Huntington School Briefs
The Long Island Science Museum recently visited the first grade classes at Flower Hill Primary. The visit, which was billed as an in-school field trip, provided students with hands-on activities involving magnets.
“The magnet unit is a core piece to our science curriculum,” teacher Veronica Quinlan said. The youngsters used different types of magnets (bar, wand, and circle) and different types of materials (iron filings, straws, blocks, balloons, pom-poms). They were taught the meaning of the words “attract” and “repel” and that the Earth is the largest magnet.
“This in-school field trip provided each student with an opportunity to actively practice what is being taught in the classroom,” Ms. Quinlan added.
Angela Berner, Glenn Edwards and Claudia Gonzalez-Buttler have been appointed coordinators in the Saturday Academy program. Program teachers include Cinzia Reeves, Lucy Marotta, Kimberly Murray, Sarah Metcalf, Donnamarie O’Shaughnessy, Soraya Triessl and Karen Mallow Rizzo. Wilcon Douce, Jill Lowe and Nancy Giorgos will work as substitute in the case of teacher absences. The appointments run through June 21. The faculty members will work two hours per week and be compensated at the rate of $45.77 per hour, which is being funded by a Title III grant.
Huntington School Board members approved a bid award to Nassau Food Service Equipment in the amount of $8,280 for kitchen equipment. The district’s food service consultant, Yoland Haynes, reviewed the bids prior to a recommendation the administration to trustees.
Trustees approved several budget transfers at their last meeting, from one account to another. The transfers covered the cost of supplies at Finley Middle School ($195.43), an intermediate grade level science club advisor ($750), foreign language teaching supplies ($1,481.05), foreign language teacher conferences ($3,056.12), elementary ESL teacher conferences ($1,500), high school ESL teacher conferences ($1,500), middle school ESL teacher conferences ($2,500) and special education supplies related to testing, occupational therapy, science study and calculators ($4,500).
Voters residing in the 18 districts which comprise Western Suffolk BOCES voted 1,150 to 243 to approve a proposal to replace an aging modular/portable complex housing administrative offices with a pre-engineered 10,500 square foot addition to the permanent building at 507 Deer Park Road in Dix Hills. Western Suffolk BOCES will pay for the $3.35 million project out of its existing capital reserve account, allowing it to proceed without bonding the expense, incurring interest or assessing districts, such as Huntington, for the funds.
In the latest round of “I Got In” announcements Huntington High School seniors announced the most recent batch of college acceptances. Students sharing good news included Elizabeth Polacke (Arcadia Univ.), Megan Doyle (Bucknell Univ.), Madeleine Jensen (Dickinson College, Drew Univ.), Timothy O’Grady (Dickinson College), Edgar Lopez (Drexel Univ., Manhattan College), Eva Valerio (Drexel Univ.), Jeffrey Green (Iona College, Rider Univ.), Steven Nigro (Loyola College in Maryland, St. Joseph’s Univ.), Jiordan Castle (Pace Univ.), Elizabeth Mormile (Philadelphia Univ.), Eva Valerio (SUNY Albany), Carolyn Mohlenhoff (SUNY Albany) and Fritz Barreau (SUNY Alfred, SUNY Delhi).
Jonathan Correll (SUNY Binghamton, Univ. of Miami, Univ. of Vermont), Brian Venurino (SUNY Morrisville), Laura Beach (SUNY Oneonta, Temple Univ.), Kevin Thompson (SUNY Oswego), Nicole Napolitano (Towson State Univ.) and Venice Lagone (Univ. of Vermont) also shared recent acceptances.
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