COMMUNITY EDUCATION UPDATE: Instructor Karen Bogosian is offering a Session 2 of Yoga/Pilates via Silver Creek Central School District’s Community Education division. 🧘♀️
It will run Wednesdays on November 2, 9, 16, and 30, 2022, from 3:45 - 4:45 p.m. in the HS Library. Class fee is $20 for the whole session or $5 per class. Register here: https://www.silvercreekschools.org/o/sccsd/page/community-education
Fourth-graders at Silver Creek Elementary School just finished making longhouses as a part of their unit on Haudenosaunee culture and communities. 🪶🏠 Our Black Knights really enjoyed this project. Silver Creek CSD is observing Native American Heritage Month throughout November.
Check out a few creative classroom doors decorated by Silver Creek Middle School students and staff observing Red Ribbon Week 2022!
🚪 Our Black Knights spent October 24-28, 2022, celebrating life and living drug-free. 🎊
History & Culture Club members from Silver Creek High recently attended actor Ken Jeong’s talk at the University at Buffalo’s Center for the Arts via its Distinguished Speakers series.
Our Black Knights heard about the “Community” actor’s experiences performing in movies, his comedy routine, and his advocacy for cancer. Advisor Jessica Kardashian says of our students was able to go up to the stage and ask Mr. Jeong a question.
We hear the group had an incredible time, gained some valuable insight and left feeling inspired.
Silver Creek High’s varsity volleyball players pose after their team’s 3-0 victory over Math Science Technology Preparatory School on Thursday, October 27, 2022. 🏐 💪 These Black Knights play Tuesday, November 1, 2022, at night Allegany-Limestone. 💛🖤 #wearesilvercreek #BKP #blackknightpride
COIN DRIVE KICKS OFF MONDAY, OCT. 31, 2022: Do you have some loose change and a desire to make a difference in our students’ futures?
Silver Creek High School is trying something different this academic year to fundraise for the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes. Beginning Monday, October 31, 2022, our Black Knights are kicking off a coin drive and each grade level will be collecting spare change through Friday, November 18, 2022.
Our community is asked to please take some time to check your couch cushions, dryers, and cars for any spare change.
Students can drop off coins into bins in their classrooms. Core subject area teachers will have bins set up in their rooms. Change bins will be placed at the main lobby front desk at the high school and the elementary front desk for community members and teachers to donate.
All coins donated will go into each individual class account. Our Black Knights begin fundraising during ninth and 10th grade to help budget for the expenses associated with 11th- and 12th-grade activities such as prom, class night, senior trip, etc.
The winning grade level will receive a party the day before Thanksgiving break.
Spanish Club members at Silver Creek High School made these sugar skulls in observance of Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. In Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries it is customary to make sugar skulls and put them on the graves of loved ones every year on November 2. #wearesilvercreek #blackknightpride #dayofthedead2022
Silver Creek Middle School will present a musical performance of “James and the Giant Peach” — a classic tale of love, wonder and what it means to be a family by Roald Dahl — in the auditorium on Wednesday and Thursday, November 9-10, 2022, at 6 p.m.
“We are SO excited to share all of our hard work and dedication with the community and would love to see a full house both nights!” says music teacher Phillip McMullen. “We are looking forward to seeing you there!”
More than 100 students are involved in the production from singing to acting and from stage crew to set design. Tickets cost only $5 at silvercreekhs.seatyourself.biz
Knights Against Cancer members from Silver Creek Central School District volunteered at Making Strides for Breast Cancer via Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center on Saturday, October 22, 2022, as route marshals for the walkers! The students had a blast getting to check out all of the activities, meet some sponsors and help in the fight against cancer. They cheered on all the walkers and thanked them for their fundraising efforts.
The playground at Silver Creek Elementary was positively bustling with activity today (Tuesday, October 25, 2022) as our Black Knights let loose and enjoyed some unseasonably warm fall weather. 🌞 🤸♀️🌳🏃♂️🍂
Silver Creek School District families are invited to the TRACK OR TREAT event -- which is being held inside the school due to inclement weather -- on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 🎃🍬🍫🍭
All trick-or-treaters will enter the school through the pool door. It will be marked. Please join the Parent Teacher Student Association for a fun-filled evening. Dress-up in your Halloween best! 🤡🤠👨🎤👩🍳
Haunted house sponsored by Key Club, National Honor Society and Youth Activation Committee of Silver Creek High School. 👻
This is just a fraction of the autumnal artwork adorning the corridors of Silver Creek Elementary in October 2022! 🎃 🍁 🧑🎨 🏫 🎨💛🖤
Friendly reminder that PICTURE DAY at Silver Creek Elementary School is scheduled Thursday, October 27, 2022, during the school day.
The 2023 Elks National Foundation's MOST VALUABLE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP application deadline is November 14, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Learn more: https://www.elks.org/scholars
Applicants will be judged on scholarship, leadership, and financial need.
Eligibility:
▪️ Current high school seniors, or the equivalent, who are citizens of the United States are eligible to apply.
▪️ Applicants do not need to be related to a member of the Elks.
▪️ High school graduates are not eligible to apply.
▪️ Applicants must be citizens of the United States on the date their applications are submitted; permanent legal resident status does not qualify.
𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀:
The Elks National Foundation will award 500 four-year scholarships to the highest-rated applicants in the 2023 competition.
Male and female students compete separately.
Ranging from $1,000 per year to $12,500 per year, Most Valuable Student scholarships are for students pursuing a four-year degree, on a full-time basis (minimum of 12 semester hours), in a U.S. college or university. All scholarships are in the form of certificates of award conditional upon the full-time enrollment of the winner in an accredited U.S. college or university.
The Chicago office of the Elks National Foundation announced the 500 national winners in April, 2022. (Many local Lodges, districts and state Elks associations award their own scholarships through this program. These scholarships are not to be confused with the 500 Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student Scholarships.)
The 2023 MVS Leadership Weekend will be held April 13-16 in Chicago. During the weekend, the Top 20 scholars will interview with the national judges. These 20 finalists will be vying for two first-place awards of $50,000; two second-place awards of $40,000; and two third-place awards of $30,000. The remaining 14 finalists will receive awards of $20,000. The 480 runners-up will receive fifth-place scholarships of $4,000. Participating in the virtual Leadership Weekend is required to be eligible for the top awards.
Our friends at Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES are hosting a 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥 & 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 at the LoGuidice Educational Center in Fredonia on Thursday, October 27, 2022, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Learn more about each of the 11 CTE programs. There will also be a chicken barbecue, a food truck, music, door prizes, pumpkin carving, a pumpkin sale to benefit the National Technical Honor Society, candy apples, cookie decorating, a chocolate fountain, job demonstrations, raffled items (including a custom-made bench) and college and military reps.
Saturday night, some of our students attended a concert by the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus at Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo. The work presented was a choral arrangement of the Diary of Anne Frank and was organized in conjunction with the Buffalo State Anne Frank Project and our students were able to attend due to the support of our Arts in Education Grant.
𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦
The "Inclusion Revolution" continues! Four student members of the Youth Activation Committee at Silver Creek High traveled on Friday (October 21, 2022) to the Glens Falls, N.Y., to attend the 2022 Special Olympics New York Fall Games and YAC Youth Leadership Experience.
Black Knights Julie Decker, Emily Yerke, Colin Shumaker and Troy Cooper were accompanied by YAC advisor Janet Decker and Janine Shumaker, both staff members who coach Unified Sports bowling.
The group attended opening ceremonies for the 2022 Fall Games on Friday (Oct. 21, 2022) followed by a training session, which taught them how to use different types of recording equipment to use to interview athletes, coaches, and family members at the soccer and softball games.
The students and advisors helped set up and run the Young Athletes Skills Centers on Saturday and also took time to use the new recording equipment to interview people throughout the sports complex. They were also provided time to watch several soccer, softball, and Bocce games before attending dinner and closing ceremonies at Glens Falls City Park.
Before heading back to the hotel, the group met back up with Special Olympic staff to debrief the events from the day and discuss their favorite parts of the event. Everyone had different views of what was their favorite, but all agreed interviewing and watching the athletes made for special memories.
The entire trip (bussing, hotels and meals) was funded by the Special Olympics New York. The funds come from events like the Polar Plunge, which will be held Friday, December 2, 2022. The students and staff that attended this event will be participating in the Polar Plunge this year along with many others from the school district and community.
If you have any questions about participating in the Polar Plunge or how to make a donation, please contact Janet Decker at (716) 934-2603, ext. 3434 or by email at jdecker@silvercreekschools.org.
*COURTESY POST* SC Kiwanis Club Halloween Trunk or Treat
A group of Native American students from Silver Creek Middle School participated in the Seneca Nation Education Department’s Annual Middle School Youth Summit on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
They united with students from Gowanda and Lake Shore central school districts to participate in various workshops; this year’s theme was Wellness. Our Black Knights participated in workshops on self care, including meditation and breathing techniques, healthy friendship and family relationships, and internet safety/cyber bullying.
This annual event gives our students a chance to collaborate with students from the other districts that serve the Seneca Nation territory and build new relationships to help serve this community as young adults.
#wearesilvercreek #nativepride #blackknightpride
GETTING COZY: Pre-Kindergartners in the classroom of Mrs. Jakubowicz and Miss Russo at Silver Creek Elementary put on their pajamas and enjoyed fresh-popped popcorn and a show in celebration of PJ Day. 🍿 🎥 🏫💛🖤 #wearesilvercreek #BKP #BlackKnightPride
