News
2012-2013
Not So Drowsy!: Memorial puts on a lively
spring musical
Click here to read article as published by the Hudson
Reporter on March 24, 2013
Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM)
March has been selected as Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM)
and students across America are asked to think about the role
music plays in their lives. Each year since 1985, the National
Association for Music Education (NAfME) has hosted the World's
Largest Concert to celebrate Music in Our Schools Month. Six
songs are selected by a team of member teachers, concert
producer and NAfME staff member. The selected songs must appeal
to students K-12 to encourage participation in the Concert.
Schools who desire to participate in the concert must teach the
selected songs to their students and submit a written and DVD
recorded proposal to the committee in early October. In the
past years, schools that were selected were featured on a DVD
and available for viewing by those wished to purchase the DVD.
This year, the selected schools will be featured on the internet
at the
www.NAfME.org web site for the entire month of March and on
PBS channel 13 at 1pm on March 14, 2013 as leaders to the other
schools who wish to participate in the World's Largest Concert.
The Theme for this year is "MUSIC EDUCATION - ORCHESTRATING
SUCCESS." The students at the West New York Middle School were
presented with theme buttons purchased by the Jr. Tri-M Music
Honor Society to demonstrate their involvement in MIOSM and
appreciation for music classes in the West New York School
District.
Both Constance Arcilla and Cynthia Varrichio, the two music
teachers at the West New York Middle School, are very proud of
all their Middle School musicians and feel especially excited to
be one of the selected performance groups.
Click on the link below to view a performance
video of the WNY Middle School chorus on the national music
educators site:
http://musiced.nafme.org/concert/videos/alleluia-jubilate/
West New York students honored at Jets
game as reward for Eat Right, Move More
Click here to read article as published by The Hudson
Reporter on December 9, 2012
Jets lineman D'Brickashaw Ferguson tells WNY
kids eating healthy is key
Read more:
Hudson Reporter - BRIEFS
Click here to read full article as published by The Jersey
Journal on November 28, 2012
Take your cow to school day at Public School #3
Click here to read article as published by The Jersey
Journal on October 25, 2012
Click here to read article as published by the Hudson
Reporter on November 18, 2012
Photo courtesy of The Jersey Journal
Kick-off to Week of Respect
Veronica Koles, a teenager who recently graduated High School,
appeared at the West New York Middle School on Monday, October
1, 2012 sending a powerful message to end Bullying as part of
the many activities throughout the West New York School
district for the Week of Respect. Veronica Koles will be
appearing again at MHS October 11, 2012 at 9:30am to continue
her message to end Bullying.
Congratulations WNY Schools!!!
The Healthier US School Challenge (HUSSC) has just announced 112
award winners from the following states: Alaska, Arkansas,
California, District of Columbia, Indiana, North Carolina, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
The following West New York Schools are honored to have received
Healthier US School Challenge Awards valid September 2012 –
September 2016:
New Jersey:
West New York School District
Harry L. Bain School (Bronze)
Memorial High School (Bronze)
Public School #1 (Bronze)
Public School #2 (Bronze)
Public School #3 (Bronze)
Public School #4 (Bronze)
Public School #5 (Bronze)
West New York Middle School (Bronze)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture commends these schools for
the exemplary steps, leadership and team work employed to make
changes to their schools’ nutrition environment; improve the
quality of the foods served; provide students with more
nutritious, healthy choices; and, enhance their physical
activity program. To acknowledge their achievement, the schools
will receive a HUSSC award plaque, a banner to display, and a
small monetary incentive award ($500 per school for the Bronze
award) for meeting HUSSC’s 2009 criteria. Also, the names of
these schools will be proudly added to the HUSSC awardees list
on the
Team
Nutrition HUSSC website.
Congratulations to the WNY Transportation Dept!
We are proud to announce that once again, all 18 buses from
our District's Transportation Department have passed the State
School Bus Safety Inspection on the first run. Congratulations
to Transportation Supervisor, Frank Menendez and his staff on a
job well done.
Welcome Back
With the official
opening day of the 2012-2013 school year upon us, on behalf of
the Trustees of the West New York Board of Education, I wish to
welcome everyone back to a new and exciting academic year.
We, the Trustees are
both extremely pleased with the results of our highly successful
extended year programs as well as very enthusiastic about the
future of our district’s challenging curriculum and innovative
instruction.
This summer over 200
special needs students, teachers and families participated in a
multi-week Olympic themed program culminating in a Torch Relay,
age appropriate competitions and a delicious BBQ. In addition
over 190 bilingual students under the direction of Fernando
Abascal participated in the Beam Program where they continued
their language acquisition instruction through hands-on
activities and community field trips. All K-12 students were
offered participation in this program and in addition, their
parents were offered ESL and computer classes.
This academic year has
us adopting an updated curriculum based on national core
standards, implementing a contemporary teacher evaluation system
in alignment with state requirements, including a novice teacher
professional development program to assist and retain excellent
instructors, a re-invigorated pre-k program, a reorganized
gifted and talented program, continuing small learning
communities in our Middle and High School with a vision toward
college and career opportunities, and the opening of the
completed School Number 3, just to name a few.
So, on behalf of the
Board of Trustees, welcome back to what we hope will be the
community of West New York’s best educational year yet.
Adrienne Sires
Alumni Spotlight:
Dr. Harold Fernandez, graduate of Memorial's Class of 1985
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for more information
Carrying the torch for special needs: 200 WNY students,
families, teachers celebrate upcoming Olympics
Click here to read full article as published by the Hudson
Reporter on August 5, 2012
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