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Webster Marching Band to Perform Unbroken at Autumn Fanfare: Come enjoy the Pride of Webster as the Webster Marching Band hosts its 35 th Annual Autumn Fanfare field show and competition on Saturday, October 9! The annual field show will welcome marching band competitors from Greece, East Irondequoit, Medina, Lancaster, and Victor all to perform at the Webster Schroeder Stadium, 875 Ridge Road. Gates open at 5:00 p.m. The National Anthem will play at 6:00 p.m., and the first band will take the field at 6:15 p.m.   The Pride of Webster will perform at 6:26 p.m. Their show, titled Unbroken , continues the Webster Marching Band tradition of excellence. Selections of their Autumn Fanfare performance will include original music written by Band Director and Music Arranger Jerbrel Bowens. These include “Trapped”, ... SAANYS Honor Goodwine, Cunningham: Webster CSD is pleased to announce that two of our administrators have received George Vito Awards from the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS) Region 11 Board of Directors. Please join us in congratulating Jacqueline Goodwine and Blaine Cunningham! Mrs. Goodwine, an assistant principal at Webster Schroeder High School, received the High School Administrator of the Year Award. Mr. Cunningham, Webster CSD Manager of Buildings and Grounds, received the Essential Services Leader of the Year Award. They were each nominated by their colleagues and supervisors to recognize their leadership in support of our students and the school community. Webster CSD thanks them for their efforts, their energy, and their commitment to education.   Other SAANYS ... Answers to Some Opening Day FAQs: The opening of schools for the 2021-22 year brings with it many questions. Webster CSD has created a  Fall 2021 School Opening - Frequently Asked Questions  document and video in which we have answered many of the questions we have been asked. As more questions are posed, they will be added to the document, and where we can provide answers, we will. For some we do not yet have answers, but those questions are also shared. The end of the document also provides a  link  to submit your own questions.    UPK Program Expanding, Accepting Applications: For years, Webster CSD has offered half-day Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in a lottery format to roughly 127 students. That’s about to change. With the passing of the recent state budget, additional funding has been allocated to all New York State districts to expand UPK.  These new dollars, that total almost $1.1 million for Webster, are dedicated to a full-day (five hour) UPK program.  Webster is still able to offer the half-day program as part of the older funding as an option to families for now. “We’re absolutely thrilled to be able to return from a pandemic to offer this to our families,” said UPK Program Coordinator Heather Balsamo. Families who applied for the UPK lottery when it was open February 12-March 12 will ...

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