Fort EdwardUnion Free School District

Parents and students please check out the end of they year update from Mrs. Jones.

Please click on the link below to view the exam schedule and list of events for the last few weeks of the school year.

Congratulations Logan Catone for making it into the top 100 trap shooters in New York State! Logan beat out over 1500 students to achieve this top honor.

The Fort Edward Teachers Association is donating over 100 books to the first 100 children (PreK‐6th) grade that visit the Fort Edward Free Library’s table at the season opening of the Canal Street Marketplace. Also, students in grades 7‐12 can enter to win an Amazon gift card!

Fort Edward students Oliver Clark, Gabrielle Durkee, Daniel Boucher, and Morgan Fish were recognized this morning at the SAANYS Region 6 Leadership Breakfast at the Van Patten Golf Club in Clifton Park. Congratulations on your outstanding academic achievement and recognition!

National Honor Society students spent their day off from school giving back to the community. Students spent the day cleaning up the community garden and replacing garden boxes. Then they went across the street to help the Canal Street Marketplace build garden boxes! Great job everyone it looks like all that hard work paid off!

Kathleen Hunt's artwork was published in the 2019 Talent Unlimited Journal. She was honored last night (May 15,2019) at SUNY Adirondack. Congratulations Kathleen!

Sarah Maynard came to our school today to teach our 4th graders about some of her experiences when she has visited Kenya. She works with an organization called Hope for Kenya, which is a non-profit organization that helps build schools and brings clean water to rural Kenya. She talked to us about what school is like for kids in these communities in Kenya and how not all children get to attend school. She also told us about how she was able to help teach a large group of the women from these rural communities how to make beads from paper. The women earn money from making these beads which helps their communities in many ways. Each one of our students got to make and keep a bracelet from the beads that were made by the women in Kenya. It truly was a wonderful morning! A big thank you to Mrs. Maynard for coming to spend some time with us today.

Parents please click the link below to see the newest edition of the Elementary Newsletter!

Check out the newest students of the quarter!

The 2019-2020 Budget Newsletter has been released.

Congratulations to our students of the month for April! These students were selected for showing Courage.

Congratulations FE artists! Isabelle Gulick took first place and Caitlin Mahoney second in the Horsing Around with the Arts Contest. Check out the pictures to see the art. Cameron Sullivan's work will also be displayed in an art show put on by the Fort Edward Art Association. The exhibits opening reception is Wednesday, May 1, 2019 @ 6:30 PM.

Check out the Elementary Newsletter Clubs Spring news blast!

We just finished our spelling bee. Our school winner is Mylee Roberts with Gabe Glass as our runner up.

Check out the April edition of the Elementary News Letter!

We would like to inform you that there will potentially be three (3) additional holidays/snow-days added into this year’s school calendar.

Great job FE students at the All-County Band Festival over the weekend! Also great job Mr. Kopf as the guest conductor for the elementary band

Congratulations Elizabeth Brown for being published in the Chronicle. Great Work!

Thank you to the Hudson Falls Rotary for giving our third grade students brand new dictionaries. We truly appreciate this generous donation!

Finch Paper is offering two fully paid scholarships for individuals 18 years and older that possess a high school diploma or GED to attend a 4 week program offered at the Paul Smith's School of Logging during July and August of 2019. Room, board, and tuition is fully covered and successful applicants will only be required to provide their own transportation to and from the Paul Smith's College campus. Please click this link for more information and the full application.

Mrs. Jones is conducting a survey about the climate and culture at Fort Edward. The results will be used to create a plan for improving the school experience for our students, staff and families.

Congratulations Joseph Gardner for being featured on 13 kids who care! You are making Fort Edward proud!

Join us and help support our school. Simply dine at the FE McDonald's next Thursday. A portion of all sales will be donated back to the school. The best part is that your food will be served to you by FE Teachers!

The Fort Edward PTO is sponsoring a book fair from 3/18 - 3/21. Be sure to come check it out, we have a great selection. To kick the event off we are having a family fun day this Saturday (3/16) from 10AM - 1PM. Bring the whole family and enjoy the activities.

Congrats to Molly Doty for being selected as one of the 2018-19 Post-Star Teen Excellence Award Winners!

The FE Outing club enjoyed another winter camping trip last weekend.

Check out the the March edition of Elementary Newsletter!

**Elementary Parent Pickup Changes are Effective Today, Monday, March 4th.** Please don't forget that the slight changes to the parent pickup procedures, that were announced last week in a note home to parents, go into effect today.

We would like to alert you to an alarming social media challenge targeting children and young adults called the “Momo Challenge.” The purpose of this letter is to make you aware of this challenge, provide you with information about it and urge you to monitor your children’s use of social media and the internet.

The Fort Edward School District is looking for a Long Term Substitute Teacher with certification in Special Education grades 6-12.

The circus is coming to Fort Edward on March 8th at 6:30pm! Tickets are $10 per adult when pre-ordered (or $15, at the door). Each adult ticket admits 2 FREE kids (12 and under). Order forms can be brought to Mrs. Monahan in room 135 or tickets can be purchased at the main office. Hope to see you there!

Check out the latest edition of the FE News Blast! The student have been working extremely hard to bring you a great edition.

Congratulations to the Fort Edward students of the quarter!

Instead of having kids bring presents to his birthday party last week, fourth grader Joseph Gardner asked his friends to bring donations for the Fort Edward School Backpack Program. Joseph, pictured here with his mother Sarah and younger sister Emily, and his friends donated 140 pounds of non perishable food items.

Mrs. Suprenant's class had Emmy and Mrs. Wendel in the classroom to listen to students reading ! Emmy was a great listener and gave kisses and high paws for the amazing readers!

Registrations for Youth Baseball and Youth Softball will be happening this Sunday, February 10 from 12PM -4PM at the FE Elementary School.

As we begin our construction project you will see asbestos notifications posted on building entrances. These postings are required by law and were provided by our general contractor and asbestos contractor. All work during the project will be conducted by the contractor using methods and protocols that will protect the health and safety of our students, staff and school visitors. Appropriate sampling before, during and after all abatement work will take place as directed by law.

UPK and Kindergarten Registration February 13, 2019 2:00 PM - 6:00PM Elementary Guidance Office

Please be our guest to the 5th annual Third Grade International Bazaar! When: January 30, 2019 (6:00PM - 7:00PM) Where: Fort Edward Cafeteria

New Meadow Preschool at Fort Edward welcomed the Wildlife Institute of Eastern New York to our school on Monday 1/28/19. Fort Edward Preschool and Kindergarten students were able to watch as well, to see and learn about hawks, owls, falcons, and other birds of prey. This was a grant funded program financed by the Stewart's Foundation. Thank you to New Meadow, The Wildlife Institute of Eastern NY, and Stewarts for providing our students with this great opportunity!

Congratulations to the students of the Month! 👏🏆

Check out the January / February Elementary Newsletter!

The Fort Edward Baseball Team is looking for your help! The team is holding a bottle drive to raise money to build dugouts for our field!

Check out the Newsletter club's latest edition!

Mrs. River's Spanish class payed a visit to Mrs. Smatko's 3rd grade classroom yesterday to spread some Christmas cheer! Student sang Christmas carols in Spanish to the delight of all in attendance

Congratulations to the newest members for the Fort Edward Chapter of the National Honor Society! These students work hard everyday to uphold to core values of NHS, leadership, scholarship, character, and service

Congratulations to 3rd grade student Emily Clement for being published in the Chronicle! Great job!

Backpack Program Food Drive The Fort Edward Chapter of the National Honor Society is sponsoring a food drive at the Fort Edward Vs. Argyle Basketball game on 12/18/2018 Bring 2 non perishable food items for game admission. All donations will go directly to Fort Edward Families through our backpack food program! Please support our students, school and community beyond the court.

1st grade students took a trip to the Fort Edward Library to decorate the tree with ornaments they made. Mrs. Plude read them a book and they got to make a snowman

Fort Edward UFSD Announces Pre-Merger Study with South Glens Falls CSD

Check out the Fort Edward Students of the quarter. Each student demonstrated outstanding performance in their subject area. Great job all and keep up the great work!

Fort Edward Art students spend the day immersed in the modern art scene. Student visited Williams College and Mass MoCA!

Please join us for our holiday concert series. The students have been working hard to provided a great concert to the community!

Looks like the junior class had a lot of fun visiting SUNY Plattsburgh! They spent the day touring the campus and learning more about opportunities to further their education. #WeAreFortEdward

Thank you to Mr. Spiezio, Mr. Gray and Mr. McWhorter of Washington County for coming to Fort Edward Elementary and teaching our students about Snow Plow Safety. Our students will be safer as they play in the snow this winter!

This is the first publication of Newsletter Club, an after-school group that meets in the library on Tuesday afternoons. The following fifth-grade students are members of the club. Thank you to Miss Bilodeau for being the club adviser!

Check out the November Elementary School Newsletter.

National Honor Society were giving back to the FE community by cleaning the community garden. Students spent the morning picking weeds, raking and getting the garden in tip top shape for the winter!

Come join us to learn how to use the Google Suite. This training is open to all community members free of charge!

Members of the board game club are meeting and having a great time! They’ve unplugged and worked on communication and conversation skills while having some old fashioned fun. From Clue to Scattegories we’ve tried quite a few of the oldies and a fast favorite has been the cross-country train adventure game Ticket to Ride.

Kelly Stevens of "Food for Thought" has donated these wonderful snack to our students - thank you Ms. Stevens!

We had a very positive response to our parent interest survey, and so the YMCA of Glens Falls is moving forward with establishing an after school child care program here at Fort Edward Elementary School. Please see the attached flyer for more information. Financial assistance is available as well through Washington County. Please contact Katie at (518) 736-2300 x3397 for more information about the financial assistance program.

Congratulations to FE Elementary student Jaedyn Boyer for having his work published in the Chronicle! 👏

Mrs. Suprenant's class is learning how to write numbers 1-10 using M&M math! Students use tens frames and M&M's to show and write numbers!

This year Fort Edward is a collection site for the 5th Annual Stuff the Bus Food Drive. All collected food donations will be loaded onto a bus during the actual event that will be taking place on Friday, November 2nd from 9am to 7pm, and Saturday, November 3rd from 8am to 4pm at Price Chopper/Market 32, 677 Upper Glen Street, Queensbury. This food drive is sponsored by CWI and the United Way, and will benefit food pantries in our area. We will be accepting donations, which can be placed in the box in the main foyer here at school, until November 1st. Thank you for helping us collect food for those in need!

8th and 9th grade students attended a career jam today at the Dome. The event is designed to highlight local businesses and career paths in our area. Over 70 local business and educational organizations were in attendance. Fort Edward was not alone today, the event hosted over 1,800 students from 25 school districts.

The Outing Club had their first hike of the year! Looks like they had a perfect day for a hike! 🍁 Cat and Thomas Mountain - Bolton, NY

Clean Technologies & Sustainable Industries Early College High School (P-TECH) is holding an information night for incoming Freshmen. This program offers students an opportunity to learn through problem based learning, work with mentors and pursue college coursework towards an associate's degree.

Thank you to the Fort Edward Fire Department for teaching our students about fire prevention this week!

The following students have shown great responsibility in the past month, as nominated by their teachers. Each one won a new book and a Stewart's ice cream cone gift card! Congratulations to our October Students of the Month: Ransom Stannard - Mrs. Suprenant’s Class David Boucher - Mrs. Monahan’s Class Isabella Tripp - Mrs. Marvin’s Class Spencer Phillips - Mrs. Condon’s Class Dalton Kamburelis - Ms. Brown’s Class Max Clark - Mrs. Morey’s Class Kaelyn Nichols - Mrs. Peck’s Class Trey Tiderencel - Mrs. Smatko’s Class Anthony Rabine - Mrs. Bump’s Class Rylee Holden - Mrs. Bruce’s Class Oliver Clark - Mrs. Boucher’s Class Mady Burch - Mrs. Brewer’s Class Kyley Varney - Mr. Tully’s Class

Check out the informational flyer for Ski Club. If you have any questions or would like to join Ski Club please see Mr. Maziejka!

Check out the October Elementary School newsletter!

BOCES CTE Open House 10/18

Join us tonight (10/5) for "Friday Night Lights" Fort Edward homecoming football game. 🏈 Game Starts at 7:00PM under the lights! Also don't forget about the homecoming dance tomorrow from 7PM - 10PM.

Spirit Week Patriotic Day in Pre-K!

Show your school pride during FE spirit week! Come join us for the 2nd annual Friday Nigh Lights Homecoming Football game Friday October 5, 2018 @ 7PM vs Hoosic Valley

Are you interested in after school child care here at Fort Edward Elementary? If so, please follow this link to complete the survey. If the YMCA has enough interested parents, they will come in and start an after school child care program for us right here at FE!

Fort Edward Alumni and Author Eileen Doyon just published a new book Patriots of Courage: Tributes To First Responders . This book featuring art work from our very own 3rd grade students!

Mrs. Marvin’s 1st graders explored how sound effects are made for animations by using rulers and pressure. Future sound engineers in the making!

The kids are LOVING the new Mystery Science program. We started with the first unit....the Power of Flowers and have completed Mystery 1. In this Mystery students learn how and why flowers are pollinated. In the activity students create a model of a flower and learn how bees pollinate flowers. Many of us were surprised to learn that flowers can't pollinate themselves. In fact...they need the pollen from a different flower to make a seed pod grow. We were busy "bees" and put this idea to the test.

Mrs. Suprenant's class had a STEM lesson on the topic of hot air balloons! They discussed the upcoming balloon festival, how hot air balloons work, and even made their own tissue paper hot air balloons.

Grades K-12 Picture Day Friday September 21, 2018

Second grade scientists at work: Mrs. Morey's class had to engineer a hat from just a paper plate, foil, paper towel, a paper bag, string, and binder clips. This is truly inquiry based STEM at work!

The Fort Edward Union Free School District is pleased to invite parents and families to our Annual Open House and Community Fair.

Welcome back to school everyone. Check out the September issue of our elementary newsletter! It is filled with great information on upcoming events and school activities.

FE UFSD received a generous donation from Irving Tissue to help fund our robotics initiatives in the technology department. A special thanks to Irving employees, Jeff Stone, John Andrus, and the award committee for your support.

Welcome back to all our students we are looking forward to another great year! We would like to give a special thank you to the FE PTO for an amazing blue and white balloon arch that helped welcome our student back to school.

Supply List 2018-2019

he Fort Edward UFSD is starting planned security upgrades to the main entrance on Monday, July 9th.

Our seniors walked across the stage on Friday, June 22, 2018. Their Graduation Ceremony was held at Fort Edward UFSD. Click here to view the photos!

On Friday, June 15th, our dads joined us for the Fort Edward PTO "Donuts with Dad" breakfast.

On Friday, June 15, 2018, our fourth grade students went on their annual walking tour of Fort Edward! Students learned about the history of the town and visited all of our wonderful historic landmarks.

As of July 1, 2018, New York State law requires a health examination for all students entering the school district for the first time and when entering Pre-K or K, 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grade.

On Wednesday, June 6th, 2018, Lynelle Colvin was among the 32 students in grades 4-8 representing 19 school districts who competed in the 40th Annual BOCES Regional Spelling Bee at Saratoga Springs Maple Avenue Middle School.

We invite all dads, grandfathers, uncles or any special father figures to join us on Friday, June 15, 2018 from 8:00-8:30am for a "Donuts with Dad" breakfast!

The Fort Edward Union Free School District Board of Education has decided to offer district residents the opportunity to vote on a reduced budget on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, from noon to 8 p.m. in the Elementary School Foyer.

Time flies when you're having fun at Fort Edward Elementary! Click to view our last newsletter of the school year, full of important dates to remember before its time for summer vacation.

Michaela Higgins was recently accepted into the Dudley Observatory's "rising star internship" program to work alongside scientists, engineers, celebrity scientists, and astrophysicists to raise awareness of the importance of science education.

We encourage all members of the Fort Edward community to use our website to stay informed with information regarding the Board of Education and our Board of Education Meetings. For those interested in the agendas and minutes of our monthly meetings, please find our archive of records under our “Board of Education” tab on the website homepage (fortedward.org/board_of_education).

Congratulations to Alexandria Brooks, whose artwork was selected for publication in the 32nd annual Talent Unlimited Literary Arts Journal.

We would like to thank the community members who voted for our 2018-19 school budget. We were pleased with the overwhelming turnout of voters in attendance, as we can now accurately gauge what the community feels about the proposed budget.

On Friday, May 4th, students in grades 4-8 participated in an annual spelling bee. After a series of challenging rounds, the contest whittled down to the final two spellers: Catlin Emery and Lynelle Colvin.

On Friday, May 11th, our moms joined us for the Fort Edward PTO "Muffins with Mom" breakfast. Thank you to our incredible Fort Edward cafeteria staff and loving PTO members for putting this event together, it was a great way to start the day!

On May 6th, 2018, the following National Honor Society students volunteered to helped get the Fort Edward Community Garden ready for the summer planting this past weekend!

“He’s such a good student, such a good kid,” Coach Puricelli said. “He works so hard, he’s a great leader because of that. He sets a great example for the other kids.”

We are incredibly proud of our Forts who participated in the 8th Annual Castleton University High School Honors Music Festival this past Friday, January 26th.

On Friday, January 26th, our Fort Edward UFSD staff worked hard on sharpening their skills and expanding their knowledge on key areas of interest within the school community during a staff professional development day.

Congratulations to all students that auditioned for the All-County Band. The Fort Edward School was alive with musicians from over 10 surrounding schools, all hoping to perform in the festival at Greenwich CSD on April 13-14th.

On Friday, January 12, Superintendent Daniel Ward and Board of Education President, Tom Roche attended the WSWHE BOCES Legislative Breakfast. Superintendents and Board of Education presidents from 31 school districts in the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES and elected officials were present.

Join us in congratulating our Honor Roll and Principal's List for Elementary Students in Grades 3-4-5 for the first marking period this year!

Fidelis Care has always been a kind friend of Fort Edward UFSD! In the past, they have donated notebooks, pens, toothbrushes and now Adirondack Thunder hockey tickets.

Look at our happy second graders enjoying Music Class! Thank you for the great picture, Mrs. Halloran!

Washington County supplemental nutrition assistance program