A calendar of events for this week at each of the local schools, as listed on school calendars.
Education
Nominees from Shoreham-Wading River’s production of ‘Carousel,’ included winner Sean Mannix. (Credit: Grant Parpan)
On the same day Broadway’s best headed to Radio City Music Hall to celebrate a year’s worth of achievement at the Tony Awards, the top performers in East End high school theater gathered at Longwood High School for a celebration of their own. (more…)
Mercy graduates move their tassels during Thursday’s commencement ceremony in Riverhead. (Credit: Robin Bay)
Bishop McGann-Mercy High School’s Class of 2014 graduated Thursday evening, marked by a commencement ceremony and liturgy in the Riverhead Catholic school’s auditorium and chapel. (more…)
Riley Avenue Elementary School teacher Jutta Mariotti believes her handling of a second-grade student who brought a knife into the Calverton school in November only proves her capabilities as a teacher. Still, she’s being terminated after this school year. (Credit: Carrie Miller)
As Baiting Hollow parent Terri Nirrengarten stood at the podium during the May 13 Riverhead school board meeting, she became frustrated by the responses to her questions.
She wanted to know why parents hadn’t been notified when a second-grader brought a knife to school in November. She also asked that the board hold off on firing the student’s teacher, Jutta Mariotti, who claims she had been told in July, before the incident, that she would not receive tenure at the end of the current school year.
The Riverhead Charter School in Calverton. (Credit: File)
A New York State United Teachers spokesman confirmed Thursday that the union umbrella organization is involved with a protest planned for Tuesday afternoon at the Riverhead Charter School in Calverton.
Shoreham-Wading River superintendent Steven Cohen (left) and school board members Bill McGrath and John Zukowski at last night’s school board meeting. (Credit: Jennifer Gustavson)
Less than a year after she was named principal at Miller Avenue Elementary School, Patricia Nugent was fired Tuesday night after the Shoreham-Wading River school board approved Superintendent Steven Cohen’s recommendation to deny her tenure. (more…)
The Briarcliff Elementary School in Shoreham. (Credit: Samantha Brix, file)
The Shoreham-Wading River school board is expected to formally shut down Briarcliff Elementary School at Tuesday’s meeting by voting on a resolution to officially close the building June 30.
RHS Principal Dr. Charles Regan at the podium with the High School’s top 15 students at Academic Awards night Thursday. (Credit: Sandy Kolbo Courtesy Photo)
Riverhead High School hosted it’s annual academic awards night Thursday, honoring the top academic students for the past school year.
Ceaser Chabla-Sarmiento earned honors as valedictorian; he may well be the first Hispanic valedictorian in the district’s history, according to district officials. Lydia Keiffert earned the Salutatorian Award.
She also was honored with the New York State Comptroller’s Achievement Award along with Carolyn Carrera, Nylejah Green, Kayla Myers and Robyn Schneider. Sarah Halpin won the Suffolk County Executive Public Service Award.
See the full list of award winners below:
