Springville-Griffith Institute

Attention Families - Google reported a number of GLOBAL SERVICE OUTAGES this morning. While services (GMail, Classroom, Meet) have been restored students may experience issues logging into a district chromebook or accessing their online materials/classes.

In an effort to maximize our contact days with students, Parent-teacher conferences will be held on two Remote Wednesdays (December 9th and 16th). The previousl...y scheduled half-day on December 11th and no student attendance day on December 14th will be full student attendance days. This change was made to maximize our face to face instructional time with our students. See more

Due to the possibility of a winter storm the district will be changing meal pick ups scheduled for this week only to Thursday 4-6pm at CES, SES and SMS. The meals will consist of 7 breakfasts, 7 lunches and a 1/2 gallon milk.

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The following items are currently up for bid at Auctions International. https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/23199 6 Pull Behind York Rake 10 6 Power Poles GE Electric Stove and Oven Combination... Falcon Walk Behind Carpet Extractor Bleacher Mule Bidding Ends: November 20, 2020 See individual items for exact closing times. Location:267 Newman St., Springville, Erie, NY 14141 Questions & Inspection: Inspections are available by appointment. Please contact David Seiflein at 716-592-3208 with questions or to schedule an appointment.

Springville GI High School Theatre Class’s production LIVE on ZOOM!! Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13 at 7:00PM, Tickets available at springvillegi.anywhereseat.com where you can purchase your $7 access code (fun for the whole family!). ... *Try to watch on something other than a chromebook for maximum quality.

On a wet and rainy fall day, both Scott Russell and Mac Quinn didn’t let the weather hold them back from playing some great golf! There were a total of 64 competitors at this year’s ECIC tournament held at Glen Oak Golf Course. The top 22 finishers would qualify for the Sectional tournament to be held in the spring. Junior Scott Russell shot 39/43 for a ten over par 82 landing him in 22nd place right at the cut off for Sectionals. This will be Scott’s first time competing... at this level. Freshman Mac Quinn fired a 37/39 for a four over 76. Mac finished in 5th place and was awarded the distinction of All ECIC All Star. Mac has qualified for Sectionals as a 7th, 8th and 9th grader. Both SGI golfers are to be commended for this achievement. With an abbreviated season lacking adequate practice time, and the weather conditions for the ECIC tournament, both of their scores were great accomplishments! Best of luck to both Scott and Mac at the Sectional tournament this spring. See more

Congratulations to Hannah Goetz who is the 2020 Cross Country ECIC champion and Kirsten Melnick who is the runner-up. The girls will have a chance to qualify for states if they have repeat performances at sectionals. Sectionals will be held at Bemus Point Golf Course on November 14th. To qualify they will need to be in the top 5 runners out of the 31 C sized schools that attend the race. The race will be split into 2 events to limit the number of competitors on the rout...e. While there is no actual state invitational this year it is a great honor to qualify for the race. Jaime Dickinson ran a gutsy race at ECIC’s after spraining her ankle 4 days before the race. The volume of water on the course was not helping her ankle in any way. The wet conditions and having 3 other races run the same course on that day and the day before made for very bad footing. Jaime still persevered through the elements to qualify for the second team ECIC Allstar team by placing 8th overall in the race. Maggie Blake finished a strong 4th. The boys team had six members named to the ECIC Allstars. With Austin Yetter making the 1st team and Liam smith, Nathan Cudney, Casey Waterman, Harley Maloy and Jack Tharnish qualifying for the 2nd team honors. Austin was the lead runner for the race and finished 6th overall. Nathan Phillips, Joshua Connors, Otto Spielberger and Christian Safford ran very well in the poor weather and ground conditions. The boys team finished the overall season with a 4 and 1 division record. The only loss was to Alden (who ranked in the top 3 teams in the C sized school out of 31 teams). The team which is made of many juniors looks to be in a good position to climb back to the top next year. Submitted By: Coach Russell

Springville-Griffith is currently seeking bus drivers. If you can answer yes to any of these questions, maybe school bus driving is the career you’ve been looking for! Do you have great people skills and are you calm under pressure?... Do you enjoy working with children and is the safety of children important to you? Do you enjoy driving, how about an office with a view? Would a flexible work schedule be ideal for you, and how about a job with benefits? If you answered yes to these questions, contact the Springville Griffith CSD’s Transportation Department at 716.592.3278 for details.

A message from Springville-Griffith Institute Good morning! As October rapidly approaches, I would like to remind you that we will always prioritize our in-person instructional days. For the October 12 Indigenous People's Day Monday holiday, our Purple group will attend school in-person on Tuesday/Wednesday with deep cleaning occurring after school on Wednesday evening and our Gold group will attend in-person on Thursday/Friday as usual. When we reach November, Veterans' Day ...is on Wednesday, November 11 so our remote Wednesday instruction won't occur. If you pick up meals on Wednesdays, look for more information from SGI Culinary in November about when to pick up that week's meals. For Thanksgiving week, our Purple group will attend in-person on Monday/Tuesday, with the Gold group on Wednesday 11/25. If you've been wondering "when will we get back to full in-person instruction? What will need to change for that to happen?", we have been too! That's a great question and one that we continue to push at the state level, but with no concrete answer yet. Our district employees, all of us, continue to work hard to keep everyone safe by following the safety requirements outlined in our reopening plan. Please continue to do your part to stop the spread of COVID-19 so that we can hopefully return our students to more in-person instruction. Thank you to everyone for all that you're doing for our SGI students, every day. Kimberly Moritz

The Erie County Emergency Childcare Taskforce is working with Erie 1 BOCES and local school districts to develop a plan to meet childcare needs. The first step in developing that plan is to determine the possible need for childcare/school age programs in your area. Click the link below to complete a survey that will help to determine need. https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeihFWbWmRXkenvqR/viewform

REOPENING MEETING REMINDER: The district will be offering community Zoom meetings to answer any questions regarding the reopening of school. The sessions will be held on Wednesday, 8/12 at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm and on Thursday, 8/13 at 3:00 pm. To take part navigate to ZOOM.US and enter the MEETING ID 7162588361. Community members unable to access a virtual meeting and wishing to meet with the Superintendent of Schools, Kimberly Moritz, can call 592-3230 or send an email to [email protected] to schedule a meeting.

In order to plan for a successful reopening to school in September, 2020, we will need to know your plans for your family and identify your needs. In order to receive meals on remote learning days, have school transportation on in-person learning days, or borrow a device for your child, please complete this assessment. We also have a few questions to help us to assess family needs. Thank you for participating. To best be able to assist our district families, we ask that you complete this form for each child in your family. This will assist us to plan for individual students. https://www.springvillegi.org/reopening-plan-family-needs-/