Click here for Gwen’s full letter. PRIDE TOMORROW Saturday, May 5, is the annual Northampton PRIDE March. All the Northampton schools, including JSS, will march together, with a float! We’d love to have any/all of our families join us in marching for ALL our families, students and staff! PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE FOR THIS...
Over 100 students walked, scooted, skated or rode to school on May 2nd to join in International Spring Walk/Ride to School Day! We gathered for lemonade and trinkets (stickers, reflectors, bookmarks, bracelets) and just generally to celebrate our community and earth and the beautiful weather!! The bike rack outside the main doors was so full one...
Students from Ms. Bryant’s 2nd grade class and Ms. Kline’s 4th grade class are working to create episodes for the Elementary Tech Time Podcast! The ETT podcast project was started to provide students an opportunity to tell their own stories, reflect, and deepen their learning. Each episode is as unique as the student’s voice, only...
Kim Gerould, JSS 3rd grade teacher, was awarded a Grinspoon Excellence in Teaching Award at a ceremony and dinner at the Log Cabin on April 26, 2018. The award honors outstanding Western Massachusetts educators in Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties and seeks to motivate teachers at all stages of their careers to aspire to excellence. Kim...
On April 26, at the Log Cabin in Holyoke, teachers from Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties were awarded The Pioneer Valley Excellence in Teaching Award from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. Among those outstanding teachers, was Leeds Elementary 4th grade teacher, Hannah Kristek. Principal Canata sings Ms. Kristek’s praises, “A very well deserved honor. She is...
Please donate to our Library! Valley Gives is on May 1. Check it out! https://www.valley-gives.org/organizations/rk-finn-ryan-road-school-pto Also, on May 1, we will have a “Dress as a Book Character” day at school in conjunction with this library fundraising effort. Anyone is invited to participate! Photos this week show some of our Dance Off fun. This has become an entertaining...
