Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

In science class, 5th graders are learning how to transport water. Students designed a water pump that could move 100 ml of water from one beaker to another. The constraints: the ...

MED's kindergarten classrooms were a whirlwind of glitter and green as our busy little leprechauns crafted special St. Patrick's Day projects. The real magic happened when it was ...

Mr. Botsford’s Language Concepts class received a special visit from some very cute guests, kids (AKA baby goats), from G. Ooms & Kids. The visit was organized by the Ooms family,...

MED turned the page on an incredible week! From March 2nd (Dr. Seuss’ birthday) to March 6th, students dove headfirst into the wonderful world of reading for Read Across America W...

Did you know that this March marks more than 40 years of celebrating Music in Our Schools Month? This month-long celebration celebrates the music made in schools throughout the c...

Our kindergarten students reached their legendary 100th day of school! It was a day dedicated to all things 100, filled with creative crafts and fun hands-on projects that showed ...

Nineteen members of Chatham Middle School's Service Club set up an afternoon of fun games for Chatham Kids Club, with spoon races, go fish, arts and crafts, and reading on Februar...

To celebrate 100 days in school, these First Graders turned into detectives to solve the mystery of the stolen pencil sharpener. Throughout the day they completed various 100-th...

Our first graders celebrated their 100th day on school by dressing up as centenarians and doing projects related to the number 100! They grow up so fast!

This winter there was plenty of snow for our schools' ski clubs to enjoy. Here's a photo of some ofour MED Ski Club members at Catamount recently. Special thanks to our parent vol...

February 4 was MED's fourth Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students' collective achievement in class during the month of January. Gol...

Love snow? Our kids do, and so does the MED PTO! This winter, the PTO donated 40 sleds for our students to ride the playground's pow pow steeps with. The school erupted with cheer...

Mrs. Baskiewicz’s Kindergarten class turned into mini-meteorologists for Groundhog Day! On Friday, they practiced their prediction skills by guessing if the groundhog would see h...

Cosmic Bowling was back at MED in January. In physical education, students pre-k through 5th grade enjoyed learning bowling, space-disco style!!

Coding is officially in session for our pre-k students! Katie Fahrenkopf from Questar III Model Schools visited Miss Gomm and Miss Mason’s classrooms to introduce Sphero Indi cars...

The Mary E. Dardess Elementary School, Chatham, New York, announces the registration dates for the 2026-2027 prekindergarten class. Registration for Chatham Central School Dist...

Mary E. Dardess Elementary School announces the registration dates for our 2026-2027 kindergarten class. Registration for the Class of 2039 is now open! Chatham’s Digital Ki...

January 2026 The Chatham Central School District encourages all students in grades 3-8 to participate in the New York State Testing Program. We know that in recent years, there ...

Chatham's youngest musicians debuted their talents at MED's 4th Grade Informance on January 16. Families filled the cafetorium to learn about what our orchestra, band and chorus s...

5th grade science students are learning about the properties of matter. They practiced using four of their five senses to identify the properties of sugar, salt, cornstarch, bakin...