Forest Avenue Elementary School held its first Scripps National Spelling Bee for students in third, fourth and fifth grade. Forest Avenue School is excited to “bee” participating as the Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th year. 

Participants studied the spelling word lists for more than a month before taking on the challenge. Each grade level from three through five held its own competition. After vying for the title of grade level winner, three students were entered into the final round of competition on Nov. 25. 

Fourth grader Bruno Garcia was crowned the spelling bee winner after more than 40 rounds of competition. He will be attending the regional bee at Hofstra University in February. In second place was fifth grader Liam Johnson and in third place was third grader Valentino Charles. 

Date Added: 12/6/2024

Throughout the West Babylon School District, Red Ribbon Week was celebrated from Oct. 23-31 with various lessons and activities. Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life. It presents an opportunity for parents, educators and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages throughout the year. This year’s theme was “Life Is A Movie: Film Drug Free.”

To kick off the week, students throughout the district took the Red Ribbon Week oath and pledged to be drug free and make healthy choices. Elementary students dressed in different themed days to show their support including Crazy Sock Day, Pajama Day and County Day. Students also showed their support by creating posters and writing stories about how they could live a healthy lifestyle.

Click here to view the West Babylon Pledges to Stay Drug Free 24-25 slideshow.

Date Added: 10/30/2024

Students in Ms. Tocci’s class at Forest Avenue Elementary School are celebrating the grand opening of the Eagle Bean, a mobile delivery service for coffee, tea and hot chocolate prepared and delivered by the class.

Every other Friday, Ms. Tocci’s class delivers hot beverages to those who order on Google Forms. The students tally up the orders, working on their mathematical skills and counting the money received from each delivery. The service also helps students hone their communication abilities.

Staff members use “coffee cash” to pay for the Eagle Bean orders. The class hopes to raise $100 in “coffee cash” to purchase a pet fish for their classroom.

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Date Added: 10/28/2024

West Babylon School District kicked off a weekend full of homecoming festivities with a pep rally to close out the school day at West Babylon Senior High School on Oct. 18. Continuing the celebrations, members of the school community lined up to march down Little East Neck Road to begin their parade to the West Babylon Junior High School football fields. 

Across the district, students and staff from each of the school buildings marched together to show their West Babylon pride. Led by the marching band, cheerleaders, youth football players, student organizations and clubs flashed their blue and gold colors for the community. The homecoming floats were themed for the four seasons this year, showing off winter, spring, summer and fall looks for each of the classes.  

Back on the football field, senior members of the football team, cheerleaders and marching band were honored. For the big Friday night lights game, the Eagles took on the Centereach Cougars and dominated the game from the start. They took the lead early on with a score of 20-6 going into halftime and closed out the game with a 33-12 victory.  

Varsity cheerleaders led the halftime routine, sporting their pink pompoms for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The marching band wowed the homecoming crowd with their routine. The celebrations continued the following night for the annual homecoming dance at West Babylon Senior High School.  

Click here to view the Friday Night Lights Win for West Babylon’s Homecoming slideshow.

Date Added: 10/22/2024