Hornell Ensembles to Participate at WorldStrides Onstage Competition

On Wednesday, March 30, the Hornell High School Vocal Music Program performed for families and community members at St. Ann’s Church in a dress rehearsal ahead of their first competition in two years. The ensembles, featuring 95 students, will compete against schools from across the country in Washington D.C. on Friday, April 1.  The four …

National Read Across America Week 2022

The Hornell City School District encourages students in their literacy journey. The Intermediate and North Hornell Schools have had book giveaways to add to our families’ home libraries and have more planned for the remainder of the school year. In addition, the High School Library hosted a November novel writing challenge and encourages students to …

Adventures in the Amazon

In the over 2.5 million square miles of the Amazon Rainforest lives 427 mammal species, 1,300 bird species, 378 species of reptiles, and more than 400 species of amphibians, with new species discovered each year. When Jayson Dinger did a unit on the animals found in the rainforest, his second-grade class became fascinated by how …

New After School Program Supports Students in Grades 2-6

Hornell City School District students in grades 2-6 can now take part in a new after school program, called After S’cool, from 3-5 p,m, every Monday-Thursday. The focus of this program is for academic recovery in the areas of ELA, math and social-emotional learning. Students also receive a healthy snack and participate in library with …

Ongoing Social Media Threats

On Friday, Dec. 17, district administrators were made aware of a SnapChat social media conversation that included a threat to a school. The post did not mention Hornell. After an initial investigation by the Hornell Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department, no credibility to the message was found. However, out of an abundance of caution, there …

High School teacher named finalist in NextGen Leader Awards

Teachers play an important role in everyone’s life. They help shape our interests and introduce us to a world bigger than our own. This year, one of Hornell’s educators, , was nominated for the 2021 NextGen Leader Awards hosted by First Heritage Federal Credit Union. Brubaker is a seventh grade Living Science teacher and has …

The FeederWatch Program

Kate Bowie’s special education class with students from second through fourth grade were selected as one of 50 schools across the country to participate in Project FeederWatch through The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The FeederWatch program was started in 2016, to collect a survey of birds visiting various locations from November to April. The students …

Squash Babies

Each fall, North Hornell Librarian Vanessa Splitulnik’s students are introduced to Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller. Sophie is a little girl who gets a squash at a farmer’s market and treats it like her baby, named Bernice. She takes care of her squash baby until she starts to turn bad. After a discussion with …

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