South Seneca High School

​It's that time of year again: budget season! The following are the two most important dates to know: BUDGET HEARING Tuesday, May 9 6:30 p.m. ES Auditorium, Interlaken BUDGET VOTE Tuesday, May 16 1:00-8:00 p.m. Lower Cafeteria, Ovid Until then, the best thing you can do as a potential voter is educate yourself about the budget so that you can make an informed decision. To help out with that, here is the South Seneca 2023-24 Budget Newsletter: https://www.southseneca.org/o/south-seneca/article/1089601

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Need Friday night plans? Look no further! #foreverfalcons

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🎶 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲/𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀! 🎶 The South Seneca Middle/High School Music Department is excited to share our recordings from our March Pops Concert! In addition to March being "Music In Our Schools Month," we were happy to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Walt Disney Company with our music selections. The SS MS/HS Music Department is so proud of all of our student's hard work over the last few months leading up to these performances. All videos are posted on the South Seneca Music Department YouTube channel. 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲/𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁 (𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjAFq7dan51yzdHYlK3STLnroNdLQStAR We hope that you enjoy, wish you a happy spring break, and we greatly look forward to performing again for you soon! -Mr. David Turken & Mrs. Kyla Perry

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Let's hear it for these amazing Falcons! Well deserved! #foreverfalcons

It has been busy in the woodshop recently. Pictured is a Residential Building and Maintenance student Vyvynn Powell learning to solder copper from guest instructor Tom Hayward from UA Local 81 Plumbers, Steamfitters & HVAC/R. Coleton Dresser, who is in CNC, showing off custom signage he made for his dads business. Here's a woodworking student, Josiah Shirk, showing off his bookcase made from repurposed plywood.

There has been a lot of excitement and busy days in Garden Lit and Intro to Agriculture! The month of March brought the hatching of chicks and collecting and processing of maple sap into syrup! Students learned about incubation and were able to enjoy the chicks for about a week in the classroom. Students also learned how to tap a maple tree, collect sap, and boil it down to get maple syrup. They also made pancakes from scratch and enjoyed their maple syrup!

We hope everyone had a great weekend and is ready to have a great Spring Break this week! #foreverfalcons

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Here's our most recent High School Family Newsletter! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h73ZPo30urSLOAsbR177MVG0Rs5G5eFMrUDCe7jN4Nw/edit?usp=sharing

Book fair in the Middle/High School Library through Friday. Come check it out!

Public Notice March 31: A student in the Middle-High School made a statement in class that they “would like to blow up this school.” After consulting with this student and collaborating with law enforcement, it was determined the statement was made without real intent and poses no imminent threat. As always, we encourage parents to be speaking to your children about using this type of language at school. Whether a student means it as a threat or not, the district must treat the words seriously, and bring law enforcement personnel into processing statements that threaten harm. Especially this week as we read about widespread false alarm messages across the state targeting schools, it is more important than ever to discourage these kinds of threats.

Is there anything better than book fair week?? Visit this website for more information: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/southsenecamiddlehigh.com

The Theatre Association of NYS (TANYS) recently recognized the South Seneca Falcon Players production of “Letters to Daddy” with the following awards: - Meritorious Achievement in Ensemble Acting to the Cast - Meritorious Achievement in Choreography to Chad Eastman - Meritorious Achievement in Direction to Tina Bauder Congrats to everyone! Well deserved! #foreverfalcons Read more about these achievements here: https://www.southseneca.org/article/1053754

On March 23, 2023, 20 students from South Seneca High School were trained as peer leaders as part of the national Sources of Strength program. Sources of Strength is a peer leadership program where peer leaders and adult advisors are trained to design and share Hope, Help, and Strength-based messages with other youth in the community. The program aims to prevent suicide, bullying, and substance use by promoting help seeking behaviors and developing relationships with trusted adults. Trainees played games, created art, had a catered lunch from Luna Inspired Street Food, and discussed their strengths with each other and adult advisors. They used the Wheel of Strengths to brainstorm ways to bring this information back to their school-community to show other students that reliance on each other and our strengths will make us all stronger. Peer leader Abby Sherry stated: “I am excited about this program for our school. I think this has some real opportunity to do some good!” Another peer leader, Chloe Scott, added: “This is different from any other peer program we have had. I remember peer mediation in elementary school. The Sources of Strength training was fun, the food was fantastic, and I am really excited to be able to help out my school!” Adult advisor Brooke Habberfield, stated during the group photo: “This is an important moment everyone - we are making history here at South Seneca!” The peers leaders and adult advisors of the South Seneca Sources of Strength team are: Brooke Butler, Jacob Borst, Lucy Campbell, Mrs. Chalifoux, Ms. Copp, Ruth Dendis, AJ Denmark, Hannah Drexler, Joza Drexler, Doug Edmonds, Alysa Elder, Christian Everhart, Ms. Habberfield, Ms. Hallock, Mrs. Harter, Mrs. Kostolecki, Marigold McCabe-Angell, Brian Porter, Vyvynn Powell, Mr. Robertson, Mrs. Rundell, Chloe Scott, Abby Sherry, Luke Thompson, Hunter Travers, Mrs. Vogel, Audrey Ward, Nik Wheeler, and Carleigh Woodworth.

Congratulations to Senior, Sophie Wesselhoff, for being awarded a National Silver Medal for her photo, Provincetown Pier, at the National Scholastic Art Awards! There were over 280,000 submissions at the national level of the awards, and less than 1% of submissions received a medal. Sophie will be attending the Rochester Institute of Technology at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences in the fall, where she will continue her artistic journey through her lens.

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