Webster schools are in a good place to start the year, construction-wise. The last phase of a $48 million construction project approved in 2006 is wrapping up, with crews working on air handling units in district schools. That project focused on improving heating and ventilation systems, electrical and plumbing systems, and also included classroom renovations.
As Webster students prepare to fill their mind with new knowledge, and their desks with new supplies, three-ring binders and two-pocket folders are becoming hot commodities at retail stores.
In 2002, 15 Plank South fourth-grade students helped write a book.
This year, those same students helped more than a dozen Plank South fourth-graders revise and re-create the book that focuses on geography of the United States.
It was the big day for students from Webster Thomas as the class of 2010 received its final nod on Sunday, June 27. Students walked the stage at RIT's Gordon Field House to receive their diplomas.
The class of 2010 walked the stage at RIT on Sunday, June 27. Graduates received their diplomas and set their sites on bigger things to come.
The three teens charged with disorderly conduct after a food fight last week at Webster Schroeder High School received 12 hours community service in court today.
Age: 17
College: SUNY Geneseo Major: Childhood Education, concentration in dance
Family: Parents, Jean and Steve. Sister, Alyssa, 15.
Clubs/Activities: Rotary, Future Educators of America, TIES (Together Including Every Student), Dance
Three Webster Schroeder students were charged with disorderly conduct after a food fight in the cafeteria today.
The NAMM Foundation has announced four local schools as “Best Communities for Music Education.”
West Irondequoit and Webster were among those distinguished in the 11th annual survey, which acknowledges schools and districts across the country.
Two cars — the first with one student, the second with three students and an adult — “collide.” The first had been drinking, visibly intoxicated. A student runs crying to the collision, and police arrive. The fire department arrives, using the Jaws of Life to extricate an unconscious teenager. Pulse is taken, with no sign of life — and he’s removed from the vehicle and set aside, a fatality from a drinking and driving accident. His lifeless body lies on the cement in front of the hundreds of seniors, as firefighters and EMTs work to extricate and treat the remaining victims. A hearse rolls in to take the dead to the morgue, where parents will come to identify their child — an innocent victim of someone’s poor choice to drink and drive.
Three incumbents are vying for three open school board seats:
Thomas Nespeca, incumbent
Laura Harder, incumbent
Lisa Smith, incumbent
The forum is for parents of students in sixth through 12th grades, and is coordinated between the schools, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, TIG (Trauma, Illness and Grief), Youth Life and members of the faith community. The first forum was held in late January. The session will include a showing of the film “A Cry for Help” and small group discussions.
High school students sending a “sweet” or “sexy” surprise to their significant other could find themselves in another kind of surprise — a felony and possible jail time.
The Webster Board of Education adopted a $139.7 million budget for 2010-11, making cuts in athletics, staff layoffs and increasing the tax levy nearly 4 percent.
The budget is a 1.1 percent increase from the 2009-10 budget.
The $139.7 million budget, presented at a March 25 board of education meeting, is a 1.1 percent increase from the 2009-10 budget. Superintendant Adele Bovard explained the budget process was especially difficult this year, with a $4 million state aid decrease, caused by Gov. David Paterson's deficit reduction plan.
More than a dozen Webster Schroeder students will showcase local fashions on the runway Saturday to raise money for the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong Memorial Hospital.
Creativity is taking center stage in Webster as we celebrate Music in our Schools all month long.
What began as a single statewide celebration in 1973 has grown into a month-long celebration of music and music education in schools across the country.
Nine area high school seniors will be recognized Sunday, March 14, with a special award from the Rochester Piano Teachers’ Guild.
Students who engage in community service often tell us they gain as much from the experience as those they have helped. Stephanie Sacchitella, a senior at Webster Thomas High School, found the experience of helping Batay Magdalena, a small village in the southeastern Dominican Republic to be so rewarding, that she created a non-profit organization REACH, for her senior project.
