GCS will be having a Go Home Early Drill on November 25, 2025.
Jr.-Sr. High School will be dismissed at 11:00 AM
AND students at the
Elementary School will be dismissed at 11:15 AM
Through our 21st Century Grant Program, students in our ASL Club have been learning how to communicate in amazing new ways! 🙌
So far, we’ve practiced signing the alphabet, numbers, colors, friendly greetings, family, and emotions — and we’re getting really good at our receptive ASL skills too! 💬
Some of our favorite activities include ASL Bingo and Jeopardy, where students get to show off their growing knowledge while having fun with friends. 💡👏
We’re so proud of our students’ enthusiasm and dedication to learning American Sign Language — a skill that helps make our school community more inclusive and connected. 💙🤟
📸 Check out some photos of our amazing signers in action below!
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Need gift ideas or just love to craft? Join Groton Youth Services for Deck the Crafts — a creative after-school program where students in grades 2–5 make fun holiday projects that double as amazing handmade gifts!
📅 Wednesdays: November 5, 12, 19 & December 3, 10, 17
🕒 3:00–5:30 PM
📍 Groton Elementary School
Let’s get in the holiday spirit together through creativity, giving, and fun! 🎁
🎨 Register for free today: https://bit.ly/GrotonRYS
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Groton Youth Services is bringing The Brainy Bunch to Groton Elementary School this November and December!
Each week, students in grades 2–5 will dive into hands-on experiments exploring how and why things work — from robotics to chemistry and beyond. This after-school program promises to be fun, educational, and full of surprises!
📅 Thursdays: Nov. 6, 13, 20 & Dec. 4, 11, 18
🕒 3:00–5:30 PM
📍 Groton Elementary School
💡 Grades 2–5
✨ Register for FREE today!
👉 https://bit.ly/GrotonRYS
#GrotonElementary #RedhawkSTEAM #TheBrainyBunch #GrotonPride #FutureScientists
Get ready for a fun-filled evening of music, laughter, and community!
📅 Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 Location: Groton Elementary School Gym
✨ Every child must be accompanied by an adult.
🍿 Food will be available for purchase
Groton Elementary Families,
The parade is ON! After reviewing the radar and hourly forecast, it looks like we’ll have light rain during the parade. Please be sure to bring rain jackets and umbrellas just in case.
This year, students will make two loops around the route so everyone can see their student(s). If the weather shifts, we may adjust to one loop.
If you’ve sent in a note to pick up your student after the parade, please sign them out in the GES Gymnasium once doors open at approximately 2:20 PM. After signing out by last name, you’ll move to the opposite side of the partitioned gym to pick up your student(s). This new setup should help keep everyone out of the rain.
We kindly ask that only ONE adult per family enter the gym to sign out and pick up students due to limited space.
***UPK–3 families: Please follow directions from Mr. Lockwood.
Important: All cars must be moved from the bus loop in front of the gym by 2:50 PM to allow buses to arrive for dismissal.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation. Our students are so excited to show off their costumes — it’s going to be a great parade day at Groton Elementary!
That’s 10 nutritious meals a week to help ease a little bit of the daily burden.
Our meals are fresh, never processed, and made to be tasty and satisfying. Did you know that if the main entrée isn’t your favorite, you can always create a complete, balanced meal from our beautiful salad bar? Both schools offer this option every day!
We’re proud to nourish our students so they can learn, grow, and thrive. 🌱🍎
Here is a link for other avaiable food resources in tompkins county https://hsctc.org/211food/
Mrs. Costa’s 6th grade artists just wrapped up their Intro to Graphic Design project by creating their own custom potato chip brands — complete with logos, packaging, and flair! They celebrated with a potato chip party where students showed off their designs (and enjoyed the real thing, too!). Next up: a STEAM collaboration with Mr. Levick, where students will develop and record a market pitch to sell their snack-worthy creations. Stay tuned — these young designers mean business!
“Fill the Pumpkin” Event
Sat. Nov. 1st at the football game, Ross Field - 11 AM
We’re excited to celebrate our very first Tompkins Tuesday today! On the menu, you’ll find a fresh kale apple salad featured on the salad bars at both schools.
This delicious dish is more than just a healthy choice — it’s a way to connect students to local food and the farmers who grow it. The beautiful kale in today’s salad comes straight from Stick and Stone Farm in Ithaca, NY.
By enjoying local produce, we’re supporting our community, reducing our environmental footprint, and helping students learn where their food comes from.
🎃 Spook-Tacular Family Night at Groton Elementary! 👻
What an incredible evening filled with creativity, laughter, and community spirit! Families explored spooky STEM challenges, made Halloween slime, crafted origami bookmarks, painted pumpkins, built bone bridges, designed haunted houses, and even created magnificent broom keepsakes and candy-corn math bracelets.
Congratulations to Graeson Robinson, Hayden Houck, and Beau Dexter for guessing the closest number of Reese’s Pieces in the jar!
A huge thank you to our amazing staff for organizing such fun-filled activities and to the 21st Century Grant for helping make this event possible for our students and families.
Events like this remind us what makes Groton such a special place—where learning and fun go hand in hand! 💫
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October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and that was our focus in Friendship Club today! 💙
We read the book “The Recess Queen” and talked about what it means to be a good friend. Students then worked together to sort pictures into two categories — being a good friend and not being a good friend — helping them reflect on their own choices during playtime.
To finish, we watched “Be an Upstander – Prevent Bullying: A NED Short”, a great video encouraging students to stand up for others and be an upstander instead of a bystander.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/eeqQCyQOCPg
At Groton Elementary, we continue to build a culture of kindness, empathy, and respect — one friendship at a time. 💛
