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April 22 - April 28, 2016
HOEDOWN FIESTA AT NEW HORIZONS
The New Horizons Elementary School PTA hosted its annual Hoedown Fiesta on the evening of Friday, April 8. Families and community members came out to enjoy eating, dancing, face painting, a health fair, games and even a carnival jail. The evening served as a fundraiser for the school. Shown above are family members enjoying the Hoedown Fiesta.
Jaslyn Dominique Wins At Philanthropy Tank
Royal Palm Beach High School My Fair Ladies Club President Jaslyn Dominique was recently awarded more than $11,000 at the first Palm Beach County Philanthropy Tank event. The money will be used to support her project idea of helping schools provide backpacks and other items for students without stable housing. My Fair Ladies is a mentoring program that celebrates the empowerment of young women by providing leadership skills, as well as community service,
Jaslyn Dominique civic engagement and character building opportunities. The club’s co-sponsors are teachers Kaitlin Gallagher and Brandi Marolla.
Osceola Creek Band Excels At FBA Concert
Osceola Creek Middle School’s bands recently competed at the Florida Bandmasters Association Concert MPA. The concert band, under the direction of Andrew Aldoretta, received straight Superior ratings from the stage judges, as well as a Superior in sight-reading at the event held in March at John I. Leonard High School. Osceola Creek was the only school at the event to receive all Superior rat-
ings. The symphonic band, also under the direction of Aldoretta, followed the concert band’s lead and received straight Superior ratings both on stage and in sight-reading. The symphonic band also received grades of “A” in every category possible. Aldoretta created the band program at Osceola Creek when the school opened 12 years ago and leads the symphonic, concert and jazz bands.
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Western Academy In RPB Wins Green Award
Western Academy Charter School in Royal Palm Beach has been recognized as a “Green School of Quality” by the FAU Pine Jog Environmental Green School Recognition Program. The award will be presented to Western Academy at the eighth annual awards luncheon on May 25. This is the first year that Western Academy applied for the FAU Pine Jog Environmental Green School Recognition Program. There are three different categories being recognized: Promise, Quality and Excellence. Western Academy’s Quality award is an honor and testament to all they are doing at school to be “green.” Western Academy’s focus to enrich its STEAM program by adding an environmental component brought awareness about the importance of the environment and the impact people have on it to the entire student body, staff
and administration. Staff members have begun saving their Keurig cups for the students to dismantle them, recycle the plastic and use the coffee grinds in their newly planted garden nurtured by the botany class. Dehumidifiers have been placed in classrooms and throughout the campus, and the water extracted from the air is used to water the air purifying plants located throughout the campus that were donated by Costa Farms. The school’s Go Green Club does campus cleanups and hosted a Recycle Retail fundraising event where students created and marketed items made out of reusable products. There are also quarterly clothing drive fundraisers where Western Academy families bring in textiles such as shoes, clothing and linens and earn 10 cents per pound from Fun Raising Dollars, a green clothing recycling company. Students
Western Academy students thank Costa Farms. at Western Academy were also excited to be part of something so global that they jumped right in to be a part of the Great American Cleanup and the International Coastal Cleanup. April is Earth Month, and Western Academy will be celebrating its award during Earth Week,
April 17 to April 24, with a lineup of activities designed to bring awareness to environmental causes. Western Academy is proud of its accomplishments and is now focusing on becoming a Green School of Excellence next year. Visit www.westernacademy charter.com for more info.
Seminole Ridge Hosts Junior Parent Night Seminole Ridge High School partnered on April 5 with Palm Beach Central, Royal Palm Beach and Wellington high schools to host a Junior Parent Night. More than 200 families — parents and their junior students from the four schools — had the opportunity to learn about the college admissions process and financial aid resources from the 30 colleges and community agencies represented at the event. Choral Groups Earn High Ratings — Congratulations to the Seminole Ridge choral ensembles and soloists for earning high ratings from the Florida Vocal Association at the state music performance assessments. Receiving an overall Excellent rating were the Musagetes chamber ensemble, the Musagetes varsity show choir
and the LadyHawks barbershop quartet. Receiving Superior ratings were musical theater soloists Rowan Pelfrey and Gianna Spado. Receiving Superior with Honors, the highest possible rating, were the Philammonus men’s show choir and musical theater soloist Jordaine Randon. In other chorus news, the SRHS chapter of the Tri-M Music Honor Society has chosen its officers for the coming school year. Congratulations to President Rowan Pelfrey, Vice President Danielle Parks, Secretary Antonia Spado, Treasurer Jordaine Randon and Historian Zachary Vera. Hawks Build a Better Mousetrap — The Seminole Ridge science and engineering club SECME competed April 9 against other district high schools in the annual
Parents at Seminole Ridge High School’s Junior Parent Night. county-wide SECME Olympiad at ter-powered rockets, and the Brain Santaluces High School. Bowl. The Hawks’ mousetrap car, Olympiad events included created by the team of Josh Heerbuilding a generator, making a mance, Josh Rice, Emanuel St. mousetrap car, creating a ban- Aubin and Noah Stephens, earned ner, building and launching wa- an honorable mention.
PALM BEACH CENTRAL SGA ATTENDS STATE EVENT
Congratulations to the Palm Beach Central High School Student Government Association (SGA) members who recently attended the Florida Association of Student Councils state convention. At the event, the students were awarded first place in Environmental Concerns for their Jeans into Shoes Drive, first place in School Service for the Career Fair, and the Gold Council Medallion. Special kudos to SGA advisor Ailyn Barrios. Shown right are students Marissa Latouche, Rachel Berman, Eliss Contreas, Paige Talalay, Jessica Elpedes, Gabby Graydon, Gabriella Hotaling, Jordyn Chatoff, Summer Boltz, Julie Morell, Angelique Gonzalez, Jackie Berman, Samantha Chaves, Nya Jones, Anthony Talalay, Jeremy Stein, Chase Bomar, Alex Delavega, Gianna Forgione, Tatyanna Williams and Savannah Tota with advisors Ailyn Barrios and Alexandre Cordeiro.