Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District

06/15/2016

Congratulations and best wishes to our HWRSD retirees who were honored this evening. The HWEA, the HWRSD School Committee, Senator Lesser and Reps Puppolo and Ashe all joined to thank and congratulate this outstanding group of employees!

06/14/2016

Brilliant members of the MRHS Robotics Club presented to the School Committee tonight. Thank you to advisor Gary Manuel for providing the students with this opportunity.

06/10/2016

So many sectors of the community are represented today at the Hampden-Wilbraham Community Partners in Prevention Leadership Forum. Over 50 educators, elected officials, parents, public health professionals, public safety officers, and students coming together at the Friendly's Training Center to work on ways to prevent substance use among young people!

06/04/2016

It's the time of year for Field Days! Friday was Stony Hill's turn. Wonderful day planned by Principal Caruana and PE/Health Teacher Lori Mooney. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered!

05/27/2016

So proud of our graduates from the LPVEC Lifeskills program! Wonderful to see Minnechaug staff and students turn out to support our Falcon friends!

05/06/2016

Come out to support Minnechaug's Management and Marketing class. The students are sponsoring a car, truck and bike show on Sunday, May 22nd at 12 p.m. !

05/06/2016

Celebrating the MRHS internship program at Mentor Appreciation Night! This year over 90 MRHS seniors and juniors participated in this work based learning program!

05/05/2016

Great picture of MRHS Head Custodian Jim Bisnette at the MA State House receiving the Secretary's Award for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education. Jim serves as the advisor to the MRHS Eco Club, an extra curricular student organization that addresses ecological concerns and coordinates green initiatives at the school! Congratulations to Mr. Bisnette and our Eco Club students.

05/02/2016

A wonderful video to help us celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week. Thank you HWRSD teachers for your kindness, professionalism and dedication!

What happens when you put GoPro cameras into the hands of teachers? You get a peek into just how fun, hectic, and wonderful an educator's day can be! Follow ...

04/21/2016

Last week HWRSD Food Service Director Julie Dougal hosted the District’s First Annual Family Recipe Contest! Families were challenged to submit their favorite recipes, while adhering to School meals nutrition standards. Six finalists presented their yummy masterpieces for a panel of judges. All the recipes were delicious and judging was very difficult. The winning recipes will be featured on the school lunch menu in June.

The first place winner was Therese Testa from Stony Hill School who prepared “Grandma Mary's Spaghetti and Broccoli” and won a $75.00 Big Y gift card and Fit Bit activity tracker. Second place went to Victoria Gonzalez from Stony Hill School. She received a $50.00 Big Y gift card for her recipe for “Colorful Spiral Chicken Pasta Salad.” In third place was Stony Hill student Isabella Tirabassi. She prepared “Maple Green Beans” and won a $25.00 big Y gift card!

The other finalists were Nick Frangie from TWB, Josh Levesque of Soule Road and Eli Webster from Stony Hill.

Congratulations to the all the participants and many thanks to Big Y and General Mills for sponsoring our prizes!

04/14/2016

Congratulations to the MRHS Student Council and their advisor Ms. Heidi Drawec for receiving several distinctive honors from MA Association of Student Councils!

This wonderful group of students received the Gold Council of excellence Award and theTop Ten Project Award in recognition for the scarecrow fundraiser in October and the Five Star Council Award. Three students, Ethan Gasteyer, Hannah Yelle, Samantha Zeno, received Commonwealth Awards for their outstanding commitment to the MRHS Student Council. Hannah Yelle received the Unsung Hero Award for Western Mass!.

Most impressively, it was recently announced that Minnechaug received the National Gold Council of Excellence Award!! This is the highest award in the nation that any student council can receive!

04/08/2016

High Schools with the Best Food in United States:

MRHS makes the top 100 ( # 98 out of over 20,000 high schools in the country! ) Thank you and congratulations to our food service staff for serving and satisfying the appetites of over 1100 teenagers everday!

https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-high-schools/best-food/