Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District This winter, Deer Park hosted the first annual Western Suffolk BOCES Life Skills Consortium. Special education teachers from across the region gathered in the Deer Park High School library to collaborate and share educational strategies. “The
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Brittany Skrypek’s seventh grade English as a New Language class collaborated with Rachel Burkel’s Life Skills classes for a Poetry Café at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School. Prior to the event, Skrypek’s students wrote ode poems inspired by Kwame Alexander’s “The Crossover.” Burkel’s class had visited Frost […]
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Students and teachers at Deer Park High School and Robert Frost Middle School celebrated Black History Month with readings from contemporary and historical Black writers. Students in ELA classes at both schools connected past and present issues on Feb. 8, discussing how ideas from historical writers continue into […]
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Seventh and eighth grade English as a New Language students from Christy Villalobos’ class at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School recently visited John Quincy Adams Primary School to spend time with a group of younger ENL students for Groundhog Day. The middle school ENL students began by […]
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Playing the ukulele is in the fun future for young musicians at Deer Park’s John Quincy Adams Primary School. Music teacher Diana Cotrone’s “Uke Can Do It!” proposal was selected to receive a $2,000 grant from the TangerKids Grants program to fund the purchase of ukuleles for the […]
Photos courtesy of Deer Park School District The Music Theater Club at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School again sold out both performances of its musical. The fabulous production of “Annie” was directed by Lauren Stein and Lori Sullivan, with Nicole Hock serving as stage manager. A talented cast list included seventh grader Emily Hofacker […]
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Deer Park’s May Moore Primary School recently held its very first Blizzard Day concert. Excited kindergartners filled the school’s gymnasium to perform a wonderful variety of holiday-themed songs and poems for their visiting parents.
Photo courtesy of Deer Park School District Deer Park High School presented its annual winter concert on Dec. 21 in front of an auditorium full of family and friends ready to savor the talented sounds of the chamber orchestra, directed by Kathryn Attard; the chorus, directed by Catherine Singer; and the wind ensemble, directed by […]
Pictured: John F. Kennedy Intermediate School’s student government sold candy canes to raising over $400 for Toys for Tots. Photos courtesy of Deer Park School District Students at Deer Park’s John F. Kennedy Intermediate School found creative ways to serve the community during December. The school’s student government, led by advisers Darlene Matulich and Christine […]
Photos courtesy of Deer Park School District Members of Deer Park High School’s French Honor Society and Cornerstone Club recently volunteered at the Gerald J. Ryan Outreach Center food pantry in Wyandanch. Providing emergency food assistance to those in need in the Wyandanch area and neighboring communities, GJROC is one of the largest food pantries […]
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