Plymouth Public Schools

Elementary Health Education

This week Plymouth Public Schools elementary health educators hosted an information night to share details on their new health curriculum. This event gave parents and guardians the opportunity to learn more about what K-5 students are learning during health class. In addition to many important health related topics, this curriculum touches on substance use prevention and highlights age-appropriate conversations around drugs and alcohol. Thank you for including PYDC in your information night to share education & information around this timely topic!

Congratulations!!

The following students from Plymouth North HS auditioned and were accepted into the South Eastern Massachusetts Music Educators Sr. Music Festival to be held in January.

Congratulations to these students!

Mixed Choir

Johnny Alves

Hannah Flockton

Adam Garcia

Sydney Palmer

Mary Whelan

Treble Choir

Amber Bates

Elizabeth Carlin

Hannah Goodrich

McKenna Martin

Concert Band

Seeger Creane, French Horn

Orchestra

Elizabeth Martin, Violin

Of these students five got All-State Recs and will audition for the

Massachusetts All-State Music Festival. Nice work!

Johnny Alves

Amber Bates

Hannah Goodrich

McKenna Martin

Sydney Palmer

Last Minute Holiday Shopping?

Give the gift of summer science STEM camp to your student this year. Camp Invention runs from July 6-10, 2020, at PCIS from 9:00 am - 3:30 pm daily and registration is open now. Discounts are also available, just in time for the holidays. For more information about Camp Invention check out this site (campinvention.org) and to learn about the 2020 summer program called Elevate check out this video!

Scholastic Pajama Program

For the second year at the Plymouth Early Childhood Center we have participated in the Scholastic Pajama Program. Families and staff have contributed pajamas sizes 3T-5T to each classroom with a combined total this year of 323 pairs! Scholastic then takes these pajamas and matches each pair that is donated. The pajamas then go to children that need them.

FFES Teams up with Transportation for PBIS Initiative

FFES has extended our PBIS initiative to the buses!! Student will be rewarded for exhibiting "ROAR" characteristics on the buses. The drivers and the school are seeing such positive behaviors on the buses! Two second grade students from Mrs. Drollet's class earned a bus coin and added them to the second grade bus jar!

Hedge School December 2019 Awards

Congratulations! Continue to do your best and spread kindness to all! Visit our Facebook page for more photos!

K-Kids Celebrating a Special Night

The MES K-Kids are a group of students from our school who regularly plan activities through which they can serve the community in a variety of ways. The Plymouth Kiwanis sponsor this group, and recently members of the K-Kids marched in the Tree Lighting Parade to celebrate this event and help raise much needed funds.

Flubber, Anyone?

Ms. Whitney's science classes started their glacier units by making glaciers! Glue, starch, and water made a flubbery, sticky, stretchy mess that will be used in further experiments that study the characteristics of glaciers. They also studied how glaciers with rocks and glaciers without rocks differed as they traveled overland by using ice cubes rubbed on cardboard.

Sugar and Starches

Eighth-graders investigated chemical reactions in the mouth! When combining carbs with amylase (an enzyme in saliva), indicators such as iodine or benedicts showed if carbs changed into glucose! Students used this information to narrow down the cause of a student's digestive medical problem. They are closer to a diagnosis!

All Things Science

It has been an exciting and eventful week for our Science and STEM families. Mr. Strohschneider's AP Physics students have been busy performing experiments. Students are looking at uniform circular motion and how centripetal force relates to this type of periodic motion. Further connections extend to Newton's Second Law. Students are also extending their skills in collecting position versus time data. The students then apply mathematical concepts of creating a line of best fit from actual data. Medical Interventions is the third year class of the four year Biomedical Pathway. Students began the year by investigating how an outbreak occurs and how Epidemiologists determine Patient Zero. In the ELISA lab (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), students are tasked with quantifying antigen concentrations to assist in determining the source of the outbreak. Students apply micro pipetting skills and create a serial dilution to calculate the concentrations. After determining Patient Zero, students learn how Epidemiologists work to control an outbreak. This leads students into a Unit about how vaccines work, and how vaccines can prevent the spread of disease.

Outside of the classroom, our very own Biology Teacher Nancy Rozak donated a tree from her yard to the town of Plymouth for their tree lighting ceremony this past weekend. Mrs. Rozak said, “The tree was only about 3 feet high when we first moved in. My kids used to jump over it.” When the town cut it down, it was about 60 feet - 28 years of growth!

Nick Faiella of the Parks and Forestry Division came to meet with the family and look at the tree. Arrangements were made to take the tree before the Thanksgiving break. They brought a crane which lifted the tree and put it on a truck, tying up the larger branches. They needed a police detail for the trip downtown.

Advisory Mini Lessons

During Advisory on Wednesday, students attended a 1 day "Mini-Lesson" of their choice. With over 44 topic’s students were given some great choices. Some of the topics were: yoga, tie dye, making cinnamon holiday ornaments, organizing and using your agenda as a place for inspiration, making holiday earrings, hand lettering lessons and many more fun lessons.

Honors Breakfasts at PSHS

Tuesday and Thursday of this week PSHS held an Honors Breakfasts for all grades. Both days, different speakers gave encouraging talks to students and their parents. On Tuesday, current senior Marie St. Germaine spoke upon the importance that "Every day matters!" and to "Surround yourself with people who help you thrive and don't bring you down. On Thursday, 2017 graduate Mahema Singh touched upon the importance of having balance in your life. Congratulations to all Honors Students!!