Category: Superintendent’s Messages

Dear Parents and Community Members:

New York State requires school districts to evaluate their water sources annually between June and September. Our results have been at the “standard” level.  With recent news coverage of elevated lead levels in schools, the District has started its own, more extensive investigation of the water in…

Dear Putnam Valley Parents and Caregivers:

Over the past few weeks, based on disciplinary incidents that have come to my attention, I have become aware of an increase in the possession and use of marijuana by high school students.  We are also conscious of the significant regional and national concern about the…

Dear Parents:

The Putnam Communities That Care (CTC) Coalition is conducting the Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) Survey on beginning April 27. Your child’s class had been selected to participate in this survey.  The PNA survey measures alcohol, tobacco, and drug use; the factors that place students at risk for problem…

Dear Putnam Valley Community:

I want to call your attention to two special items of interest:

Inside Putnam Valley and Me and My Girl

First, you will find a new Inside Putnam Valley video that focuses on the District’s effort to fulfill a decades long request to create…

Dear Parents/ Guardians:

As noted on our school calendar and discussed in a prior email, each year New York State administers a test to measure student achievement across the state. Your child will take the English Language Arts State Assessment on April 5-7 and the Math State Assessment on April 13-17. While…

Dear Staff and Community Members:

Our spring break is upon us, and we can hear the early signs of the season in the bird’s songs and are seeing the first crocuses and violets. Next week may surprise us with some snow, but there is sure to be sun as well. The wonderful…

March 14, 2016

Dear Putnam Valley Parents/Guardians:

Our administrators and teachers are committed to providing the instructional foundation and environment that we believe support student learning and achievement as critical and creative thinkers, readers and writers. In order to strengthen our instructional strategies and target our approaches to individual student needs,…