School News Briefs Middle School News
Middle School Celebrates with Food Pantry Donations When they saw National Pizza Day coming on the calendar for February 9, 2021, Middle School Student Government decided to celebrate the day with fun, games, and donations to the Green Cove Springs Food Pantry. “Celebrating National Pizza Day was a lot of fun,” said Josh Lewis ’25 at morning announcements, “but it was the food drive leading up to Pizza Day that we are the most proud of.” Since fresh, hot pizzas are hard to donate, students instead collected
items for spaghetti dinners (to keep with the Italian theme). Homerooms competed to see which group could bring in the most donated items, with Lower School students pitching in as well. After the final tally, it was Grade 6 for the win, with Ms. Sachs’ homeroom coming out on top with 225 items donated and Mr. Burke’s homeroom with 179 items donated. “These top two homerooms contributed about 45% of the donations,” said Student Government sponsor
and Middle School math teacher Ms. Ashley Chancey, who thanked all the homerooms for their participation and their donations. In all, the food drive donated 915 items weighing 1,131 lbs to the Green Cove Springs Food Pantry. Middle School students celebrated the day with various games including pizza bingo, pizza box frisbee golf, and, of course, a tasty pizza lunch.
Williams Ties for 12th at Scripps After clinching the district spelling bee in February, Erik Williams ’25 went on to win his third First Coast Spelling Bee in March, earning him his second trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. At Scripps, Erik proceeded through the quarter finals to the semi finals, which took place on Sunday, June 27 and was broadcast by ESPN. After incorrectly spelling “orismology,” the science of defining technical terms, he ended up tied for 12th place out of 209 spellers—an incredible achievement for this very talented teen. Congratulations, Erik!
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