Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

MED students celebrated Arbor Day with the return of our traditional outdoor assembly. For the first time since Covid, each grade level took a turn singing for the school. The hig...

Here are some photos from Space Day in Ms. Brandow’s first grade class, which celebrated the class wrapping their astronomy unit. The students made Moon dials displaying the lunar...

Students from Mr. Botsford’s and Mrs. Winter’s Language Concepts classes took a field trip to A. Ooms & Sons Dairy Farm in Valatie on May 24. While at the farm, the children held ...

MED's Panther Den took a trip to Art Omi to explore world-class sculpture exhibits available right here in our own backyard! Along for the trip was Mr. Roth, MED's art teacher, wh...

To help our soon-to-be sixth graders transition into middle school, the fifth grade spent an entire day at CMS this week to take tours of the building, experience changing classes...

The second grade visited Wild Play at Thatcher Park last Friday, May 12th. Students had time to play and enjoy the park and challenge themselves on the adventure course. Everyon...

MED students and staff alike enjoyed a visit from Eric Litwin yesterday! Eric is a song singing, guitar strumming, #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author who brings...

C is for Chatham! MED’s tennis equipment just got a big upgrade thanks to a grant from the United States Tennis Association. Kate Lynch (left), one of our third grade teachers and...

Knights, castles, great music and high adventure abounded when the MED Drama Club presented Magic Treehouse: The Knight at Dawn KIDS on May 19 and 20 . Based on the series by...

MED put out a HOUSE challenge in April for students to collect donations for area animal rescues. The drive was the idea of fifth grader Shelby Hunt. Students brought in donations...

Mrs. Ranita’s kindergarten class had a writers’ celebration on May 9! Students had been writing and illustrating books for the past few months during their writing time. Students ...

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 local...

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 Mo...