Please scan the QR code below to sign up, and celebrate former teacher Scott Bowden!!! Scott not only has become our historical resource for everything West Side, but his dedication to the West Side Run has never wavered for 31 years and counting! Please consider joining and signing up - see you at the annual West Side Run! Click link to sign up (or click QR code) https://runsignup.com/Race/NY/Syosset/WestSideRun
Thank you to the community for coming out on April 8 for our monthly Board of Education meeting. This month, it was a privilege to hear from our Goosehill Primary students, who voiced their “loudest and proudest” reciting the pledge of allegiance! They regaled us with all they do at their school and shared photos of so many wonderful events. It is always a pleasure and highlight of the evening to hear from our students. The Board recognized many accomplishments and honored students with certificates for their exceptional dedication to academics and athletics....
District office currently has a fabulous showcase of student artwork K-12 – please stop by to see our student artwork posters! There are examples of advanced drawing and painting, landscapes, digital mosaics, fashion and more… At the Jr./Sr. High School, Studio Art classes were inspired by color wheels with acrylic paints, and 2-point perspective works in watercolor, pencil and oil pastels. Grade 8 created abstract Frank Stella designs, and the Gottschalk Gallery has an amazing display inspired by our recent Literary Luncheon Author visit, with sea life inspired by her book Remarkably Bright Creatures. Please stop by! At Goosehill our youngest tried their hand at Frank Stella abstracts and Paul Cezanne still lives. The halls are covered with these bright and creative young masterpieces. Thank you to all for continuing to share your talents! And don’t forget – the CSH Library Student Art Exhibits continues through the month of April!
Learning in Action! Elementary teachers across the district are continuing to participate in regular professional learning sessions with consultants from Literacy Strategies Consulting. In work sessions and lab sites, teachers are learning how to best meet the needs of students by using data from assessment conferences, read-aloud assessments, and STAR reports. This data helps teachers plan and deliver small-group instruction responsive to individual student goals such as accuracy, fluency, and both narrative and expository comprehension strategies. Strategy lessons are actionable and support independent practice. The benefit of having a dedicated K–6 Literacy Coach available across all elementary schools is evident in the accessibility and continuity of support provided to teachers. Kristen Sewell, elementary Literacy Coach, follows up with teachers after consultant sessions to guide, support, and practice and reinforce instructional practices. Working with two grade levels at a time, Ms. Sewell helps form strategy groups, models lessons, and coaches into teachers’ instruction. She explains, “Students can walk away from a strategy lesson and immediately try out the strategy in their texts. We are growing readers. Students' ownership as they practice their strategies has been amazing.”...
The White House would certainly be proud of the spirit of America celebrated in CSH! The Symbols of America celebration is one of the most adorable declarations of Patriotism shared by our second graders. It’s a huge deal for second graders when they reach their unit on the history of our nation and the Symbols of America to be recognized and honored. The culminating event is their performance in the PAC at the Jr./Sr. High School. West Side and Lloyd Harbor students come together to join forces on stage to entertain with songs and educate with stories and trivia about our nation for their family members in the audience. Each class dressed in red, white or blue and together they united to put on quite a show! The Principals of Lloyd Harbor and West Side beamed with pride, as well as the classroom teachers who prepared them so beautifully for the task at hand as everyone was treated to a delightful morning on Apri. So many interesting facts were shared!...
We are pleased to announce that select students were chosen to represent Goosehill, Lloyd Harbor and West Side Schools at the gallery in the Cold Spring Harbor Public Library! The student art exhibit showcases the students’ creativity and talent in the primary and elementary schools. The show will run from March 29-April 29 and is located on the lower level in the gallery area and the small meeting room. A reception will take place at the Cold Spring Harbor Public Library in honor of the students on Tuesday, April 8th from 6:30-8:00 pm. All are welcome to support and congratulate the artists.
For the third year, West Side and Lloyd Harbor School participated in the KidOYO Upper Elementary Code Conquest Hackathon. The competition is a creative coding event that brings skill-based learning into a strategic game play format inspired by the game of Risk. For 3 hours, fourth and fifth grade Cold Spring Harbor students took on coding challenges in Sprite Editor and Hatch! (similar to Scratch from MIT), to fight back the British at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In this fast-paced competition, our students competed against 19 teams deemed the best of the best from local LI districts...
Both Lloyd Harbor and West Side School proudly represented CSH at the North Shore Math Olympiad Invitational. Each team competed at the Middle School level in four rounds of competition. This included a STEM round, an individual round, a team challenge and a mixed team event. These math lovers put themselves to task for problems of the week and monthly challenges at their respective schools. At West Side, Kerry Markin shared, “We want students to see themselves as problem solvers and mathematicians. Each week, students are encouraged to participate in problems of the week, in order to prepare them for their monthly Olympiad Challenges. We celebrate progress, participation, determination, knowledge and grit. We encourage failure! Watching kids collaborate and challenge each other is a joy to witness.” The journey doesn’t end here—the Math Olympiads teams are gearing up to compete at both the Suffolk County and Nassau County Math Tournaments. Stay tuned for more exciting updates from our rising math stars!...
