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A ‘Sea’ of Talent
Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School presented its version of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” from March 16-18. Performances took place in the high school auditorium.
Leading the cast were Jade Dickenson (Ariel); Kishaar Hodge (Sebastian); Lesly DeCastro (Prince Eric); Crystal Betz (Ursula); Amy Rodriguez (Flounder); Nick Favichia (Scuttle); Kyree Scott (Grimsby); and Alec Soltau (King Triton).
The musical was produced and directed by teachers Michelle Budion and Gina Occhiogrosso with the support of the district’s Fine Arts Coordinator Jennifer Pierre-Louis.
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Everett E. Newman III Resigns from Board of Education
Following 30 years of service to the Copiague community and its students, Copiague School District Board of Education trustee Everett E. Newman III submitted his resignation from the district, effective immediately. Mr. Newman, whose term expires June 30, 2019, is resigning to focus on his health.
For more than three decades, Mr. Newman has been a strong and thoughtful supporter of our schools, our students and our community. As the elder statesman on the board his kindness, knowledge and experience will be missed.
The Board of Education would like to thank Mr. Newman for his dedication and many years of service to the Copiague School District and wish him a speedy recovery.
Mr. Newman’s replacement will be voted on by the Copiague community during the annual budget vote and trustee election held on May 16. The individual who wins the seat will fill the remainder of his term.
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Reading Madness Marches On
Third-graders in Colleen Garofola’s class at Deauville Gardens West are celebrating literacy with a “March Madness Tournament of Books.”
As a way to expose her students to different book genres, Ms. Garofola set up a March Madness-style bracket of different books for students to enjoy. Two books faced off head-to-head to decide which one moves to the next round. The students created their own brackets based on the book title and cover.
In the first round (the Sweet 16), the class read the book jacket and voted on the book that advanced to the next bracket. In the Elite Eight and Final Four rounds, the students read excerpts of the book and chose a winner. In the championship round, students read “Wonder” and “The One and Only Ivan” and will be choosing their champion by the end of the month.
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Lucky First-Graders Get Leprechaun Visit
First-graders in Katianne Howe’s class at Deauville Gardens West celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with hands-on art, math, reading and science activities.
The first-graders designed and created their own leprechaun traps. They displayed them the night before St. Patrick's Day, and when they came into school, they discovered small footprints and gold glitter around their traps. They received two letters from two leprechauns who visited the classroom and left gifts and gold for the students.
Students read two St. Patrick’s Day poems and were visited by a mystery reader who read a St. Patrick’s Day story. They also made their own green slime.
At the conclusion of the celebration, the students each received a bag of Lucky Charms cereal from a leprechaun and graphed the marshmallows in their cereal.
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Business-Savvy Students Pose a Revival Plan
On March 29, the Walter G. O’Connell Industry Advisory Board hosted its first Business Olympics in the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School auditorium.
Teams of business students were given the task to remediate and revitalize an abandoned building at 1305 S. South Strong Ave. in Copiague. Four teams of students – BizHub, Eagles on Wheels, Vovola and Revival – presented a variety of innovative ideas during their 10-minute presentations, followed by a five-minute question and answer session from judges.
Each team created a Google presentation, commercial for their business and promotional materials to present to the judges. Judges included Industry Advisory Board members from local community businesses, Copiague School District administrators and faculty and Copiague Board of Education members.
The winner was Team Revival for their gym/spa combination. This team included Kriyal Patel, Jeannie Guelee, Catherine Gonzales and Alexsandra Bugajczyk.
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Notice of Special Board Meeting – April 12, 2017
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Spring for Kindness
During its March meeting, the Student Council at Copiague Middle School created St. Patrick’s Day-themed cards, which will be donated to local hospital patients. Additionally, encouraged to spring into kindness, the students wrote cards of appreciation to their teachers.
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Math Student Goes for the Gold
Copiague Middle School eighth-grader Adam Antosiak has been awarded gold distinction in the Long Island Math Fair at Suffolk County Community College on March 3. This is the first time a Copiague Middle School student has been awarded gold honors.
To enter the competition, Antosiak wrote a properly cited math research paper on a math topic of his choice. He started the process in October when he chose the topic “Fibonacci’s Numbers.” After his paper was selected to participate in the Long Island Math Fair, he had to deliver an oral presentation from his research paper and display board.
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Notice of Board Meeting – April 20, 2017
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Firsthand Lesson in History
Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School students had a firsthand lesson in history when guest speaker Spirit Trickey, daughter of Minnijean Brown-Trickey, a civil rights movement icon who was part of the Little Rock Nine, visited the school on March 31.
Students in the Facing History and Ourselves classes studied the civil rights movement in depth prior to her visit to the high school. Trickey told students that she started to think about the importance of history and activism during her last years in high school. “I was failing math at 17 and when my mother was that age she was changing the world,” she said.
She described the challenges growing up as a biracial child and shared her experiences as the chief of interpretation and public information officer at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
Trickey is the playwright of One Ninth, an exploration of human dignity and racial conflict as seen through the eyes of her mother. She is one of 10 Americans who won the “Ticket to History” essay contest (with more than 250,000 submissions) to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and attend the Inaugural Ball. In 2010, she was named one of the “Top 100 History Makers in the Making” by the Grio.com and featured on NBC Nightly.
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UPK Lottery
We are pleased to state that a lottery call is not required for UPK registration seat. All families who registered children for the Copiague Schools Universal Prekindergarten program during the week of April 4th will be granted a seat at their preferred school. Families requesting Stanford Preschool will be notified of their class placement by Stanford at a later date, as the site location within the Stanford school cannot be guaranteed. Families will receive more information regarding the Copiague UPK program through upcoming mailings.
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Notice of Board Meeting – April 25, 2017
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Winter Sports All-Stars
Congratulations to the student-athletes who were awarded for their play
on the field and in the classroom during the winter 2016-2017 sports
season. For a full list of winners, click here.
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Honor a Teacher
Susan E. Wiley’s student council showed their appreciation by honoring
teachers during a breakfast in March. View The video below.
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All Eyes on Display
Fourth-graders in Kristina Sudano’s class at Deauville Gardens East were recently assigned an “eye-opening” project. As part of their plant and animal structures unit, students made 3-D models of the eye. The models included all the major components of the eye along with an essay about its function. Some of the projects were chosen for display at the district’s annual Community Summit on March 18.
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Spring Into Fitness
Deauville Gardens West invited students and their families for fun, games and exercise during Family Fitness Night on April 5. Gathered in the gymnasium, families participated in a variety of activities including jump rope, basketball, scooter races and more.
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Fundraiser Is a Slam Dunk
Students at Copiague Middle School showed off their basketball skills when they participated in a Hoops for Heart fundraiser to benefit the American Heart Association on April 6 and 7 during their physical education classes.
Not only did students help raise money for a good cause, they learned about leading a heart-healthy lifestyle and making positive choices. Hoops for Heart is a national fundraising program sponsored jointly by the Society of Health and Physical Educators of America and the AHA. Through the program, students raise funds for the AHA while participating in activities that promote physical fitness.
Students showed off their sharpshooting skills as they completed a basketball-themed obstacle course. The goal of the event was to increase awareness about heart disease and related illnesses, as well as raise money for research, prevention, and education programs.
This year, the Copiague Middle School students have a goal to meet or surpass the $5,000 they raised during last year’s event.
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Recycling Initiative Helps Spark Change
The student council members at Deauville Gardens West are doing their share this Earth Day by launching a project to bring clean drinking water to villages in the Western Province of South Africa.
The student council presented their Carbon for Water initiative to their classmates in grades 3-5 during an assembly on April 17. Under the supervision of student council supervisor Christine Orlando, the group will be recycling plastic bottles in the cafeteria for the remainder of the school year. They will use the money they raise to purchase a large carbon filter from LifeStraw for a school in Africa.
The students spoke about the need for cleaning drinking water in Africa and how helping these villages will allow students to go to school instead of working to gather wood and water everyday. “Our goal is to help every child in the world receive an education, no matter where they are from,” the students told the audience.
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Middle School Teachers Shine Bright
Two Copiague Middle School teachers have been named two of 16 Long Island educators who were honored as 2017 Bright Lights by the Association of Suffolk Supervisors for Educational Technologies.
Stephen Cooney, a social studies teacher, and Brian Washington, a special education teacher, both at Copiague Middle School, were chosen for the honor by ASSET for “inspiring and innovating digital curriculum and technology into the teaching and learning process.”
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