Mrs. Mahanes

Please watch “Student-Led Conferences at Pittsfield Middle High School”……..

The School Board is meeting on July 20 and August 17 at 5:30 p.m. in the PMHS library. Starting September 7, the Board will be back on its first and third Thursday of the month meeting rotation.

In the primary grades at Pittsfield Elementary School, our Everyday Mathematics curriculum includes many counting activities that use number grids. For example, we might have children count by 10s starting at 17 (17, 27, 37, 47, 57) or count backward by 10s starting at 84 (84, 74, 64, 54). Parents can use number grids at…

On Monday through Thursday evenings, students are assigned homework to reinforce concepts taught during the school day. These assignments should be completed as activities would in a school setting: in a quiet environment with adequate lighting and without distractions. On Fridays, students are asked to read for fifteen minutes over the course of the weekend….

On Thursday, March 14, approximately 130 Pittsfield citizens and interested non-residents attended the Annual School District Meeting in the PES Gym. The meeting started at 7:00 and ended just after 8:30. Voters approved all the items in the $9.45 million dollar budget, including the over-all operating budget, a teacher contract with a modest salary increases,…