We have established relationships with our families over the years as their children come through Medway. Our kids — and we do feel they are our kids — move down the hallway from year to year rather than across the district.
There is a connection with everyone throughout the building. At Medway, our student leaders spend a lot of time mentoring and working with our younger primary-grade students.
Next year, we plan to have our fifth-graders lead the character education in our building. Now, when our students are having difficulty with reading or math, we have the flexibility to move them across grade levels if necessary to provide intensive intervention. Much of this could be gone.
I’ve mentioned just a few of what I feel are positives and reasons to vote “yes” on May 3 for the Tecumseh Local levy issue.
I am sure that each elementary at Tecumseh has its own reasons for wanting to remain a community school. I love Medway Elementary and our kids. I invite any Tecumseh voter to visit and see what our kids will be missing if the levy fails in May.
Please vote “yes” and support our community schools on May 3.
Chad Miller, principal
Medway Elementary
Symphony season ends on high note
The Springfield Symphony Orchestra just finished its 2010-2011 season, a great season that included fine programs and amazing soloists worthy of big-city orchestras.
But the season ended with a concert that left the audience mesmerized, a concert so powerful, so beautiful, so breathtaking that it received a long standing ovation.
The orchestra, the 150 voice-choir under the direction of Basil Fett, the four soloists and Maestro Peter Stafford Wilson performed Verdi’s Requiem Mass, a piece not heard very often, but so impressive that one will not forget it easily.
Last Saturday’s superb performance was a fitting ending to a wonderful season. As people were leaving the concert hall, praise was heard everywhere, and people were simply in awe of what they had just experienced.
In the wake of symphonies in bigger cities like Honolulu, Syracuse and Philadelphia closing down or filing for bankruptcy, our very own Springfield Symphony continues to produce wonderful concerts that will leave you amazed.
And in the fall, Peter Stafford Wilson, in his 10th season with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, will continue to bring beautiful music to the people of Springfield.
You don’t want to miss this; the best is yet to come.
Marlies Hemmann
Springfield