Extracting DNA
Fifth-grade students at Copiague’s Great Neck Road Elementary School have been busy learning about the many uses of DNA. In an effort to apply the concepts learned in the classroom to the...
View ArticleBright Lights
On Jan. 9, Kim Ruggiero and Monica Santaly, Languages Other Than English (LOTE) teachers from Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, were honored for their use of technology in classroom...
View ArticleJazz Band Puts on a Show
At the Jan. 14 Copiague School District Board of Education meeting, members of the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School jazz band put on a special performance. Under the direction of Eric...
View ArticleCollege Day Celebrated
On Jan. 10, students and staff throughout the Copiague School District celebrated the district’s fourth annual College Day initiative. The purpose behind the creation of College Day is to...
View ArticleA Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
Three art students in Lorraine Ciccatto’s photography class at Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, Nicole Donato, Chris Falci and Shayla Hernandez, have been selected as...
View ArticleCopiague Boosters Honor Supporter
To commemorate the 27th annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School Booster Club presented a plaque of recognition to Toni Clemens for her...
View ArticleWiley Goes Red
For the second consecutive year, faculty and staff at Copiague’s Susan E. Wiley Elementary School united in wearing red to help kick off the American Heart Association’s Go Red for...
View ArticleCopiague Kids Work for Kidsday
Sixth-graders in Paul Harvey’s class at Copiague Middle School have been hard at work putting together a feature for Newsday's “Kidsday” section. Their feature, which will...
View ArticleBuilding Bonds
For almost 10 years, 40 members of the Copiague Middle School Builders Club, along with their adviser Maria Ostrofsky, have traveled to the Tanner Park Senior Center for Valentine’s Day....
View ArticleAnimals 101
Kindergarten students from Copiague’s Deauville Gardens East and Deauville Gardens West elementary schools received a hands-on lesson in mammals, birds and reptiles during a visit with...
View ArticleA Night of Popular Music
It was a night to remember at the annual Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School’s Pops Concert. Kicking off the show was the Madrigal Choir, directed by Gina Occhiogrosso, with an explosive...
View ArticleStep Lively
In celebration of February as Black History Month, students at Copiague’s Great Neck Road Elementary School enjoyed a performance of the Phyllis Rose Dance Company’s “Step...
View ArticleIn a Friend’s Name
For the third year in a row, members of the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School Copiague Heroes (previously known as the Proud Girls) sponsored an indoor one-mile run/walk. Utilizing the...
View ArticleChinese New Year Celebration
To conclude their “Cultures Around the World” unit, as part of the New York State social studies curriculum, third-graders from Great Neck Road Elementary School hosted a Chinese...
View ArticleCopiague Schools to Hold Late Kindergarten Registration
Late kindergarten registration for the Copiague Union Free School District will be held at the District Administrative Office located in Copiague Middle School on Great Neck Road from April 2-4 from...
View ArticleHigh Jumping to States
The Copiague School District congratulates Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School senior Maurice Epps for his performance at the New York State and Federation Track and Field Championship,...
View ArticleWinter Athletes Honored in Copiague
For 13 years, the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School Booster Club has sponsored sports awards dinners honoring student-athletes following the fall, winter and spring sports seasons. On...
View ArticlePJ Read Night in Copiague
On Feb. 26, Copiague’s Deauville Gardens East Elementary School held its second Pajama Read Night of the 2012-13 school year. The PJ Read Nights reinforce the importance of reading, help...
View ArticleThe Circus Comes to Copiague
For a week in March, the students at Copiague’s Great Neck Road Elementary School received a hands-on lesson in circus skills. Two representatives from the National Circus Project, a cultural...
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