Education

Rob Schumacher, a science teacher at Sag Harbor’s Pierson Middle and High School, presented a proposal Monday for a new science classroom: a “wet lab” that would bring marine environments to life in a real-life, hands-on way, going beyond textbooks and simulations.

Springs School District officials reported disappointing scores this week from standardized math and English tests given last spring to students in grades three through eight. “We can improve,” said Erik Kelt, the new school principal, in announcing strategies for boosting students' proficiency in these subjects.

The Springs School Robotics Teams are getting ready to compete in a qualifying competition this weekend at William Floyd High School. The bus will leave Springs School at 5:30 a.m.

Montauk has a new school board member, and four Springs teachers have received donations for classroom projects.

When Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival returns this weekend after taking a hiatus in 2023 while gallery renovations were underway, students and their families will have lots to celebrate beyond simply seeing their work hanging on the walls of a prestigious venue.

The curtain rises tomorrow on the latest South Fork Performing Arts youth musical theater production, “Godspell,” at LTV Studios in Wainscott. Plus: stories, arts and crafts, cookies and cinnamon rolls, book clubs, dinosaurs, and a reading therapy dog, all coming up in the next week for kids and teens.

The Springs School fourth-grade opera, “Learning to S.W.I.M.,” took the stage last Thursday, and it might just be the best one yet, the school's Journalism Club writes.

Before the pandemic, several East Hampton seniors and juniors had started a campaign called Breathe for Change, at one point even testifying before a congressional committee about the evils of vaping. Then Covid-19 happened, they graduated, and their momentum was lost. Now, East Hampton students are again taking action to combat it.

Ahead of dropping temperatures expected to freeze the rain and slush left by Tuesday's inclement weather, a majority of schools in East Hampton and Southampton Towns have announced delayed openings for Wednesday. East Hampton Town government offices will open two hours later on Wednesday.

In exclusive interviews with the Springs School Journalism Club, the school’s administrators reveal their New Year's resolutions for 2024.

Nancy Carney is set to return to the Springs School. After fast-tracking its search for a new superintendent late in 2023, the Springs School Board is poised to hire her as its new chief school administrator on Wednesday.

The community at large has been asked to pitch in to stock the new Little Free Food Pantry boxes that have been installed at the John M. Marshall Elementary School and East Hampton Middle School as well as one that will soon go up at East Hampton High School.