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Plymouth Public Schools

Voyager Express Newsletter - January 25, 2019

PlymouthPublic SchoolsVoyager Express Newsletter - January 25, 2019

This week's events and newsworthy items from the Plymouth Public Schools

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PhotoVoice

On Thursday, PYDC and the Boys and Girls Club showcased their summer PhotoVoice project to the community. This was the first time the youth who participated viewed the complete gallery and had the opportunity to share their experiences about being involved in the project. The images and conversation were powerful!


We are excited to have already started our next PhotoVoice project with the Principal’s Leadership Council at PCIS! They’re a great group of students and we expect this project to be just as successful as the last.

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Science, Technology & Engineering

Biomed Applications due Feb 5th

Online application: bitly.com/biomedapp

Plymouth biomedical website: bitly.com/biomedinfo

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Parents & Guardians: Don't Miss the TECH EXPO!

The TECH EXPO and Parent Information Night is set for Monday, January 28th at both high schools. This evening will give parents and guardians the opportunity to walk through the expo and talk with current CCTE students from our 17 high-quality programs. The expo is followed by an information session hosted by building principals.


5:00-7:00 PM Tech Expo at PNHS & PSHS
5:45 PM Grade 8 Parent info session at PNHS
7:15 PM Grade 8 Parent info session at PSHS


**CCTE Applications for the 2019-2020 school year are due February 5, 2019.

To learn more about our CCTE opportunities, visit www.bit.ly/PPSCCTE.

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22nd Annual Early Childhood Fair

The Plymouth Family Network is sponsoring the 22nd Annual Early Childhood Fair on Saturday, February 2 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm at Plymouth North High School. The theme for this year's fair is "This is ME: Building Social & Emotional Skills". (Snow date is 2/9/2019)


We present this community wide early childhood fair to increase public awareness of the need for high quality childcare and early education. It also provides families with information about the variety of community services available in Plymouth for young children and their families. The fair includes special activities and entertainment for families with young children including school bus rides, crafts, drumming, dance party, educational activities and much more.

teddy bear day

This past week Miss Gabby’s class had teddy bear day where students could bring in their favorite teddy bear to school. Students brought their bears to circle time for songs, counting, and yoga. The kids loved bringing their bears to snack with them. The students also participated in a fun teddy graham counting activity where they would count the bears and then compare the amounts.
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Cold Spring Elementary School

Website: https://www.plymouth.k12.ma.us/cse
Location: 25 Alden Street, Plymouth, MA, USA
Phone: (508) 830-4335
Facebook: facebook.com/csesplymouth

Superhero Day

Wednesday, January 23rd was Superhero day at Cold Spring. Check out our Superheroes at work throughout the day!
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Federal Furnace Times

5th grade students at Federal Furnace Elementary School recently released the latest edition of the Federal Furnace Times. "What teachers do on their breaks?" and "Fantasy Book Reviews" are two of the articles in the "In Our Classroom" section. "Arts and Entertainment" includes features on Fortnite and favorite music artist, Eminem. Along with digital versions, a large copy is displayed in the staff room, and hard copies went home to all 5th grade families.
Hedge's Tunnel - Hedge Elementary School

Halfway Day

Today in Ms. Haynes’ Kindergarten class we celebrated halfway day. Today is our 90th day and tomorrow we are closer to the first day of First Grade than we are to the first day of Kindergarten. Since it is also pizza day we used a pizza to understand the concept of one half.

Way to go, Charlie!

Charlie O. from Mrs. Varasso’s 2nd grade class is a very worldly guy! He earns landmark tokens for staying on track and enjoys Google Earth and Google maps.

Fun with Phonics

MES Kindergarten homerooms are working hard to pilot some exciting new phonics strategies, and are having FUN every step of the way!!!

Virtual Field Trip to the Southeast

Fourth Graders in Ms. Leach's class enjoyed their Social Studies lessons this week by taking a virtual field trip to explore some famous landmarks in the Southeast Region of the United States this week. Students "visited" Graceland, the famous Southernmost Point Buoy in Key West, and the Everglades National Park.

Engineering with marshmellows

Students having fun building igloos for penguins as part of a STEM activity!

Glow Run at West

West Elementary kicked off the Glow Fun Run with a visit from Pumped Up Paul and Zesty Zephry. The Glow Run will be held Friday, February 1st. Our students are so excited to raise money for our new kindergarten playground.

PCIS Geography Bee

Today the Geography department at PCIS hosted our annual School GeoBee, sponsored by National Geographic. Students from grades 6-8 participated in the competition by answering individual questions testing their geographic knowledge. After many rounds of questions, our winner was Shane S. from Gemini grade 7. Adam H., Ranger grade 8, came in second and Aidan G., Gemini grade 7, came in third place. All participants did an amazing job showing their world knowledge. We hope to see our 6th and 7th grade participants back in next year’s competition!
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Project 351 Ambassador

Congratulations to PCIS student Emma Bent for being chosen for Governor Baker’s Project 351 Ambassador. Students chosen to be Project 351 Ambassadors have shown great leadership and service to their school and community. This is Emma leaving for Project 351 and with friends she has made there. Congratulations Emma!!
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Passion Minute Project

Students in Mrs. Ring's 7th grade Pre-Algebra classes participated in the Passion Minute Project and shared with their classmates an activity or hobby they love to do in their spare time, and how math is involved in that pursuit. In a quick minute, these lovely mathematicians demonstrated math literacy is a life skill, not just a grade in Pre-Algebra class, and the most joyous of activities require mathematical understanding.

PSMS Athletes of the Week

Congratulations to the PSMS Athletes of the Week. From the Girls' Basketball team, Taylor Voci, and from the Boys' Basketball team, Nolan Palmer.

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Geography Bee

Patrick Vetter (G7) outlasted competitors from all three grades to win the crown as the 2019 Geography Bee Champion at PSMS. Patrick will now take an online examination to earn the opportunity to face off against other school champs at the state wide Geo Bee.

Emerging Young Artists

Mya Iacabucci's painting was accepted into the Emerging Young Artists show at UMass Dartmouth and will be on display through Feb 9th. Beautiful work, Mya!

FRESHMAN ACADEMY STUDENTS OF THE MONTH JANUARY

Students in the photo below were awarded Freshman Academy Students of the Month for January. They were nominated by their team teachers and each one received a certificate, a t-shirt and a coupon for a free treat from our culinary shop Southside Fare. Congratulations!


L-R: Bryn Adair, Jack Hirtle and Brianna Walsh

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Plymouth Public Schools

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Phone: 508-830-4300 | Fax: 508-746-1873

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