Schools

What started out as an idea borne during a night on the school roof came to fruition April 21, with the ribbon-cutting of the new Pre-K and Kindergarten playground at MacAfee Road School. With students, staff and community members looking on, schools Superintendent John Ravally and two MacAfee students cut the ceremonial blue and gold ribbons marking the official opening …

Two robotics teams from Cedar Hill Preparatory School will be among the United States’ representatives in Leipzig, Germany at the end of June when they compete in the RoboCup Junior World Championship. The teams from the Cedar Grove Lane school won the RoboCup Junior USA Championship, held April 17 at Horace Mann School in New York City, for Best Overall and Best …

For the second consecutive year, a Franklin Middle School student has placed first in the state and in the top five nationally in a financial literacy competition. Reynaldo Espinoza, an 8th Grader at the school, won the honors in the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Foundation’s InvestWrite competition. Espinoza won with an essay about creating an App called …

Performers and musicians are putting the final touches this week on the Franklin High School production of “Mary Poppins,” the story of a magical nanny and her affect on one family in Edwardian London. The show, complete with a flying Mary Poppins, runs at 7:30 p.m. on April 8, 9, 15 and 16, and 2:30 p.m. on April 10 and …

A group of students from Central Jersey College Prep Charter School recently received a taste of college life, thanks to a visit to Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The trip was arranged by a CJCP teacher, Ms. Jimenez, who brought 43 of the school’s 11th Grade students. During the trip, the students first went to the Rutgers Student Activities Center on College Avenue, …

Elizabeth Avenue School received one of 83 grants under a new program designed to support educational field trips. The school received $700 for a 3rd Grade trip to the Somerset County Environmental Center in Basking Ridge from the Community Foundation of New Jersey and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The two charities have created “Field Trip New Jersey,” a program …

Update: The brunch has been cancelled in favor of another event later in the year. .McAfee Road School alumni and current students and families are invited to attend a brunch to kick off the 50th anniversary celebration at the school on March 13. The brunch is set from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Diners will be entertained by the MacAfee …

Jordan Deavereaux was named to the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the fall semester 2015-2016. Deavereaux is studying in the applied computer technology program. Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean’s List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of “Incomplete”, “D” or “F”; and they have registered …

Cedar Hill Preparatory School on Cedar Grove Lane was the scene Feb. 13 for a day of debating. The event was the quarterly Garden State Debate League tournament for middle school students. The league – with the Jersey Shore Debate League – is one of two in the state affiliated with the California-based Middle School Public Debate Program, said Dee …

A proposal to bring the Franklin High School graduation ceremony back to the high school campus is scheduled to be discussed at the Board of Education’s Jan. 28 meeting. The proposal comes from Thomas DiGanci, the interim high school principal, and was enunciated in a letter he recently sent to high school seniors’ parents. “We are recommending to our Superintendent, …