
October 24, 2024
On the morning of October 23, four members of our transportation department volunteered to teach bus safety to our youngest students at MED. Bus mechanic/substitute driver Wall...

October 23, 2024
The Rotary Club of Northern Columbia County visited MED October 23 to give every student in third grade their very own dictionary. This is part of a long-standing Rotary program t...

October 22, 2024
All CCSD schools will be collecting for this community service project sponsored by the Chatham American Legion Auxiliary. Donations are needed for military care packages that wil...

October 21, 2024
At Chatham Middle School, all students participated in Rachel’s Challenge, a national program aimed at preventing bullying and school violence. Tragically, Rachel was one of the s...

October 21, 2024
Our second grade classrooms ended their core knowledge language arts unit "Early Asian Civilizations" with different celebrations! Students in Mrs. Van Wie's class made paper, whi...

October 18, 2024
Fifth graders in Mrs. Reichardt's science classes recently investigated whether plants take in carbon dioxide to live and grow. In this experiment, they used bromothymol blue sol...

October 17, 2024
Chatham High School's National Art Honor Society and Fine Arts students, accompanied by CHS art teacher Tina Fahey and Christina Scott, visited The Mount, the home of writer Edit...
October 16, 2024
Earlier this year we informed you about a fundraiser for our football program that we had to put on hold because it had not gone through the proper approval process. The District...

October 15, 2024
This fall, Chatham CSD had five new electric vehicle charging stations installed in our bus yard. Now awaiting commissioning by InCharge, the company that produces them, these cha...

October 11, 2024
October 11 was Fire Prevention Day at MED, a student favorite! Volunteer firefighters from the Chatham, Ghent, East Chatham, and Spencertown fire companies came out to talk fire s...

October 11, 2024
The eighth grade took trip to The Crandell Theatre October 10 to watch the 1983 film The Outsiders . Students are currently reading the 1967 novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton...

October 10, 2024
Phase 1 construction on our capital improvement project began this summer at Chatham High School and is expected to wrap up by late fall. Among the improvements completed or neari...

October 8, 2024
Student volunteers undertook National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) leadership training last week at CMS. Hosted by the CMS counseling department, this training was led by ...

October 7, 2024
Dear Chatham Families, At Chatham CSD, the health and safety of our students is always top of mind, so I wanted to take a moment to discuss the potential dangers posed by excess...

October 4, 2024
Miss Gomm’s kindergarten class and Mrs. Kolb’s second-grade class had their first K-Buddy meet up of the year! The 2nd graders taught the kindergarteners how to make a pumpkin col...

October 1, 2024
The Chatham Board of Education proudly honored Chatham Middle School nurse Kate Juliano, assistant principal Michael Stead, teacher aide Michael Zwingelberg, and assistant superv...

September 27, 2024
September 27 was MED's first HOUSE day of the school year. At a school-wide assembly in the morning, students learned what color house they are in when their homeroom teachers bur...

September 27, 2024
The boys in Ms. Thorsen and Ms. Chelsea's CMS Life Skills class have a full schedule. Every day between 8:00-10:00 a.m. they are out and about. On Mondays, they run miscellaneous...
September 26, 2024
The Board of Education adopted the following goals for the Chatham Central School District at its September 24 meeting. The Board developed these goals during their workshop meeti...

September 25, 2024
The Board of Education has appointed Terry Bordell as Chatham Central School District’s new director of innovation, curriculum, and assessment, starting November 12, 2024. Many o...