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Pictured here, our superintendent, Sal DeAngelo, scoops ice cream for students in MED's Extended School Year to celebrate the last days of their summer program. Dr. DeAngelo also p...
Mary E. Dardess Elementary School welcomes you to the 2022-23 school year! School supply lists for each grade are available below.
Pre-K Supply List
First Grade Supply List
Seco...
June 24 was our last day of school! A Chatham tradition, the staff at MED were out in front to wave goodbye to the students as our buses brought them home for the last time this sc...
Here are some photos from Field Day 2022, which took place June 22 at MED! Our students enjoyed lots of outdoor fun and games. 8th Grade National Junior Honor Society students retu...
The fifth grade celebrated their moving on to Chatham Middle School with a D.A.R.E. Graduation and Moving Up Ceremony for family and friends, held June 17 in the MED gym.
The D.A...
The kindergarten students have been counting down to the end of their school year with an ABC Countdown. They have enjoyed a wide range of activities like blowing bubbles for the l...
June 16 was the first day of our transition program at CMS for our incoming 5th graders. They met their new teachers and counselors, learned about clubs, special events, routines a...
As part of their forces and interactions unit, the third grade at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School conducted an experiment to see how many rubber bands a watermelon could withstan...
Chatham High School's band, chorus, and orchestra put on an in-house concert for MED students the morning of June 14. Students in grades three, four, and five headed over to the CH...
On June 10, the Class of 2022 returned to their "roots" at CCSD with a walk through in their caps and gowns at MED Elementary School, where their journey began nearly 13 years ago!
For their end-of-the-year celebration this year, our kindergarten held a carnival for students and their families. Each student handmade four tickets for the event that they could ...
If you heard a loud rumble coming from MED on June 6, you might have thought it was thunder (or the train), but no, it was representatives from the Lebanon Valley Speedway there to...
The MED PTA held its 1st Spring Family Fun Day at our school on June 4. The weather was beautiful and many community members volunteered their time to help make this event a succes...
The 5th grade enjoyed the great outdoors and more when Nature's Classroom on Wheels rolled into MED on June 2. Four guest educators from Nature's Classroom spent the entire school ...
MED 4th graders took a community walking field trip on June 3rd. They left MED and walked to the Tracy Memorial on Main Street where they met up with Mayor John Howe. Mayor Howe s...
Our School Resource Deputy, Travis Van Alstyne, organized a Law Enforcement Day for 5th graders on June 1, 2022. From the Columbia County Sheriff’s office, Sgt. Heath Benansky alon...
As our varsity baseball team headed out this morning to the Class C Regional Semi-Finals at the Bolton Ball Field in Bolton Landing, the Mary E. Dardess Elementary School was out i...
Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 Class celebrated the ongoing success of their school store, The Panther Pantry, on May 31! Weeks after first opening their store, they have made...
MED hosted a surprise house activity on May 26! In their respective houses, students rotated through four fun and exciting activities that allowed them to enjoy the wonderful weath...
The screening dates for next year’s pre-k program will take place in the afternoon of June 16, 17, 22, and 23. This targeted program was created to identify children with deficits ...