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Hornell Students succeed in Regional DECA competition

This year, eleven Hornell City School District students participated in the annual Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) Regional Competition, held December 20, 2021, at Alfred State College in Alfred, NY. Thirty-one students from Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Steuben counties attended.  The competition consisted of multiple choice exams and business role-playing exercises. Kenneth Robinson (Grade 12) …

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Scholar Athletes

Students succeed in the classroom & competition At the end of each sports season, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) honors teams and individuals that excel in the classroom. All seven Hornell City School District sports teams–boys and girls soccer, cross country, boys football and girls swimming and volleyball–ended the season …

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Music to our ears: High School Junior named to All-National Chorus

The Hornell City School District Music Department has had many alumni move onto professional careers in music. They have been a part of Broadway productions, performed at Carnegie Hall and have done sound mixing for pop stars. Trey Woolwine (11th) is hopeful to someday add his name to this list. Woolwine has been a member …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Rescue Mission

There was a lot of activity at the Intermediate School on October 25, 2021 . Students from one of Jacey Hanson’s fifth-grade ELA classes launched a rescue mission for a toad stuck in a grate outside of the school. Students Angel Mota, Xzavier Raycroft and Zach Mullen, who call themselves the “Nature Bros,” wrote a …

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Elementary students begin swim lessons in P.E.

For many students, swimming during P.E. is their first opportunity to take formal lessons. This school year is the first time that second and third-grade students have the opportunity to participate in the swim lesson curriculum. Second-grade teacher Andrew Gibbs said, “The opportunity for our second and third graders to be able to take swim …

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Encouraging literacy in our schools

In September, the Hornell City School District announced that the Intermediate School was awarded a $3 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Librarians Jordan Hahn and Jennifer Carretto are busy planning creative ways to use the allotted grant money over the next five years. Families with second to sixth grade students should …

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