Mechanicville City School District

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This week is Spirit Week at the Elementary School! We can't wait to see everyone showing off their school spirt!

This week is School Board Recognition Week and the faculty, staff and students were excited to make a special video to recognize our amazing Mechanicville School Board! We are all grateful for the time and effort each of you put in to make our District the absolute best! #OneMechanicville #RedRaiderPride

Exciting news from our Food Service Team!! Red Raider community, you’re in for a real treat! https://docs.google.com//1JuBAeppPaSZySvF1JKToDe6uy5/edit

Dear Parents and/or Guardians of Jr/Sr High School Students: Please be advised, at approximately 1:20pm today, we held a scheduled mandatory lockdown drill at the Jr/Sr High School Building. The drill lasted approximately 10 minutes, ending at 1:30pm. I am happy to say the drill was successful with the assistance of the Saratoga County Sherriff’s Office and Deputy Laura Whitney. I would like to thank the staff and students for doing an outstanding job and responding appropri...ately and effectively during this drill. I encourage you to please talk with your children about the importance of these practice drills and reassure them that this is a safe, planned activity. We want to do everything possible to keep our children safe! My best, Bruce #OneMechanicville

Red Raider Community: As you begin conversations around plans for various holidays and celebrations, we would like you to consider these key factors into your decision-making: *If you travel to any of the restricted states (https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-travel-advisory), your whole family will be required by NYS DOH to quarantine at home for 14 days upon your return. Please note that several areas within New York State are also subject to the Governor’s Cluster A...ction Initiative (https://www.governor.ny.gov//governor-cuomo-announces-new-) and have additional requirements therein. *New York State still discourages large gatherings, and limits indoor social events to 50 people or less. *Our actions as individuals have an effect on our entire Mechanicville Community, even if we don’t feel sick or get sick ourselves. Gatherings with the best of intentions, involving the best of people, could still cause widespread problems for the larger community, as these news articles note: **Diamond Sweet 16’ Party Leaves 37 Infected and 270 in Quarantine https://www.nytimes.com//nyregion/virus-outbreak-sweet-six **Dr. Fauci says his kids aren’t coming home for Thanksgiving as Americans ‘sacrifice’ holiday gatherings to stay safe from coronavirus https://www.cnbc.com//dr-fauci-says-his-kids-arent-coming- We are extremely grateful that the personal decisions and responsible actions of our faculty, staff, students, and families have allowed us to learn in-person at each of our schools so far. We recognize the sacrifices -- both big and small -- that individuals are making each day to keep our school community thriving. And we ask you to persevere in those actions for the greater good. We are truly all in this together. Thank you for being an important part of #OneMechanicville. My best, Bruce

To end National School Lunch Week, our guest servers were Superintendent Potter and Mr. Mitchell! They did an awesome job and the kids were thrilled to have them serve lunch. You’ll see in the last picture, Mrs. Rose put it perfectly when she said, A Rose between two thorns. #OneMechanicville

Mr. Mitchell knows how to get the kids excited on a Friday! #OneMechanicville #RedRaiderPride

The kids loved that Mr. Turcio was cracking jokes while serving them, even if they weren’t that funny!

Our guest servers today were Mr. Turcio and Officer Pugliese from the Mechanicville Police Department! Both of them were awesome and we’ve never seen the line move so quickly! Mrs. Rose said she would love for them to work with her any day! #OneMechanicville

Our guest server in the cafeteria today was Mr. Kolakowski! The kids were so excited to have their Assistant Superintendent for STEAM and Innovation serving them lunch along with Mrs. Rose! Thank you Mr. Kolakowski for all your hard work!! #OneMechanicville

Thank you to Mike Raucci of Toyota of Clifton Park and Bruce Tanski of Tanski Construction and Development for their generous donations to our Backpack Program! They are two great members of our community who always step up to help our students and we couldn’t be more grateful! #OneMechanicville

This week is National School Lunch week and to celebrate we will be having guest servers in the Cafeteria! Today’s guest server was our SRO, Deputy Whitney! Thank you Deputy Whitney for your dedication to our students every day! It was a treat for the students to be served by you!

We are so grateful to David Fizer & Daulton Mysliwiec (MHS Class of 2012) of EXEControl Global Solutions for their efforts and generosity of computers donated for our students to use. Special thanks to Sheila Whinnery from the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce for thinking of us and coordinating this donation! #OneMechanicville