Students in the Kingsford Park “Kids Care” Club recently organized a fundraising week of “Jogging Suits for JDRF” (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) in effort to raise awareness and support of fellow classmates who deal with the everyday challanges of managing diabetes.
The students and seniors have been writing to each other twice a month this school year getting to know each other, and talking about everything from hobbies to current events. The pairs recently met face to face in the culmination of a year long pen pal program called KPS Connections.
Kingsford Park Elementary School students Victoria Crisafulli, Willow-Su Knapp and Caitlin Lilly were joined by teachers Patty Dixon and Chris Castiglia as the students celebrated their awards in the annual Oswego Reading Council Writing Contest.
In conjunction with the National Schools Project, Melissa Hopkins and Patricia Dixon’s class at the Kingsford Park Elementary School wrote Haiku poems for the 2011 Young American Poetry Contest.
The top three finishers in the school-wide competition are Anna Langlois (second place), Jeremy Braiman (first place) and Claudia Chetney (third place).
Kingsford Park Elementary School sixth graders are heading to Oswego Middle School.
Oswego High School graduating seniors Griffin Mervine and Brian Walczak were awarded $500 each in scholarship dollars from the KPS Home and School at the recent OHS Awards Ceremony.
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