Here are a few of the many, many pictures from the Fall Pep Rally, taken by our student Yearbook Club members: Rachel Pilot, Natalie Pello, Peyton Meyers & Alyssa Rodriguez. 🐾 Please visit our Facebook page to see more pictures: https://www.facebook.com/HoosickFallsCentral/
Fall Update from the HFCS PTA!
The PTA has wrapped up our Fall Fundraiser! Thank you everyone (staff and families included), who helped make this a successful fundraiser! We hold fundraisers throughout the year, in order to help fund, support, and plan outings, field trips, free community events, senior scholarships, and more! By supporting our programs, events, and fundraisers, you are directly supporting our HFCS students.
We also wanted to inform everyone that we are getting a name change! We will be changing from a PTA (Parent Teacher Association) to PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association). Katy Howard is currently our first student representative and is excited to grow more student participation within our school.
Winterfest is fast approaching. See the attached flyer and save the date (December 13th). There will be many free family-friendly activities to participate in. Keep an eye out for more information coming home soon! If you know anyone who would like to be a vendor for the event, please have them complete the WINTERFEST! VENDOR FORM: https://5il.co/3rotl
If you still want to become a member this year, we would love to have you. Please follow the link to the MEMBERSHIP SIGN UP ONLINE: https://hoosickfallscsd.givebacks.com/shop
The PTA has a Facebook page you can follow to see all the fun photos and announcements we share. We have also pinned a survey to help us get feedback on all the fall "things" the PTA has done, and feedback on some events in the future we want to do. Click the link below to visit our FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/HFCSPTA/
Best,
The HFCS PTA Executive Committee
Amber Breese, President
Tabatha Reed & Marissa Harris, Vice Presidents
Sarah Livingstone, Secretary
Kevin Weeden, Treasurer
The PTA has wrapped up our Fall Fundraiser! Thank you everyone (staff and families included), who helped make this a successful fundraiser! We hold fundraisers throughout the year, in order to help fund, support, and plan outings, field trips, free community events, senior scholarships, and more! By supporting our programs, events, and fundraisers, you are directly supporting our HFCS students.
We also wanted to inform everyone that we are getting a name change! We will be changing from a PTA (Parent Teacher Association) to PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association). Katy Howard is currently our first student representative and is excited to grow more student participation within our school.
Winterfest is fast approaching. See the attached flyer and save the date (December 13th). There will be many free family-friendly activities to participate in. Keep an eye out for more information coming home soon! If you know anyone who would like to be a vendor for the event, please have them complete the WINTERFEST! VENDOR FORM: https://5il.co/3rotl
If you still want to become a member this year, we would love to have you. Please follow the link to the MEMBERSHIP SIGN UP ONLINE: https://hoosickfallscsd.givebacks.com/shop
The PTA has a Facebook page you can follow to see all the fun photos and announcements we share. We have also pinned a survey to help us get feedback on all the fall "things" the PTA has done, and feedback on some events in the future we want to do. Click the link below to visit our FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/HFCSPTA/
Best,
The HFCS PTA Executive Committee
Amber Breese, President
Tabatha Reed & Marissa Harris, Vice Presidents
Sarah Livingstone, Secretary
Kevin Weeden, Treasurer
School Bus Safety Reminder: Daylight Saving Time means it’s darker when our buses are on the road in the community! Slow down and watch for flashing lights on school buses. Stop for school buses when their stop signs are out. Look for students walking. Let’s keep our students safe!
Our staff and students always have fun with their Halloween costumes at school! To see more pictures, head on over to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HoosickFallsCentral
Here are the November lunch menus!🍎
Spirit Week in the high school ended with a hallway contest between grade levels. Mrs. Victor, Mrs. Fleming, and Mr. Ellis had a great time judging the contest. Although each class put in a lot of effort, the seniors took the win and will receive a pizza party for their grade. The results were: 1st- Seniors, 2nd- Freshmen, 3rd- Juniors, and 4th- Sophomores. Great job being creative and showing your school spirit!💙🤍🐾
Please consider these important Halloween safety tips from our School Resource Officer, Deputy Garhartt. 🎃
Please enjoy these pictures from our Spirit Week's face-painting day! Our elementary students always have fun when the high schoolers come and visit them.💙🤍🐾 See more pictures on our Facebook page!
Yesterday, ~75 high school students attended the Hoosick Falls Community Career & Trade Expo, with 5 other local schools. There were over 40 booths to explore, with local businesses, careers, trades, and apprenticeship programs, and even the Teamsters Local 294 truck simulator. Special thanks to the team who helped organize this event, and our teachers and counselors who brought our students to this event so they could make connections! Rensselaer County One Stop Career Center for Economic Growth Capital Region Workforce Development Board (Photo credits: HF Business Teacher, Hillory Hamilton, and Gail Smith, event organizer with the Hoosick Falls Community Alliance Church)
🎉Special Olympics New York announced that they have "TWO Athletes of the Month for October. And they are...Payton Dailey and Nolan Stockman! 🎉Nolan and Payton are an excellent example of a Unified pair. They participate in all their school's Unified sports offerings, but that's not all—they also actively engage with their Youth Activation Committee. Nolan and Payton will compete at October's State Fall Games in Unified bocce. Their commitment to inclusion makes them a cornerstone of our community!" Way to go, Payton and Nolan! Panther PROUD!🐾
Today is the Hoosick Falls Community Career & Trade Expo, from 11am - 2pm at the Hoosick Falls Armory. Stop by our HFCSD booth and say hi! https://www.facebook.com/share/1Bfm1F9tpw/
🏀Interested in attending a Division 1 basketball game? All girls on the JV and Varsity teams will be attending a UAlbany women’s basketball home game on December 21. 🏀Still interested? Sign up to try out for the JV or Varsity Girls’ Basketball team on Family ID. Tryouts begin 11/17/25, open to all 9th-12th-grade girls. Any questions? Please reach out to one of the coaches listed on the flyer!
The Girls’ Basketball program is having open gyms on Thursdays beginning this week, 10/30. This is open to all girls in grades 7-12 who are interested in playing basketball this year.
Questions? Ask Coach Long, Coach Ferraro, Coach Drew, or Coach Bundrick!
Questions? Ask Coach Long, Coach Ferraro, Coach Drew, or Coach Bundrick!
Junior, Isabela Foster's "Humanity X: Fickle Life" creative writing piece was featured in the Renss Lens!! As part of our Renss Lens updates, HFCS plans on highlighting student work worthy of recognition. Isabela Foster, who goes by Foster, is a passionate writer and artist. She recently wrote a short story (and completed illustrations) for her English 11 class she takes with teacher Mrs. Lynda Huba. Foster also shared her story with her AP English Literature & Composition teacher, Mr. Dan Michalak, who passed it along to our Communications Officer, Ms. Livingstone, for submission. Foster shared that she thoroughly enjoys letting her imagination shine in her creative writing endeavors and artwork, to bring her ideas to life. She credited a classmate and friend, Ashlee Morgan, with helping with character development as well as the “design” and artwork for her main character, Wiggler. Foster is a literary fan of dystopian fiction, as well as plots that weave in themes such as religion, physical deformities, and animals.
To read her story, "Humanity X: Fickle Life", follow the link below!
https://www.nyvtmedia.com/.../arti.../humanity-x-fickle-life?
To sign up for the free weekly email Renss Lens Newsletter, follow this link: https://www.nyvtmedia.com/pages/renss-lens-sign-up
Foster was also the recent NY STATE CHAMPION this past spring, for Skeet Shooting, through our Skeet Club. (As pictured with her medal.) Keep up the great work, Foster!!!🐾
REMINDER! Sign-ups are going on now!
Winter Sports Sign-ups begin:
10/17/2025 for JV / Varsity
10/24/2025 for Modified
JV / Varsity Sports Start 11/17/2025
Modified Sports Start 11/24/2025
Students must have an updated physical from 11/2024 forward for JV/Varsity and Modified, in order to participate. Impact tests must be updated before the first practice (if not completed in the past 2 years). If you need a physical before the start of the first practice and are unable to get into your primary MD you must let Nurse Jane know ASAP, as the school physician will only be here twice before winter sports start. Contact your Coach or Nurse Jane with questions: contej@hoosickfallscsd.org
Parents/Guardians must use Family ID to sign their child(ren) up for sports. Visit our athletics site for Family ID: https://www.hoosickfallscsd.org/page/athletics-site
Winter Sports Sign-ups begin:
10/17/2025 for JV / Varsity
10/24/2025 for Modified
JV / Varsity Sports Start 11/17/2025
Modified Sports Start 11/24/2025
Students must have an updated physical from 11/2024 forward for JV/Varsity and Modified, in order to participate. Impact tests must be updated before the first practice (if not completed in the past 2 years). If you need a physical before the start of the first practice and are unable to get into your primary MD you must let Nurse Jane know ASAP, as the school physician will only be here twice before winter sports start. Contact your Coach or Nurse Jane with questions: contej@hoosickfallscsd.org
Parents/Guardians must use Family ID to sign their child(ren) up for sports. Visit our athletics site for Family ID: https://www.hoosickfallscsd.org/page/athletics-site
The Hoosick Area Community Participation Work Group will hold a meeting tonight, 10/28/25, from 6-8pm at HFCS. This is a community information session to learn more about the new water source and ongoing well monitoring. See flyer for full details.
🎉Congratulations to Mrs. Amy Gifford, Teaching Assistant, on her recent Tenure Appointment at last week's Board of Education Meeting!! It was also our Board Appreciation night, and Mrs. Katie Brownell's Living History Institute students presented our Board members with thank you cards for their service to our school and community!🐾
🎉Congratulations to our Unified Bocce team!! Over the weekend, they earned bronze medals in the Special Olympics Fall State Games!! 🥉🐾 Thanks for sharing this update and these pictures, Ms. Grennan!
***Edited- Senior Night has been rescheduled
The Homecoming Football Game is this Friday, 10/24/25, at 7 pm at HFCS. Hoosick Falls-Tamarac will be playing Mechanicville. In addition to recognizing graduating seniors, the Tamarac High School Homecoming Court will be announced at the game.
In anticipation of a large turnout, arrangements have been made to shuttle spectators from the TOPS Friendly Market parking lot to the high school from 6:00 pm through 10:00 pm. TOPS Friendly Market is located 1.6 miles north of Hoosick Falls High School on RT 22. To accommodate the expected turnout, we ask spectators to ride together as much as possible to reduce the number of vehicles in the parking lot.
In anticipation of a large turnout, arrangements have been made to shuttle spectators from the TOPS Friendly Market parking lot to the high school from 6:00 pm through 10:00 pm. TOPS Friendly Market is located 1.6 miles north of Hoosick Falls High School on RT 22. To accommodate the expected turnout, we ask spectators to ride together as much as possible to reduce the number of vehicles in the parking lot.
Hoosick Falls Central School District is hiring Substitutes now! We are seeking substitutes for the following positions: Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Classroom Aides, Bus Drivers, and Cafeteria. Please visit our website for details on how to apply and pay rates: https://www.hoosickfallscsd.org/o/hfcsd/page/career-opportunities
