School News

PRINCETON – They came in dresses, gowns, tuxedos and suits; color-coordinated or celebrating their own style. The occasion was the 2017 Franklin High School prom, held at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, here.

BRIDGEWATER – School kids from the township were featured June 3 at the Somerset Patriots’ baseball game at TD Bank Ballpark here. The kids and their parents took part in a mini parade around the ballpark, a local dance company performed, an elementary school principal threw out one of the first picthes and a Franklin High School student sand the …

About 150 students at Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School showed off their best work Jun3 in the school’s first Innovation Day. Students at the school, located on Pierce Street, were free to choose what projects they wanted to work on. Their choices ran the gamut from a hybrid of music and botany to computer programming to science.

Slime, snakes, moon rocks and ghost crystals? Must be a science fair.

Representatives from the school district’s 3rd Grade classes were among those who participated in a June 2 “beam signing” ceremony at the Claremont Road School construction site. The beam, specially painted white so the signatures could be more easily seen, was later placed in the area that will become the school’s second-floor library.

More than 100 people gathered in the Franklin High School gym to cheer on the 2016-17 Lady Warriors’ basketball team one more time. This wasn’t for a game, this was a celebratory dinner, the highlight of which was the awarding of 2017 state championship rings to the team.

Submited by Tyffini Furlong, Stella Lorduy-Ayala and Kiera Radvanski. On May 27, the Franklin Middle School was represented incredibly well in Dorney Park at the Music In The Parks Competition.

Elizabeth Avenue students got a mini-vacation May 26, when their annual field day festivities had to be moved to Franklin High School. The move was necessary because of construction going on at the elementary school, school officials said.

About 200 people were expected to show up May 19 for Franklin Park School’s celebration of the world’s cultures. The school’s International Night featured tables of food, performances and displays from different countries.

Hillcrest Elementary School is competing to win a playground made from recycled oral care waste through the fourth annual Recycled Playground Challenge, courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive, ShopRite, and recycling company TerraCycle. Hillcrest Elementary School will earn one ‘Playground Credit’ for each unit of oral care waste, such as empty toothpaste tubes and floss containers, sent to TerraCycle for recycling, according to …