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John M. Marshall Elementary

For Veterans Day, students will be raising money for the Wounded Warrior Project that purchases backpacks for soldiers who are returning home to hospitals, and for Honor Flight, which flies World War II veterans to Washington, D.C. to see the World War II Memorial. Money will be raised by selling a patriotic pin designed by the students.

By creating books about their families, the first-graders in Mrs. Kraus’s class last week integrated the social studies theme through writing. They shared pictures and are learning to appreciate the role family plays in their lives and community.

The next All School meeting will take place on October 23 in the school gymnasium at 8:40.

Child Development Center

The school celebrates the 10th anniversary of its charter in 2010. In 2000, CDCH was the first school in the nation to apply for, and receive, a public charter as a school designed with a fully-integrated model. Classrooms at CDCH are made up of gifted, typical, and special needs students learning together.

“While it is wonderful that we can now celebrate our ten-year anniversary, we are even more proud of our recently confirmed academic success,” says Richard Malone, CDCH’s head of school. Malone is referring to the recent achievements of his students on New York State and other standardized exams.

As a Charter school, CDCH provides families from across Suffolk County with a public school choice. Families from more than 20 different East End school districts send their children to CDCH.

“We are really excited about where we have come to be,” says Richard Malone. “Now that we have established ourselves as an organization, and developed an innovative, successful educational program, our vision is to serve more students. We know there are many who need us, and we are here for them.”

A public celebration is being planned for January 2010.

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oss Upper School

The fifth grade learned about life as a student in East Hampton in the 1700s when Town Crier Hugh King came to visit on October 9. Dressed in colonial period costume, King discussed the history of Clinton Academy, the first private school in East Hampton, the courses offered there and the strict rules students were expected to follow.

The Middle School held its class elections last week. In the eighth grade, Arthur Brooke, Jacqueline Pape, James Bianco and Dierderque Van Der Knapp were elected. The seventh grade voted for Max Vinocur and Brenna Leaver. Nate Dombrowski and Kendall Scala were elected in the sixth grade; and Sami Habib and Chris Ragone were voted to represent the fifth grade. All the class reps will work with Chris Engel and Bill O’Hearn to plan social events and work on an agenda of issues to improve the school.

Ross held an exciting High School Sports Night on October 9, featuring the fourth annual ping pong tournament. It came down to two finalists. Boarding student Felipe Reis defeated last year’s runner-up and former champion Cole Katzner. Henry Lee played his semi-final round against the ping pong high school club student leader Oliver Culver. Felipe and Henry will meet for the final round on a date to be announced.

Meanwhile, this week in sports, Ross teams are hurting the competition. Varsity girls tennis beat Mattituck 6-1 last week and scored another win against Shoreham/Wading River this week 7-0. The Middle School girls soccer team is currently undefeated. Last week, they tied East Hampton and went on to shut out the Number 1 ranked Hampton Bays 4-0, with goals scored by Nikki Betuel, Brittany Pape and Sabrina McMenamin. Finally, the varsity sailing team is vying for the top spot, keeping the competition on their toes. Ross placed just one point out of first place competing against seven other teams in Port Jefferson recently. Later, they competed against 17 other teams from the region in a nationals qualifying regatta in New Jersey, placing in the top half on October 3.

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ast Hampton High School.

Homecoming was a rainy disaster for the East Hampton High School Marching Band, but cheered the football team on to victory nonetheless.

The Bonac Ladies Volleyball hosted its “Dig Pink” game, a fund-raiser for breast cancer.

This weekend is the Harvest Dance on Friday, followed by the annual Quilts of Valor, in which students make quilts to send to soldiers overseas.

Seniors interested in picture retakes must sign up for them in the main office; the retake date is November 2.

The Country School

Students in pre-nursery, nursery and pre-K learned about Diwali, the Festival of Lights, a holiday and national festival of India and Nepal, last week.

Anjali Chugh, a school mom with sons in pre-nursery and pre-K taught the pre-K children about Diwali and showed them how to decorate diyas, small clay pots that are used as “candles” to light up the city streets in honor of the return of Rama after 14 years of exile. The pre-nursery and nursery classes also decorated diyas and colored rangoli designs, a decorative art, traditionally sand-painting, commonly placed near doors or outside of homes as a sign of welcome.