October Updates...

The Girls Varsity Soccer Team Continues to Shine

The Girls Soccer Team finished their regular season with an amazing 14-1-1 record. They take on the winner of Tuesday's CBA vs. Indian River game, and we host the winner at the friendly confines of PVM High School's Redhawk Stadium. https://www.syracuse.com/highschoolsports/2019/10/girls-soccer-f-m-central-square-among-top-seeds-for-sectional-playoffs.html. This has been a truly remarkable season, highlighted by their victory over an extremely impressive Jamesville-Dewitt, that had not lost a regular season game in two years. https://www.syracuse.com/highschoolsports/2019/09/central-square-girls-soccer-upsets-j-d-in-overtime.html

Smart Schools Bond Act 

The Smart Schools Bond Act was passed by NYS Referendum in November, 2014 with the first applications being accepted/approved in May 2016.  The Smart Schools Bond Act allocated $2 Billion dollars to all NYS School Districts for the purpose of improved learning and opportunity through the funding of educational technology and infrastructure improvements. For all information on the Smart Schools Bond Act: https://tinyurl.com/SMART-SCHOOLS-BOND-INFO 
The Central Square School District was allocated $4,076,734 to be used to upgrade our technology.

The District is submitting the 2^nd in a series of investment plans to NYS Education Department. This second plan focuses mainly on interactive white boards for classroom instruction. https://tinyurl.com/Smart-Schools-phase-2
Our District has been able to make great strides in the area of instructional technology, most notably was the successfull 1:1 Chromebook initiative where every K-12 student in the District was given access to a Chromebook as an instructional tool throughout the school day. We also have iPads for our PreK students as an alternative device. The required public hearing, which is part of the submission process, was held at the Board of Education meeting on October 21, 2019. 

The Field Band Home Show

The Field Band Home Show held on Saturday, October 19, was another example of the amazing community that we have at Central Square, and of course, the extremely talented student performers that continue to bring great pride to our fine arts program at Central Square.  We cannot thank the student performers, instructors, supportive staff members and parents, and all of the parent volunteers working behind the scenes with the moving of all the instruments and props and working the concession stand for six hours in the cold. We truly have such a wonderful sense of community here and we thank you all!!!

Veterans Day Celebrations 

Veterans Day is very special across our District as we have such an enormous amount of community members that are active/retired from the military.  Each year we are very proud to have between 5 and 8 seniors enlist in a branch of the military/ROTC, which is a testiment to the level of committment and service to our Country that makes our community so very special.  Each school does something in their schools in rememberance of Veterans Day because we want all students to experience the pride and appreciation that we have for our veterans. Check the website of your child's school to see more details on the events that are planned by clicking on the following link and selecting "Select a School" at the top left of the screen, and then scroll down and click on the word "Calendar" seen in the lower right corner of the screenshot below. Here is the link to our District website: https://www.cssd.org/ 

Board Recognition Day

These incredibly talented students presented each of our Board of Education members a beautiful piece of student created artwork at the October 21 Board of Education meeting, which served as another example of the creativity that our students possess. A special thank you to PVM art teacher, Mrs. Staats and all of the art teachers throughout our District that inspired such an amazing illustration of artistic extression from our talented students.