Best Buddies Hosted a Pumpkin Painting Event after school on Wednesday in the Cafeteria. The turn out was fantastic and the pumpkins came out great.
Last Friday, 11th graders Ezekiel NGuessan, Gianna Pettazzoni and Ethan Danek attended a leadership workshop sponsored by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association. They learned about leadership, service, and creating better team and school culture. Mr. Russo attended with them.
The week of Nov 7-11th, Peer Mediation and Helping Hands will be running Kindness Week at AHS. Throughout the three day week, there will be a table outside the cafeteria at all 3 lunches for students and staff to share some kind words. On Weds, Nov 9th, students are encouraged to wear blue in support of spreading kindness through our school community. Please see Sra. MacDonald or Mrs. Johnson with any questions.
Mr. Pryce accompanied AHS students to the Youth in Motion event today at Springfield College. After a morning session on the low ropes course, students attended sessions on leadership and team building. Students also explored different future pathway opportunities on campus.
Representatives from 88 colleges and universities set up a College Fair today in the AHS gymnasium. Special shout out to the Counseling Dept for all their hard work coordinating this event for our juniors and seniors as they pursue their next academic endeavor!
Just a few more pics to celebrate the awesome achievement at AHS Monday night as students were inducted into National Honor Society! Thank you to all those who attended: parents, school staff, and representatives from our town and school governments!
Last night our NHS chapter inducted 41 members. The students are a great cross section of AHS, and they could never have reached this milestone without our staff. Sra. Kolodziej was honored as the faculty honorary inductee. Students spoke glowingly about her impact on them, and she gave a very nice acceptance speech.
AHS Field Hockey raised over $250 for the Cancer House of Hope at Friday nights Pink Game! Great job by our players, parents, and coaches.
Agawam Unified Basketball took on Monson on Monday afternoon at AHS! A great game played by all!
Tyler Strain, Anthony Pederzani, Nolan Chamberland, Joe Liquori, Zach Hurley, and Jake Croteau closed out their careers as members of the AHS golf team. Congratulations!
Mr. Murphy’s AP Psychology class at AHS did a split-brain activity to study the lack of communication between brain hemispheres. Pairs had to tie a shoe— simple, except only one could speak and neither could see!
Congratulations go out to Sean Colfer and Hailey Newsome. They have been selected as the AHS recipients of the Certificate of Academic Excellence Award given by the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. While there are many worthy candidates in the Class of 2023, Sean and Hailey have been chosen as the AHS recipients. They will be honored at the November School Committee Meeting.
Our six seniors had a great night of volleyball vs Chicopee Comp and grabbed win #10 by scores of 25-16,11,17. It was a program sweep last night where all 3 of our teams won 3-0!
The Agawam Mobil station (308 Suffield St) is generously donating 3¢ for every gallon of gas sold to Agawam High School now through October 31st! You can fuel up while helping our school!
Since we can’t all be there in person, we’re sending our AHS football team all the well wishes as they take on Waconah tonight! #footballfridays
Varsity girls got win #9, improved to 9-3 and qualified for post season play last night with a 3-0 win at South Hadley 25-11,10,20 with contributions from everyone on our roster! Girls have a big challenge Thursday at home vs A tough Amherst team! JV at 5, Varsity at 6.
Our senior night (last regular season home game) is next Thursday at 6:15 vs Chicopee Comp!
Photobomb: (verb) to unexpectedly appear at the exact moment a photograph is captured.
Ms. Bonavita’s AP US History students at AHS accidentally photobombed major scenes of the American Revolution! Can you find them? They also had to write diary entries of what they experienced.
Creative minds at work! Art Honors students practiced their photography, editing, and drawing skills as they created realistic shadow box pieces!
School Spirit Gear
The junior class is sponsoring a pop up store as a fundraiser. There are t-shirt and hoodie options. The online store is only open until October 12th. Orders will be packaged and delivered to those who purchase. Expected delivery is in late October to early November. Consider supporting the junior class, and get some nice gear in return.
https://agawam2024.itemorder.com/shop/sale
Agawam Girls Volleyball is hosting a charity fundraiser tonight! Our Spike it for Life night has games running at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm! Concessions, raffles, and donations will all go towards the battle against breast cancer and Rays of Hope.
