THE April 1, 2021 Eagle’s ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL View DISTRICT Welcome to Albion Central School’s eNewsletter! STAY UP-TO-DATE @ALBIONCSD SPRING IS IN THE AIR LIKE - FOLLOW - SHARE Did you know the district is on social media? Get live updates on what’s happening around campus everyday! Share in the updates by tagging @albioncsd on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and using the #albioncsd or #PurpleEagleProud! COVID-19 UPDATES The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), local and state COVID-19 guidelines are constantly changing, and we’re changing with them. Stay up-to- date on the latest changes on the district website at www.albionk12.org/updates. CLASS OF 2021 With the weather turning nicer, our students are getting ready to celebrate spring. Our pre-kindergarteners (pictured above) spent the week creating Seniors: Did you know that you have your bunny masks anticipating the upcoming holiday. own dedicated space on the district’s web- site? Head to www.albionk12.org to check out the Class of 2021 Resource Page! Spring Break Reminder Just a friendly reminder that there is no school from April 2 through April 9. The District Office will be open from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Enjoy your break! CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ALBION Purple Eagle Pride Students make music, create instruments Expanding Students spent the month learning Hybrid Learning about instrument families. Once they were introduced to all four families Students will be able to (percussion, brass, woodwind, and participate in our expanded strings), students were able to make hybrid learning model and some of their own instruments! return four days a week: Monday, Tuesday, Thurs- What a great way to celebrate “Music day, and Friday. Wednes- in our Schools” month! days will continue to be used for remote learning. As we move forward with this change, the two-day hybrid learning model will not be offered and the Gold / Purple day schedule will no longer be in effect be- ginning April 12. For more information head to www.albionk12.org. Back up and running Our student-athletes are getting back to practice after the football and volleyball seasons started back up last week. The Purple Eagle Football Team hits the road for their first game against Pioneer Senior High School Fri- day night at 7 p.m. Check the Albion CSD Purple Eagle Athletics Facebook page (@AlbionCSDAthletics) and www.albionk12.org for more streaming information. 2 The April 1, 2021 Eagle’s View www.albionk12.org Middle School students take on new spring project Some of our Middle School students are working on their Pysanky, Ukrainian Egg Decorating in Mrs. Feder’s art class. The technique requires the students draw with melted wax, using a kistka, onto an egg and layer the wax and dye to make decorated eggs. What a really interesting project! Congratulations to Kim Weese and the Purple Eagle Science Olympiad team. Weese (pictured right) is the highest achieving Albion student ever in Science Olympiad. In seventh grade, she won a medal and this year she won five. This year, the team finished in 6th place at the online Mid-Western Regional Science Olympiad Competition! Great work, everyone! 3 CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ALBION Purple Eagle Pride The show must go on! Students from Charles D’Amico High School’s Theatrical Department is preparing to debut its spring musical: Disney’s “Freaky Friday.” This year, the show will be virtual and can be streamed on April 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. and April 18 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and can be bought online at www.albionk12.org. Students help clean up Albion Members of the Albion Interact Club, Service Learning stu- dents, and some student-athletes joined the Albion Rotary Club picking-up trash along the railroad tracks from east of Platt Street to near West Academy Street, and then part of one of the fields across from Walmart. They filled 23 garbage bags with trash in about 2 hours - great work everyone! PHOTO CREDIT: DONATO ROSARIO / THE ORLEANS HUB Varsity Boys’ Basketball Senior Night On Thursday March 18, Albion’s Pur- ple Eagle Boys’ Basketball team hon- ored their seniors before their game. Congratulations to (back to front, left to right): Bailey Blanchard, Tony Free- man, Christian Doty, Damion Lattim- er, Chris Shabazz, Nik Newton, Kyle Woolston, Kyle Lonnen, Zach Colacec- chi, and Elijah Lloyd. Great work this season, gentlemen. You will be missed! 4.