Great weather, great music and great works of art. They all came together last night at Merton Williams for the annual One Night Only Music and Art Show.
Here are more pictures from the event: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/Merton-Williams/One-Night-Only
What a great opportunity for Merton Williams students to learn about and help protect natural environments in our area. The 7th grade Health Science Teachers (Ms. Drex, Mr. Ellicott and, Ms. Peterson) chose students that have shown excellent character during class and their actions have aligned with our district goals. Some of these goals include, Being Curious, Being Non-judgmental AND Being a Welcoming person. As a reward, students participated in a field trip with other students. The field trip provided students the opportunity to complete a community service project that aimed to educate our youth about the importance of clean waterways and preserving our most precious natural resource. In an effort to do this we visit the Ontario Charlotte Beach / Park. Students helped clean up the beach, the area walkways and learn about Lake Ontario and the Genesee River.
It was quite a busy morning at Northwood today. Erin McBride's kindergarten class held a Memorial Day sing-along and Jennifer Sica's class held its annual "We Choose to Reuse Fashion Show. You can see more pictures from both events here: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/Northwood
What a great way to start the day yesterday at Merton Williams-the annual Grandfriends breakfast. Thanks to everyone who came to visit and to everyone who worked so hard to make it a success! There was even a chance to try out a new voting machine like the ones that will be used next Tuesday for the budget vote. You can see more pictures here: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/Merton-Williams/Grandfriends-Breakfast
A great opportunity for students in Sy Potter and Kelley Stoll's class at Merton Williams to gain first-hand knowledge about Cuba from one of their classmates. Addiel Marino-Calderon added details related to the book they are currently reading entitled, "Refugee." His parents, Maidely and Froylan also came in and taught the class how to Salsa.
What happens when your students raise over 1,000 items for the Hilton-Parma Emergency Food Shelf? If you're an administrator at Merton Williams, you get a pie in the face! Congratulations to the eighth graders who led the way in donations.
Yesterday, the SADD Club and the Best Buddie Club at Merton Williams joined up together for a “Spring Clean Up”.
Students along with the club advisors, (Ms. Brown/Mr. Weber Buddie club and Ms. Drexler SADD club) walked around the school picking up trash. They also cleaned up inside the building by taking old flyers off the walls. This was a great experience combining the 2 clubs. It gave students an opportunity to meet new friends as they gave back to their community.
Thanks to our friends from Foodlink and the Hilton-Parma Emergency Food Shelf for visiting Merton Williams to talk to students about the importance of donating to the school's current food drive.
The sets, the costumes, the dancing, and the singing! All great reasons to see this weekend's production of Little Mermaid Jr. at Merton Williams-the curtain goes up tonight with a 7 p.m. performance. There are two shows tomorrow, at 2 and 7.
Want a sneak peek? Here are some photos: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/Merton-Williams/Little-Mermaid-Jr
Congratulations to all of this year's inductees into the National Junior Honor Society. To see pictures from the ceremony, head to the district SmugMug account: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/Merton-Williams/National-Junior-Honor-Society
Marco Antonini,
Mia Bailey,
Alivia Baker,
Kendall Barton,
Freya Berner,
Viviana Berretta,
Brooke Blizzard,
Alicea Bunt,
Anabella Burgio,
Ava Caputo,
Isabella Denaro,
Kylie Dool,
London Duque,
Gemma Ehman,
Madison Eichas,
Mattingly Fromm,
Silas Garcia,
Patrick Gefell,
Madison Giangregorio,
Olivia Giardino,
Selena Giudice,
Liliana Gloff,
Evelyn Gostling,
Brynn Graves,
Mika Graves,
Caleb Green,
Elise Greiner,
Elyssa Hardesty,
Ryan Hardesty,
Mickaylah Harrison,
Jayden Hibbard,
Tenley Hilbert,
Lillie Jines,
Owen John,
Samantha Keller,
Ellisyn Kittlinger,
Zachary Kistner,
John Kosiorek,
Sam Lander,
Jacob Lennox,
Raegan Lent,
Teaghan MacDonald-Muckle,
Nadia Maciuska,
Landon Manciocchi,
Gracie Martini,
George Martone,
Grace Mattle,
Gabriella Merica,
Ricky Mooney,
Austin Nettnin,
Jacey Neylon,
Brayden Norton,
Esteban Otero,
Madilyn Page,
Keira Palmer,
Matthew Paz,
Emersyn Penna,
Elise Pestilli,
Makayla Pignagrande,
Kayla Presutti,
Jimmy Ramirez,
Leena Ricciuto,
Joseph Schneider,
Caden Setzer,
Adam Smith,
Emerson Smith,
Owen Smith,
Selah Spry,
Allison Starwald,
Adriana Sullivan,
Mason Tette,
Caleb Vanphila,
Ella Veltz,
Arianna Venezia,
Benjamin Wade,
Kaydence Wade,
Ashlynn Williams,
Mina Zheng.
The curtain goes up this Friday on the Merton Williams production of Little Mermaid Jr. Don't miss what promises to be a great performance! You have three chances to see it, Friday at 7 pm and Saturday at 2 and 7 pm.
Don't miss Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr. presented by Merton Williams! There are three performances next week, Friday at 7 pm and Saturday at 2 and 7 pm.
What a great opportunity for our student musicians to learn from a trio of professionals yesterday. Grammy winning bassist Victor Wooten, Bob Franceschini , saxophone and Grammy nominated drummer Tommy Igoe held master classes as a warmup for tonight's Night of Jazz at the High School. You won't want to miss this performance. You can get tickets by clicking here: http://www.cur8.com/
Want to see more pictures from yesterday's sessions with the Merton Williams and High School Jazz Ensembles? Click here: https://hiltonschools.smugmug.com/2024-2025/High-School/Night-of-Jazz-Master-Classes
We are one week away from 5 Buy Five! The annual art show and sale at Merton Williams featuring 5x5 pieces-all for $5 is on February 13. Proceeds from the show will go to the Hilton Food Shelf and the Hilton Cadet Cupboard. #WeAreHilton
Students in Health Science Classes at Merton Williams are completing the American Red Cross First Aid, CPR and AED Certification. The course follows all American Red Cross materials and instructions, allowing students to receive their 2-year certification. Topics that are covered are CPR for adults, child and infant, use of an AED machine, Life threatening injuries and bleeding, choking, and assisting with an Asthma and Epinephrine injector.
What a great weekend at the Empire State Games for 3 Hilton students. Competing in Lake Placid, Lydia Antonini, a 6th grader at Northwood took 1st Place in Excel Preliminary Plus Girls, Lindsey Bleier, a High School senior took 4th Place in Aspire 3 Girls, and Ella Veltz, an 8th grader at Merton Williams finished 4th in Excel Juvenile Girls. Great job Ladies!
5 Buy Five 2025 is coming up! The annual art show and sale at Merton Williams featuring 5x5 pieces-all for $5 is on February 13. Proceeds from the show will go to the Hilton Food Shelf and the Hilton Cadet Cupboard. #WeAreHilton
Jennifer exemplifies being People First by going above and beyond to help kids...even if that means going out in the rain to pull 4 garbage bags out of the dumpster and then digging through them to help find a student's retainer...which she did (and she FOUND the retainer!)
Merton Williams 7th graders have worked very hard researching about young teen stress during their MYP Mental Health planner in Ms. Drex classes.
Students engaged in peer-to-peer conversations, analyzing teen trends, and exploring difficult stress topics a 7th grader may experience. Students then developed a personal coping skill that can support them during stressful times and taught their peers the importance of having some type of coping skill.
Great job by the students at Merton Williams; thier annual food drive collected around 500 items for the Hilton-Parma Foodshelf.
