CSS Newsletter
February 6, 2020
Produced by the CCS PTA
Submissions for the CCS Newsletter are due by 3 PM on Mondays prior.
Email to: news@ccspta.info
Email to: news@ccspta.info
** Traditional Box Top clips are being phased out, but it's super easy to continue to support our school by scanning receipts with the Box Tops Mobile app. See below for more information!
CCS is participating in the Positivity Project. A different character trait or topic is highlighted and discussed at school each week. Families are encouraged to follow along with the weekly themes at home to further emphasize each topic. This week's topic is Forgiveness.
Visit The Positivity Project's website to learn more and to sign up for the weekly newsletter.
Click here to view the complete list of topics for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
The Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program will host a Parent Information Session for 8th grade students interested in joining P-TECH and their families on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. in the Oneida Room of the Howard D. Mettelman Learning Center.
The Parent Information Session is being held in conjunction with the OHM BOCES Career and Technical Education Center’s Saturday Showcase, an annual event that invites the public to visit the Center and participate in a variety of interactive activities. From 10 a.m.-1 p.m., students and their families will be able to enjoy STEM activities hosted by P-TECH staff and current students in the FabLab.
Students interested in applying to join the P-TECH program for the 2020-21 school year are required to submit an application to their home district counselor by Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. Applications are available on the OHM BOCES website at www.oneida-boces.org/PTECH.
The 2019 - 2020 Clinton Elementary School yearbook is on sale now at jostensyearbooks.com!
The deadline has passed for personalizations but you can still order a yearbook. Orders placed after 1/31/2020 will start at $25 plus tax.
If you have pictures from the school that you would like to submit, please send them to smith853a@gmail.com
Below you will find the dates of several upcoming school spirit days at Clinton Elementary:
| Date | Spirit Day | What to Wear |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 14 | Friendship Day | Red or pink |
| Tuesday, February 25 *Date subject to change based on snow days |
100th Day Celebration | Wear something with 100 things on it or dress like you are 100 years old |
| Monday, March 2 | Dr. Seuss Day | Anything that reminds you of your favorite Seuss characters or crazy hair |
| Tuesday, March 17 | Good Luck Day | Go green |
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Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Tessa Lark, violin on Friday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on the Hamilton College campus.
Lark, accompanied by Andrew Armstrong, piano, will perform a varied program for violin and piano that includes Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances, Schubert’s Fantasy in C minor, Grieg’s Sonata No. 3, and Ravel’s Tzigane.
Violinist Tessa Lark, recipient of a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, is both a budding superstar in the classical realm and a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky. Since making her concerto debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at sixteen, Lark has appeared with dozens of orchestras, festivals, and recital venues including Carnegie Hall, Ravinia, San Francisco Performances, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Marlboro Music. In 2019, she premiered “Sky,” a bluegrass-inspired concerto written by Michael Torke for Lark with the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra. The recording of “Sky” has been has been nominated for Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. Lark is a graduate of New England Conservatory with an artist diploma from The Juilliard School. She plays a ca. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Andrew Armstrong, piano, performs as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. He has played in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. As a chamber musician he has appeared with the Elias, Alexander, American and Manhattan string quartets, and as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. This season, Armstrong and violinist James Ehnes teamed up to release recordings of Beethoven’s violin sonatas in celebration of the master’s 250th birthday in 2020. The duo will perform the cycle in cities around the world.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students. Visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts or call the box office at (315) 859-4331 for more information.
Alteri’s Restaurant on 7 College Street in Clinton, is again teaming up with the local chapter of Dollars for Scholars to help raise funds for graduating Clinton Central School students.
Any pizza purchased on Wednesday earns $2 for the Clinton Dollars for Scholars/Alteri’s scholarship fund. Eat in or take out! Alteri’s will donate either way!
Eat locally and support local graduates. Alteri’s Pizza + Clinton Dollars for Scholars = Success for our students!
For more information on Clinton Dollars for Scholars and ways to support our students, visit http://clinton.dollarsforscholars.org
Drop in for free children’s activities and treats!
Families and children ages 5 - 10.
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College
198 College Hill Rd
Clinton, NY 13323
Click here for a list of the Wellin Kids activities scheduled for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
