Putnam Valley High School proudly announces the Class of 2013 Valedictorian, Sayaka Abe, and the Class of 2013 Salutatorian, Anna Gragert.

Two of our HS Destination Imagination teams take 1st place and will now compete in Tennessee.

Congratulations to Emily Weise, Sarah Sperling, Madison Hamilton, Sarah Scocozza, Ethan Pedersen, Shannon Rogers Katie VanDeVelde, Kayleigh Hartnett, McKenna Feeney, Shannon Poulose.

The PVHS Music Department presents its biennial Great Works Concert, The Civil War, featuring selected musical works by the High School Wind Ensemble along with the Mixed and Concert Choirs.

Congratulations to varsity wrestlers, Chris Bruno and AJ Mirabal as they each achieve over 100 wrestling wins.

The Putnam Valley school community joined together with the Putnam County Sheriff's office to collect much needed donations to provide to communities that were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy.

Gerry Carlin, Middle School Go-Green Club advisor and teacher, along with 2 members, Ella Torregrossa and Mariana Silva, are one example of how Putnam Valley is helping those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

After a week of campaigning, which included creating posters and delivering speeches that outlined each candidate's position on school issues, an electronic school-wide vote took place. Here are our 2012-2013 Elected Officials. Congratulations to all.

From Left to right:

Front row: 6th Grade Congressman Illirjon Muriqi, 5th Grade Congressmen Adam Andreani and Michael Reichardt and 7th Grade Senator Angelie Tomais

Back row. 6th Grade Congressmen Joseph Garbowski, 8th Grade Co-President Satoshi Abe, Vice President Susanna Granieri, 7th Grade Senator Chloe Berger, and 8th Grade Co-Presidents Tim Chizzik.

On Friday evening, September 7, 2012, Senator Greg Ball presented Putnam Valley Central School District Superintendent of Schools Dr. Barbara Nuzzi with a check in the amount of $125,000. This funding is the result of a grant that was submitted by Dr. Nuzzi through Senator Ball's office for the beginning of the construction of a concession stand at the turf field.

Please join me in welcoming Martin Nemecek to our Putnam Valley community. Marty has extremely large shoes to fill. Pete Kuczma has done an outstanding job (the second time around) in his interim work for us. We will miss Pete greatly, especially his dedication to our district, commitment, work ethic, professionalism and tremendous knowledge in all things athletics.

Marty joins us after five years as Director of Athletics and Physical Education for the Utica City Schools. He was an Assistant Principal for two years and more importantly spent 23 years as a Physical Education, Health Teacher and Coach.

Martin will join us as of July 1st.

Welcome Martin!!!!

Dr. Barbara Fuchs, Superintendent of Schools

PVMS Girl Scout troop 2053 stepped up and found a way to encourage PVMS students to participate in Pay it Forward Day. They created a video and gave each student a Pay it Forward card. This card was passed from a student who did a good deed to the recipient of the good deed. That card could then be passed on to other recipients while expecting nothing in return. Congratulations to Paisley Gardner, Elektra Kirby, Raven Kirby, Jacey Ferraro, Ciara McGinty, and Megan Borchick.

3rd and 4th graders enjoying Lego night with their families. The PTA sponsored this grade level event.

On the weekend of March 16th, 59 Putnam Valley 3rd and 4th grade students performed in the musical "School House Rock Live, Jr". Parents sang along with the songs they grew up singing on Saturday mornings and students found some brand new ways to learn math, history and science!

The members of the 2011-12 Varsity Cheerleading Team and their coaches, Ariana Maucieri and Regina Albano, received Pride In Putnam Valley at the March 8, 2012 Board of Education Meeting in recognition of their amazing year which included the following accomplishments:

1st Place and Grand Champions at the Harrison Tournament

1st Place and Grand Champions at Croton Tournament

1st Place and Grand Champions at the Walter Panas HS Tournament

2nd Place at the Nationals competition

Class C Conference Championships

On March 1, 2012, 17 students were inducted as the newest members of the Tri M Music Honor Society at Putnam Valley High School. The event began with an introduction by Mr. Ryan Odell, High School band teacher and advisor to the Tri M Honor Society. The students were also welcomed by Mr. Vincent Burruano, High School Principal, and Dr. Barbara Fuchs, Superintendent of Schools. Two students, Sam Faber Manning and Alex Spitzer, performed wonderful music selections. The keynote speaker for the evening was Mr. Robert Tendy, Putnam Valley Town Supervisor. and Sarah Sperling was selected as the student speaker. The inductees are:

Jessica Adukuzhiyil, Christopher Brunke
Austin deMey, Rae Gonzalez
Madison Hamilton, Julia Jerome
Abigail Kelvas, Max Levinson
Emily Montano, Chloe O'Connor
Lauren Perritano, Daniel Rodriquez
Sam Schechter, Anna Shorto
Sarah Sperling, Ty Torregrosa
Katie Van Develde

On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 32 students were inducted to Mu Alpha Theta - the math honor society. This number ties the charter year for the most number of students ever inducted into the Putnam Valley chapter of Mu Alpha Theta. In order to qualify for the honor society, students must have completed at least 2 years of high school level mathematics and they must have a 90 or above average from these classes. Eighteen of the inductees are sophomores, 13 are juniors, and 1 is a senior. This induction brings the membership of the P.V.H.S. chapter of Mu Alpha Theta to 55. These students are required to do 10 hours of math tutoring, help at the Elementary School Math Night, maintain a 90 or above average in their math classes, and spread their joy of mathematics with others in order to remain in the honor society. This June, 14 students will wear the blue and gold honor cords at graduation.

At the February 16th Business Meeting, the Board of Education presented Pride In Putnam Valley to two fifth graders—
Ciara McGinty
Lea Frenkel
to recognize their accomplishment of being selected as the sole representatives of Putnam County in the Elementary School Honor Choir last summer at the NYS School Music Association Conference.

On Friday, February 3rd, the Elementary School Character Education Committee held an assembly to celebrate the students' efforts in collecting items to send to our troops. The Support Our Troops campaign took place over the past few weeks and each class was assigned a specific item to donate. Private First Class Ryan LePore from the United States Army, and also a Putnam Valley graduate, spoke to the students at the assembly and thanked them for their generosity.

Photos by: Michael N. Lee

A moment with Mr. Micera and the Concert Chorus during the 2012 PVHS Winter Chorus Concert.

PVMS students overwhelmed the Putnam Valley Food Pantry representatives for the holiday season this year! What started as a friendly grade level competition to collect the most cereal boxes, turned out to be a fierce competition and came down to the last minute before the deadline. Thanks to the efforts of Assistant Principal, Michael Hanna and the PVMS Student Government, the school collected 1,582 boxes of cereal. Where did we house that number of boxes, you ask, check out the slideshow to see. In the end, grade 6 was the winner!!! (photos by PVMS iVoice)

On December 13th and 14th our PVMS 5th/6th and 7th/8th Bands gave two outstanding performances at their Winter Concerts. Music to everyone's ears. Congratulations to all!

Pictures by: and Ella Torregrossa, member of PVMS iVoice and and iVoice guest, Meredith Conlin

The fifth annual "Holiday Community Read" was held on Saturday, December 10, at the Putnam Valley Elementary School. Putnam Valley Reads (PVR), a subcommittee of the English Language Arts Committee of the Putnam Valley PTA, sponsors the event in support of the district-wide reading initiative. Children and their families were treated to stories read by members of the school district staff and community. Tables were set up for families to enjoy refreshments and to participate in holiday themed activities. Santa and Mrs. Claus and their elves were also in attendance to greet the children.

The PVR was established in 2007 to help uphold the NYSED recommended reading standard. In addition to this annual event, PVR also continues to create a reading community through parent and student book clubs and newsletters.

PVHS THEATREWORKS PROUDLY PRESENTS: "DRACULA"

Photos by Caitlin Kelly

PVHS THEATREWORKS PROUDLY PRESENTS: "SWEENEY TODD"

Photos by Christine Shevlin