Kindergarten donates 630 lbs. of fruit to Second Harvest Food Bank
Kindergarteners at St. Mark’s Episcopal Day School have been studying how fruits and vegetables grow, while learning valuable lessons about need and hunger. For three days in December students and parent volunteers collected donations of citrus fruit to be sorted, counted and weighed as part of a math lesson. The children filled a truck bed […]
Sixth grader has shot at Duval County Spelling Bee
Congratulations to the returning 2011-2012 Champion, Will K., for his second win! After 22 rounds, the sixth grader’s winning word was “disingenuous.” Fifth grader Chloe S. was the runner up. Will now advances to take the written exam to qualify for the Duval County Bee.
Sandwiches for Sulzbacher
Forty-six 6th graders from three homeroom classes at Riverside Presbyterian Day School got together on the last day of school before the holiday break to assemble 500 ham sandwiches. Clad in sanitary gloves, the boys and girls handled 1000 slices of bread and ham, 500 slices of cheese, and 250 oranges and granola bars to […]
Ortega Eagle Scout a driven achiever
Carrison Hager holds a record, at least locally. The Eagle Scout with BSA Troop #522 at Ortega United Methodist Church has earned 129 merit badges, all that were possible at the time. Hager has been working on earning merit badges as soon as he became a Boy Scout at the end of the fifth grade. […]
Venetia challenges students to give, read and learn
Students at Venetia Elementary School have been busy lately participating in various campus activities. In addition to giving, the students also learned how to receive. The school participated in the annual Red Ribbon Wee activities, which focuses on drug awareness. The program encourages students to make wise choices as they grow. As part of the […]
Team RPDS supports student during recent walk
Team RPDS, a group from Riverside Presbyterian Day School, joined the “Team Walking with Layla” during the recent Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk. Layla is an RPDS PreK-3 student who is a Leukemia survivor. She was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) when she was just 13 months old. Treatments covered a […]
Young scientists tour Atlanta research labs
Episcopal students in the Honors Science Seminar spent two days in Atlanta, touring a variety of research labs at Georgia Institute of Technology. The labs were selected based on the relevance of their work to the science projects that the students will be doing this year. The research topics included psychology, muscular dystrophy, genomics, robotics, […]
Tree trimming
A December 2011 photo taken at the end of last year’s St. Mark’s Tree Lot shows Alex Tyre, Anne Bayley Shoemaker, Brooke Robertson, Sarah Irving, Johnny Fewell and Ayana Grady on the scene. This year’s Youth Christmas Tree Lot began Nov. 23 and closed Dec. 2. All proceeds fund the youth summer mission trips to […]
