Plymouth Public Schools

Vaping: Just The Facts

On Thursday, April 11th at 6:30pm the Plymouth Area League of Women Voters in collaboration with the Plymouth Youth Development Collaborative (PYDC) will be hosting a community forum entitled “Vaping: Just the Facts”. This event, which will take place in the Little Theater at Plymouth Community Intermediate School (PCIS) will focus on the issue of “vaping” and current e-cigarette use including the scope of the problem, impact on the adolescent brain and body, as well as solution based responses to this epidemic. The speakers and panel will include Amy Turncliff (PhD Neurobiology), Kelly Macomber (M.Ed, Program Coordinator), Dr. Nate Horwitz-Willis (PH, MPH, MP, Director of Plymouth Public Health) as well as Plymouth Public School high school aged youth. Please join us free of cost for an evening of learning around this important issue.

PNHS SkillsUSA Gives Back with Dinner and a Movie

Plymouth North's chapter of SkillsUSA hosted a fun family dinner and a movie (Finding Nemo) for South Shore Early Education families.

Attention seniors!!

If you are going to college after graduation, you should plan to attend MEFA's "After the Acceptance Seminar" on Monday, March 25th. An experienced MEFA representative will provide an overview of the college payment process, including the details of financial aid award letters, using payment plans, different financing options, and how to minimize debt. The seminar is scheduled to run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and will be held in the Performing Arts Center at Plymouth North High School. We hope to see you there.

One School One Book Kick Off and More!

Everyone in our FFES community has started reading Roald Dahl’s, The BFG, as part of our “One School, One Book” book club. Students are encouraged to read at home with families and answer trivia questions that go along with the chapters each week. Trivia participants are part of a school wide raffle on Fridays. Some staff members have volunteered to video tape themselves reading a chapter from the book. These videos are available online for everyone to enjoy and students are excited at the prospect of their teachers becoming YouTube sensations. We will have a big Literacy Day/Night celebration on April 25th as a culmination of this exciting adventure to Dreamland with Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant!

During reading this month, students in Mrs. Foley’s 3rd grade were assigned a research club. Each club is responsible for studying a particular animal. They are researching pandas, penguins, sharks, wolves, and frogs. Students are reading across the texts from their book bin, focusing on one subtopic at a time, to synthesize the information they are reading.

NMES March Madness

Students at Nathaniel Morton are excited to take part in another round of March Madness! Each day two Physical Education activities face off. All students are able to vote for their favorite which advances that activity to the next round. We have just selected our “Sweet 16” so stay tuned to see the outcome! We are enjoying a school wide activity and anxiously awaiting to hear the winner so we can spend our time in Physical Education celebrating that victory and playing the game!

World Down Syndrome Day

Thursday, March 21, was World Down Syndrome Day, when people across the globe celebrated the lives of those with Down Syndrome. Ms. Fitzgerald's F period civics class also celebrated by sponsoring a Crazy Sock Day. For a $1 donation, staff and students could wear brightly colored socks. Money raised by the wearing of fancy footwear is being donated to "Heartbeats for Down Syndrome", a local organization that supports families of children with Down Syndrome who are facing heart surgery. Crazy Sock Day grew out of the students' service learning project. They've have been meeting weekly with students from Mrs. Rose's class; the fundraiser is in honor of one of their new friends.

Foreign Language

French classes at PNHS are celebrating Women's History Month by acknowledging the contributions of various French-speaking women to their communities and to society. Also in Foreign Language Ms. Fallon's classes learned Spanish through songs, participating in the annual "Wooly Week" activities. Students made predictions from storyboard stills, completed online scavenger hunts and practice activities, played games, colored their favorite characters to decorate the classroom, drew pictures, and re-told stories in their own words. Ms. Fallon entered evidence of their hard work in an online raffle and won a copy of a signed Señor Wooly graphic novel for their classroom.

PNHS Spring Drama Production “9 to 5” The Musical

Congratulations on an amazing performance from the PNHS Drama group. The hard work, talent and teamwork shined through every minute! So proud of the cast and crew of “9 to 5” as they performed 3 shows last weekend. All pictures were provided by Ladybug Photography

BECCA'S CLOSET FASHION SHOW

Marketing students held a fashion show during lunches this week to model gowns available through Becca's Closet. Any student can make an appointment and select any gown free of charge through the generosity of donors and Marketing Students who maintain Becca's Closet. Domenic's Tux was also here to distribute information on renting a tuxedo for the upcoming junior prom.

THE GOWNS THAT KEEP ON GIVING

Last year a bridal shop donated 300 identical pink gowns to Plymouth South High School. The marketing students then had to figure out the best way to use them after they were offered free to students for prom. Three marketing students, Keven Paul, Shane Richardson and Haiden Tavekelian decided to sell them for $20 each to anyone willing to wear them as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month raising $1,400. However, they still had 200 gowns and not enough room to store them. One of their parents put them in touch with Angel Babies - a Wareham based charity that makes infant burial gowns out of wedding and formal gowns. The charity was started by a woman who lost an infant at birth 9 years ago and they now have volunteers who sew them and send to hospitals to be given to anyone who suffers such a painful loss. Our students are very happy to see the dresses used for such a nice cause. Thanks to Rich Harbert of the OCM for allowing us to use his photos and story.