The Nipmuc Instrumental Ensembles and Choral Ensembles participated in the 2024 MICCA Festivals earlier this month. We wanted to congratulate them on their success with the Nipmuc Concert Band receiving a silver medal and the Nipmuc Wind Ensemble received a gold medal. Congratulations to the Combined Choirs, who received a silver rating and to the Vocal Ensemble, who received a bronze rating. We wanted to recognize all of their hard work and to all the Mendon-Upton Music Groups that performed at the MICCA Festival. We invite you all to the Pops Concert on May 15 beginning at 6pm here at Nipmuc to listen to our talented students and the results of their hard work! #nipmucpride #MURSD
We hope everyone enjoys Spring Break next week and the great spring weather that is coming our way.
And they are off.....next stop Italy! Buon viaggio. #nipmucpride #MURSD
Mr. Gorman and some of the Engineering 2 students were busy capturing data during the rare solar eclipse. Students monitored air temperature, ambient light (lux), uv index, air pressure, and humidity during the eclipse yesterday. Jorvan Uppal is pictured monitoring on of the devices used to capture this data to study. They even had some help from the NASA Astronaut Monkey they received from a previous school trip to collect data. What a great experience for our students to witness and learn from. #nipmucpride #MURSD
This week the School Counseling Department will hold our annual Spring Wellness Week focused on mental health and wellness. Today, thanks to funding from Nipmuc’s Active Minds chapter, students listened to a speaker from Minding Your Mind, a nonprofit mental health education foundation whose primary objective is to provide mental health education to adolescents. Thank you to our school counselors for putting together a great week ahead. #nipmucpride
Thank you to our amazing community for your generosity in the donations of dresses for the new Becca's Closet chapter here at Nipmuc. The first drop off was a great success last month with the students collecting over 65 dresses. Today is the April drop off and you can stop by the main entrance and drop off your donation before 2pm today. Thank you! #nipmucpride
Tonight the English Department will host the third annual English Language Arts Night from 6-8 PM. This year, we have over 40 events taking place, including student presentations, dramatic readings, live podcast productions, Socratic discussions, interactive panel talks, conversations about literature, spoken word poetry, and more.
This event serves a threefold purpose: to serve as an induction ceremony for our school’s National English Honor Society chapter, to showcase the products of our students’ ongoing efforts in the study of English language arts, and to empower our students by providing for them a platform to share their insights, perspectives, and voices. English Language Arts Night is open to our students, their families, and MURSD faculty and staff. Join us this evening. #nipmucpride
Congratulations to the National Honor Society Inductees that were part the 64th Annual Induction Ceremony for the Nipmuc chapter last week. #nipmucpride #MURSD
Just a reminder that today is an early release day with students being dismissed at 10:45am. Enjoy your weekend!
A new tradition was started at Nipmuc by the Class of 2024 with a "promposal" contest. Congratulations to this year's winner Chris Casey! He rallied some of his friends to make the perfect promposal singing to his date Leah Kirby who looked very surprised. She answered yes and we hope they have a wonderful time at prom. Thank you to all of the students that sent in their promposals this year. What a fun new tradition at Nipmuc! #nipmucpride
The Nipmuc Junior/Senior Prom 2024 is only 7 weeks away. Tickets have been on sale for the last week and will continue through tomorrow during all breaks and lunches. The cost of prom tickets will be $75 per ticket. Cash or check will be accepted. Checks should be made out to MURSD. Friday, May 17 is an early release day for Nipmuc. Students must be in school until 10:45am in order to be eligible to attend prom. Prom attendees may not be dismissed early from school and still be eligible to attend the prom. Any questions regarding prom, please reach out to the senior Class Advisors, Ms. Annunziata (jannunziata@mursd.org) and Ms. Robbins (rrobbins@mursd.org).
We wanted to remind parents and guardians along with Grade 10 students that tomorrow and Wednesday this week is the English Language Arts MCAS testing. Students should report to the cafeteria by 7:30am. Testing begins each day at 7:40am after a brief break in the cafeteria for breakfast. Room assignments were posted today in the cafeteria, outside the media center and near the main office for students to know where they will report after meeting in the cafeteria.
A few important reminders for students:
Please make sure your iPad is fully charged for MCAS testing and is up-to-date with the current version of software. You will need your iPad for testing as they are computer-based.
If you are absent on a day of testing, you will be scheduled for a makeup test session upon your return.
Looking for something to do tonight? Come to the Upton Community Center to enjoy an evening of music with musicians of several generations. This is an event where teachers and students come together to share their love of music and especially Jazz and improvisation!
Nipmuc musicians Ian Brackett, Alex Francis, and Ben Krause are joined by amazing guitarists and local jazz musician and composer for an evening of fun music.
Thanks to the Upton Cultural council for supporting this program and giving young musicians an opportunity to perform a professional gig!
Congratulations to Senior Alexis Schwartzberg who will be honored today at the Worcester County Superintendents Association Annual Scholars Luncheon at the College of Holy Cross. This is a great event for principals and superintendents to honor high academic achievement. #nipmucpride #MURSD
Join us this evening for a night out and enjoy listening to our talented musicians and vocalists at the Festival Preview Concert. The concert will begin at 7pm in the Nipmuc auditorium. We look forward to seeing you there. #nipmucpride
Congratulations to the Nipmuc Jazz Ensemble who performed at the Central District MAJE Festival at the end of February and received an invitation to the MAJE State Finals that took place this past Saturday in Norwood, MA. Nipmuc received silver at this event and three Nipmuc students (Liam Downing (Grade 10), Mina Megalaa (Grade 11), and Joe Trainor (Grade 12) received Outstanding Musician Awards. A job well done and a great accomplishment for all the musicians that performed and are listed below by grade.
Grade 10:
Brown, Andrew
Carvalho, Tyler
DiAnni, Brynn
Downing, Liam
Kelliher, Patrick
Oleksyk, Jack
Grade 11:
Alexander, Juliet
Brackett, Ian
Lenfest, Julia
Megalaa, Mina
Reitz, Benjamin
Grade 12:
Allen, Cameron
Dunster, Reed
Hutnak, Nathan
LaRue, Ethan
Schwartzberg, Alexis
Sullivan, Ty
Thompson, Owen
Trainor, Joseph
This morning we welcomed 30 students from Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Daini (3rd) High School in Japan. They have been in Boston as part of a cultural exchange program and are visiting Nipmuc today.
Originally established as Miyagi Prefecture Second Middle School, they are now in their 123rd year. Thank you to Mr. Moloney for organizing this wonderful experience for our student ambassadors that these guests will be shadowing today and learning from one another. #nipmucpride
Race for a Cause - Save the Date of April 7 to come out and run or walk a 5k for a great cause. Senior Kylie Bodzinski along with the Active Minds e-board are in the process of planning the Nipmuc Cares road race to support KyleCares.
KyleCares is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open and honest communication about the mental health challenges experienced by teens and young adults in today's society. All proceeds will be donated to the KyleCares Foundation. Lace up your sneakers and be part of an event that goes beyond the finish line. Check out the flyer below for more information and to register. #nipmucpride
Spring sports begin this Monday, March 18th. The spring sports informational meeting will take place tomorrow at 6:30pm in the auditorium. Individual team meetings will follow.
This weekend, 78 students from our DECA program competed against more than 120 DECA chapters and 3,800 students across the state at the Massachusetts DECA Career Development Conference in Boston. We are so proud of all of our DECA students.
This was an extremely successful competition this weekend, with 20 Nipmuc students being named State Champions, qualifying them for competition at DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Anaheim, CA in April, while another 11 Nipmuc students were recognized as State Finalists. Also, Junior Maggie Lewinsky and Sophomore Sean Bailey were two of seven students across the state elected to serve Massachusetts DECA on State Action Team 66. Check out today's newsletter to see the list of students that were named state champions and finalists.
Thank you to Mr. Kelly and Mr. Caprarella for all of their leadership and planning and to the chaperones that attended this weekend as well. #nipmucpride
