Giffen Memorial Elementary School News

The City School District of Albany was notified Thursday of 10 new confirmed cases...

Read Article Nov. 18 COVID-19 cases

Governor Hochul has announced that Crossgates Mall is one of New York’s 10 statew...

Read Article COVID-19 vaccination sites for students

The City School District of Albany is planning for school-based COVID-19 vaccination cl...

Read Article COVID-19 student vaccination survey

Visit our district Facebook page to take a look at a typical day of learning in Carmela...

Read Article A Day in the Life: Carmela Moore’s kindergarten

Future Fermis and up-and-coming Curies at Giffen Elementary School spent Friday using p...

Read Article Gator third graders explore Halloween physics

The City School District of Albany recognizes that inconsistent and late buses continue...

Read Article School bus driver shortage updates

The City School District of Albany was notified of 15 new confirmed cases of ...

Read Article Oct. 25 COVID-19 cases

October is National Principals Month, an opportunity to celebrate our building leaders,...

Read Article Celebrating National Principals Month

Giffen fifth-grade teacher Tiffany Moore served up an order of mathematics with an extr...

Read Article Tiffany Moore’s ‘Decimal Diner’

The City School District of Albany was notified Friday of nine new confirmed ...

Read Article Oct. 15 COVID-19 cases

The City School District of Albany was notified Thursday of 12 new confirmed cases...

Read Article Oct. 14 COVID-19 cases

Five City School District of Albany schools went into a lockout for about 90 minutes Th...

Read Article Threat puts five schools in lockout Thursday

The City School District of Albany was notified over the long weekend of 16 new co...

Read Article Oct. 12 COVID-19 cases

The following message is from City School District of Albany Superintendent Kaweeda G. ...

Read Article Talking with students about appropriate behavior

The City School District of Albany has learned of monthly challenges on the social medi...

Read Article TikTok trend continues to incite inappropriate student behavior

Giffen Memorial Elementary School has a new assistant principal. The Board of Educat...

Read Article Welcome, Ms. Dickson!

All City School District of Albany schools will dismiss 15 minutes early Friday, Oct. 8...

Read Article Annual emergency drill planned Oct. 8

The City School District of Albany has been made aware of a destructive new social medi...

Read Article Destructive TikTok trend affecting schools

The City School District of Albany was notified Tuesday of five new confirmed cases of ...

Read Article Sept. 21 COVID-19 cases

It’s National Coding Week, and fourth graders in Shannon Pinkowski’s class ...

Read Article Student coders are busy bees

The following message is from Giffen Principal Jasmine N. Brown. Dear Families: T...

Read Article Open house postponed

In alignment with the direction of the New York State Department of Health, the City Sc...

Read Article District to begin COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated employees

Whitney on Wheels – the mobile health van operated by Whitney Young Health &ndash...

Read Article Mobile health van every Tuesday

Visit our Facebook page to take a look at some photos from the first full day of classe...

Read Article First full day at Giffen

In these early days of the new school year, everyone throughout the City School Distric...

Read Article First Student bus updates for the new year