Dear parents, It’s important that parents are aware of changes to their child’s academic program. Over the course of the coming year, you will notice changes to instruction and testing that will directly impact your child. It is important that you know about these changes and what resources are available…

Last night at the Incoming Seventh and Eighth Grade Informational Program for parents I briefly discussed two changes that are being made to our accelerated program for students entering seventh-grade beginning next year. These changes are described in detail in a letter that is posted on our website. To make…

This morning we had our first ever, Family Booktalk.  Students and their parents read a book together and came to the school to have a discussion about it.  The topic of our discussion was the book Bystander by James Preller.  The book focuses upon the experiences of a young boy…

To involve parents in promoting literacy and engage in a conversation about the role of bystander behavior in bullying situations, I am sponsoring a Family Book Talk on January 14th at 7:30am in the middle school library.  Parents are invited to come join us, with their middle school child, to…

Mix-It-Up Lunch Day is held annually in schools throughout the country. The purpose of the day is to have students step out of their comfort zone and sit with different people from various social groups. You can read about the program at: http://www.tolerance.org/blog/how-do-you-mix-it-let-s-count-ways We have expanded this program in Jericho to…

Yesterday the middle school was visited by a very special guest, Miss York State, Claire Buffie.  Clare spoke to all of our students in assemblies held in the morning.  The following is a description of her mission as a contestant for the Miss America title: Miss New York 2010, Claire…