and Honorable Mentions read their...
Jackson Street Giving Tree
The Giving Tree The Giving Tree is an annual JSS tradition in December and January. We decorate a branch and surrounds with donated hats, mittens, gloves and scarves and donations of canned/boxed food goods are placed under the tree. All donations are brought to The Northampton Survival Center.
Classrooms: Northampton’s teachers, students build its website
Jeromie Whalen, the technology teacher at Northampton High School works with Gabe Sussman, 16, in an after-school meeting for the school’s communications and media production course. Whalen, Sussman and other students have created a new website for the school district. GAZETTE STAFF/CAROL LOLLIS – Buy this Image NORTHAMPTON — Northampton’s school district has a new website, and Superintendent...