Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

All this week, students at MED have been learning folk dances with Homespun Occasions. During physical education classes for all grades, the troupe has been performing tradition...

Just like March Madness, MED held a school-wide game bracket, where classic games were put up against one another and students voted for their favorites. In the end it was UNO th...

Support our local animal rescues and Humane Society! Our next HOUSE challenge will be for each HOUSE color to collect as many of the items listed below as we can for our loca...

Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 class took a special sensory field trip to the Van Gogh Immersive Experience in Schenectady, NY. This exhibit not only shows off some of Van Go...

Chatham Central School District will be expanding its pre-kindergarten offerings beginning with the 2023-2024 school year. Registration is open from March 1 through April 15, 2023...

Chatham Central School District is seeking a partnership with one or more community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide the universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program. It is antic...

The fact that reading is fun isn't a mystery, but sometimes a little mysteriousness helps make reading even more fun! Pictured here is Mrs. Burrows, who visited her daughter's cla...

During our staff development afternoon on March 27, our Faculty Voice Committees held an expo to share their work with their peers. Led by our teaching staff, these committees hav...

Project Trio is here today putting on some great performances for our students at MED, CMS, and CHS before their public performance here tonight. Part of Music in Our Schools M...

Our 5th graders headed over to CMS on March 22 to see retired New York State Police Computer Crime Unit Investigator, Cyber Crime Specialist, and U.S. Deputy Marshall Tom Roidl al...

On March 24 Chatham CSD will welcome Project Trio, a high-energy chamber music ensemble comprised of three virtuosic composer/performers from Brooklyn - double bassist Peter Seymo...

Sweethearts & Heroes, a student-empowerment and empathy-activation team, was back in Chatham on March 9 to share their powerful anti-bullying message with Mary E. Dardess Elementa...

MED was out in force March 8th to send the Panthers' varsity boys basketball team on their way to regionals in Plattsburgh. The boys won the game and head to the regional final Sa...

March is Music in our Schools Month, which kicked off with Chatham having a stellar representation at the All-County Musical Festival, occurring March 1st and 2nd at Hudson High S...

This year, the elementary school has implemented Friday meetings, where faculty members coordinate school-wide discussion topics and activities for classrooms to engage in. These ...

Hudson Valley Community College baseball players were at MED March 2 to read to our students! Trevor Kniffin, MED’s long-term physical education substitute teacher, is an assistan...

Great news! For the first time, Chatham Central School District will be able to offer a universal prekindergarten program starting with the 2023-24 school year. Our pre-k program...

Students in Mrs. Baskiewicz's kindergarten class celebrated the 100th day of school today! Students celebrated by taking 100 steps in the school, counting by 1's and 10's, to see ...

Valentine’s Day math and graphing with candy hearts in Mrs. Kolb's 2nd grade class!

Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 class took a special trip to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society February 13. The students used some of the profits from their classroom store, ...