Avondale resident named Soccer Player of Year
Sue Anderson, a senior at The Episcopal School of Jacksonville, has been named the Times-Union All-First Coast Girls Soccer Player of the Year. Anderson, who has committed to Elon University, N. Car., is hoping to win a starting position there her freshman year. The Avondale resident had represented the North squad at the Florida Athletic […]
Budding publishers focus on area businesses
Students ventured outside the classroom using San Marco businesses instead of text books to learn how to make a different kind of literary work – a magazine. Seventh graders at Julia Landon College Preparatory and Leadership Development School have worked since January on an English Language Arts project to create the first edition of the […]
Kids ‘spring’ into fashion at Willie’s annual show
Willie’s annual Spring Fashion Show enjoyed a good turnout on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. More than 40 boys and girls of all ages modeled the best and loveliest of spring fashions, giving more than a little competition to nearby plants in bloom.
Clean up and green up at Fishweir
A small but devoted group of moms and dads were on hand (and knee) last month as they cleaned up the portable classrooms and planted flowers in the center courtyard of Fishweir Elementary School. Fishweir Dads, as they are known, prefer to spend more time doing and less time sitting in parent-teacher meetings so one […]
Drawing talents scores
St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School student Kevin McAfee (second from left) won second place for the 3rd-5th grade group in the 2014 Regional Poster Contest for National Poison Prevention Week. He is shown with Florida/USVI Poison Information Center (Jacksonville) staff members Dr. Jessica Rivera (left) and Phyllis Bell-Davis, M.Ed. (far right), along with other winners […]
Bolles Spanish students take close second
Missing first place by just four points, 16 Bolles Spanish students earned a second place finish at the Florida State Spanish Conference in March. Competing in impromptu speaking and presenting a play, Sempronio, the students earned a score of 453 points, according to Bolles Spanish teacher Cathy Soud. High school freshman Annie Pentaleri, an Ortega […]
Avondale 8th grade student knows his geography
By Kate A. Hallock Resident Community News Walker Miller knows countries in the farthest reaches of the world. The 8th grade student at James Weldon Johnson Middle School also knows about those countries’ natural resources, crops, weather, religions, monuments and land formations. “I have always liked geography and in the fourth grade, I participated in […]
Student surprise caught on film
St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School second grade student Paige Fullerton got the shock of her life on Mar. 19 – just two days before her birthday – when her Navy dad, Captain Brett Fullerton, strolled into her classroom. Fullerton has been deployed in Bahrain since May 2013 and while the two Skype frequently, Paige has […]
