School News

More than 100 Hillcrest Elementary School students received backpacks and school supplies Sept. 8, just in time for the start of the new school year. The backpacks came courtesy of a program run by state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17), who solicited donations from businesses and organizations. Danielsen is distributing a total of 800 backpacks to schools in all five towns …

Students at Franklin Park School Sept. 7 got to meet a real-life G.I. Joe, in the form of the father of one of their school mates. Capt. Yemi Daramola, an 11-year Army veteran, was feted by students and staff at the school as he prepares to leave for his second deployment to the Middle East. Daramola’s son, Joseph, is a …

Faced with student opposition to aggressive enforcement of existing policies and some new procedures – opposition manifested in an online petition with more than 1,000 signatures – the new Franklin High School principal is planing to convene a committee of students and parents to discuss their concerns. In a letter that is planned to be sent to parents on Sept. 7, …

Suzanne J Schatz received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, Shuwen Zhang received a Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography and Nicolas Frank Accardi received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations, General Business at the University of Rhode Island’s 130th Commencement on Saturday and Sunday, May 21-22, 2016. The township residents were among about 3,300 undergraduate and 700 graduate …

Incoming Franklin High School freshmen weren’t the only ones nervous on the first day of school Sept. 1. Joining the ranks of having first-day jitters was the school’s new principal, Cheryl Clark. Clark and other school officials were outside in the light rain, welcoming students as they came off buses and made their way into the building. “Good morning, welcome!” …

Madeline Smith qualified for Belmont University’s Summer 2016 Dean’s List. Eligibility for the summer session is based on a minimum 9-hour course load over 10 weeks and a quality grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C. Belmont Provost Dr. Thomas Burns said, “This achievement indicates that these students have placed a high priority on their work …

Submitted by Cheryl Zanone. Emily Amon, a 4th Grade Teacher at the Franklin Park Elementary School, was among 22 educators selected by the New Jersey Science Teachers Association to attend a week-long professional development workshop held at Rowan University in Glamssboro. The workshop was entitled, “Preparing Elementary Teachers to Implement the Next Generation Science Standards.” The NGSS and the New Jersey Model …

One side effect of the new Franklin Middle School schedule, administrators say, is that it will relieve students of the need to carry backpacks through the school. And that suits FMS principal Reginald Davenport just fine. “I have a real problem with kids carrying backpacks all day long,” he said. “I don’t want anything to happen in the classes. It’s …

Come Sept. 1, Franklin Middle School students will be greeted with a new schedule, one designed to decrease hall congestion and allow teachers to focus on students. The schedule will divide the roughly 1,100 students in grades 7 and 8 into four “teams” in each grade of about 125 students each. Each student team will have assigned to it an …

Township resident Kiana Smith was awarded the Davison Prize at Wilbraham & Monson Academy’s Prize Day on May 27. The Davison Prize is awarded each year to a student who is to return to the Wilbraham, Mass. Academy for the following year and who has shown in his or her school relationships a marked capacity for leadership, cooperation and helpful …