The stage of the Merton P. Corwin Auditorium at Jamestown High School is dim with only a microphone at center stage. Occupying that microphone is JHS freshman Hayden Langford, who is rehearsing a poem into a sea of empty seats, save for the middle seat of the tenth row. “Now this time when ...
Each Tuesday after school, roughly a dozen Fletcher Elementary School students gather in the school library. “Alright, my friends,” says the gentleman seated in the middle of the room. “Let’s open our books to page 35 and we can begin where we left off last time!” Throughout the ...
Student leaders at Washington Middle School are stepping up to make a difference for their classmates. A cross section of Washington students from grades 5 through 8 were selected by their teachers to aid in the school’s approach to conflict resolution as “peer mediators.” The mediators ...
Jamestown Public Schools students aren’t the only ones in the district expanding their expertise with technology. Over the last two months, roughly two dozen JPS elementary, middle, and high school teachers have had the chance to work directly with certified experts from Apple Education as ...
Katie Andalora and Cassidy Siebert both began teaching at Jefferson Middle School early in the COVID-19 pandemic. “We noticed there was a lack of communication between the students we were working with on a daily basis, the families we weren’t able to meet in person with, and the ...
The Robert H. Jackson Elementary School Drama Club recently put on the Mighty Medieval Tales of Rats! and Joust! The musicals were directed by Sandra Meerdink and Amanda Dilts, both teachers at Robert H. Jackson Elementary School. Rats! was written by Dave and Jean Perry and is based on ...