Category: Archive
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‘New Depth of Knowledge’: Celebrating Southgate students Black History Month projects
Smart. Bold. Resilient. Talented.Stubborn. Creative. Musical. Brave. Words Southgate fourth-grade students used to describe the leaders, poets, athletes, and musicians they researched throughout February in honor and celebration of Black History Month. The first group of nervous but enthusiastic students stepped to the front of the class Feb. 29 and clearly demonstrated the depth of…
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SHS Announces Second Quarter Merit, Honor & High Honor Rolls
Congratulations to all of our Shaker High School students who achieved High Honor Roll, Honor Roll and Merit Roll for the second quarter of the school year.
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2024-25 Budget Presentations & Long Range Planning Committee Meetings Kick Off March 5
The annual series of budget committee meetings to develop the NCCSD 2024-25 budget will kick off Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be in the Forts Ferry Auditorium, 95 Forts Ferry Road. The next three meetings in the series will all be hosted at the Shaker Middle School Auditorium. All begin at…
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SMS Announces Second Quarter Merit, Honor & High Honor Rolls
High Honor Roll – Grade 8 Aydan Abbley, Zainab Abdul Qayoom, Nya Adams, Anvitha Adikoppula, Maya Aguirre Murcia, Zainab Ahmad, Simrah Ahmed, Luqman Ahmed, Mubeen Akhtar, Kamran Akhtar, Chadi Akil, Simra Ali, William Amadon, Sadhika Ambadipudi, Abdul Amer, Hiba Ansar, Ayesha Ansar, Eloise Applebee, Sourish Sai Arvapally, Lakshmi Atmakuri, Rowan Bach, Akshita Bandari, Michael James…
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CD Jet Teacher Appreciation
The CD Jets annual Teacher Appreciation Event was full of hugs and smiles as players recognized the individual SHS staff members who they wanted to celebrate for supporting them. In photos are: Alex Ridley and Erin Gregory (SHS teaching assistant); Bowen Yu and Philip Coughlin (SHS Social Studies teacher); Colin Wilson and Erin Murphy (SHS…
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Shaker’s Mira Ginsburg Recognized for Empowering Others
Receiving a scholarship from Special Olympics for the second year in a row on Jan. 31 may have completely surprised Shaker junior Mira Ginsburg, but the reasons for the recognition were completely obvious to everyone else. Mira is credited with more than doubling the number of schools now participating in the annual Lake George Polar…
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A Message From Superintendent Kathleen Skeals
The story of Black History Month begins with Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively. In 1976, fifty years after the first…
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SHS Advanced Art & Design 1 Students Have Their Midterm Critiqued with Mrs. Paris!
Students in SHS’s Advanced Art & Design 1 had their midterm critique with Mrs. Paris in the Art Gallery at the high school. In November the class researched and presented artists whose work is in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. This was followed by a field trip to MoMA, where students studied, photographed…
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Future Cities Club Students Win 3rd Place in the Future Cities Competition.
Students of Future Cities Club- Rohith Krishnan, Louis Jin, Harini Tummalapalli, Anushka Thennarasu, Tanishka Tennarasu, Avyukth Nanduri, Nityasree Kaki, Ridh Gutta, Pragati Timalsani, Hayyan Shohaib, Bhavya Gokul, and Aarzoo Harsh participated in the Future Cities Competition held on January 13th. The club met on Thursdays from 3 to 4 at school under the mentorship of…
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Powell and DeSantis Advance in “Poetry Out Loud” Competition
Eight students in grades 9-12 competed in the Shaker High School Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest on January 10th.