Tag: St. James School
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Students engage in Emancipation exhibit
The traveling exhibit, Emancipation and Its Legacies, which took up residence at Bishop George Ahr High School on March 15, challenged students from local elementary schools to the high school within the Diocese of Metuchen to engage with history and essentially become historians. The exhibition, on loan from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,…
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Metuchen school receives grant to fund STREAM program
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Testing car speeds with speed guns and air resistance with parachutes are the types of activities that fourth-graders at St. Francis Cathedral School are experiencing through the school’s STREAM club. STREAM stands for Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. The school’s club is the recipient of a…
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Grants to aid teachers, students in Woodbridge, Edison
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Three educators in Middlesex County will benefit from $2,500 Farmers Insurance grants for their students awarded by the company’s Thank America’s Teachers program. Mark Willenbrock, an instrumental music teacher at Colonia Middle School, Melissa McDonald, a fourth-grade teacher at St. James School in Woodbridge, and Deacon Richard Lutomski,…