District Wide Visual Art Festivities! For the month of May, the visual arts will be on display across Northampton! Please come out and celebrate our student artists! NPS Elementary Schools: Fifth Grade Art Show Venue: JFK Middle School May 19 – June 8, 2023 Reception: Friday May 19th from 4:30 -6:00 Contact: Brenda Lilly blilly@northampton-k12.us...
Kindergarten Snapshot Wondering what happens all day in kindergarten? KJM Video & R. Herskovitz Consulting spent time with the kindergarten classrooms at Jackson Street School to document the rich learning and activities that happen there. The crew spent a whole day following the teachers and students in classrooms and on the playground. They were able...
Becca Herskovitz and Kath McCusker, parents of students in the Northampton Public Schools, have been creating video projects to promote the amazing schools in our district. Producing these videos for School Local, these filmmakers focus on what daily life is like at our lovely, inclusive and caring school, RK Finn Ryan Road Elementary. Enjoy!
First Annual JFK Family/Student/Staff BINGO NIGHT Thursday, November 21 5:30 – 7:00 pm JFK Cafeteria Bingo is FREE of charge! There will be pizza, cookies, and drinks available for purchase. Students can use cash or BLUE TICKETS! LOTS of fun Prizes! Come join the FUN! Northampton High School’s Romeo & Juliet gets a new look...
Are you deciding where to send your child to school, and curious about what daily life is like inside Northampton’s public schools? Are you a Northampton public school parent who gets asked what the public schools are like? To help Northampton families with their school enrollment decisions, and to visually share with the Northampton community...
WORCESTER — The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded $12 million to 45 high schools, colleges and educational institutions that will use the grant to acquire the newest technologies to educate students and expand career education opportunities. Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Secretary of Education Jim Peyser, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kennealy and Secretary of Labor and...
NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton girls cross country team dominated in its season-opening tri-meet against South Hadley and Sabis on Tuesday. The Blue Devils defeated South Hadley, 15-50, and Sabis, 15-50, at Community Gardens. Blue Devils senior Mary Yount was the top overall finisher with a time of 20 minutes, 23 seconds on the 3.1-mile course....
Students at Northampton join community members at the Lily Library for Scrabble games–this time, Connecting Point featured an article about them. Evan, mentioned in the news clip, and JFK teammates, Gordon and Robbie just competed in the two-day North American School Scrabble Championship in Philadelphia at the end of April. Teacher, Ben Greenwood, was asked...
At Leeds Elementary, the first annual “One Book, One School” program, was launched. Thanks to generous funding from the Leeds PTO, this initiative provided every school community member, (from students, teachers, office staff, custodians, cafeteria staff, to bus drivers) a copy of the same book, in an effort to foster literacy, throughout our community. The...