French Week at SMS

French week is an annual week-long celebration of all things French.

McAlister Candidate for Kid Governor Chosen

The Kid Governor program is a national award-winning civics program for 5th grade students created by the Connecticut Democracy Center. Following an October campaign, 5th grader Nathan Deenihan was selected as the McAlister Intermediate School candidate for the position of Connecticut Kid Governor

FFA Holiday Shop

Our Suffield Regional FFA Chapter’s annual Holiday Sale fundraiser will begin on Tuesday, November 30 and run through Friday, December 3 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Coffee Cart Project Teaches Students Skills

Through the generosity of a grant from the Suffield Foundation for Excellent Schools, and collaboration between Allison Daly, special education teacher, and Morgan O’Malley, special education paraprofessional, the Coffee Cart project was established in 2017 at Suffield High School.

The Observer Visits McAlister

As part of the fifth-grade journalism unit at McAlister Intermediate School over the past three years, representatives from The Suffield Observer have been invited to speak to the students about what it takes to put together a monthly paper and how getting something written might actually happen. This year, on a beautiful October day, the fifth-grade students were gathered on the tennis courts behind the school to allow for social distancing and a speaker system was set up. Andy Sauer, one of the Observer columnists, spoke about where he gets his ideas and explained his process for getting words to paper (or computer). As editor of the paper, I spoke about the nuts and bolts of how the paper gets from article ideas to print. The students had lots of questions, and we encouraged the kids to think about writing something for publication in the paper.