If you are coming to the Verona Board of Education meeting tonight, plan on showing up a little bit early. The jazz band from H.B. Whitehorne Middle School will be providing some pre-meeting entertainment starting at 7:45 p.m. Tonight’s meeting should also include a BOE decision on whether or not Verona’s public schools will...
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Hebe Schafer, social worker at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School, is rolling out a new series of lectures designed to help the parents of children in middle school, and the first presentation is this Thursday, January 5. The Safety Net Parenting Lecture Series is an outgrowth of the Safety Net Project, a three-year collaboration between...
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We have a message to pass along from Brian Michalowski, one of H.B. Whitehorne’s music teachers: The delivery of desserts sold by the fifth and eighth graders for the HBW Music Fundraiser has been rescheduled from Tuesday to Friday. Parents will be able to pick up cheesecakes at 2:45 p.m. “The sixth and eighth...
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H.B. Whitehorne Middle School is bringing in experts in social skills and mental health this Thursday, October 27, to kick off its Family Health Fair and Lecture series. The title of the first lecture, which will run from 7 to 8 p.m. will be ” Understanding Your Child’s Social & Emotional Needs During the...
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If you’ve watched any amount of Disney television, you’ve come away thinking that middle school is a time of stress, anxiety, uncertainty, food fights, fashion faux pas and more stress. Little kids are forced overnight to become big kids, mingling in a school with often much bigger kids. Middle school kids have a daunting...
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Throughout a students’ eighth grade year, there really isn’t much new to expect. Eighth grade year can go by smoothly if a student can balance school work, friends, family and after-school activities. This can be very simple: The only secret to that is that a student should not bite off more than they can...
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There’s a first for everything. Whether it’s your first time learning to read, your first time riding a bike, or your first day of school, the first step is always a bit scary. Going into grade seven, kids always have worries. Are the teachers mean? Will we get a lot of homework? Is the...
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In my opinion, going from 4th to 5th grade was more of a change than going from 5th to 6th. By now you should be used to all the differences, such as new lockers and bigger rooms and where to go. In both 5th and 6th grades, you stay to your own sections of...
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Many things ran through my head when I was going into fifth grade. I was very excited to get my schedule. I was very happy to hear about my teachers and what kind of things we would be doing this year. Of course though I was nervous going in to fifth grade–it is a...
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If your child is headed to middle school in the fall, you’ll want to make time to attend “Middle School Transitions: What You Need to Know”, a program being put on by the Verona Municipal Alliance Committee. The session is this Thursday, June 9, in the Fireman’s Room on the second floor of the...
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