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The Fort River Elementary School has been hard at work improving the safety practices of students and strengthening a positive in-school environment.

From Wednesday October 3^rd to Saturday October 6^th, ten ARHS students joined by staff members Ms. Abbott and Ms. Custard, attended the MSAN Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

MSAN, the Minority Student Achievement Network, is a national coalition of roughly twenty-five multicultural, suburban and urban school districts. MSAN’s goal is to study and eliminate achievement gaps that exist in school districts across the country.

On October 13^th, our Latinos Unidos club at ARHS will be hosting the first Latinos Unidos Soccer Festival. The goal is to bring the Amherst Latino community together to the ARHS grounds, but everyone from the area is welcome and encouraged to come. Latinos Unidos hopes to involve all attendees in becoming more acquainted with the Latino community.

In what has become a biannual event, the ARHS Hall of Fame honored new inductees on Saturday, September 29^th. Held in UMass in the Student Union Ballroom, well over 100 honorees, family members, friends, and other alumni, staff, and students attended the ceremony.

Of the new inductees, five were men and five were women who had participated in Amherst athletics. In the ceremony, a coach is also inducted, and an entire team from one particular year. The team inducted was the 1959 football team that went undefeated.

 The Pelham Elementary School is determined to give students a range of experiences in the first few weeks of the 2012-2013 school year. In one week the school’s activities will range from a study of the U.S. Constitution to a community-wide sharing of ice cream.

An Appeal from Superintendent Maria Geryk:

I am excited to announce the restructured Amherst Afterschool Program in collaborative partnership with the Amherst Public Schools, Town of Amherst and two non-profit organizations: Capacidad and Marks Meadow Afterschool. This program is designed to meet the needs of all elementary students to ensure equity and accessibility. As you may know, research provides evidence that youth who spend more time in afterschool programs may derive greater academic benefits than youth who spend less time. Perhaps most importantly, evidence shows that academically at risk youth may benefit more from participation in afterschool programs than their higher achieving peers.