Willie Ross School for the Deaf

11/14/2025

Friends! 🩵

Image Description: Longmeadow middle school students pose together on a swing. Two students are sitting on the swing in the front. Four students are standing on the swing, in the rear. Two students are standing off to the side.

11/13/2025

Today is WORLD KINDNESS DAY!

Make kindness the norm! Do one kind act today, share your story or a photo, and tag The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation!

Image Description: A banner of blue, purple, and green hearts strung up at the top of the image. Below that is an illustration of the earth with white font that reads World Kindness Day in the center of the earth illustration. There is a yellow light bulb next to green text that reads "When we act kindly together, kindness spreads everywhere!" Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, randomactsofkindness.org

11/12/2025

Simply mind-blowing. Cai's middle school students have been working on one point perspective art pieces!

Image Descriptions: Cai posing with a student showcasing her work. Close up views of four pieces. They are painted on a purple background and they have shapes and letters of different colors appear as if they are flying out of the canvas.

11/11/2025

Last week, our friends at our Birchland Park Middle School site enjoyed a ROARS party with games and laughter! They played great games like Hedbanz, Scattergories, Jenga, Sorry!, Bananagrams, Would You Rather, and Taboo!

Lots of biiiiiiig smiles! 😁

We love seeing our students and staff relax and have fun together while excercising their brains!

Image Descriptions: Inside a BP classroom. Students are playing Hedbanz and laughing with one another. At another table, Merry and two students are playing Scattergories while Dulce and a student are playing Jenga.

11/11/2025

Today is Veterans Day. WRSD, including the administration building, will be closed in observance of the holiday.

We will reopen tomorrow, November 12, at the regular time.

Stay warm and safe today.

11/10/2025

Our preschool friends at our Bay Path University site had a wonderful time playing games as part of their PBIS reward!

Image Descriptions: Inside WRSD's Bay Path University site classroom, preschoolers are enjoying playing cute board games like Chutes and Ladders, a balancing treetop game, and a sorting rabbit game.

11/09/2025

Our friends in Elementary II love craft time!

Image Description: At a big table, 5 students are working on construction paper crafts as 3 staff members support them. There are various craft supplies (e.g. crayon and marker boxes, scissors, construction paper) on the table.

11/08/2025

Massachusetts has a new charitable contributions deduction. It's available to all taxpayers, whether or not you itemize deductions on your federal return. Just keep track of your contributions and report them on the state tax return you file in the first part of 2026. They'll be deducted from your taxable income. This deduction is universal, and permanent, so you can utilize it every year going forward.

To take advantage of this deduction, consider supporting our educational mission by visiting https://www.wrsdeaf.org/support-us.

Our students and staff send their heartfelt thanks and appreciation in advance.

Support WRSD and our mission to educate deaf and hard of hearing children in the western Massachusetts region.

11/07/2025

Hi, folks!

Monson Savings Bank created the Community Giving Initiative to encourage community members to provide input on the local non-profit organizations they wanted the Bank to support. This allows Monson Savings Bank to meet amazing non-profits serving their communities and offer them support. Any community member can place a vote for their organization—you don't have to be a member of the Bank to vote!

Please vote by December 31, 2025!

Voting link: https://www.monsonsavings.bank/CommunityGivingInitiative

Thank you! 🙏

Image Description: A flyer from Monson Savings Bank. The top section reads "Community Giving Initiative" and there is a QR code that links to https://www.monsonsavings.bank/connect/our-community/community-giving-initiative.html.

The middle section reads "Each year, Monson Savings Bank asks the communty to help plan the Bank's community giving activities by inviting people to vote for the non-profit organizations they would like the Bank to support during the upcoming year. The ten non-profit recipients that receive the most votes will receive a donation from Monson Savings Bank. Vote for us by 12/31! Willie Ross School for the Deaf."

The bottom section has Monson's logo on the right and an Equal Housing Lenders Member FDIC | Member DIF logo on the left.

11/07/2025

Last week was Spirit Week! On Friday, we dressed up in amazing Halloween costumes!

Such a fun week here! We love spirit week!

Which costume is your favorite?

Image Descriptions: Students and staff dressed up in a variety of costumes, including a witch, Wednesday from The Addams Family, Jack o' Lanters, skeletons, superheroes, Freddy Kreuger, Sonic, Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, and sports players.

11/06/2025

Last week was spirit week! On Thursday, we wore WRSD colors for WRSD Pride!

Image Descriptions: WRSD staff and students wearing WRSD colors - blue and teal.

11/05/2025

Last week was spirit week! Wednesday was WaCkY wEdNeSdAy! Our students and staff wore wacky clothes and even crazy socks!

What say ye, folks? Did our staff and students pass the wacky test?!

Image Descriptions: Students and staff wearing mismatched, wacky clothes. Two staff members have their glasses on upside down.