Plymouth Public Schools

Hometown Cleanup

This popular town wide tradition of community service helps keep our open spaces, parks, beaches conservation lands and neighborhoods beautiful. Families, neighbors, school groups, clubs, businesses and organizations all pitch in. Thank you for doing your part in the past and we hope you’ll join us again this year. If you’ve never done it before, don’t miss it this fall – it’s a good way to instill civic pride in our children and it’s fun.

The Town offers purple bags for collecting the litter and will pick up full bags from your drop location. Contact Patrick Farah at Town Hall at 508 747-1620 x10204 or pfarah@townhall.plymouth.ma.us. Let him know an area you’d like to clean up or he will suggest a group you can join.

Very Special Student Recognition

A 9th grade student at Plymouth South is being recognized for her work on an English class project on the other side of the country. Students in Mrs. Degelder's English classes at Plymouth South began the year with a focus on the "This Is Me" theme by taking a look who they are and how their life experiences shape them. As an extension of this, students were assigned a research project, asking them to take a look at a city outside of Massachusetts, similar in size to Plymouth, to examine the variety of experiences that we can have as Americans. For this project, students were also asked to e-mail a city or school leader or member of the media in the city or town upon which their research focused.

Freshman Ainsley Richardson chose to research Georgetown, Texas, where she reached out to the editor of the local paper, who not only answered her questions, but also had a few questions of his own for Ainsley. Ainsley's responses and a brief description of the project were published as part of an editorial in the Williamson County Sun.

Fire Prevention Week

This week was Fire Prevention Week. The students in Miss Kim's and Miss Megan's rooms learned about important fire safety vocabulary, how to stop drop and roll and even had a chance to dress up as firefighters! Miss Nancy, our speech language pathologist, came in with her own fire truck for the students to ride in, as they sang along with her fire truck song. The students then had to listen carefully and follow a sequence of directions in order to put out the "fire". Next week one of the Plymouth fire trucks will be coming for a special visit to the preschool.

Saving homes from hurricane flooding and erosion

Young engineers in Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Nadler’s third grade classes experienced some success as well as some failure as they tried to save a riverside “village” from dangerous flooding and erosion. The Indian Brook Elementary School third graders were assigned an important task: Find a way to save homes from hurricane flooding and erosion. After brainstorming and planning ideas in the classroom earlier in the week, the 50 boys and girls moved outside to put their plans into action. The experiment fits into Plymouth school’s science and technology standards on Earth and human activity. In third grade, students evaluate the merit of a design solution that reduces the damage caused by weather. The young scientists excitedly filled sandwich baggies with sand, rocks, pinecones, twigs, and other items. The boys and girls built levees, seawalls, and placed sandbags near their Monopoly board game plastic houses just in time before the hurricane hit. With water spilling out of a gardening pail and rising near homes, students could judge for themselves whether their designs worked or not. “My house survived the flood,” one girl shouted excitedly. “Our home washed down the river,” said a disappointed boy. “Next time I’ll use more sandbags.”

Morton Movers Fitness Club

We had a great turn out Wednesday morning for our first Morton Movers Fitness Club! Students gathered on the recess field at 8:15 am to run, walk, skip and move before school. Several staff joined in the fun as well! The sun was shining & everyone was smiling. It was a great way to start the school day! Many thanks to Mrs. Jen Smith, our PE Teacher for starting this club!

Sharpen the saw

At this week's morning meeting, we talked about ways we can “Sharpen The Saw”, a few volunteers shared what the best book they read this summer was, and we celebrated September’s Leaders of the Month!

Here’s a few suggestions of questions you can ask your child tonight about this morning’s assembly:

*What are some ways you can calm yourself when you are feeling worried?
*How can you take care of your body to help yourself stay healthy?
*How do we show leadership at school?
*What does it mean to be a leader?

Analyzing character flaws

Everyone always focuses on the hero's good traits, but some of the most celebrated figures in literature have major character flaws. In ELA classes, our 6th grade students explored this concept by analyzing popular characters in books and film, including the wonderful wizard himself, Harry Potter.

PLYMOUTH SOUTH ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Congratulations! Jordan Colbert and Joe Flynn

Jordan Colbert - Field Hockey: The player of the week for Field hockey is Jordan Colbert. Jordan is a senior captain who plays center midfield for our team. Jordan consistently plays 110% both at practice and in games. She is also a true motivator- Even if the team is down, she looks for a way to pick them up. Jordan is a positive role-model for every player in the program and dominates in games due to her intense work ethic. As a midfielder, Jordan works hard both defensively and offensively, acts as a team player, and plays to win. Jordan has been a key player in every game so far this season and has kept us in reach of our opponents. Jordan is a true leader by example.

Joe Flynn - Golf G&G/PSHS Male Athlete of the Week: Joe Flynn is the player of the week for golf. Joe is a senior captain who has been on varsity for 4 years. He played outstanding golf last week to help lead the team to 3 more victories. Joe shot a one under 35 in a win to secure a tournament berth for team for the third consecutive year.

College Visits

All Freshman students went on three different college tours on Wednesday, Oct. 11th. Students in the photo below enjoyed a visit to Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay where they got a chance to take a tour of the campus and ask questions.

Assistant Principal Mr. Loranger had a chance to visit with two former Plymouth South students at Mass Maritime Academy.

Freshman Academy Students of the Month - September

Congratulations to the following freshmen students. They were nominated and awarded Freshman Academy students of the month by their team teachers. They each received a certificate, a t-shirt and a coupon for free goodies from the bakery at Southside Fare.

Left to right: Sonia Abdel-Fattah, Colby Keating & Victoria Vincent