Congratulations go to South Seneca High School's Sylvia Brock (10th Grade), who was selected to attend NYSSMA's Zone 3 Area All-State Mixed Chorus on February 4, 2023. Sylvia is a member of South Seneca High School Chorus and Vocal Jazz, a select, auditioned ensemble.
Singers selected to Sr. High Area All-State are chosen based on their NYSSMA scores from Solo Festival the previous year. It is a great honor to be chosen among thousands of applicants. Students are picked from all the applicants in NYSSMA's Zone 3 in grades 10 through 12. Zone 3 is one of the largest zones in the state.
Sylvia worked with a guest conductor, Brandon Williams, from Rutgers University and presented a concert of Choral Works on February 4 in Ford Hall at Ithaca College. Brava, Sylvia!
High School Chorus welcomed Dr. Kevin Dibble to class on February 6, 2023. Dr. Kevin Dibble is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Houghton University in Houghton, NY. He earned his Bachelor and Master's Degrees from Houghton as well and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from University of Iowa in Choral Conducting. Before teaching at Houghton University, Dr. Dibble has had appointments at Temple University, Cairn University, and Gordon College.
Dr. Dibble worked with High School Chorus students both in small group lessons and in class. He also worked with Vocal Jazz during their class as well. Dr. Dibble worked with students on their Vocal Technique and was able to bring a unique, personal perspective to our Tenor and Bass singers.
If anyone is interested in more information about Houghton University, please contact Mrs. Perry.
FREE Trout Unlimited Youth Membership.
Trout Unlimited is offering FREE TU Youth Memberships to students who are participating in the Trout in the Classroom project. This includes ALL of our 5th graders here at South Seneca.
Students or their families can fill out this form to receive a free Stream Explorer (under 12 years old) or a free TU Teen (over 12 years old) membership.
TU Teen and Stream Explorer members will both receive four issues of Stream Explorers magazine, a TU membership card, and TU stickers. TU Teen members will also receive invitations to TU Teen summer activities.
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From left to right: Luke Dendis, Caleb Sweet, and Dakota Stewart.
All three athletes have qualified to participate in the New York State wrestling Tournament on Feb 25. Best of luck to them!! #foreverfalcons
Put it on your calendars!
Here is our next round of High School Student and Staff of the Month! Congrats to Nik and David — well deserved! #foreverfalcons
Counselors from TST-BOCES came to speak with our current 10th graders about the various CTE programs they can apply to attend for their Junior and Senior year.
Counselors and current New Visions students also came to recruit interested juniors for the 2023-24 school year.
Congratulations to all of the South Seneca Middle High School Chorus students who were selected to attend the All-County Chorus Festival in Dryden on January 20th and 21st, 2023.
Jacob Borst (Grade 10), Sylvia Brock (Grade 10), Elizabeth Dendis (Grade 11), Nolan Mitchell (Grade 11), Jacob O'Steen (Grade 11), Abigail Sherry (Grade 12), Molly Stirlen (Grade 9), and Nikolas Wheeler (Grade 11) were selected from the High School Chorus.
Kayleigh Banfield (Grade 8), Brooke Jennings (Grade 7), Ethan King (Grade 8), Brady Neville (Grade 7), and Brooklyn Ovenshire (Grade 8) were selected from the Middle School Chorus to attend.
Dryden High School hosted the All-County Chorus Festival. Students prepared choral works ahead of time. Over two days, students work on this music with guest conductors that was presented in a concert on January 21. Christan Oliver was the guest conductor for the Middle School Chorus, and Dr. Sean Linfors was the guest conductor for the High School Chorus. Bravo to all students!
MS Students Picture L to R (Kayleigh Banfield, Brady Neville, Brooklyn Ovenshire, Brooke Jennings, Ethan King)
HS Students Picture (Front Row: Elizabeth Dendis, Sylvia Brock, Molly Stirlen, Abigail Sherry, Jacob Borst, Jacob O'Steen / Back Row: Nolan Mitchell, Nikolas Wheeler)
From left to right:
Dakota Stewart, Caleb Sweet, Barrett David, and Tyler Piccolo
All four of these Falcon wrestlers won Sectionals in their weight class last weekend! Congrats to them and good luck moving forward! #forverfalcons
It's that time of year!
The South Seneca Board of Education will hold its regular meeting Wednesday, February 8 at 6:30pm in the Elementary Library, Interlaken.
It's that time of year!
Put it on your calendars!
South Seneca Central School District currently has 3 openings for Full-Time Cleaner positions.
Click here to apply: https://seneca-portal.mycivilservice.com
The applicants should also send an email indicating their interest to Lance Heitmann at: lheitmann@southseneca.org
Our third graders were treated to a field trip to the Johnson Art Museum in Ithaca this past week!
South Seneca High School Students: these forms are available in guidance and need to be returned by February 28th. Any questions can come to Mr. Green or Mrs. Horton.
Our 4th and 5th Mad Science extended day group has been experimenting with cup climbing! The teams use team building, compromising, planning, and physics to create unique stacks.
January 31:
A student in the Elementary Building this week said to a classmate that a family member was going to “shoot up the school.” After referring to law enforcement for investigation, it was determined that there was no merit to the statement, and that in fact, this family member had no knowledge that the student was saying this. The student admitted it was said to see how the friend would react.
As always, we encourage parents to be speaking to your children about using this type of language at school. We will use available resources each time we hear this kind of talk, and when reports are fabricated, it diverts these resources from use elsewhere.
Appointments opening started on Feb. 13.
The 4th grade at got a taste of Colonial Times yesterday with a visit from Nellie Ludemann, the Executive/ Education Director of the Seneca Falls Historical Society! Nellie brought all kinds of authentic artifacts to supplement our study of the time period.
