Fall is in the air in Kindergarten East!  Substitute teacher Mrs. Casale taught her students to make colorful apples cutouts, which they decorated. Below, the students worked on their creations and then showed their results. Good job, K East!

Photos by Josephine Casale

On Wednesday, July 10, the Penn Station Access (PSA) project team, headed

by Molly Hollister, visited Summer Camp to talk about trains to our UPK through Grade 2 students and to give our Grades 3 through 7 students a lesson in STEM. PSA project team members are involved with a public works project for New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).  The MTA is in the process of building four new train stations in the Bronx, including one in Parkchester, which is slated for completion by 2027.

Our youngest summer campers designed train cars. The Penn Station Access Team gave campers in Grades 3 through 7 a STEM lesson, teaching them how bridges are built and how to calculate how much weight a particular bridge can withstand.

“The Penn Station Access team brought a very valuable resource to our community and to our Summer Camp,” said Summer Camp Director Christopher D’Armiento (aka Mr. D). “The creative activities they offered gave our campers a change to explore their creative side and think outside the box. It was truly inspiring to see our students embrace the activities and come up with innovative solutions. We are so grateful for the Penn Station Access team’s visit and look forward to new opportunities with them in the fall.”

Teacher aides Hilda Garcia and Kaiomy DeJesus with UPK 3 and UPK 4 students who displayed the train cars they created after the Penn Station Access presentation.

Molly Hollister (holding the MTA sign) and the rest of the Penn Station Access team with thank you cards our students created after the team’s presentations.

Congratulations to 35 of our students who received the sacrament of Confirmation on Tuesday, May 14 at St. Raymond Church. We were blessed to have His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan preside over this year's Confirmation. Our pastor Father Cruz, and our parochial vicars Father Melvin Mensah, Father Raphael Boansi, Father Emmanuel Duku and Father Collins Ashu concelebrated the Confirmation Mass, with Cardinal Dolan. 

Photos by Chad Willems, Dante School Pictures.

Congratulations to our 36 students who made their First Holy Communion on Saturday, April 20 at St. Raymond Church! Our pastor Fr. James Cruz was the celebrant. Fr. Melvin Mensah, Fr. Collins Ashu and Fr. Raphael Boansi concelebrated.


Photo by Chad Willems, Dante School Pictures.

On Sunday, the communicants and their families were invited to the  First Communion Brunch in the school's auditorium. 

Below, our families enjoying the First Communion Brunch.

Thank you to our Librarian Mrs. Ennis for organizing the 2nd Annual St. Raymond Elementary School Chess Tournament, which took place on May 1 and May 2 in the school's Main Library. 

Winners in the Beginners section are:

Jeremy Barefield - 1st place
Carlos Tavarez Jr. - 2nd place
Leshawn Nowrangilall - 3rd place 

Winners in the Varsity section are:

Jaden Schloss - 1st place
Alexander Agripino - 2nd place
Jared Kassim -  3rd place

Congratulations to our Youth Choir! Under the direction of Patrick Connolly, our Choir Director, St. Raymond's Youth Choir again performed at the annual Inner City Scholarship Fund Dinner in Manhattan on Tuesday, April 30. Two of our students performed a solo. Jeremy Barefield of Class 6-305 sang Singin' in the Rain and Sherline Pichardo Cabrera of Class 4-208 sang You Are My Sunshine. Mr. Connolly said, " I'm so proud of our choir's performance. Our choir members didn't just take my direction. They went beyond that to infuse their performance with enthusiam, joy and passion. It was a great evening." 

Click here to see the video of the performance. (Our choir appears around 29:50.) Also see photos below by Matthew Adam, courtesy of the Inner City Scholarship Fund.

In recognition of Earth Day 2024, our Science teacher Mrs. Singh assigned a recycling project to our 8th Grade students. They were to create new objects made from three or more items. As you can see below, tin cans, plastic bottles, plastic spoons, paper and other items became the elements of their designs. Enjoy perusing their clever and unique recycled projects.

Please click here for Mr. Scanlon's Monthly Messages for June 2024.

Thank you to our Art teacher, Mrs. Charmaine Griffiths Adderley, for her work with our students in Art class. Below are some examples of their work in a variety of styles.

The Persistence of Memory, also known as Melting Clocks, is one of artist Salvator Dali's most famous works. Below, our students created their own Melting Clocks.





The first three collages below are examples of elongated animals, also in the style of  Salvador Dalí.








Yayoi Kusama is a contemporary well known Japanese artist famous for her polka dot patterns. Under Mrs. Adderley's direction, our students created the polka dot pumpkin collages below.