Superintendent’s Report

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Highlights since our last board meeting:

Enrollment

 

 

Holmdel Township Public Schools

Board of Education Meeting

 

 

 Village School:  the Spirit Committee has done an excellent job promoting new ideas for the staff and students, including a recent “Spirit Color Day”.  All grade levels were designated to wear a different color to wear on Spirit Color Day.  The staff and students did a great job representing their individual grade levels with their color of the day.  The staff and students have also continued to do a great job with security drills.  Village School has now cycled through all the different drills.  They are very proud of the way everyone in the building has responded on each occasion!

 Indian Hill School: Ten Indian Hill Students competed in the annual Geography Bee, sponsored by National Geographic.  After several rounds of competition, a winner was announced.  He will now take a qualifying test to compete in the state-wide competition.  The PLG decorated the Indian Hill lobby with a wonderful bulletin board that captures the details of the event.

22 Indian Hill students qualified for the Knowledge Master’s Open Winter Competition.  Student try-outs consisted of a written examination and will be followed by a team-based online competition.  This year’s Indian Hill team will be competing against a variety of schools both nationally and internationally.

 The physical education department has provided new recess equipment for Indian Hill students.  The new equipment can be enjoyed by students of all three grades during outdoor recess during the warmer days.

 The Winter Boardwalk will be held Friday, February 10, 2012, from 5:00pm to 9:00pm.  There will be boardwalk games, food, a classroom basket auction, and a Grand Prize Raffle with wonderful prizes!  So please come out and support this event, it is the biggest fundraiser of the year.

 

W. R. Satz:  We’re excited to announce that Spirit week and our first W. R. Satz School Pep Rally was a hugh success.  Overall, the students worked together as a team to decorate the hallways and motivate for school spirit.  Those who actively participated were enthusiastic and enjoyed the experience. Team Integrity won 1^st place (7^th grade team). The new school mascot made its first public appearance…thanks to our PSG for helping to make that possible!  There was an article on written in the Holmdel Patch about the event.  Special thanks goes to Satz English teacher, Ms. Semler, for all her hard work and preparation.

 Congratulations to the William R. Satz School students for winning an award in the 2011 American Mathematics Competition AMC 8:

 

Location: Holmdel High School Auditorium

Dates/Times: Friday, January 27, 7PM

Saturday, January 28, 3PM* and 7PM

Tickets: $5 for students/seniors; $7 for adults

*children’s presale tickets only for Saturday afternoon = $3 per child

Email acolannino@holmdelschools,org for presales

 

Satz students proudly presents the musical, Alice in Wonderland, Jr. at the high school auditorium this weekend.  Performances are as follows: Friday at 7:00 PM, Saturday at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM. There will be special seating arrangements for Village School Students at the 3pm show. The students are excited about their whimsical costumes and are confident they will wow the crowd with their performance.  The HCAA will be providing refreshments.

 

High School:  tomorrow night (Jan. 26^th) the My Three Sons Foundation, along with the HHS Athletic Dept., is sponsoring a “Night of Hoops” event  during the Boys Basketball game vs. Rumson-Fair Haven (6:30 pm).  The objective is to foster a “celebration” of our tremendous school spirit, as well as to raise awareness and funds for Project Graduation, the annual, post-graduation party for seniors.  Student admission is FREE and all proceeds will go to this worthy cause.  The team is off to a fantastic start so far this season, sporting a 12-2 record, and the game promises to be very well-played, so we hope everyone will take a STUDY BREAK from exams and join us. See you there!

 Congratulations to Holmdel High School Athletic Director Randy Westrol, who was honored by the NJSIAA at its annual awards ceremony in December for his tireless and meritorious service to high school athletics. Congratulations Mr. Westrol, on this well-deserved Honor.

 Science League is off to a tremendous start! At their first meet, HHS students took first place in all six categories - Biology 1, Biology 2, Chemistry 1, Chemistry 2, Physics 1 and Physics 2.  Congratulations to all the participants, and to their teachers!