The John Jay Theater Workshop dazzled audiences this past weekend with its spring musical production of Xanadu ! Set in Venice Beach in the 1980s, the stage came ...
How much cheese does it take to jump? How much chocolate does it take to squat? How many eggs does it take to walk? Seniors in Jim Panzer’s environmental physics class have be...
The fifth graders listened attentively to author Valerie Goldstein read “Violet’s Victory,” the empowering story of a violet-haired hero who uses an adaptive bicycle to compete in ...
Lunchtime means downtime! Indie from Ridgefield Operation Animal Rescue joined students during common lunch. Students and staff enjoyed spending time with her, petting her and g...
Increase Miller’s annual third-grade balloon parade is inspired by “Balloons Over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet, the nonfiction picture book about Tony Sarg, the puppeteer who invent...
Thank you to the Westchester County Police Department, School Resource Officer Brett Schlosser and STOP DWI for bringing the Westchester County Police DWI Simulator to John Jay’s ...
Adam Choper, Director of Westchester County’s Hilltop Hanover Farm, passed out pappus, white fluffy seed heads, from Showy Goldenrod for the seventh-grade students in Christina Co...
First graders were bursting with excitement! They walked into the school assembly, glanced towards their fourth-grade buddy classes who were already seated and, with little waves ...
Teams of sixth graders sat at tables throughout the library, immersed in planning the worst Ancient Mesopotamian pilgrimages, ever. A herd of cows blocks the travelers’ way, a dus...
Midway through Jonathan Kruk’s storytelling, the action shifted. He called students to the front, and they became a king, a princess, princes-turned trees, and a magical bird … sl...
Imagine gaining an inside look at the construction and design of modular homes—in a factory space the size of several football fields! That’s what John Jay’s third year architectu...
The smiles on the fifth graders faces, as they paraded around the gym with floats they’d created to tell the American story, said it all. Pride, accomplishment and pure fun. The ...
When the student Ambassadors took the stage at Meadow Pond to run the all-school Community Meeting, they ad-libbed, hammed it up and had fun—hallmarks of their growing confidence ...
Bonds of love crisscrossed Increase Miller Elementary’s cafeteria this morning. The room was packed with parents and other important people, all gathered to enjoy the first grade ...
The lights dim, and the spare appearance of a barn, with clean lines and a hayloft, where a group of tradespeople have been gathered, is transformed. A soft violet glow sets off a...
Fifty Days of School! Second graders at Katonah Elementary celebrated the milestone with a trip to the 1950s. The fun began the moment they walked into their classrooms, many wear...
Watching bowing technique from just a few feet away, noting how musicians use eye contact and head motions to communicate with each other, listening to a world-class performance i...
The mood was jubilant as the Wolves celebrated three student athletes on November 12, National Signing Day—the first day that a high school senior can sign a binding National Lett...