|
Harding
Students Lay Down the Law During Law Week
2010
Debates, Mock Trials
Teach Students About the American Justice
System
Harding
High
School
Students preparing for trial
Students,
teachers, administrators from Harding’s Law and Public Service
Academy, community organizations and speakers came together back in
May to participate in Law Week 2010. This educational experience is
a week-long program dedicated to promoting the understanding of the
law and the American justice system through student-run programs,
events, speakers, and community service activities. It was designed
and implemented by the Law and Public Service Academy Advisory
Council, was an opportunity for the entire Academy to come together
as one group for the entire week and celebrate its main objectives
and goals.
Law
Week kicked off with a keynote address, "Justice for All" from the
Honorable Eddie Rodriguez of the Connecticut Superior Court to
Law
Academy
students. Several other special events took place during the
week, including a formal live debate, where students debated the
issues of alternative energy and the death penalty. During Community
Service Action Day, over 150 Law Academy students gave back to their
community by volunteering at various locations around Bridgeport,
while the Law Academy Career Fair was a great chance for students to
gain useful information about the diverse careers in law. And,
towards the end of the week, students participated in the Law
Olympics on the field.
A special
highlight of the week took place when 8th graders were invited to
see the Law Academy students perform a
mock trial of the Three Little Pigs vs the Big Bad Wolf in the
auditorium. A set resembling a courtroom, designed and
constructed by the Wood and Art Departments, helped to enhance
the feeling of a real trial.
Overall,
this year's Law Week was a major
success.
The
Law and Public Service Academy has been an integral part of the
Warren
Harding High School learning community
since 2003. Since then it has grown to be a four-year academy
that draws from the general population of the school. At its
inception, it drew only one hundred freshman students; now it has
almost four hundred students in ninth through twelfth grade.
Today, the academy prides itself in servicing the entire Harding
community but in a smaller school
setting.
BOE
Board President Barbara Bellinger takes a candid photo with BPEF
2010 Award recipients
BPEF
2010 Teacher Recognition &
Celebration
The
Bridgeport Public Education Fund
Honors Outstanding Bridgeport
Teachers
at a
Special Event
Congratulations
to the following educators who were honored at the 2010 Outstanding
Teacher Event:
Vae
Champagne, Harding High
School
Kathleen
Cramer, Columbus School
Frances
Kochiss, Black Rock School
Dave
Meyer, Columbus School
Kimberly
Quinn, Multicultural Magnet
School
James
Reilly, Central High
School
Sandra
Sarmiento, Multicultural Magnet
School
Lorraine
Wojchik, Multicultural Magnet
School
George
Bellinger Leadership Award 2010 winner
Lucille
Sekara, Principal, Hallen
School
Elizabeth
M. Pfriem Civic Award 2010 winner
Barbara
Edinberg, Assistant Director, Bridgeport
Child Advocacy
Coalition
Park
City
Magnet Students Shine at
This
Year's Science Olympics
Students Use Their
Science Skills to Solve
Challenges
 
Laurelton
Hall’s May 16th Spring Science
Olympics for area sixth through eighth grade
girls was a great success for first time participants from Park City
Magnet. Students from several Connecticut towns competed in four
events using problem solving including topics from chemistry,
biology, meteorology and physics. The hands-down favorite was
estimating the number of M & M’s in an irregularly shaped
jar. What made it a favorite? The winning team got a chance to
bring home and enjoy the delicious treat after the
competition. Most of the students were already talking about
entering the Fall competition and their strategies for the new
challenges.
Park
City Magnet’s sixth grade Nanotechnologists’
group developed a formula to determine the number of candies in the
jar. Their estimate proved to be the exact number which was a
tribute to their math and science skills. The seventh grade
Botanists’
team said the density challenge was the most difficult. The eighth
grade Arteries
won third place in their grade level.
Congratulations
to the Park City Magnet students for their hard work!
Read
School
Students Create
"Books
of Hope" for Children in Uganda
June's
Service Learning Project Helps Read Students Go Beyond
Borders
Books
created by students
The
students at Read
School in Bridgeport, Connecticut are “Making a
Difference, One Student at a Time!” The 8th grade students and
Mrs. Ruggiero’s kindergarten class are continuing to sponsor a
service learning program throughout the school year. And during the
month of June, the students created “Books of Hope” to send to the
students in Uganda, Africa. This is the fourth year that
Read
School students
have been creating “Books of
Hope.
This service
learning project was unique in that the students chose to organize
this on their own. After organizing a group of students, the young
scholars began to brainstorm what they could do for their
counterparts in Uganda. They wrote
a letter to their school principal, Mrs. McLeod, to ask if they
could have a Dress Down Day fundraiser to help raise money to send
supplies to the students in Uganda.
Special
guests included David Waangard from the School of
Ethical
Education and BPS Superintendent John J.
Ramos, Sr. who attended the Books of Hope celebration earlier this
month.
|
