First grade students at Ocean City Elementary School along with student volunteers from Stephen Decatur High School enjoy the hippity-hop relay, which was one of the many different relays the students from grades pre-kindergarten through grade 4 participated in on Friday, June 1 for the school’s annual field day.
The Stephen Decatur High School Annual Mentoring Luncheon was held last month in the school cafeteria. Students and their mentors attended and enjoyed pizza, friendship, and prizes. Above, front from left, are mentors Jack Roub and Catherine Bocci and student Gabrielle Murray, and, back, students Jay Johnson and Delonte Bobbit.
Marion Chambers, right, representative of the Colonial Dames, has announced that Worcester Prep students Alex Lewis (second from left), Ocean City and Jackie Wangel, Berlin, will receive a week-long, all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. to study the government first hand. With Chambers and the winners is Dr. Barry Tull, Headmaster.
Worcester Prep Alumna Leigh Remy, ’03, a senior at Vanderbilt University with a double major in Voice and English, treated Worcester Prep Lower School students to a performance of show tunes and operatic selections. The young students had a great time talking with Remy about her studies in music. The program was sponsored by Nancy… Read more »
Worcester Prep Grade 5 teacher Erika Phillips, Ocean City, was awarded a grant from Exxon-Mobil to support her unit on flight and rocketry. Here the students show some of their designs for paper planes and kites they’ve made so far in the unit. Pictured, first row from left, are Daniel Rosa, Lewes; Alex Scott, Lewes;… Read more »
Worcester Prep third grade student Neva Richardson recently earned first place on every event at the 2007 Level 4 Maryland State Championships in St. Mary’s, Md. to become State Champion on all five events. Her all-around score of 38.675 is the highest all-around ever scored in any compulsory gymnastic meet in Maryland and earned her… Read more »
Logan Figgs and Hailey Brown in Bess Cropper’s class at Ocean City Elementary are pictured using technology in the classroom. Students take tests on books they have read, make cards for special occasions, produce reports on assigned subjects, develop PowerPoint projects to present to classmates and much more.
Worcester Preparatory Lower School’s theme of “Values and Virtues” was highlighted throughout the school year as children in Preschool through Grade 5 learned about and discussed the importance of good values. The program features character education, along with manners and the social graces. One of the activities for “Values & Virtues” was Worcester’s participation in… Read more »
Ocean City Elementary School held its May Students of the Month Luncheon on Thursday, May 24. One student from each class was chosen by the classroom teachers to be honored in May. The students were first graders, first row from left, Jessica Blancas-Chavez, Jesse Keen, Ismael Bonola, Emily Ramanus, Sammy Rupert; second graders, second row… Read more »
Two Worcester Prep students, sophomore Niki Kunciw, Ocean Pines, and eighth grader Billy Tyler, Berlin, were honored at the national level for their writing in the DAR’s Jamestown 400th Anniversary competition. Niki’s poem won First Place in the nation after capturing local, state, and regional honors. Billy’s essay received local, state, and regional honors and… Read more »