Middle School Campus Newsletter
June 2022
Principal's Corner
Please enjoy some of our end of the year pictures and information below. Thank you for a great year!
John Egresits
Campus Principal
Moving Up Ceremony
8th Grade Dance
Incoming 6th Grade Information
We are looking forward to meeting you at our walk-through scheduled for Monday, August 29th from 1-2 or 6-7PM. Please know that we are working on your class schedules throughout the summer and we will mail them to you in August. In the meantime please view our supply list and a Parkway newsletter that went home from your Elementary School recently.
Fourth Annual Kickball Tournament
On June 8, the fourth annual Middle School Kickball Tournament was held as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. The tournament was a huge success. A group of students kicked off the event by singing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” a principal took a pie to the face and in total, $1,393.00 was raised for a great cause. Thank you to all who helped support this event! Please view the link below for more pictures.
NYSSMA 2022
On May 13th and 14th, 30 instrumental students from the Parkway and Middle School music program participated in our zone’s, in-person, NYSSMA Solo Festival. This is the first in-person solo festival since 2019. Students spent months preparing solos to perform for their NYSSMA evaluation. Each level of proficiency, (levels 1-6), has a different set of requirements and expectations for students to demonstrate on their instrument. The evaluation consists of performing required scales, their solo and a sight-reading portion. Our zone’s NYSSMA festival was hosted this year by Central Valley Academy located in Illion, NY.
We are so incredibly proud of our resilient music students for going above and beyond! All of our NYSSMA solo participants this year received the two highest ratings, which were excellent and outstanding evaluations! Bravo!
The following students represented the Whitesboro Central School District at our zone’s NYSSMA solo festival this year:
6th Grade Parkway Orchestra students under the direction of Mrs. Caitlyn Clark
Evelyn Lange, Kayla Barnes, Eleanora Dubina, Joslyn Stevens
6th Grade Parkway Band students under the direction of Mrs. Caitlyn Clark
Caden Meiss, Hailey Sweezey, Amber Warren, Matthew Ryan, Emma Jerome, Ethan Cidzik, Ryan Nassif, Karen Sharkey, Christopher LaPage, Matthew Bykovich, Ethan Roser, and Frank Brown
7th & 8th Grade Middle School Orchestra Students under the direction of Mrs. Millicent Ruggio:Carson Gulseth, Mallorie Rudwall, Lucianna Walsh, and Gavin Januchowski
7th & 8th Grade Middle School Band Students under the direction of Mrs. Erin Joslin:
Catherine Brown, Lana Moore, Sofia Protasovitskiy, Isabella Perry, Liam Buckley, Joe Drager, Valerie Cieslak,Karley Hughes, Zoey Pyrda, Adam Gutowski
Check out the wboro page for more pictures: https://www.wboro.org/Page/11139
Orchestra Grade 6 NYSSMA
Band Grade 6 NYSSMA
Band Grade 8 NYSSMA
Band Grade 7 NYSSMA
7th and 8th Grade Orchestra NYSSMA
6th grade ELA, Social Studies & Art Collaboration
The Lightning Thief
Students in 6th grade art created their own Greek vases using paper mache. All students blew up a balloon for the base of their vase. Handles, a base and an extension of their vase structure were created with cardboard. They covered the shape of the balloon using multiple coats of a paper mache mixture and newspaper. Each student planned out what their vase was going to look like. They had the choice of creating their own Greek design or basing their project upon a Greek God or Goddess. The vases were painted using acrylic paint. When all students were finished with their project, an artist statement was written describing their work.