Going bananas: OHS SUPA forensics class performs unusual autopsies:
Oswego High School’s Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) forensics class recently acted as medical examiners and performed banana autopsies.
Each banana had its own storyline on how it ended up in the “nanner morgue.” For example, Nana Banana, age 72, was a rich, inclusive and recently widowed banana, who was found by a housekeeper early in the morning. Armed with medical scalpels and gloves, students were tasked with determining the manner, cause and mechanism of death based on the wounds that each banana had incurred.
Students got to utilize a cadaver weighing station, as well as being tasked with filling out a “Medical Examiner’s Report of Autopsy” to indicate where injuries had occurred and list their findings.
“Students ...
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OMS students compete in Battle of the Books:
Students at Oswego Middle School recently participated in this year's Battle of the Books competition, with the “Beyond the Book” team earning first place.
The winning team, comprised of Lily Anzalone, Madeleine Shaver, Maria Sweet and Liam Sugar, answered the most questions correctly and will represent Oswego Middle School at the regional level of the competition. The winners battled teams of their peers in the event, which encourages students to read a variety of literature and recall specific details regarding the books and respective authors.
“The students pour a ton of energy and effort into this competition,” said Oswego Middle School's library media specialist, MaryAlice Brennan-Steere, who helped coordinate the event at the school ...
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OHS students earn academic honors:
Hundreds of Oswego High School students earned academic recognition for their achievements during the third quarter. The highest honor, high honor, and honor roll recipients are below:
9 th Grade Highest Honors
Angela Lin, Leah J Kelly, Marbielynn Julianne Concepcion, Leonard Lin, Andrew Joseph Shaver, Xavier Alexander Vasquez, Aiden Spencer Towne, Leah Norton, Julia Grace Pearson, Hannah Barbera, Maddox Thomas Mazzoli, Grant Romanowski, Aaron Nicholas O'Brien, Olivia Christine Kapuscinski, Lana Mae Hsu, Gabriella Warner, Allanie Alexandra White, Devin Wayne Allen, Michael J Conzone, Zachary Tyler Truell, Ethan Munger, Allison Michael Canale, Joseph Patrick Wall Jr, Alisa Busuladzic, Jillian Wallace, Yael S Hunley, Alina Jean Sykut, Daniel William Buske, Savannah MaKenzie Pecorella, ...
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Feedback Wanted Regarding Superintendent Search:
The Oswego City School District Board of Education is seeking community input regarding its next superintendent. A Thought Exchange is now open and allows for members of the public to offer feedback about the next OCSD leader. Thought Exchange groups responses into themes to make it easier for the BOE to consider a wide variety of opinions and perspectives. The survey will be open through Sunday, April 23.
Click here to access the Thought Exchange or scan the QR code.
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OCSD Superintendent Search Process Underway:
Dear members of the Oswego City School District community:
This letter is to update the community on the superintendent search and the committee makeup for the finalist interviews.
Search Timeline
The brochure describing the Superintendent search and our school district has been published. The schedule below will be fluid depending on the response to our search. If the quality and size of our candidate pool is insufficient we may extend the search. We want to make sure we get the best candidate for our district.
Superintendent application closing date: Friday, April 14
Superintendent candidate review: immediately following submissions
Thought exchange closes: Sunday, April 23
Search committee applications accepted: to April ...
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OMS musical “Once Upon a Mattress” set for Apr. 14-15:
The Oswego Middle School Musical Theatrical Troupe is staging a comedic retelling of the traditional “Princess and the Pea,” the literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen where a young woman’s royal ancestry is established by a test of her sensitivity to a singular minute object: a pea.
“Once Upon a Mattress” will be performed at the Faust-Robinson Theatre at Oswego High School at 7 p.m. April 14 and 15. Tickets are $5 pre-show and available at: https://oms-musical.ticketleap.com . Tickets are general admission and can be used either night. Tickets at the door are $6.
“A cast and crew of 50 students have been preparing this jocular musical, so please come out and support these hardworking and dedicated students,” said OMS ...
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OMS Students Earn 3rd Quarter Academic Honors:
Oswego Middle School students excelled in the classroom during the third quarter and were recently commended for their achievements. Principal Mary Beth Fierro along with OMS faculty and staff recognized the following students who earned honor roll and/or high honor roll this marking period:
7 th Grade Honor Roll:
Chloe Adams, Tessa Adams, Deven Aikens, Jayla Atkinson, James Baker Jr., Justin Barker, Shannon Bild, Bella Boehmer, Logan Bort, Alexandra Brownell, Chloe Carson, Max Clarke, Hannah Coe, Travis Collins, Evan Davis, Ryan Elliot Jr., Dominic Falcetti, Kennedy Fountain, Alexis Gaxiola Baez, Brody Gosier, Jaydin Greene, Dy’Nastiy Griffin, Hailee Haven, Koston Hawkins, Ava Hodges, Aiden Hollister, Lee Anne Hosein, Cooper Howell, Katarina Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Mackenzie ...
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KPS STEAM Night a Success:
Kingsford Park Elementary School students recently enjoyed a variety of hands-on activities that focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.
The school’s first-ever STEAM night was a community collaboration among district staff and various local agencies and businesses. Activities were provided by CMOO, Oswego Health, SUNY Oswego Science Department, CiTi BOCES, Oswego Middle School Technology Department and Oswego High School Science Department. Throughout the evening, students and their families engaged in robotics demonstrations, drone flying activities, science experiments and block-building games.
“The whole point of STEAM is to inspire inquiry and curiosity; to empower students to ask thought-provoking questions that promote creativity ...
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BOE to meet 4/11, exec session prior:
The Oswego City School District Board of Education will be conducting their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 with an Executive Session starting at 4:30 p.m. and regular session to follow. This meeting will be held in the Oswego High School Library and the public is welcome to attend.
Meeting attendees should use the High School Main Office entrance. This meeting will be recorded and live-streamed starting at 4:30 p.m.
The agenda for this meeting will be available on BoardDocs ( https://go.boarddocs.com/ny/oswego/Board.nsf/Public ) after 4 p.m. Friday, ...
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OCSD Welcomes Interim Superintendent:
Oswego City School District Interim Superintendent Jeffrey Gordon takes the Oath of Office Thursday afternoon as he is officially welcomed into the District. Also on hand for the ceremony were District Clerk Diane Schrader, who administered the Oath, Board of Education Vice President, Thomas Ciappa, and members of the OCSD Administrative Cabinet. Gordon takes over as Interim Superintendent following the departure of Dr. Mathis Calvin in mid-March. Gordon will serve in an Interim capacity while the district conducts a search for their next Superintendent.
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Ag Week cultivates FPS 2nd grade:
Fitzhugh Park Elementary School second-graders recently celebrated National Agriculture Week by getting their hands dirty planting tomato and basil seeds.
Sixty students listened to a book that was donated to the school, titled “Tomatoes by Neela” by Padma Lakshmi. It is a yearly program that Fitzhugh Park participates in that highlights the importance of agriculture and how it fits into everyday life.
According to the second-grade teaching team, the book and the hands-on planting allowed students to have a new appreciation for the efforts made by those involved in agriculture and how farmers provide vital necessities that many take for granted.
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BUCS Take Second Place at OCAY League:
Students from Oswego County school districts recently competed in the third Oswego County Academic Youth League competition of the 2022-2023 school year, and Oswego City School District took second place.
“The 315” was the theme of the day at Tailwater Lodge in Altmar, NY where students competed in a series of exercises that challenged their knowledge and creativity using their area code (3-1-5) as inspiration.
After identifying an invasive species found locally, the groups made “Least Wanted Posters” regarding their subject. But natural science wasn’t the only subject put to the test; students took inspiration from both local history and Shakespeare himself to write a 14-line iambic pentameter sonnet about an event that happened ...
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BOE Regular Meeting Set for March 21:
The Oswego City School District Board of Education will be conducting their Regular Meeting on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 5:00 PM. This meeting will be held in the high school library. The public is welcome to attend.
Meeting attendees should use the high school main office entrance. This meeting will be recorded and live streamed.
The agenda for this meeting will be available on BoardDocs ( https://go.boarddocs.com/ny/oswego/Board.nsf/Public ) after 4:00 PM Friday, March 17, 2023.
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3/13 Interim and Acting Superintendent update:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Interim and Acting Superintendent Announcement
March 13, 2023
Dear Oswego City School District Community,
Earlier this evening, the Board of Education approved the hire of an Interim Superintendent and Acting Superintendent. Effective April 1, 2023, Mr. Jeffrey Gordon will be the district’s Interim Superintendent of School.
Mr. Gordon has worked in education for nearly 30 years. He has been a fourth-grade classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, director of curriculum and personnel and a building principal for the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District. To add to that, he has served as the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel for the Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District.
Additionally, the district’s Assistant ...
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OHS NHS Students Campaign for St. Jude:
The Oswego High School National Honor Society chapter has continued its partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee to help treat childhood cancer, as well as to fund necessary research in hopes of finding cures. St. Jude is fully funded through donations and NHS has been helping raise funds since the club’s inception.
“The mission of St. Jude has continued to inspire chapter members to be called to service and raise funds for the hospital through a letter-writing campaign to friends and family,” NHS advisor and Oswego High School social studies teacher Kayley Morse said.
All 70 chapter members recently gathered in the school cafeteria to personally sign 25 letters each. The NHS Officers, Sean Metcalf, Quinten Denkenberger, ...
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OCSD Literacy On Display at District-wide Battle of the Books Competition:
The winning teams from each elementary school were recently put to the test in Oswego City School District’s Battle of the Books competition.
Each team was asked 16 questions from a list of books carefully selected for this year’s competition, and the answers had to include not only the full title, but also the author(s) of each book for full points to be awarded.
Up first was the primary level, consisting of grades three and four, who set the bar with a high level of confidence and energy. At the close of the primary level competition, the “Chapter Chicks” Jordyn Hollenbeck, Emma Stevenson and Shelby Wiegand from Frederick Leighton Elementary, clinched the victory.
The intermediate level competition, which consisted of grades five and six, went head-to-head ...
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BOE Meeting Announcement: 3/7:
The Oswego City School District Board of Education will be conducting an Executive Session Meeting on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 starting at 4:30 PM before their regular meeting on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 5:00 PM. These meetings will be held in the high school library. The public is welcome to attend.
Meeting attendees should use the high school main office entrance. These meetings will be recorded and live streamed.
The agenda for these meetings are available on BoardDocs ( https://go.boarddocs.com/ny/oswego/Board.nsf/Public ).
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BOE: Superintendent search is underway:
March 3, 2023
Dear Oswego City School District Community,
We are writing to update the community on our upcoming leadership transition process. The Board of Education has chosen to work with our Oswego County BOCES District Superintendent Christopher Todd to both find an interim superintendent and to run the search for a full-time superintendent. Mr. Todd knows our district well and has worked with us on past searches. Ideally, we will have a new superintendent in place for the next school year.
Please know as we are moving through this process, we are working to make sure we find the right person to lead our district and want to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible. In the meantime, we have a solid foundation and very capable staff and leaders ...
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Letter: Further Minetto update 3/3:
March 3, 2023
Dear Minetto Elementary families,
I am writing with a follow up after yesterday’s events to provide further information and an update.
In addition to the other testing I mentioned in my letter yesterday, last night the Oswego County Hazardous Materials Team and representatives from the Syracuse City Fire Department Haz Mat Unit completed additional testing at Minetto to further ensure there were no air quality concerns. These tests were completed in the impacted classroom, surrounding areas and other classrooms throughout the building.
These tests, which encompass the ability to detect over 20,000 different chemicals, did not demonstrate any air quality concerns nor the presence of any chemicals or substances that would be ...
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