Katharine Schroeder photo | Three performances of “Disney’s High School Musical on Stage” will take place at Mattituck High School.

Mattituck High School Musical Theater Company proudly presents “Disney’s High School Musical on Stage” beginning Thursday in the Mattituck High School auditorium.

The family-friendly show is based on the 2006 Disney movie and it features a large cast of talented students and teachers. Tickets are available at the door for $10 and $5 for kids 12 and under.

Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Additional performances are Friday and Saturday. The show is directed by Anne Gilvarry and Jacob Fowle.

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Senator John Flanagan addresses superintendents and other educators at Saturday morning’s annual Regional Legislative Breakfast at Longwood Middle School. (Michael White photo)

With concerns pouring in from parents, teachers, and students over the implementation of the Common Core Standards initiative in New York State, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday announced the formation of a panel to review the rollout of the standards within the state.

The Common Core Implementation Panel, which he first proposed during his State of the State address in January, includes both national experts as well as state legislators, parents, educators, and business and community leaders.

After the panels “speedy” review, it will deliver recommendations before the end of the legislative session in June, in an effort to improve what Mr. Cuomo has called a “flawed” implementation.

“The Common Core standards are a critical part of transforming New York’s schools, and the failure to effectively implement them has led to confusion and frustration among students and their families,” Mr. Cuomo said. “I urge the members of this panel to work speedily in bringing forward a set of actionable recommendations to improve the implementation of the Common Core.”

The initiative aims to better prepare students for college and careers by requiring instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age. It has been adopted by most states across the country.

Since its implementation, school officials across the state have heavily criticized the state Department of Education for pushing the new mandates before local districts were ready for them, among other complaints

The panel is made up of the following members:

− Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair)
− Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee)
− Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee)
− Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
− Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County)
− Alice Jackson-Jolley, Parent (Westchester County)
− Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College
− Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC)
− Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza
− Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island)
− Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project

From left, state Senator Ken LaValle, Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo at Saturday’s Longwood Legislative Breakfast in Middle Island. (Jennifer Gustavson photo)

State representatives are planning to focus their efforts this fiscal year on restoring school aid lost by a budget adjustment formula that has taken nearly $6.35 billion away from school districts since 2010.

During the 10th annual Longwood Regional Legislative Breakfast in Middle Island Saturday, local elected leaders addressed concerns from a crowd of school officials representing 28 districts in Suffolk County about restoring the Gap Elimination Adjustment, or GEA.

The GEA was first applied to the 2009-10 state budget as a way to reduce New York’s $10 billion deficit and the formula has worked by reducing the amount of aid school districts are entitled to, according to a presentation by Suffolk County School Superintendents Association president Roberta Gerold.

Ms. Gerold, who also serves as Middle Country School District’s superintendent, said her district has lost $42 million as a result of the GEA over the past four years and believes the adjustment “increases dependence on local property taxes to fund public schools.”

“We struggled to meet that tax levy cap by reducing programs,” Ms. Gerold said, referring to a state-mandated cap on property taxes. “If we had the aid that we were entitled to, we would have been able to get what we needed to provide our kids without increasing our tax levy so much.”

Schools across New York have lost a total of about $6.35 billion in school aid due to the GEA between the 2010 to 2013 fiscal years, she said. Long Island schools have lost nearly $992 million in aid through the GEA during that time periord, Ms. Gerold added.

[Ms. Gerold and Eastern Suffolk BOCES chief operating officer Julie Lutz also presented a video produced by Capital Region BOCES that explains how the GEA works. Click here to watch the video]

Long Island education advocates should not only lobby for the removal of the GEA, Ms. Gerold said, but they should also demand that the lost aid be restored at the same level it was taken and given back to the schools it was taken from — as opposed to redistributing it statewide.

Many of the local elected leaders siting on the panel said they planned to focus their efforts on restoring aid lost from GEA  and also criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo plan’s to provide each teacher rated “highly effective” through a newly mandated evaluation process with a $20,000 bonus, expanding universal pre-K and floating a technology bond referendum.

Assemblymen Steven Englebright (D-Setauket) called Mr. Cuomo’s $20,000 teachers bonus “a de facto bribe” and state Senator John Flanagan (R-East Northport) said that although he believes pre-K is an important initiative, he doesn’t believe the governor’s effort is timely.

When state Sentator Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) asked the audience if any of them believed the technology bond referendum was a good idea, no one’s hand went up.

New York State School Boards Association president David Little said he believed Mr. Cuomo’s should provide schools aid they are entitled to instead of coming up with new initiatives.

“When I first heard about the governor’s budget, I thought of this: The veterinarian and the taxidermist going into business together,” he said. “The sign out front says: ‘Either way, you’re getting your dog back.

“Well, when we get done with this process, we’re getting our dog back.”

Pick up Thursday’s paper for more on this story.

Total GEA reductions in local school aid (provided by the Suffolk County School Superintendents Association)

• Riverhead (-$9,831,474)
• Shoreham-Wading River (-$4,318,255)
• Mattituck-Cutchogue (-$1,635,223)
• Southold (-$1,074,303)
• Greenport (-$659,971)
• Oysterponds (-$206,708)

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Southold Historical Society is currently accepting applications from students in grades 10 through college for its Bainbridge Memorial Internship. 

The internship was created in honor of Mildred Bainbridge, a former board member and benefactor of the historical society. Applicants must reside in the Town of Southold and must complete 200 hours of service within the society’s committees. A $2,000 stipend will be awarded upon completion.

The internship begins in spring 2014 and continues through the fall. The application deadline is Feb. 28.

Applications are available at southoldhistoricalsociety.org  or call 765-5500 for more information.

The Story Pirates at Oysterponds Elementary School. Photo by Rachel Young.

“Can a piece of paper be a character in story?” the Brooklyn resident asked a group of 4- and 5-year-olds — 22 in all — who sat on a carpet in a corner of the classroom. “How about a toilet?”

Amid giggles, some of the children told Mr. Kanelis, 28, that neither of those things could be a character in a story. How silly, they said.

Just then, Mr. Kanelis turned to fellow Story Pirates actor Tim Platt and gave him a command.

“Tim, show me how to be a toilet,” he said. Opening his arms wide, Mr. Platt clapped his hands together, mimicking the action of a toilet seat being opened and closed.

“I’m a toilet,” he said in a baritone voice to the kids, who were now laughing uproariously. “I live in the bathroom.” “You see?”

Mr. Kanelis told the students. “Anything can be a character.” That concept — that anything can be a character — was the principal lesson the Oysterponds students learned one day last month when Mr. Kanelis, Mr. Platt and three other actors stopped by the school to work with individual classes on developing creative, sometimes outrageous stories with defi ned characters and plots.

The Story Pirates will take those stories and return to the school March 13, when they’ll act each one out using props.

“We’re going to do a group story the pre-K and kindergartners wrote and then we’ll do some stories written by individual kids, one for each grade,” Mr. Kanelis said.

Richard Malone, Oysterponds’ superintendent, said he was familiar with Story Pirates and endorsed them “on the spot” when some PTA members approached him about having the Manhattan-based group conduct a workshop with students.

“I think it’s a wonderful opportunity to help teachers learn ways of pulling ideas together and helping students become better writers,” he said. “Secondly, I think it’s connecting what kids enjoy as play with an understanding of what goes into theater. I think anytime you can use children’s ideas to create public displays you’re validating who they are and what their thinking is.”

Ms. Schoenstein said last Thursday that her students are still talking about the Story Pirates, two weeks after their initial visit.

“They still remember that anything can be a character,” she said. “We were just working on it today.”

The group’s visit was beneficial to her, too, Ms. Schoenstein said.

“I teach those things [like character development] but having Story Pirates in was so exciting for the kids,” she said. “It made me feel like I should be more animated when trying to present those things.”

Drumming up excitement is a great way to spark creativity in young children, Mr. Kanelis said.

“Real pirates think gold is treasure,” he told Ms. Schoenstein’s students. “We’re Story Pirates who think your imaginations are treasure.” 

ryoung@timesreview.com

Storyteller and teaching artist Queen Nur in Greenport Friday. (Rachel Young photo)

“Everybody has their own rhythm and everybody has their own style — and that’s what makes America so beautiful.”

That’s what nationally renowned storyteller and teaching artist Queen Nur told students from Greenport and Oysterponds elementary schools Friday during a performance celebrating Black History Month.

The event, coordinated by Floyd Memorial Library, Greenport Central Schools and the Greenport and Oysterponds PTAs, featured engaging stories, African and African-American oral traditions and songs about historical black figures from the United States, like former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman and scientist George Washington Carver.

“We’re all people and we should all share in our common welfare,” said Joe Cortale, children’s librarian at the library.

Mr. Cortale said this is the fifth or sixth year Greenport Central Schools has hosted events to celebrate Black History Month. He said Greenport High School students attended a similar assembly Friday morning that featured more detailed stories and music.

During the elementary school’s assembly, Karen Abdul-Malik, who lives in New Jersey and travels the country as “Queen Nur” to educate children about African and African-American history, engaged students with animated storytelling, singing and dancing. One story was a cautionary tale about a little girl who is accidentally separated from her family and is put inside the drum of a bad man, who forces her to sing.

The message, Ms. Abdul-Malik told the children, is that people should look out for one another.

During the assembly, she also involved children directly in the performance by using call-and-response techniques and asking them to clap their hands and dance, resulting in enthusiastic giggles and excitement.

“I loved the students,” she said afterward. “Storytelling is feedback between the audience and the storyteller. It’s not like a play where you’re isolated and there’s a third wall. It’s about them as much as it is about us.”

The day’s lessons were twofold, Ms. Abdul-Malik said.

“The first message was about safety and celebrating our differences,” she said. “The second was about celebrating African-American history.”

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New Suffolk School. (file photo)

The New Suffolk Common School will be holding its regularly scheduled monthly meeting Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

Superintendent Michael Comanda is expected to discuss secondary tuition costs with Southold School District.

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New Suffolk Common School District Agenda for Feb. 11

KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | The Oysterponds school board meeting is at 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Oysterponds school board is expected to hold a public hearing Tuesday night to discuss a new property tax exemption for veterans, according to the meeting’s agenda.

The public hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the elementary school in Orient.

In addition, representatives from Beatty Harvey Coco will be a presentation about a window replacement project.

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Oysterponds school board meeting agenda, Feb. 11, 2014

Oysterponds School District Superintendent Richard Malone, left, and school board president Dorothy-Dean Thoma discuss the veterans tax exemption at Tuesday’s school board meeting. (Photo by Rachel Young)

The Oysterponds school board decided Tuesday it needs more information before voting to approve a new veteran tax exemption proposal.

During a public hearing to discuss the legislation, school board president Dorothy-Dean Thomas said she would have no problem voting for an exemption that would give veterans living in the district property tax breaks, but can’t since she believes the rules regarding the exemption “change every day,” making it impossible for the board to know what it would be voting for.

There are currently 90 veterans living in the district who fought in the Iraq and/or Afghanistan wars who would automatically qualify for an increase in their tax exemption to an average of $427 each per year if the Oysterponds school board votes to opt into the program, according to a summary prepared by school officials that’s based on information released from the Southold Town Assessor’s Office this week.

In turn, the district’s total property tax assessed value would decrease by $73,000 and the average homeowner’s annual tax bill would increase by an estimate of $19, school officials said.

That figure is based on the district’s current understanding of the exemption, Ms. Thomas said.

Previously, Ms. Thomas said, the district was told all veterans would need to apply for the exemption. That would mean the district’s total tax assessed value would potentially not have been impacted so dramatically.

In addition, the Town Assessor’s Office has  reported that an additional 56 veterans living in the district who fought in World War II and/or the Korean War would also be eligible for the exemption, though they would have to apply for it.

It isn’t clear whether Vietnam War veterans would be eligible for the exemption, Ms. Thomas said.

The district’s total tax assessed value could be reduced by around $118,000 if all 146 veterans living in the district received the exemption, she added.

“If they’re going to change the rules every five minutes, I don’t know how I’m going to live up to my charge to be fiscally responsible to the community and say at this point, ‘Yes, let’s move forward,” Ms. Thomas said. “I can’t imagine a situation in which I personally would vote against a benefit for veterans. I come from a long family of people who have served the country and I honestly don’t think we give them enough.”

Superintendent Richard Malone said he felt it was important to weigh the implications of the exemption on the community before committing to a vote.

“Obviously [veterans] are a group of people that we are all thankful and respectful of for what they did for our country, our nation and our community,” he said. “But at the same time I think we have to think of the people in our community that are struggling through a very difficult financial time.”

East Marion resident John Copertino said he didn’t understand why board members wouldn’t just vote right away on the exemption.

“It’s $19 per household per year,” he said. “It’s a small amount.”

The school board decided to vote on the veteran tax exemption at the budget workshop overview scheduled for Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.

The district has until March 1 to vote on the exemption.

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Greenport High School’s new anti-bully program “Step Up and Stop It” is the focus of the student newspaper’s lead story in the January edition of “The Quill.”

Written by junior Emma Marshall, the article details the recent rise in bullying that stems from social networking sites. “To a bully, cyber bullying is safe,” Emma writes in the article.

A poll on the front page surveyed whether students believe teachers should carry firearms. Fifty-five percent of the students answered no.

Briana Pagano is editor-in-chief of “The Quill.” Mindy Viggiano is the paper’s advisor.

To read the entire paper, click below:

The Quill

Greenport School District Superintendent Michael Comanda is expected to give a presentation Wednesday night to discuss creating a full-day pre-K program at the elementary school, according to the school board meeting agenda.

During the school board’s Jan. 14 meeting, Mr. Comanda first floated his idea of putting a bond proposal on the May school budget ballot to pay for the program.

As for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to fund a universal pre-K program throughout New York’s public schools, Mr. Comanda said at the meeting: “If that happens, great. That’s a bonus. If it doesn’t happen, then we put it to our community.”

The school board is also expected to discuss Mr. Comanda’s recommendation on how to proceed with the new veterans tax exemption proposal.

“Veterans deserve our respect and gratitude and in an effort to honor that respect and gratitude, the superintendent recommends an exit survey be conducted on the day of the budget vote to determine community support for the new Alternative Veterans’ Exemption,” the resolution states.

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Greenport school board meeting agenda, Feb. 12, 2014

Southold High School (file photo)

The Southold School District will be holding its regularly scheduled monthly meeting Wednesday night at 7 p.m.The board is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a new veteran tax exemption proposal and is expected to discuss secondary tuition costs with New Suffolk school board members.

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Southold school board meeting agenda, Feb. 12 2014

The Greenport school board discussed Wednesday creating a pre-K program for the 2014-15 school year.

Greenport School District Superintendent Michael Comanda unveiled Wednesday more preliminary details about his proposed referendum to fund a pre-K program for the 2014-15 school year.

The estimated total cost, including transportation, is about $300,000, according to the superintendent’s presentation.

Mr. Comanda said the pre-K plan includes the district partnering with Alternatives for Children, a not-for-profit private school, to craft a full-day program that would mirror the kindergarten’s five-day schedule starting in September.

The pre-K proposal includes one teacher and one teacher aid per pre-K class, the superintendent said. At the March 19 school board meeting, Mr. Comanda is expected to discuss student enrollment projections and how much it would cost to fund between one and three pre-K classes next year. Each would have a maximum class size of 18 students, he said.

If voters approve the plan, Mr. Comanda said pre-K students would need to be four years old by Sept. 1, 2014.

Kindergartners would need to be five years old by Sept. 1, he added. The district’s current enrollment requirement for kindergarten is that students are five years old by Dec. 1.

School board vice president Dan Creedon said he’s in favor of a pre-K program because he believes it would be beneficial for students while reducing future costs for the district.

“It wouldn’t be $300,000 because more kids would be graduating on time and fewer kids would need remediation,” he said. “It would be less costly over the long run.”

Like the recent capital improvement and green energy bond projects, which voters approved in 2010, Mr. Comanda said he’d prefer to let the community decide the pre-K program’s fate instead of lumping it into the general fund.

“I just think it’s important that the community come out and say ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ to this as a whole because they are going to be supporting it,” he said. “Once you put it in, I don’t think you can get rid of it.”

Although the district has previously worked with SCOPE and Head Start’s pre-K programs, Mr. Comanda has described SCOPE as “cost prohibitive” to many residents and has questioned the longevity of Head Start given its current financial woes.

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Greenport Pre-K Preliminary Presentation, Feb. 12, 2014 (Photos taken by Jennifer Gustavson)

Updates on school closings, early dismissals and school event cancellations and postponements.

As of 7:30 p.m. Thursday:

• Southold and Greenport school districts will have a two-hour delayed opening on Friday.

• New Suffolk will start at 10:30 a.m. on Friday.

• Our Lady of Mercy Regional School in Cutchogue will have a two-hour delayed opening on Friday.

• Be sure to click the following links for any cancellations made between updates: Mattituck-Cutchogue, Greenport, Southold,Oysterponds, New Suffolk, Our Lady of Mercy, Bishop McGann-Mercy, Peconic Community School.

Art imitates life as Mattituck High School teacher Gary Buckner portrays a teacher in a scene from ‘High School Musical,’ presented this past. (Katharine Schroeder photo)

Following an intermission of nearly 20 years, the musical theater program at Mattituck High School has been performing strongly since it started back up in 2010 with its production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” This resurgence continued with last week’s sold out production of “Disney’s High School Musical.”

The three performances of the contemporary musical comedy — centered around a popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer who discover they share a secret passion for singing — drew a combined crowd of about 1,000, the school said. And a few actors who started in the program as freshmen were able to celebrate this, their fourth year, in front of a full house.

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English teacher Anne Gilvarry co-directed the musical with chorus teacher Jacob Fowle. Both said they’ve felt overwhelmed by how the musical theater program has grown over the past four years.

“We thanked the audience at our closing night show on Saturday for showing these students how much the community supports their efforts and the arts,” Ms. Gilvarry said. “This was such a special cast and they truly deserved those amazing audiences.”

The musical theater program went dark in 1989 after the district decided no longer to produce musicals. Then in 2010, a group of seniors successfully lobbied to bring musical theater back.

Caroline Keil, student choreographer for “High School Musical,” said her older brother, Colin, and his friends played an instrumental role in musical theater’s return to Mattituck. In elementary school, she said, they had enjoyed participating in musicals so much that they attended several Board of Education meetings in an attempt to get the musical theater program reinstated.

Three students have been with the program since its return four years ago. Seniors Eric Hughes, Caleb Smith and Brette Rosen joined as freshmen.

Eric, who played Ryan Evans in “High School Musical,” said his friend Caleb had convinced him to participate.

“You’ve got to pop in about 40 seconds of bravery and sing at an audition,” he said. “If you get it, that’s awesome. And if you don’t, you say, ‘Maybe next time.’ ”

Caleb, who played Zeke, said that even after four years of participating in the school’s musicals, his heart still pounds each time he performs on stage.

“You might seem like you’re nervous the first day, but once you get up there and you start doing it you realize it’s all worth it,” he said.

Brette, who played Gabriella Montez, one of the lead female roles in this past weekend’s production, said she didn’t audition as a freshman because she figured only seniors would get picked for parts. Instead, she participated by becoming the group’s photographer. The next year she auditioned.

“I think it’s nice for kids who don’t play sports to have something to do after school,” she said.

Ms. Gilvarry, a Mattituck grad whose sister performed in 1989 in the program’s last musical before the 19-year hiatus, said she’s pleased the program has expanded to include seventh- and eighth-graders — and even teachers.

History and government teacher Gary Buckner, who played the drama teacher in “High School Musical,” said he had never acted until Ms. Gilvarry approached him about joining the musical theater program.

Over the past few years, Mr. Buckner said he’s enjoyed watching the program grow in popularity.

“I just wanted to be a part of it,” he said. “I wanted to see how these guys worked and, I can tell you, it’s been really nice working with them.”

Special education and social studies teacher Chris Robinson, who played Coach Bolton, said this is his second year teaching in the district and he decided to join the production to get to know the school’s community better.

“Having an opportunity to link up with a kind of new dynamic with students is exciting, as well as working with staff that I respect,” he said. “It’s been fun. Everybody is in it for the right reasons, so it makes it easy to come in and do this.”

jennifer@timesreview.com

BOCES COURTESY PHOTO | Holding the big scissors is Sister Margaret Smyth of North Fork Spanish Apostolate at 220 Roanoke Ave. Riverhead.

A new program in Riverhead is hoping to provide “a pathway out of poverty,” helping struggling Riverhead families and residents receive the education they need to get ahead.

Two weeks ago, Eastern Suffolk BOCES opened the doors to the state’s 51st Literacy Zone — a state-funded reform initiative aimed at aiding the community’s poorest — by helping residents gain English language proficiency.

Riverhead’s Literacy Zone, located at the North Fork Spanish Apostolate, will offer a variety of courses to meet the literacy needs of residents, from birth through adulthood.

The center will operate as a collaboration between ESBOCES staff, the Riverhead School District, Riverhead Library, Riverhead Senior Center and Suffolk County Department of Labor — just to name a few. Executive director and founder of the North Fork Spanish Apostolate, Sister Margret Smyth — well known for her commitment helping residents who struggle with English — will serve as an educator at the Literacy Zone.

As a matter of fact, Sister Margaret said, an employee funded through the program will operate out of the Apostolate, located at 220 Roanoke Ave.

Though the employee hasn’t started working full-time yet, Sister Margaret said about 20 people have still signed up for the Literacy Zone courses.

“The idea behind it is to really offer a service for people, particularly in language, and our office usually has tons of people going through here” who could use those services, she said.

Classes will include everything from after-school enrichment programs for children to workforce development programs that include work site tours, job shadowing, internships and apprenticeship opportunities for adults.

The framework enables multiple local outreach groups to reduce duplication of services and enhance and expand supportive services to help residents overcome barriers, according to Barbara Egloff, who serves as divisional administrator of career, technology, and adult education for ESBOCES.

“We are looking forward to working with Sister Margret,” ESBOCES spokesperson Nancy Lenz. “She is a staple in this community.”

The center is expected to grow its resources and expand by the start of next school year, Ms. Lenz said.

“We are just getting started,” she said.

One of the cool things about Greenport schools switching to solar this past year is that any resident can now track the district’s power usage at any time. 

It’s a valuable tool for any district resident and something interesting to see even if you’re not.

Check it out and bookmark it if you want to see how the district’s doing with its new solar power system.

The Southold School District will hold kindergarten registration next month. (File photo by The Suffolk Times)

Southold School District will hold kindergarten registration at Southold Elementary School for children who will turn 5 by Dec. 1, 2014.

Registration times are 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, for last names beginning with A-L and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, March 13, for last names beginning with M-Z. At registration, children will be scheduled for a kindergarten screening.

Parents of eligible kindergartners may pick up a registration packet in the main offi ce of Southold Elementary School after March 1 or call Marlene Bufkins at 765-5208 to have a packet mailed.

Parents are asked to bring to registration the child’s birth certifi cate; three documents proving district residency, with the physical location of the house on the documents; a health history that shows immunization against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and Hib; and the completed registration packet. Proof of residential custody is required for legally separated or divorced parents.

HIGH HONOR ROLL

Grade 12: Ria Anasagasti, Robert Anderson, Justina Babcock, Brittney Bellomo, Kelsea Cassone, Katie Connolly, Kimberly Connolly, Markis Croteau, Jamie Grigonis, Daniel Insogna, Amy Kandora, Justine Kundmueller, Leah LaFreniere, Anna Mahaffy, Robert Mahony, Kesley Mehrman, Jose Membreno, Cassidy Mignone, Erwin Perez, Laura Rempel, Jessica Rizzo, Michael Schade, Abigail Scharadin, Daniel Stahl, Timothy Stankewicz, Dylan Stromski.

Grade 11: Leah Baxendale, Rachel Burns, Michael Cosmadelis, Jack Dunne, Jessica Jerome, Shayne Johnson, Alexandra Lasot, Matthew McCarthy, Thomas Messana, Emily Pressler, Julia Saccamano.

Grade 10: Samuel Basel, Raeann Berry, Theresa Connolly, Jacqueline Davey, Peter Fouchet, Katherine Hunstein, Noah Mina, Leah Passanant, Bryan Patchell, Lily Saeli, Julia Schade, Ethan Sisson, Walker Sutton, Albert (Aidan) Vandenburgh, Aidan Walker.

Grade 9: Emma Alvarez, Jessie Bakanic, Garrison Bennett, Abagail Cacovic, Carlos Campos-Chavez, Mathew Cardi, Michael Christman, Nicole Christman, Evelyn Cummings, Miguel Gomez, Stephen Hocker, Owen Klipstein, Robert Kruszeski, Jake McCarthy, Patrick McFarland, Jamie Molnar, Sean Okula, Emily Perry, Meg Pickerell, Charles Poliwoda, Alessandra Ramirez, Edwin Ward IV.

Grade 8: Brooke Averette, Katie Baumann, William Burns, Alexandra Cardi, Mario Contreras, Andrew Crean, Rebecca Dickerson, Jacob Dominy, Zachary Grathwohl, Kathryn Jernick, Ann Lincoln, Kai Obinata.

Grade 7: Sabrina Basel, Jonathan Baumann, Eric Connolly, Patrick Connolly, Tyler DeFrese, Amanda Dickerson, Samantha Dunne, Robert Elliston, Jaedon Glasstein, Van Karsten, Max Kruszeski, Marie Mullen, Jake Okula, Emiliann Palermo, Emily Russell, Olivia Saccamano, Margaret Scott, Dante Tramontana.

HONOR ROLL

Grade 12: Dean Albergo, Ted Beach, Hayley Bolettieri, Giuliana Buono, Savannah Calderale, Timothy Chilton, Charles Pierre Cook Firquet, Anthony Esposito, Anthony Fedele, Kenji Fujita, Caroline Gehring, Shannon Guyer, Michelle Innamorato, Kathryn Krukowski, Michael Martin, Caroline Metz, Jamie O’Sullivan, Danielle Pagano, James Penney, Logan Pfister, Stephanie Portillo, Gary Prieto, Shannon Quinn, William Richter, Michael Ryan, Drew Sacher, Alexandra Small, Shannon Smith, Katelyn Suskevich, Ian Toy, Cynthia VanBourgondien.

Grade 11: Steven Amato, Mary Bertschi, Christopher Buono, Abigail Conway, Zachary Ellis, Rebecca Guarriello, Natalie Hocker, Jennifer Jaklevic, Ajsia Martocchia, Katherine Mejia-Hernandez, Jennifer Membreno Umana, Sarah Perry, Sophie Pickerell, Alexander Poliwoda, Gregory Quist, Jessica Saporita, Lukasz Sklodowski, Claudia Steinmuller, Willow Sutton, William Tondo, Megan VanBourgondien, Juliane VanGorden, Nicholas VanMater, Liam Walker, Winter Wilcenski, Kitty Zheng.

Grade 10: Gina Anasagasti, Angela Bucci, William Bucci, Michael Dolan, Kimiko Fujita, Julia Girzadas, Carson Hughes, Juliette Liegey, Andrew Seifert, Gabrielle Showalter, Liam Simmons, Aidan Toy.

Grade 9: Adam Baldwin, Samantha Baldwin, Charlie Bonilla, Grace Bruer, Karen Campos, Kylee DeFrese, Christopher DeSimone, C. Matthew Hall, Angelica Klavas, Anthony Klavas, Daniella Menjivar, Althea Mignone, Mark Moran, Quinn Osmer, Joseph Saporita, Alexander Seifert, Kyle Skrezec, Joseph Tsoumpelis, Jheimy Uguna, Connor Vaccariello, Carlie Wegley, Willow Wilcenski.

Grade 8: Charlotte Allen, Alexandra Apadula, Hayley Brigham, Breana Gibbs, Daelyn Healy, Ashley Hilary, Katherine Jarvis, Alexander Kandora, Michael Krause, Joseph Manfredi, Jared Palumbo, Lucie Showalter, Hannah Sutton, Victoria Tondo.

Grade 7: Bryanna Bay, Michael Chacon Munoz, Maxwell Cichanowicz, Gabriella Drumm, Carlos Gonzalez Jr., Joseph Hayes, Ryan Hunstein, Anakin Mignone, Rosanna Mollica, Devin Quinones, Casie Vaccariello, Michael Wineberger.