Ocean City Elementary School students in Laura Black’s kindergarten class and Wendi Eitel’s third grade class meet each week for Buddy Readers. This is an opportunity to celebrate the reading accomplishments of kindergarten students as they embrace the love of reading. Pictured are third grader Brantley McKenna and kindergartener Landon Bounds.
Lower School students, from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 5, eagerly lined up earlier this month to visit with Santa and give gifts to those in need at Diakonia. Hundreds of gifts were donated to Diakonia’s two homeless shelters in West Ocean City, Maryland that provide emergency and transitional housing, food services and counseling for their guests. … Read more »
To help make the holidays a little warmer for those less fortunate in the community, Worcester Prep’s Student Government Association and National Honor Society sponsored a “Pajama Drive” for the Pajama Program Eastern Shore Chapter. Upper School students collected more than 200 pairs of pajamas to be distributed in the tri-county area. Above right, Hannah… Read more »
Berlin Intermediate School students in After School Academy Random Acts of Kindness club put together blessing bags for the local homeless community, using funds and supplies donated through a casual day donation. Students added their own words of encouragement to each bag.
Worcester Preparatory School’s Volunteers organization sponsored a gift drive to collect presents for Worcester County G.O.L.D. (Giving Other Lives Dignity), a non-profit organization that provides financial aid to families in crisis, vulnerable adults and children in foster care. Pictured, front from left, above left, are Maddy Warren, Sarah Butler, Carly Young, Arusa Islam, Lexi Willey… Read more »
More than 500 Worcester Prep students collected canned goods, non-perishable food, and monetary donations to purchase meat products for the Annual Food Drive sponsored by the WPS Student Government Association. The goods were provided to seven distribution centers located in Maryland and Delaware that feed those in need during the holiday season. Pictured, from left,… Read more »
Berlin Intermediate Principal Ryan M. Cowder and a few students showed off some holiday cheer before school dismissed for break. Cowder is pioctured with Hailey Renshaw, Niyah Adams and Zoe Hinkle. Photo by Marlene Luckenbaugh.
Students and staff at Ocean City Elementary School collected nonperishable food items for the Maryland Food Bank. Students were encouraged to make a sacrifice in order to donate to someone in need. First graders Lee McAteer, Alyssa Raffo, Haylee Salandanan, Hayden Dorsey and Gabriel Dula are pictured helping to load the items.
Several Worcester Prep art students placed in the 2018 Eastern Shore Classic Dog Show Art Contest, which connects student and canine through artistic expression. Students in lower school art teacher Rebecca Tittermary’s and middle/upper school art teacher George Zaiser’s classes placed in all but two categories, capturing five first place ribbons and four top honors including… Read more »
Sixth grade students STEM students Dylan Cannon and Evan Frye demonstrate the cardboard pinball game they built as their second term project at Berlin Intermediate School. The students researched various arcade games and recreated their own using cardboard as their basic building component. Some students chose to recreate DIY games for which they found patterns on… Read more »
