Students, staff members, and parents harvested vegetables from the Pocantico Hills School garden and prepared them for the school’s annual Harvest Soup Day on October 17. Children in kindergarten through fourth grade picked […] Read more »
The Ossining Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has installed Little Free Libraries at Park, Claremont, and Roosevelt schools. “Everything that’s in here is for our students and for our community,” said Superintendent […] Read more »
Irvington kindergarteners through third graders waited their turn in the gymnasium of Dows Lane Elementary School on September 24, holding an excerpt from a book at the first all-school interactive […] Read more »
For over a decade, physical education classes at Todd Elementary in Briarcliff have had an annual visit from the National Circus Project. The tradition continued on September 25. “We work […] Read more »
To the casual observer, it may look like simple stitching, but Todd Related Arts Teacher Diane Guida always strategically schedules a needlepoint lesson for the first few days of school. She explained, “The […] Read more »
This September, afternoon sun and warmth created the perfect setting to take the Mindful Garden outdoors and focus on metacognition. Or, as Briarcliff Manor’s Todd School Counselor Kay Brancato describes it, “Thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking.” She got Shelley Graham’s fourth graders […] Read more »
Echoes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in Ossining! On August 29, during Ossining’s Opening Day assembly for teachers, administrators, and staff, Superintendent Dr. Raymond Sanchez unveiled the district’s back to school video, Mister Sanchez’s Neighborhood. Sanchez walks […] Read more »
The Pocantico Hills PTA held a Welcome Back Party for the school community on September 13. One of the highlights of the event was a visit from the Bubble Bus. Children danced to […] Read more »
Students played a different kind of Jeopardy! game when they attended a rocketry class at the Challenge Summer Institute. They stood in front of a Smart Board and chose categories that […] Read more »
Ingenuity, Grit, Passion, and Gratitude. Those are a few of the inspiring words that surround stunning photos of the school’s architecture on the new acoustic panels that line the rear wall […] Read more »