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Coding And Collaboration In Port Jefferson Schools

LIMG January 8, 2024

Pictured: Earl L. Vandermeulen High School students with high school teacher Winifred Kuemmel (left) and elementary STEM teacher Dr. Kathryn Zvokel. Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District Students from Earl L. Vandermeulen High School’s newly inaugurated Computer Science Honor

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Port Jefferson Students Host Winter Sports Fair

LIMG December 14, 2023

Pictured: Port Jefferson School District students from Earl L. Vandermeulen High School and Edna Louise Spear Elementary School participated in the Winter Sports Fair. Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District The Port Jefferson School District continues to build connections among high school students and elementary students and the recent Winter Sports Fair was

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Port Jefferson Coding Camp Encourages Critical Thinking

LIMG August 7, 2023

Pictured: Port Jefferson School District teacher Robert Farenga with rising seventh graders Milo Gugliucci (left) and Dean Zaltsman. Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District The Port Jefferson School District hosted an inaugural summer coding camp for Port Jefferson Middle School and Earl L. Vandermeulen High School students. The five-day camp, which took place

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A Way With Clay In Port Jefferson

LIMG June 5, 2023

Pictured: Artist Cliff Mendelson worked with students in Port Jefferson School District’s Edna Louise Spear Elementary School. Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District Edna Louise Spear Elementary School fourth graders recently participated in a clay workshop with visiting artist Cliff Mendelson. The students learned about Native American pottery making and

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Love Shared By Port Jefferson’s Buddy Program

LIMG February 14, 2023

Photo courtesy of the Port Jefferson School District Edna Louise Spear Elementary School students not only think about others in the local community, they often do something about it. Students in Christine Bokina and Kristi Krieg’s fifth grade class and Maureen Zajac’s second grade class teamed up to bring some smiles to the faces of local […]

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Port Jefferson Fifth Graders Say Hello In Many Languages

LIMG September 27, 2022

Photos courtesy of Port Jefferson School District Students in Edna Louise Spear Elementary School spanned the globe to learn to say hello in dozens of languages, including German, French, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish and Swahili. Christine Wicks’ fifth grade class used speech and nonverbal actions to create social connections with each other as part of the […]

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Port Jefferson Students Create Instruments From Recycled Materials

LIMG April 23, 2020

Students from Edna Louise Spear Elementary School experienced Earth Day in a different way this year, when they were encouraged to create musical instruments out of recycled materials. Music teacher Lisa Scrom asked the third, fourth and fifth graders to create an instrument from one of the four instrument families – percussion, woodwind, string or brass […]