The Cairo-Durham High School Class of 2024 is hosting a Mustang Holiday Ornament fundraiser! Place your order(s) by Dec. 1, 2023 to receive your ornament(s) by the holiday break!
Congratulations to Jacob Young, Marc Cammarata, Nova Conti, Brendan Feeney and Kingston Czajkowki (not pictured) for being selected as the first ever Mustang Pride Award recipients for Cairo-Durham High School!
This is a new award given to student-athletes that possess the best character traits that every coach wants in their players: great sportsmanship, tries their best at all times, and brings a positive attitude to their practices and games.
Congratulations to Liam S. in the Whitbeck/Lopez class for being named the "Star of the Week"!
Cairo-Durham Central School District Parents/Guardians:
In an effort to effectively serve and assess needs in our school community, the Cairo-Durham Central School District kindly asks all parents/guardians to complete the following survey in regard to internet accessibility by Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 at 3 p.m.
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The Cairo-Durham High School Class of 2024 is hosting a Mustang Holiday Ornament fundraiser! Place your order(s) by Dec. 1, 2023 to receive your ornament(s) by the holiday break!
Mr. Karker joined Ms. O'Brien's Cairo-Durham High School class earlier this week and assisted with carving a turkey for their feast! Students made side dishes, learned how to set a table, as well as learned how to prepare and stuff a turkey.
On Nov. 21, Ms. Flubacher's 5th grade class had a Thanksgiving Feast! Students played Thanksgiving Bingo and were served a Thanksgiving Feast! The class shared what they were grateful for, their Thanksgiving traditions, and sat together as a class family. These types of activities not only celebrate the holiday, but also contribute to building a positive and supportive classroom environment.
This year's Cairo-Durham Elementary School Turkey Trot was a success!
At Cairo-Durham Elementary School, we are thankful for AIS reading! During their lunch time, these lovely ladies volunteered to help students make their Thanksgiving hats!
With Thanksgiving around the corner, Miss Prinz decided to list 16 reasons she's grateful for her 5th grade class in a special way, by highlighting positive characteristics of each of her students!
Mrs. Halstrom & Mrs. Busti’s first graders were eager to make bread for the Thanksgiving feast! Students added several ingredients and were able to watch the bread bake in the bread machine! The four loaves of bread were then shared amongst all of the first grade during a Thanksgiving feast!
From all of us at Cairo-Durham Central School District to you, Happy Thanksgiving! Pictured here are our bright students at Cairo-Durham Elementary School following the annual Turkey Trot!
The Cairo-Durham Central School District would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for you!
We will see you again on Monday, Nov. 27.
Rook Emma Drum and Rook Ethan White from Norwich University in Vermont, visited Cairo-Durham High School on Nov. 21 to talk to high school students about what Norwich University has to offer, including the Corp of Cadets and Civilian options at the University.
Norwich offers 30+ academic majors and 80+ clubs/organizations. The university also offers 20 NCAA varsity teams at the Division III level, of which Rook Drum (who recently graduated from a local school district) is a member of the Women's basketball team.
An awesome job by our Cairo-Durham Elementary School students and staff for their participation and creativity in last week's Spirit Week sponsored by the Student Council!
Cairo-Durham Central School District Parents/Guardians:
In an effort to effectively serve and assess needs in our school community, the Cairo-Durham Central School District kindly asks all parents/guardians to complete the following survey in regard to internet accessibility by Friday, Dec. 1, 2023 at 3 p.m.
Please use this link to access the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_ulRjz0PpTBq1oLBbu-U7wPbcpyVyft0bnZ3ArUcmYAjM1w/viewform?usp=sf_link
The Cairo-Durham High School Class of 2024 is hosting a Mustang Holiday Ornament fundraiser! Place your order(s) by Dec. 1, 2023 to receive your ornament(s) by the holiday break!
NEWS RELEASE from Cairo-Durham Central School District
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 17, 2023
Cairo-Durham High School National Honor Society Hosts Annual Food Drive Competition for Holiday Season
CAIRO, NY – In an effort to give back to those in need, the Cairo-Durham High School’s National Honor Society hosted its annual food drive for the holiday season in October and November for its fall/winter community service project.
All 3,989 items donated over a three-week period (Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, Nov. 6-10 and Nov. 13-17) of competition between the four high school grade levels will be delivered to the Cairo Food Pantry located at the Resurrection Lutheran Church.
“I am extremely proud of the work of our students and staff participating in this year’s National Honor Society food drive competition,” Superintendent of Schools Michael Wetherbee said. “The act of being part of something bigger than yourself is a self-gratifying feeling. To do this for those in need during the holiday season speaks volumes of the character of our Mustangs.”
Originating in 2009 under the leadership of Cairo-Durham High School staff members Emily Jones, Laura Giarusso and Anthony Taibi and the Peer Mentoring group, the community service project was revived in 2021 and is now overseen by teacher and National Honor Society advisors Allison Manoli and Susan Boyle.
Students are encouraged over the three-week competition to bring in specific items worth more points for their grade level, and items that could deduct points for other grade levels.
“We revamped the points schedule this year to help promote items that the food pantry needs. We focused this year on Thanksgiving related items that they can use in their Thanksgiving baskets in the first two weeks so we could get them delivered in time to be part of the overall planning,” Manoli said. “The final week highlighted personal hygiene items. I believe that these items will be included in the Christmas baskets.”
The senior class won this year’s competition with a total of 7,638 points accumulated throughout the contest and earned an ice cream party sponsored by the National Honor Society. The teachers who had collection boxes in their rooms representing the grade levels that finished short of first place will be required to participate in a dance-off at the next pep-rally.
“This wouldn't be as successful as it is without the encouragement and excitement of the faculty, especially the ones who have grade level boxes in their classrooms,” Manoli said.
Manoli would like to send a special note of appreciation to Haleon for the toothpaste and toothbrush donation for the project.
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The Thompson/Lopez and Whitbeck/Lopez classes surprised Cairo-Durham Elementary music teacher Mrs. Seymour with a special rendition of "Happy Birthday" last week!
As a Thanksgiving-themed project focusing on inferencing, students in Ms. Wagor's class employed riddles to make inferences, linking text with their background knowledge.
The class transformed their turkeys into various representations—cartoon characters, objects, professions, or famous figures—to safeguard them from being part of a Thanksgiving dinner!
During a gallery walk, students guessed each other's disguised turkeys, employing their inference skills without directly seeing the turkeys drawn by their classmates. Great job, class!
