The Wainscott School is encouraging parents to register their children "as soon as possible."
The Wainscott School is encouraging parents to register their children "as soon as possible."
The East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Monday to donate $2,000 to Finn O’Rourke, an East Hampton High School sophomore, toward the purchase of a satellite tag for a shark movement research project he plans to conduct this year as part of his science studies.
In the East Hampton School District, the prekindergarten classes may be shrinking in size but the kids are coming in with more educational needs than ever, administrators said last week. Now, the district is getting ready to explore adding a program for 3-year-olds.
The Church in Sag Harbor will host Mai Le Ho, a French-Vietnamese performance artist and educator, who will lead a diverse cast of performers at an all-ages dance jam called LayeRhythm on Saturday evening from 6:30 to 9. Plus: winter blues fun at the East Hampton Library, children's movies, arts and crafts, and more coming up for kids and teens.
Rob Schumacher, a science teacher at Sag Harbor’s Pierson Middle and High School, presented a proposal Monday for a new science classroom: a “wet lab” that would bring marine environments to life in a real-life, hands-on way, going beyond textbooks and simulations.
Springs School District officials reported disappointing scores this week from standardized math and English tests given last spring to students in grades three through eight. “We can improve,” said Erik Kelt, the new school principal, in announcing strategies for boosting students' proficiency in these subjects.
The Springs School Robotics Teams are getting ready to compete in a qualifying competition this weekend at William Floyd High School. The bus will leave Springs School at 5:30 a.m.
Montauk has a new school board member, and four Springs teachers have received donations for classroom projects.
When Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival returns this weekend after taking a hiatus in 2023 while gallery renovations were underway, students and their families will have lots to celebrate beyond simply seeing their work hanging on the walls of a prestigious venue.
The curtain rises tomorrow on the latest South Fork Performing Arts youth musical theater production, “Godspell,” at LTV Studios in Wainscott. Plus: stories, arts and crafts, cookies and cinnamon rolls, book clubs, dinosaurs, and a reading therapy dog, all coming up in the next week for kids and teens.
The Springs School fourth-grade opera, “Learning to S.W.I.M.,” took the stage last Thursday, and it might just be the best one yet, the school's Journalism Club writes.
Before the pandemic, several East Hampton seniors and juniors had started a campaign called Breathe for Change, at one point even testifying before a congressional committee about the evils of vaping. Then Covid-19 happened, they graduated, and their momentum was lost. Now, East Hampton students are again taking action to combat it.
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