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 »
When Stephen Decatur High School senior Samantha Stephan, pictured above, watched her 3-year-old cousin battle childhood leukemia, she knew that she wanted to do something to help the thousands of families who visit St. Jude’s Research Hospital every year. That calling came in the form of a toy drive for children, from infancy to age… Read more »
Worcester Prep kindergarten teacher Angie Bunting and her students studied the monarch butterfly lifecycle while raising them in their classroom. As part of a fall science project, students watched the eggs hatch into caterpillars, which then munched continuously on milkweed plants. One by one, fattened caterpillars crawled to the top to form a “J” and… Read more »
Students in Jennifer Fohner’s pre-kindergarten class at Ocean City Elementary School are working on retelling stories. Students used flannel boards, props and masks to help retell the stories, The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Berlin Intermediate School recently held a School Spirit Day for Diabetes Awareness in November. The students and staff wore the color blue to support four BIS Strong-Type 1 Diabetes Girls. Pictured, from left, are Principal Ryan Cowder, Kazia Milewski, Bailey Griffin, Aiya Hessain, BIS School Counselor Michelle Bankert, BIS Nurses Patty Spangler and Amanda Bradford.
