
March 28, 2025
Our seventh-and-eighth-grade band, orchestra, and chorus once again had the honor of performing at the Empire State Plaza's South Concourse as part of the New York State School ...

March 28, 2025
As part of our ongoing character education, 6th graders enjoyed special cooperative challenges at lunch time, such as cup stacking and thread cereal onto a string using only one h...

March 21, 2025
Congratulations to our 2025 CMS Science & Technology Fair participants! This year, the fair included entries from students in grades five through eight. Students developed a hypo...

March 21, 2025
CMS congratulates our students of the month for February. These students have impressed our school community in different ways - through academic achievement, hard work, kindness,...

March 18, 2025
Hello Families of Chatham 8th Graders, The Chatham High School faculty and staff are looking forward to meeting you and working with your students throughout their high school ye...

March 11, 2025
Students in grades six, seven, and eight learned about the science and warning signs of addiction with Courtney Lovell, an addiction prevention and recovery advocate whose visit...

March 10, 2025
Congratulations to sixth grader Bryce Schuster, who is Chatham Middle School’s Science & Technology Fair logo contest winner! Bryce’s design becomes the official logo for the 20...

March 7, 2025
National Art Honor Society (NAHS) students visited the CMS Life Skills class to work on Eric Carle inspired art together. Our middle schoolers listened to a story and worked along...

March 4, 2025
As part of the 8th grade’s study of the holocaust, students worked on a timeline project in social studies class. Students first became familiar with a real person from history ...

February 28, 2025
CMS congratulates our students of the month for January. These students have impressed our school community in different ways - through academic achievement, hard work, kindness, ...

February 27, 2025
8th grade English classes attended a very special presentation about the Holocaust on February 23. Local resident and researcher Linda Ziskind was gracious enough to share her fa...
February 25, 2025
Grade 6 Honor Roll Theodore Carr, Charlie Delaney, Junxi Jiang, Cory Kratt, Celine Lucas, Haven Plourde, Clara Rossman, Samantha Salvatore, Sharon Schober, Vincent Schweizer, ...

February 20, 2025
Curriculum Associates has named Chatham Middle School math teacher Tracey Fuller as one of their Extraordinary Educators. Ms. Fuller is one of 29 teachers from 15 states selected...

February 14, 2025
Seventh graders took a field trip to the NYS Capitol in Albany on February 14. The trip tied in with their social studies curriculum on government.

February 14, 2025
The CMS Service Club recently spent their time after school at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society cleaning the shelter and then spending some quality time with the animals.
February 12, 2025
The New York State Education Department has informed us that NYS schools are required to make some changes to the way students use Google services. These changes are being made be...

January 31, 2025
CMS invited investigator Matt Card from the Columbia County cyber crimes unit and health & safety specialist Eric Barnes from Questar III to talk about internet safety with our s...

January 30, 2025
Mrs. Velez's 6th-grade Social Studies class celebrated the Lunar New Year on January 28. Students had the opportunity to create dragon puppets and red envelopes and had the chance...

January 28, 2025
Chatham Middle School’s robotics team, the CMS Chatham Circuits, had a great season competing in the First Tech Challenge (FTC) league this January. At their first competition ...

January 28, 2025
Chatham Middle School brought A Friend of a Friend: Tales of the Underground Railroad to the CMS stage on January 27 to highlight January's character theme of perseverance. Th...