School Board To Meet
      The Garden City School Board of Education will meet for a work session at 8:15 p.m. on Monday, December 10, in the Administration Building, 56 Cathedral Avenue, second-floor conference room. There will be a presentation on Special Education and new High School course recommendations wil...
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Unexpected Guests At Stratford School
      Second graders in Miss McCavera's class at Stratford Shool recently performed the play "The Unexpected Guests," for parents, relatives and friends. The performance was the culmination of weeks of preparation. The students worked on memorizing their lines, remembering their cues a...
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Principal Jon Segerdahl Retires
      Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray (right) and Councilman Gary Hudes (left) present an official Town of Hempstead Citation to Island Trees Memorial Middle School Principal Jon Segerdahl during his retirement party, which was held at Westbury Manor. Andrea Segerdahl was also on hand to com...
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CAPS Holds Date Rape Workshop
      Students at Garden City High School spent time learning about the issue of date/acquaintance rape when Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS), Long Island's leading organization dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect, visited their school the week of December 3, 2007.
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Storyteller Performs At Homestead
      On Tuesday October 16th Storyteller LuAnn Adams performed "Folktales for 21st Century Storytelling", for kindergarten and first graders at Homestead Primary School. The multipurpose room served as the stage for four multicultural tales. These included stories about children in Haiti and Afr...
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Mahhem Poets Visit Garden City High School
      On the Wednesday before the long Thanksgiving Day weekend, every student in Garden City High School was treated to the rhyming antics of the Mayhem Poets, a Jersey City-based trio of guys in their mid-20s dedicated to the performance of stand-up poetry.
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St. Joseph School Bikes In Tomorrow's Hope Bike-A-Thon
      On September 22nd, the students of St. Joseph School participated in the Tomorrow's Hope Laps for Learning Bike-A-Thon. Beautiful weather greeted the riders from the various Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Rockville Centre who came together at Cedar Creek Park.
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Archdiocese Uses Book On Aviation Courage to Teach Students
      What can high school students learn about the value service from the selflessness of aviation workers who showed courage in recovering from 9/11?
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Stewart And Stratford FLES Students Celebrate Día de Los Muertos
      Spanish teachers at Stewart and Stratford Schools contrasted the Mexican festival Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with Halloween in their classes this fall, leading students to identify some interesting differences between the two holidays.
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St. Joseph School Santa Breakfast
      On Saturday, December 1, the St. Joseph Catholic School PTA presented their Santa Breakfast for the school children and their guests. Steve Espy provided the entertainment and Kitchen Kabaret provided another wonderful breakfast! Student volunteers helped guide the young guests with arts and ...
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Giving Thanks At Stratford Avenue School
      Second-graders performed for their classmates last month, singing Blessings On This Day, Turkey Woogie, and Share the Good Gifts, at the annual Stratford Avenue School Thanksgiving Assembly. The orchestra opened and closed the program with Pachelbel's Cannon in D.
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Cliff Mendelson Presents "A Day In Clay"
      During the first week in November, ceramic artist, Cliff Mendelson, presented his unique, fact-filled workshop "A Day in Clay" to the Garden City High School art classes. He transformed the art room with an astonishing array of informative display boards outlining the history of ceramics, an...
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