Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

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...

December 19 was MED's third Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students' collective achievement in class. We gave out our monthly awards...

The pesky elves apparently snuck into the PTO closet overnight and took out all of their holiday blow ups! When students arrived the hallways were filled with them. What does th...

The seventh grade headed over to MED December 18 to bring some holiday cheer to third grade. The students read, played games, made a craft together, and made a lot of great connec...

This morning, Mrs Reno found a hand-scrawled note on her desk from the pesky elves. The elves wanted all the students to have hot chocolate and get to watch a movie in school toda...

Mrs. Reichardt introduced the NYSEG energy program to her 5th grade science students this week. They all took home a day pack filled with several energy saving items to help thei...

Oh no! It looks like those pesky elves have returned to MED. Students arrived to school Monday to find classrooms messed up and things moved around. Tuesday found the hallways str...

A kindergarten tradition at MED! Students and their family members enjoyed making gingerbread houses together on December 15!

Run, run, run as fast as you can… you can’t catch our growing readers in PreK! After exploring many versions of The Gingerbread Man , Miss Gomm and Miss Mason's classes used th...

As part of the third grade's unit on the human body, students learned how to use a microscope by scraping the inside of their cheeks and examining their cheek cells under the micr...

The Tuesday before the Thanksgiving break was a surprise HOUSE activity day at MED!