CEF News
Summer 2019
Welcome, 2019! If you’re like me, it will be March by the time you stop writing 2018 on your checks. And speaking of checks, the CEF 2018-19 annual campaign is still happening! If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll consider a gift to the CEF this year.
Winter greetings!
What a fun and festive time of year this is. So many opportunities for eating, drinking and being merry. If you’re looking for a spot of holiday cheer, join us at the CEF Gingerbread event at Osgood on Sunday, December 9.
‘No-cell phone’ policy takes shape at Cohasset Middle School
Students caught with their phones will have the device confiscated until the end of the school day, and school officials may request a parent conference subsequent to the offense. Teachers that may want to have students utilize their phone during class have the discretion to permit cell phone use with one or two days notice.
Welcome to the 2018-2019 school year!
Welcome to the new CEF website! It seems fitting that we launch our fresh new website in the fall when everything seems filled with possibilities. As the dog days of August are ending, there’s a feeling of excitement and curiosity and hopefully the kids are ready to take on the world.
Cohasset Education Foundation grants for school newspaper, social studies
Cohasset Mariner Abigail Adams The Cohasset Education Foundation recently announced the items funded under their second semester spring grant cycle in 2018 of $33,273, including funds to promote the Commonwealth’s updated social studies curriculum and an online middle...
Winter 2018
What a winter so far. Bomb cyclone storms complete with epic tides and snow day after snow day, all followed by weather that feels like spring break. Just another January in Cohasset.
Now that 2017 is a thing of the past, it’s time to look ahead to a new year filled with fresh promise and opportunity.
Cohasset Education Foundation grants being put to good use in the schools
For Cohasset Public Schools, 2017 went out with a bang. Cohasset Public Schools was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Cohasset Education Foundation on Dec. 20 for the fall grant cycle to cover a variety of projects across all three school buildings. CEF...
Next steps for Cohasset digital learning initiative
With the new “bring your own device” program at the Middle-High School in full-swing, school officials are looking at the next steps in their new Digital Learning initiative in 2018. Since the full implementation of the BYOD program at the start of the 2017-18 school...
The buzz on Cohasset Education Foundation spelling bee!
Over the years, the Spelling Bee has become a much-loved tradition, generating a lot of “buzz” and excitement amongst the young participants. On Sunday, November 5, the Cohasset Education Foundation (CEF) hosted its 10th annual Spelling Bee. 140 students from Deer...
Cohasset Education Foundation donates $50K more to Learning Commons project
The Cohasset Education Foundation presented a $50,000 grant to the Cohasset Middle High School’s Learning Commons project last Wednesday (June 7), the second of three allotted disbursements. Only approximately $25,000 is left to be raised in order to reach...
Cohasset Education Foundation grant builds better workshop for fledgling furniture designers
LaFountaine and his students are grateful to the Cohasset Education Foundation for providing a $20,000 grant to replace five major machines in the workshop over the past two years. Why restrict education to academics only? In Al LaFountaine’s furniture design class,...
Cohasset fourth-graders learn coding with Sphero robots
Half a dozen yellow sheets line the entry hallway of Deer Hill School. Suzi Corkhum’s fourth-grade students swarm around them, marking out the lines and angles of triangles. In a few minutes, each team will take a small robotic ball from the cart and...
Cohasset High School charges ahead with learning commons plans
School officials and the Cohasset Education Foundation have big hopes for the foundation’s gala on Friday night - and beyond that, for transforming the middle-high school library into a 21st-century learning commons on a very aggressive timeline. “Things are moving,”...
Cohasset Education Foundation cuts $100,000 check for learning commons
Not all libraries are created equal. Cohasset Middle-High School has been feeling for a while that theirs just isn’t up to snuff - not when compared to libraries at neighboring towns’ high schools, such as Marshfield, Duxbury, and Bridgewater. The Cohasset Education...