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Upgrades
to BOCES website
LIBERTY — Vishal Desai, a graduate intern from
India, discusses the proposed changes to the Sullivan County BOCES
web page with Tom Bojarski, Model Schools/Instructional Technology
Coordinator.
Vishal is designing and reformatting the current
web page as well as assessing the technology needs of Model Schools
as part of his 12-week Cooperative Education Internship as a Webmaster
with the Sullivan County BOCES Model Schools Department.
The on-the-job computer programming experience
is part of his graduate studies program at Marist College. Vishal
holds Bachelor of Commerce and Masters of Commerce degrees from
Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, located in Western India. He is
currently pursuing a second Masters degree in Computer Science and
Information Systems.
Register
new students
MILFORD — Delaware Valley schools open on Monday,
August 27. Now is the time to register new students for the school
year. New student registration for the Delaware Valley School District
requires specific information be provided and a number of forms
be completed at the time of registration. No student will be admitted
to school until all required forms and documents have been properly
completed and submitted.
Until school begins on August 27, registration
is open every weekday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Please bring the information
and documents to the Office of Support Services, located at the
entrance to the Delaware Valley Middle School cafeteria. This entrance
is off the Middle School parking area of the campus on Routes 6
and 209. In the event of incomplete forms or missing documents,
all materials will be returned until all the required elements are
complete.
For more information or a list of required materials
call 570/296-1883.
Wayne
Highlands prepares
for opening day
HONESDALE — Regular Sessions of the schools of
the Wayne Highlands School District will begin Tuesday, September
4.
The district cafeterias will be in operation on
the first day of school. The prices for the school lunches will
be as follows: elementary pupils (K to fourth grade) $1.50, secondary
pupils (fifth to 12th grade) $1.75. Reduced price lunch is $.40.
Extra milk will be $.40. Pupils are requested to have exact change
for the first four school days.
All cafeterias will serve breakfast to grades K
through 12 beginning Wednesday, September 5, with the exception
of Kindergarten at Preston, which will be offered breakfast starting
Monday, September 10. The price for school breakfast is $1 for grades
K through 12 and reduced priced breakfast is $.30.
Application forms for free or reduced priced lunches
will be handed out in homeroom the first day of school. Families
who think that they may be eligible for meal benefits are encouraged
to apply.
Enrollment forms for the pupil accident insurance
program will be distributed when the district schools are in session.
The premium for school-day protection will be $22 and the premium
for 24-hour protection will be $88. Directions for paying the insurance
premiums will be given when the schools are in session.
All bus routes to Wayne Highlands School District
buildings and starting times for the 2001-2002 school year will
be the same as for the 2000-2001 school year, except in cases where
parents have been notified directly.
For more information call the district office at
570/253-4661.
It’s
hands-on at the Homestead School
GLEN SPEY — Belgian-born Barbara Cooper will assume
the position of foreign language instructor at the Homestead School
in September. Cooper is fluent in English, Dutch and German as well
as French, which she will be teaching to preschool through grade
two classes at the local Montessori school. She has been an active
member of the hand puppet ensemble “Garagetheater Suskewiet” in
Belgium.
Accordingly, Cooper will also conduct workshops
in puppet-making and puppet theater productions for first and second
grade students. Homestead students will embark on a yearlong study
project entitled “The Northern Berkshires: Artistry and Craftsmanship
in America.” The students will sample a wide variety of media and
enterprises presented by local artists and crafts people. Each student
will then take up an “apprenticeship” to gain proficiency in a specific
area.
The study project culminates next May with a three-day
journey in northwestern Massachusetts to such sites as the Hancock
Shaker Village, the Rockwell Museum and the Clark Art Institute
in Williamstown. Cooper’s puppetry students will be lodging at Jiminy
Peak Ski Resort, where one evening they will see a production performed
by the Berkshire Mountain’s famous Robbins-Zust Family Marionettes.
Cooper lives in Matamoras. She has three daughters
and is married to opera singer Marshal Cooper, recent star in the
Delaware Valley Opera Company’s, production of “Carmen.”
LEAP
for your dreams
LIBERTY — On Tuesday, August 28 the Liberty Central
School District is holding open house and registration at the middle
school for students, parents and community members interested in
the Liberty Enrichment After-School Program (LEAP) for Your Dreams.
The United States Department of Education’s 21st
Century Community Learning Centers program has awarded nearly $1.2
million in funding for after-school, weekend and summer programs
in Ulster and Sullivan Counties; of that, Liberty has received $200,000.
Sponsored by the Department of Education and the Charles Stewart
Mott Foundation, the program serves 6,800 public schools, 1,600
communities and 1.2 million children nationwide.
The purpose of the program is to provide a safe,
caring and educational environment for all children after school.
LEAP for Your Dreams will seek to improve students’ academic achievement
and to provide adults with improved skills and increased knowledge
in the areas of computer technology, money management, parenting,
nutrition and health.
Goals and objectives to be attained through the
program have been identified by the LEAP For Your Dreams Partnership
Advisory Board made up of parents, faculty and staff, and members
of the board of education. The goals of the program include an increase
in student performance in reading, math and science; an increase
in positive behaviors will lead to a reduction in disciplinary actions
taken against our youth. Other goals of the program include educating
the community on issues of health, literacy, parenting, and everyday
management of life, and to increase learning opportunities for adults.
For more information call 845/292-5400, ext. 2055.
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