Press Release for
March 2007
~Bernice Alibrando

 
   
R.W. Kershaw School National Junior Honor Society
On March 22, 2007 the R.W. Kershaw School chapter of the National Junior Honor Society will be inducting 8 new members to the existing members.  The induction ceremony will be held in the Multi-purpose Room of the Kershaw School at 7:00.  The new inductees are Ryan Kerfoot, Amanda Monteleone, Kaitlyn Alibrando, Lauren Greenwood, Michael Colgan, and Apryle Panyi.  The following students are returning for their second year in the NJHS:  Abigail Traxler, President; Taylor Losowski, Vice-president; Sierra Chambers, Treasurer; Megan Dadds, Secretary; Benjamin Donia, Devon Grady, Melissa Jost, Vasilios Kappatos, Brittany Kirk, Jessica Langchang, Sarah Myers, Nicole West and Robert Zettlemoyer.

“Do or Don’t” and
“Clear into Dark”
 The fifth grades of R. W. Kershaw School are producing two original operas entitled, "Do or Don't" and "Clear into Dark".  The Creating Original Opera program of the Metropolitan Opera Guild Education Department was brought to the Mount Ephraim District by Mrs. Egan, third level advanced certificated by the Met.  The COO program is a creative cross-curricular arts curriculum, developed so that students experience opera by creating from its incipience, based around a theme and thesis important to the them. 

Students form an opera company, take jobs within the company such as writer, composer, set designer, carpenter, make-up designer, costume designer, historian, electrician, performer, production and stage manager to create an opera using unified design concepts.   The program instills cooperation, collaboration and development of responsibility, as well. 

This year, our fifth grades have written outstanding scripts and musical scores and will be performing their operas for each other during the school day at the end of the month. (Performances this year will not be open to the public due to space restrictions.)  The Mount Ephraim School District strives to provide a sequential and comprehensive musical education for its students.      

   
Living Wax Museum
The third grade students of the Mary Bray School will be having a Living Wax Museum on March 22nd.  The students will be pretending to be the subject of their biography book report that they had to do recently.  With the help of three clues and the students in costume the fourth grade students will have to guess who the subjects are.  This activity will conclude the biography book reports that both grades have been working on for several weeks.		 Maggie McGee and the Good Character Bandwagon
On March 15 students in grades K-5 will be attending an assembly, Maggie McGee and the Good Character Bandwagon, a musical that will be performed courtesy of the Subaru Foundation and Surflight Theatre from Beach Haven, NJ.  Young Maggie McGee is sick and tired of rudeness, disrespect and bad manners! Armed with her friendly smile and awesome attitude, Maggie begins her quest to help everybody climb aboard the bandwagon of good character and ride the road to responsibility.  The assembly will be held in the Mary Bray School.